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Life After Cancer
I have read several blogs on this subject, some feel slighted to have had to deal with cancer and its long lasting side effects, some just pick up the pieces and continue on, others find a cause and attack it with a vengeance. Me I am somewhere in the middle. I have long term forever lasting side effects from my cancer…
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Woohooo, Validation on 'Chemo Brain'!!?!!
It's a new day in cancer care. Today I got in to see a Memory Clinic here in the city and while I was there I talked to the nurse about my issues with 'chemo brain' thinking oh man I will have to tell her what that is and go into it all over again. However, much to surprise she acknowledged the syndrome as if it was almost…
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ITS BEEN 4 YEARS
IT HAS BEEN 4 YEARS AND IT FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY , I WORK A LOT AND TRY TO KEEP BUSY WITH MY DAUGHTER AND TRY TO KEEP GOING ON , SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I AM GOING CRAZY , BEING AN ONLY CHILD AND HAVING NO FAMILY OUT ( ALL IN EUROPE)HERE RECENTLY DIVORCED ACTUALLY AT THE SAME TIME I LOST MY MOM AND RAISING A 10 YEAR OLD…
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Lost a 'chemo buddy' this week, a sad reminder of what can happen.
I went in today to try and get my scheduled chemo (denied because of low platelets, but that's another story), and learned that one of my chemo buddies passed away over the past week. It's funny how close you feel to the people that get their chemo at the same time as you; kind people that help you pass the long hours of…
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Insensitivity in the Medical Field
I know we have all had this happen to us at one point or another in our battle against cancer but it just boggles my mind to think that after I too have had this happen to me it still affects me as much as it did the first time it happened. You would think that one would get used to it or at least have some coping skill…
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NEED A FRIEND
HAVE CANCER ON VOCAL CORD- GOING THRU RADIATION TREATMENT ANYBODY ELSE HAVE SAME THING-
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Mom died very sudden...
my mom died 3 days after we found out she had cancer from her brain to her toes and every where in bettween...help me it realy ihurts and my faimly is not realy helping me....
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Chemo Brain/Cognitive Issues
A lot of cancer survivors can relate to 'chemo brain', the fight goes on between yes it exists and no it doesn't as far as past cancer treatment being a cause. But regardless of what caused it, stress or drugs or radiation or all of the above it does exist and many of us know that. Because of my initial treatment for NHL…
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Scared
Ok~ I have been avoiding trying to think about my PET scan tomorrow along with the oncologist visit but I am really scared. I am so afraid that there is still cancer and that I will have to go through all the chemo and radiation again or a bone morrow transplant. I feel fine~but I felt fine when the cancer was found. I…
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Had to cancel another medical appt. GRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!!
I don't know why I even opened this topic as it really, for me anywho, is the same old same old - can't predict I can be anywhere with any degree of certainty EVER. This appointment was a Pre Op for one of my surgeries too, can't get there - nauseous. Started off this morning with a bit of heart arythmia then that left and…