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Great Reading Material for Emotional Support
Whether we are the immediate caregiver, or the family member of someone diagnosed with cancer, we all have a desire to find the right way of offering support and assistance. Family members often share the same emotional struggles as their loved ones who have cancer; grief, anxiety, frustration, anger, sadness, denial, and…
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My Father's Story - My Pain
My father turned 49 this month, and he called me on his birthday to tell me that his doctor found a mass on his pancreas and spotting on his liver. That was three weeks ago. Throughout the next week my family, which includes my mom, two older sisters, and their husbands, went through oncologist appointments, those dreadful…
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Wigs
My Mother in law recently passed away....she had several wigs in great shape I was wondering if anyone knows where we can donate them for cancer patients?
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Hair donation requirements, PLEASE HELP!!
-June 26th, 2010- [I'm going to try to make this as short and to the point as possible] About 3 years ago, I lost my uncle who was like a father to me. He was diagnosed in September of 2007 but lost his battle and passed away 10 months later. So through this difficult experience, I have decided to do my best to help others…
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Today
My mother is amazing and beautiful. We had a really good talk last night and I found myself feeling calm and even happy afterward. We wanted so much more time...but we are lucky we have so many good memories and a closeness that is worth more than anything. She is my favorite person in the world. I know that because of all…
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What will I do?
My mother, dearest of all people to me, was diagnosed Stage 3 UPSC endometrial cancer in July 2008. Yesterday she got the results of Monday's CT scan. The "original" recurrence mass on her bladder, debulked 1/22/10, has doubled in size even through 4 courses of Ixempra. There are 2-3 new tumors. There is one last drug to…
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Sudden death
Hi everyone. This isn't really about cancer per se but my FIL passed away suddenly yesterday. He was 87 . It was a complete shock. He was not unwell and he never had cancer. Oh sure he had the usual aches and pains and he did have a heart arythmia. They think he had a massive heart attack in the garage after mowing. Please…
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Loss for words
It's been a journey the last few months. There are moments I want to cry, I feel mad and other times I am so lost. I feel like I have lost that piece of me that I once had before my uterus was removed. Overies still there I go thru these mood swings, one moment I am mourning the child I'll never have with my husband. The…
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Parade Magazine devotes Sunday, June 20 issue to "Cancer in America".
And here is the on-line version in the event that it didn't come with your newspaper: http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2010/06/20-lance-armstrong-cancer-survivor.html Love and Courage! Rick
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Treatments finished and in Remission - Feeling anxious
I had Anal Cancer and have now finished Radiation and Chem, and am in Remission. All the while I would say, and mean it, "Oh I'm fine" :-).....now all of a sudden it seems to have caught up with me, well my Oncologist said sometimes it all of a sudden comes to the top :-(...leaving a depression, or anxios feeling, feeling…
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17 yr old daughter with possible Hodgkin Lymphoma
In November of 2008 my daughter presented with symptoms of insomnia, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes in her neck (front and back), low-grade fever, night sweats, and loss of 20 pounds. The doctor did 3 mono-spot tests which all came back negative. He sent her home with anitbiotics. All the symptoms except the swollen lymph…
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nearly unbearable
I having such hard time. I doesn't have many people I can tell or who care. Thingas keep just getting worse and worse I am not must not be a strong person. I just feel like I can't Take much more. I have nurses come see me I donnt relly get out much at all anymore. Itis hard my life slipping out from my fingers. I just…
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Mother dying from Multiple Myeloma at age 59
My mother has been fighting cancer for 7 years. Started with breast cancer 7 years ago and survived, now has Multiple Myeloma that was diagnosed 2 years ago. She had the stem cell transplant in Feb 2009, my father and I didn't think she was going to make it but she did. She was doing well, her and my daughter would play…
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I need assistance mysecond husband is going to die on me too
I lost my my 1st husband at an early age. My second husban has stage 4 cancer. Somwtimes. I just cry, scream and bang things around. When I do these things it upsets him. I do not know what I am going to with out him.
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Supporting your supporters?
Hello everyone, I'm Sue and I'm new here. I was DX with lung cancer 2 weeks ago and I'm still waiting to see an oncologist , that will happen this week. So of course I've been on pins and needles waiting to hear just where I stand in this upcoming battle. My question is this, do any of you find yourselves having to spend…
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Dating after Cancer
I'm a 15 year breast cancer survivor, and I'm so thankful, but still find in hard to start new relationships. I underwent right breast mastectomy with reconstruction. I was married at the time of my diagnosis, and my ex-husband was supportive of the changes in me. Following my divorce, which was 6 years after my diagnosis…
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Possible to do the right thing and feel sad?
Don died April 13th. I'm gradually making changes in the house. I realize I'm doing it partly to get the memories of his youngest daughter out of the house and partly because in a small way it's a way of taking control of my life in spite of the continuing threat she poses to me. If you have to live behind locked doors, at…
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Gastric Cancer
Some please help me..... My BEAUTIFUL MOTHER(best friend) is really not doing well after her first chemo treatment. She gets her 2nd one tomorrow. I can't get her to eat anything. Could someone give me any suggestions PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! I am in desperate need of help. My 3 sisters and I have tried everything but she just…
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I lost my mom 1.5yrs ago when I was 23 and 5 months pregnant, and I have a HUGE fear of cancer
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at 34. She battled it for 10 years 2 weeks and 4 days. When she passed I was married married 6 months prior and was 5 months pregnant. I am not sure if I had time to grieve because of all that. I am the only child, and through all of this my dad met a women just a few months after my…
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Sharply criticized for disclosing cancer in Landlord forum, is this a no no?
I would appreciate your thoughts on this. I was posting to an online landlord/tenant forum late at night when I couldn't sleep, and I was trying to explain how my tenants have destroyed my house under my nose. I made a very brief reference to going through chemo and radiation and not being on top of my game as a landlord.…
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ONTARIO CANADA CANCER ISSUES - ONLINE MEETING JUNE 3, 2010
Just wanted to let you know that on the Caring Voices site that originates from Princess Margaret Cancer Hospital in Toronto Canada there will be a meeting with the CEO of Cancer Care Ontario on June 3, 2010 at 7:30pm running til 9. The meeting will be to get input on issues that concern the state of cancer care in Ontario…