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Emotional Support
Archives for December 2017
Discussion List
Please help,need guidance, advice, opinions, anything
Where to start, this is such a complicated and long story. My mother, my best friend, my absolute everything was given four months to live yesterday with radiation on treatments on brain. The last several years I've watched this women suffer and be put thru hell and she has fought and fought! My mom is 63 years old. In…
I am total wreck and my wife said "I do love you but don't love myself"
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Complex kidney cyst I’m freaked
I don’t have a cancer diagnosis, but 2nd ultrasound on a kidney cyst in a year shows it grown and some nodules or calcifications. The radiologist recommended rescan in 6 months, but my doc is sending me to a urologist. I appreciate that because I suffer from anxiety and this has sent me into a vortex of worry. Everything…
Disappearing Cancer
Anyone ever heard of cancer that disappears? My dad just went to an oncologist for the first time after about 6 weeks of bouncing back and forth from urologist to gastroenterologist with an initial scan showing a mass on the stomach lining and one near/abutting the left kidney. But kidney guy keeps pointing to the stomach…
Scared of chemo
I have the choose an oncologist this weekend. One is at a large cancer center but there are constantly screws up over the most basic things (called me with wrong pre-op info night before surgery, sent letters with wrong phone numbers for doctors - it just goes on and on), and the other is a smaller cancer center with what…
Dad's Cancer Diagnosis Is Taking Forever...
Hello all. Brand new here. Feeling so frustrated and confused on the length of time it is taking to diagnose my dad's cancer. He initially went into the hospital Oct. 26 (today is Dec. 1) with a scan from his dr. that showed left kidney blockage (he was having severe pain even to be able to walk) and also a mass. Well,…
My mom has cancer for the second time
The first time my mom had cancer it was a tumor in her colon and the doctor was able to remove it and then had chemo has a preventative measure. Now we have found out that she has cancer again in several spots and she is having to go through more agressive chemo this time around. It has been a rough couple of years for my…