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Archives for May 2011

Don't know what to do.
For the ones who dont know. My dad has stage 4 lung cancer.... Well Monday will be a month that my dad has been in the hospital. I really dont know what to do. Within the last couple days he hasnt ate or drank and has been sleeping all day and he is very depressed. I know there really isnt anything i can do for him but be…
DOCUMENTARY TONIGHT 8pm on HBO, WHAT U NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MAKING END OF LIFE DESCITIONS&YOUR RIGHTS!
"How to die in oregon" is a documentary that will be airing tonight on hbo at 8 pm. It follows the lives and the struggles of quality of life over quantity of life. It is definitely something to see. Best documentary at Sundance Film Festival. Tell your friends and families unfortunately this is something we will all face.…
Have never felt so lost...
Been one of 2 caregivers for my friend with pancreatic cancer. Not too much longer, it's getting harder for him to breathe and he hasn't eaten in days. Has had very little to drink in the last 3 days. Hospice nurses say at this point just let him do what he wants. He barely makes sense anymore, and when we can understand…
I think I finally see what people mean.....
So for a Relay For Life fundraiser my friends and I are putting together this concert where all proceeds go to Relay. One of my friends wants to tell my story during the concert. I really don't want her to because I feel bad because so many people are still fighting the cancer or worse and I got away with tiny scars where…
A Tribute To My Mother, Lung Cancer - Passed May 19th 2011
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~ Rajneesh Let’s admit it... you can never be prepared enough when you decide to have your first child. There are not enough books in a person’s library to get one…
need emotional support and prayers
I made an agreament with my exhusband to drop all back child support which was many thousnds of dollars for his help this last time around with chemo I think i made a deal with the devil. I didnt know him well when i married him i found out when it was to late i forgot how mean and evil he is he was fired from his job of…
I feel useless
Hi, I am 24yrs old and was diagnosed and lost my eye within a month last year with Choridal Melanoma. I had never heard of such a thing before it happened to me and that makes me angry. I had never been an angry person up until then. June 2010 is when my vision in my right eye went blury. I hadnt been to the eye dac in 3…
I am scared
You can read about me on my page but a quick cliff note about me. I am 31 and I have stage 3c ovarian cancer. Currently going thru chemo and have been thinkin alot about if I died. How I am afraid to let the 4 people who mean the most to me go. Which are my brother, fiancée, mom & dad. I am not saying I will die, but I…
To Celebrate or not to Celebrate??
My CT SCAN was clear, oh blessed day!!! This is my second round with this and the first time I celebratde walked around on cloud 9 told everyone my cancer was in remissionm could have bragged to milkman if there was one... Now I'm skiddish, when asked I say yes its gone but not with so much joy, its like I have no smile…
My story
My story begins with a trip to the ER because of some insane pain. That Doctor came back and told me there was a grapefruit sized growth on my ovary but not to worry because woman my age"26" don't get this type of cancer. I was refereed to gynecologist surgeon who took one look at the scans told me not to worry "Women your…
Help with dying husband
Hello, I am new here. I am my husbands caregiver and he has esophageal cancer. He has been given about a month. We have been through every treatment possible and we are at the end. No more treatments. We would have been married 30 years in September, we married early and he is only 55. We have one son that is 19. This has…
Feeling like giving up
Hi all I haven't been on here in a long time I been struggling going through test after test. I had a pet scan the beginning of April it came back no cancer. they explain to me that I still have cancer and am not cancer free. It is sitting in my blood and have not form the cells yet so it could happen at any time or go…

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