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Advice needed - meeting a terminal friend for a "vacation" next week
Hello - I am meeting my oldest friend of 27 years next week in Cancun. She is in England and I am in the US. This is most likely the last time I will see her due to our geographical distance. She has been diagnosed with lung and bone cancer - given 1 year to live. I am anxious about the trip and losing some sleep over it.…
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Overwhelmed again and again
I thought we needed a new page for this topic as the other was getting too long. And what overwhelmed us yesterday has taken a backseat to today's problems. Today it was our tax system and having to go back two years as it took 16 months to get my disability. I am so glad my wife has an accounting degree and does not have…
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My Dad
My Dad was diagnosed with High Grade salivary gland cancer. He is 75. He also has Parkinson's Disease, and I know the results of that disease are not pleasant at all, to say the very least. He is not going to have treatment for this cancer, and has not gone back to a doctor to find anything more out, and does not plan to.…
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What Cancer Can't DO!!!!!
Cancer is so limited... It cannot cripple love. It cannot shatter hope. It cannot corrode faith. It cannot eat away peace. It cannot destroy confidence. It cannot kill friendship. It cannot shut out memories. It cannot silence courage. It cannot reduce eternal life. It cannot quench the Spirit. I really liked this poem. It…
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I don't know how to die...
Hey guys. I'm brand new to the site. I've just been diagnosed two weeks ago with small cell lung cancer. If it wasn't already extensively metastasized I think I might be coping better, but both my doctors and ever resource I've found have given me about a 40% chance of surviving to see five years from now. Yesterday…
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Even Now
Hello, Mom was diagnosed with inoperable Stage 3A lung cancer on March 13, 2008, a date I will always remember. Those were dark days, and we survived on prayer. After chemo and radiation treatments, the cancer is in remission for five months. We know there is a long way to go. In the midst of the fear and dread, we…
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I have 2 family members with colon cancer
My dad died when he was 42, of lymphoma. I was 15 at the time. Last May 14th, my only sibling, my 57 year old brother underwent emergency surgery for a perforated bowel. It was stage 4. He started chemo treatments in June. July 5th, my 80-yr. old mother had a heart attack and had to have stents placed, 3 to be exact. She…
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I just lost my best friend to non-hodgkins lymphoma
One month ago today, I lost my dear friend and employer of 34 years to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He was diagnosed in "05 when a small lesion turned out to be Non-hodgkins. He had the lesion removed and all tests -MRI's,Pet Scans following were negative.He went ahead with R-chop and rituxin treatment, and he had decided to go…
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Humour Can Make All The Difference In A Day
I just thought it would be kind of fun, and therapuetic perhaps to ask everyone interested to briefly share their funniest stories about themselves or others close to them for all to enjoy, sort of a Club Med for the head kind of thread. lol. Humour does make such a differenc in how a person feels and this morning after…
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Over Freakin Whelmed, AGAIN.
Not going to go into the whys of why I am so overwhelmed YET AGAIN, most of you have read my woes of a lodged kidney stone they want to drag out and other medical surgeries and procedures they are threatening to do. One of the confusing aspects of my situation is that because I have had too much medical intervention in my…
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Yay, Feb 14th is OVERRRRRRRRR, LOL
Whew, glad to say that day pass. Hit me harder than I had anticipated, the phone was never quieter and the memories were never louder. Then around 4 I decided that I needed to show some caring for MYSELF, so I picked up the phone and treated myself to a nice take out meal for supper. Ordered my favourite - ribs, mashed…
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adrenal cancer
I was diagnosed with adrenal cancer in oct. 2008. they removed the tumor. I am now on Mitotane. I am up to 6 pills a day. I was wondering how anyone is handling the mitotane? Is anyone experiencing dizziness and fatigue? My dr. says he feels the dizziness has nothing to do with the mitotane. I am going to be working my way…
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Do the 'communities' / friendships made here ever lead to face to face meetings outside of the Discu
The 10 of us that have UPSC (a rare aggressive recurrent uterine cancer) regularly 'talk' on the Uterine Cancer discussion board about getting together in the fall when about half of us will be coming out of treatment and think we'll be recovered enough to travel. I love the idea of meeting the wonderful women who are…
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Confused and upset
Today has been a rough day for me. I recently returned to my job only to find myself displaced due to layoffs and people getting moved around from one area to another. I got sent to the main plant which is much harder on me physically. It can also be very stressfull. A lot of the work is a new process and learning it is a…
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Off to another specialist, ick
Some call it complaining, I call it sharing. lol. Leaving for the results of my 3rd xray on that stupid stubborn kidney stone that seems to be quite comfy in my bladder and doesn't seem to want to move on out. Sigh. I have felt a bit different lately and have a feeling it might have vacated the premises but the xray will…
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lung cancer
hi anyone can anyone give me some advice my mum has told me she has non small cell lung cancer i want to know if you can beat this , i what to talk to people who have and are going through the same thing .she's not told me a lot cause i've not asked all i know is that they can not remove it with surgery shes having cemo…