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Feeling rejected
Our really good friend and also my daughter's best friend's mom has terminal cancer. She is not expected to live through the rest of the year. My daughter (15yrs) is very upset because her friend doesn't want to talk to her as much as she used to. She also is choosing to talk more to a boy she just met instead of my…
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RE: Questions about Red Cell Morphology tests I had done
Hello, I do not have cancer (at least yet that I know of). I do have a question about some lab work had recently. Under the subject "Red cell morphology" it said "Slight--Abnormal" for the "polychrome" and "Ovalo". I'm wondering if anyone knows if that means anything important? My family Dr. brushed it off when I asked.…
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I just don't know how to go on...
...sometimes. I am a young mother of a five year old boy. His name is Aiden and he has Stage Four Nephroblastoma. He was diagnosed in January 2009. Every day we are clueless as to the future or what time will bring. No body understands what my husband and I go through every day. Let alone what our boy oes through. No…
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9 month check up
okay, i am leaving tomorrow 6/28 for my 9 month check up. i have the usual nervous, uneasy, don't want to go do it, i need a vacation attitude. the only really off the wall thing this time is they want to do a colon-os-copy thingy. well, someone didn't read my chart. they planned it on my birthday!!!!!!!! happy freaking…
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How do you handle your emotions , its getting real tough seems like ??
Well you know they say men don,t cry , ?Right Well someone lied things seem to have just come full circle on me lately i guess the realization of things just have come home and hit i drove around this evening and all of a sudden i just started crying and just could not stop, for overan hour , have not started any…
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My Aunts Cancer
Hi im kelli im writing you today, because my aunt recently passed away due to asophugus cancer. she passed away 2 days ago..we are in desprate need of help burying her she was 44 years old..a very loving kind woman with 3 children and 2 grandchildren one due next month..if anyone knows of any kind of charity or cancer org…
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My opinion letter to the "Chicago Tribune" regarding a public choice for health coverage
www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/chi-090617kosinski_briefs,0,2232068.story chicagotribune.com Insurance companies should prove public option won't work June 17, 2009 Opponents of a public option for health-care coverage should stop deluding themselves into believing private health insurance companies don't…
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Hair Loss
Hi! Yes, I know I have a much greater battle than just that....and there is no dignity to cancer.......but how did you deal w/it? I'm hoping to be able to work during this ordeal and don't need the 'looks' and 'comments'. Did you just shave it off? let it fall off? wear a wig? wear a scarf/hat? go around bald?
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feel helpless
My mom was just diagnosed with some sort of abdominal cancer. She has been going through all kinds of tests and emotional rides since April. She has not had a meal since March. Just last week her ONC had her start Chemo. He told her if she does not eat the program will not work. She is very sick now and does not eat enough…
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metastatic breast cancer and SURVIVING AN ABUSIVE EX-HUSHAND
Dear CSN community, I need your help! A bit of background: I was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2005. Had a radical mastectomy, breast reconstruction, was on tamoxifen for years, and then in Feb of 2008 I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. I had chemo (taxol and avastin) for 10 months (3 weeks on, one…
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The Strength and Wisdom of a Survivor
No matter where you are in the cancer journey as a patient - you are a survivor. You have survived diagnosis in the very beginning - perhaps deep worry even before that at having experienced unusual symptoms but you survived them all. On to the next steps, one by one. You wonder and fear and worry and cry and then do them…
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What to do when a loved one has terminal cancer?
This week I found out my 34 year old boyfriend has been given 6 months to live (please read my profile for my complete story). I don't go through the denial stage I am those that sails straight into the anger, depression, bargaining stages all mixed into one. I've never had any form of life threatening illness or been…
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The waiting is really hard
I'm waiting to meet with an oncologic surgeon on 6/22 to discuss next steps about having my tumor removed. He'll likely be removing it completely to biopsy but it is now starting to cause some pain in my arm. I don't have a definitive diagnosis. I have also been experiencing pain under my arms and now that is worrisome. I…
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Waiting for neck mass biopsy results on 14yo son
Hi, I am new to this site and in need of some support regarding my son. He's just 14 and we're waiting results from a neck mass biopsy. The doctor said that it could come back just an infection but it's not a good sign that he has no pain. I know that I need to be patient but you see I'm 9 nine post breast cancer…
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how to cope with all this ? need help- advice/job
My story is rather long and I will try to make it concise. I was diagnosed with papilalry thyroid cancer in 2003 and had surgery, found it had metastasized to lymph nodes. During the course of surgery they also found a sarcoma cancer on the neck so had to go back to get the thing with another surgery and then RAI. I was…
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Waiting
There are a million and one things/feelings about dealing with the word 'cancer' from the finding of a lump, or having a symptom that leaves you worried, to waiting for a doc's appt to check it out to waiting for results and treatment. When I was recently told I had a lesion they had 'missed' I have been waiting for one…
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Why am I struggling?
I was diagnosed with an eye cancer last October, had radiation treatment and am doing well. But I seem to have hit some kind of....I'm not sure what. Folks in my support group say it's not unusual for things to catch up with you once you've gotten through the initial "I'm gonna fight this" stage. But it seems like it's…
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feel helpless
A friend of mine has leukemia and a rare disorder. They told him chemo wasn't working any more and basically would be giving him blood and platlets from now on. He's middle aged. It's hard watching his wife go through this and feel so sad and helpless. Wish I could do more, it's so unfair this cancer. Please say prayers…
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Medical Red Tape, Missed Health Risks, and Survival
Oh Mama give me strength. I am trying to get a kidney stone removed from my bladder, as I have explained in other posts, and the red tape along the way and contradictions by medical staff here there and everywhere is driving me round the bend. The surgery is going to be the easy part compared to all this medical red tape.…
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My Dad
My dad is dying of cancer. He played a big part in my kids lives. I am worried about how they will react after. Are there grief councelors available? I do not have any extra $ so i am looking for someone cheap.
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Go in for one problem and come out with the possibility of a bigger problem, sigh.
Still in a bit of shock so this will be short - well for me, lol. Went in for a CT to make sure my kidney stone was still there before tomorrow's surgery to yank it out of my bladder and when the surgeon came out to tell me if the surgery was still a go due to the findings on the CT - surprise, while the radiologist was…
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Divorce, Starting Over, and Dating after Cancer
Five years ago I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Renal Cell Carcinoma, stage 2 of 3. I had a partial nephrectomy of my right kidney. About a year after, my ex husband had an affair, that's why he's my ex. He was never supportive and wouldn't allow me to talk about the cancer. He said, "If I talked about it, it meant I…
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Song For Survivors
I have created a song that is being used locally at meetings and in the Relay. The song is a true story that is both sad yet inspiring as it describes the determination of a Survivor. The link is http://www.wpoc.com/new2/artists/themarblesteps You can play the song at this link. We are trying to get it covered by a popular…
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My Uncle's Choice to not get treatment for Cancer
hello out there. I hope that someone can shed some light on what I am going throught at this point. I myself do not have cancer, but my Uncle Manual who I am very close has just been told the he does. This this the 3rd time, and this cancer is munch more aggressive that the types in the past. He is not in the best of…