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    • User: "newbride"

      i don't think we realize how absorbed we get

      Since March I have been dealing with my husband's diagnosis, actually in March I thought he was "cured" until we came home from our honeymoon in June and the tumor decided to join us. Anyway, I "thoug…
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      Started by newbride
      Most recent by terato
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    • User: "newbride"

      Need Recipes/Ideas

      I'm running out of ideas for pureed foods. Anyone got good recipes? I made a turkey, spinach walnut mousse last night that my husband said was good - it was a nice change from all the cold smoothies h…
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      Started by newbride
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    • User: "newbride"

      suggestions for birthdays???

      Ok -- my husband's birthday is Friday - how to celebrate? He feels like crap - just had a PEG inserted yesterday. He's on a purely liquid diet. But other than that I think the issue I am having is sin…
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      Started by newbride
      Most recent by soccerfreaks
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    • User: "pattynonews"

      New to site

      Not sure how to get around this site, if anyone can throw me some help, that would be great, Been living with cancer for a year now as the caretaker, and some days I jsut feel lost and I have my frien…
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      Started by pattynonews
      Most recent by AlanJ
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    • User: "ewedee"

      My journey not yet started

      Well 7 weeks ago I had a whole husband. Since then he has beed diagnosed with colon cancer, rushed to surgery for a colostomy, and facing chemo. I am still reeling from it all. He will start chemo on …
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      Started by ewedee
      Most recent by esined
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    • User: "whichwitch"

      Hi everyone

      Hi everyone, just a note to say i am feeling better today. Sun is shinning and no work, nowhere to go, just me time. i am loving it. hope all is well with everyone. What is being planned for the weeke…
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      Started by whichwitch
      Most recent by terato
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    • User: "hornelas80"

      This is beginning to burn me out! Too much! Family doesnt help much! Mom in distress all the time! A

      OMG! The stress is beginning to get to me, my spirit, my everything. I never thought it was going to be this hard. I am usually able to manage and be under a lot of stress but now I feel like I can't …
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      Started by hornelas80
      Most recent by soccerfreaks
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    • User: "ktmoore"

      Losing hope and patients

      I am my mom's caregiver and I am losing it! She has been going through chemo since February. She has lost 56 pounds, she won't eat! Her chemo keeps her from eating anything cold so everything has to b…
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      Started by ktmoore
      Most recent by soccerfreaks
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    • User: "RE"

      How can a survivor make you as the Caregiver's task less stressful

      To all the caregivers out there, as a survivor of several battles of cancer I am wondering what a survivor can do to make your job as caregiver easier or at least less stressful. I hope not to have to…
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      Started by RE
      Most recent by soccerfreaks
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    • User: "SonSon"

      Last Treatment... (?)

      Went to the hospital for my mother-in-laws 'last' radiation treatment. Congratulations all around. So, why did I feel so sad? I think she felt sad, too, as she wept a lot. We left not hearing "you're …
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      5 comments
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      Started by SonSon
      Most recent by SonSon
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    • User: "MichelleP"

      Tele-Health

      I'm so excited and happy. After many denials for home nursing from the insurance company I found out that the Visiting Nurse Assoc has a Federal Grant for tele-health. The insurance and/or medicare pa…
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      4 comments
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      Started by MichelleP
      Most recent by MichelleP
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    • User: "moxie75"

      losing it....HELP!!!!

      My mom was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in March. Life has been HELL!!! I live with her and take care of her when she is not in the hospital. I have lost friends and apparently my mind and there is s…
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      5 comments
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      Started by moxie75
      Most recent by alex73
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    • User: "ppm20wife"

      What next?

      It looks like my dh's surgery is going to be pushed back ANOTHER week - what the heck? Does anyone out there understand he has cancer? He needs to have that surgery done to remove the darn tumor??? I …
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      Started by ppm20wife
      Most recent by ppm20wife
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    • User: "luvher03"

      to SonSon

      I was not meaning that you thought I was selfish...the majority of the post was in response to MichelleP...the last statement was to you, where I thanked you for your comments to me and understanding.…
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      Started by luvher03
      Most recent by SonSon
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    • User: "roganjfr"

      help help help help help help help

      wife Deb is a 15 year breast-cancer survivor we need support help and guidance of another caregiver to help us a shoulder to cry on do the right thing and make the right decisions even if it means hel…
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      Started by roganjfr
      Most recent by rwagner
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    • User: "hansie"

