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how do you continue to live with cancer without allowing cancer to be what defines you
i want to have an existence other than cancer....... when people think of me i dont want the first thing to come to their mind to be cancer. how do i exist to my own self without cancer being my first and main thought concerning myself......how do i enjoy this day, wheather i have cancer or not??????
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the look in their eyes
have you ever told someone about the progress of your condition and saw the look in their eye or heard it in their voice that "they think that you will probly die" other peoples thoughts don't determine your outcome, but their lack of confidence sure gives you a doomed feeling.
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trying to give my husband/family a break........looking for other means of expressing my feelings ab
is there anyone out there that is either from or near rocky mount, nc... i am looking to connect with someone from this area. i have a very supportive husband but i am afraid that he needs a break from all of the ins and outs of cancer.... if i had someone else to talk with sometimes, than he would be able to get a…
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Both Parents Suffered Cancer
When I was 17, my mom died of breast cancer. When I was 42, my father died of prostate cancer. Cancer is all I have known since the age of 5. Premature death has been looming over my head since I can remember. Less than 2 years after losing my dad, the guy who knew me best, I find it very hard to make much sense in all…
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Sibling negativity
I am a 51 year old female, Multiple Myeloma survivor. I am doing very well with regard to managing the cancer and am in complete remission. I am, by nature, a positive person and this has helped to carry my through the past 7 months. My immediate family and friends have been very supportive and loving. The problem are with…
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Sibling negativity
I am a 51 year old female, Multiple Myeloma survivor. I am doing very well with regard to managing the cancer and am in complete remission. I am, by nature, a positive person and this has helped to carry my through the past 7 months. My immediate family and friends have been very supportive and loving. The problem are with…
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Want to chat with professionals at a world reknown cancer hospital for free online?
I have mentioned this before but it was awhile ago and it bears mentioning again I think. I live in Canada and was treated in part at our biggest cancer hospital called Princess Maragret Hospital in Toronto Ontario Canada. They have a site, like this one, that has an additional feature in that they hold regular meetings…
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Bluerose you must be blessed
Bluerose you must be a blessed child of god, i would love to feel what you did whenever you recieved your healing, i keep praying for god to heal me, i have everyone else who believes in god to pray, but so far i still feel so bad. I have always been taught that god does everything in his own time, so i guess i will wait…
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After 25 years NED having a biopsy on a lymph node tomorrow, sigh.
Awwww nuts. Grrrrr, and words I am not allowed to type in here. Sometimes it feels like it just never ends, know the feeling? I am not complaining, well okay I am but I have had a long long shtick without cancer and am praying this wayward lymph node (apparently nodes in the breast are rare but it does happen and usually…
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Chemotherapy Gone Horribly, Horribly Wrong
My 68 yr old mother was an extremely healthy woman who was diagnosed with triple negative stage one breast cancer back in March. Her lumpectomy surgery in May was successful however given the rarity of her cancer, she elected for chemotherapy. Now, after one round of chemo treatment, she is fighting for her life. Seven…
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Lymphedema
I was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma skin cancer in 2007 and had 3 surgeries including lymph node removal. Right after surgery, I was diagnosed with lymphedema. It is in my arm, breast and upper quadrent of my trunk. It is severly painful and gets worse with movement, weather, lifting etc. I don't know what to do anymore,…
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Dreams (Really nightmares)
Does anyone have dreams of the moment of the diagnosis? Dealing with the end of your loved ones life with your loved one? Dreams of having cancer yourself? I've been having nightmares on and off since my dad passed in January of cancer - either my dad's diagnosis, the end of my dad's life, or finding out that I have…
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Oops...I spoke too soon. But it should still make you smile.
I posted the other day that my mom requested, and heartily ate, a piece of pizza and a hot dog after months and months and months of not eating. I knew that sometimes a person who is in the process of passing will have a quick rebound where they eat, ask for relatives, and generally appear to be better before the final…
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void
I was reading this the other day, and I swear I feel the same way! The minister was reading the passage from the Bible. He was talking about the beginning of creation, and he was talking about courting the void-that dark, mysterious, and sometimes painfully frightening place of nothingness from which all creation…