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Hi Hollyberry
HB Still learning to navigate this site. Let me know how to send you a private message Thanks LH
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Blue Roses
Blue Roses thank you for the inspirational story, it was very uplifting to me as a caregiver. Sorry I got knocked off the chat, it was nice chatting with you. Share your stories with others, it gives us all hope. Best to you LH
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Email and message
I don't know how to use CSN E-mail or to send and receive a message in the chat room. I am not young, and I have chemo brain. How can I get help. Thank You Cindy
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So lost, so terrified
My Mother was diagnosed with nsclc in August '08 and that's when my life as I knew it ceased to exist. She is 70 years old and her cancer had already spread outside the lungs by the time they were ready to do radiation. She was in a clinical trial designed for the elderly due to her frail condition and was taken off of…
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mom has liver, lung, and kidney cancer
Hello Everyone, I am new to all of this. My mom was just diagnosed with stage four cancer in Jan. She has already been through the radiation and is currently working on the chemo. She was taking some type of chemo and the Dr. said that it was not working that the cancer had spread even more. So she is currently trying a…
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Melanoma
I've read through the discussion boards and don't see much about melanoma if anyone knows a better site please let me know. This isn't the forum I was looking for I guess. Maybe a chat room with people that actually feel the stress of the disease is more of what I am looking for. Good Luck to all and may God Bless.…
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Melanoma who knew it could kill so violently
My husband is suffering from malignant metastic melanoma Stage 3. He was first diagnosed in August 2008 and has undergone 2 major surgeries and 5 weeks of Interferon IV treatments and now must suffer through 11 months of shots 3 times per week. Is there anyone out there who can relate to this cancer and offer advice to me…
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peritoneal cancer?
My mom has has Peritoneal(spelled wrong prob) Anyways the Dr.s say its like ovarian cancer but has no cancer on the ovaries.Cancer on the stomach lining and diaphram.She had a port and I.V. kemo for 6 months and is now on maintence i.v. kemo and feels worse than the harder stronger kemo! Now she is on methadone and…
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how do you start over??????????
It has been 2 years since I lost Richard to lung cancer. We had 34 years together and all I want is my life back, the way it was. It doesn't matter if it was before or after he was sick. I don't know how to start over without him. Does this even make any sence? I was 19 when we met, he was 21 so we basically grew up…
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Life Between Scans
I am 3 weeks into the Gleevec treatments and am due for a Pet scan and a brain MRI.I have vacillated between confidence, hope and fear. I think it's normal to feel all of these things, especially when you are just beginning a new treatment,where others have failed. I was just wondering what all of you do with your…
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Invalidation Rears It's Ugly Head Again, Sigh
You know I really thought I was over the kind of doctor's report I got today but nope guess that isn't the case - not over it. I had seen this rheumatologist about a month ago and when I was at my GP's today for my monthly appointment I asked if she had got his consult letter yet and oh ya she sure did. I asked for a copy…
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Anyone else having a hard time coping with remission?
Hello All, As of January 2009 I was told by my oncologist that I am in partial remission from lung cancer, there is a small incurable tumor in my left lung that will never be gone but is not currently active after responding well to treatment. I am happy about my news and now have two positive CT scans under my belt, with…
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Spring is in the air!!
Hi all, I hope everyone had a good holiday. Mine was beautiful - I spent the day with my whole family, all 30 of them. Yup, spent the day with all of them and didn't lose my mind! In fact, I enjoyed Easter like I never have before. I always loved Easter and even had "Auntie Holly's annual Easter egg hunt" but, I never…
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humor
would it be to offensive to start a place for some of the humorous things that have happened during out treatments. where i was at they actually had a humor class that my wife (caregiver) went to. as my luck went i was in for treatments during that class.
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Is it really worth it?
I haven't posted in a while as I had a setback in my treatment; my last chemo (Carboplatin, Taxol and Avastin) stopped working and I had to make some decisions. I had no more than weeks if left untreated. I was given a choice of clinical trials- one being Gleevec and the other a very toxic phase one trial that wouldn't…
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My count
Well Bluerose here it is my count went up again and now have to try another chemo. Usually my count will go down with a different chemo then go up but this didnt work so here we go again. Funny thing is I dont feel bad except with chemo. Hmm. Well got to regain my positive attitude and pray the next one works. Pray all is…
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Put your life in words
After many months of reading posts from spouses and children there seems to be something missing. I am as guilty as everyone else on here. When I had cancer I thought of living or dying and not much else. If I had not survived my family would of been left with memories, photographs and videotapes. There would of been few…
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loss of intrest in working
i just did my 6 month and the doc said everything felt okay. of course he wasn't the one bent over the table. but i am happy if he's happy. in the last 2 months i have had some unexpected changes. when i first came home i tried to get back in the same old routine. i was okay for a few months. but like i said at about the 4…