      kids

      ok for those of you who dont know me im a 42 yr old whose wife has sclc-ed and shes not doing well.Treatments have stopped,and hospice has ben brought in.Barb has ben doing well emotionally however th…
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      6 comments
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      Started by hansie
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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    • User: "hansie"

      dogs

      a little background to get started...i live with my wife barb,our two kids and two dogs in a small 3 br ranch.Barb was diagnossed in nov 07 with sclc,and at that time her mother came to stay with us.H…
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      16 comments
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      Started by hansie
      Most recent by RE
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    • User: "marc24"

      how to juggle helping your mom with cancer AND help myself?

      I nvr realized there was a "Caregivers" section here....my question is my mom has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer with liver mets....onc said 6 mo to 20 months, i refuse to believe this....its b…
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      1 comments
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      Started by marc24
      Most recent by SonSon
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    • User: "wishing_onstars"

      Been running myself to death and its just the first month

      My fiance was diagnosed with extragonadal mediastinal germ cell tumor (yolk sac) 4 weeks ago stage 3 (possibly stage 4). He has been put on a ventilator to help him breathe because the tumor is blocki…
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      5 comments
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      Started by wishing_onstars
      Most recent by wishing_onstars
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    • User: "janet45"

      Physical Activity

      My husband had surgery on June 1 to remove a large part of a metastasized kidney tumor. For one month prior to this operation and until today he does minimum physical exercise. He has been going to ph…
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      6 comments
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      Started by janet45
      Most recent by janet45
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    • User: "Julis1111"

      Should I Push or Just Support?

      I'm watching my husband go through chemo. He is getting less and less active. He used to want to go for walks every day, but now he sits a lot and watches tv a lot. He has basically told me to back of…
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      9 comments
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      Started by Julis1111
      Most recent by Julis1111
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    • User: "kimby"

      The F Word

      This was actually posted on another message board that I frequent. I love it and found it wonderfully helpful. I hope you do, too. Kimby The F word Fatigue is the most common challenge of cancer -- pe…
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      5 comments
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      Started by kimby
      Most recent by terato
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    • User: "ppm20wife"

      My family is already a mess and we are in the early stages

      My DH was dxed with cancer 3 weeks ago - still in the process of going to different drs, setting up surgery and after treatment. And my family is already slipping. DH is in denial and contradicting ev…
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      7 comments
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      Started by ppm20wife
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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    • User: "coachL"

      GUILT

      I was really looking forward to today. My daughter was just home from college and had offered to drive my husband the 1 hour drive to radiation treatment today. I got up early and hooked up his TPN ba…
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      12 comments
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      Started by coachL
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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    • User: "seanslove"

      How long.........

      Can anyone one on Folfox 6,during their first round,tell me what is the average amount of time to go without being able to eat? My husband still after DC on Thuresday si not able to eat more than a bi…
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      6 comments
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      Started by seanslove
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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    • User: "trish07"

      Husband has pseudomyxoma peritonei

      husband has stage lV pseudomyxoma peritonei-does anyone have clear understanding of prognosis in terms of time?
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      1 comments
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      Started by trish07
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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    • User: "ppm20wife"

      well all HE*^*^ broke loose in a very strange way last night!

      Well, I just posted the other day that my family was a mess with DH's dx (3 weeks now). I really appreciated all the support I received here...last night it all came out and it's really strange - I fe…
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      5 comments
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      Started by ppm20wife
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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    • User: "sally72"

      just was told no more treatment for hubby

      my husband has bladder cancer --- he's beat the odds in treatment every time . now his specialist has said no more treatment it's simply too much for him . he's being referred to hospice . we are both…
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      6 comments
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      Started by sally72
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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    • User: "needhope1"

      How do you deal with your loved ones taking their emotions out on you?

      My husband is only beginning this journey through cancer...his first chemo is this Thursday. He is already "snapping" at me a bit...I know he is so anxious about all that he is going through. I keep t…
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      10 comments
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      Started by needhope1
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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    • User: "MichelleP"

      How can I get a social worker?

      I need your advise please. My husband has stage 3 (possibly 4 depending of further testing). Our insurance company (an HMO) has denied home health care as well as a social worker. The woman I spoke wi…
      36 views
      9 comments
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      Started by MichelleP
      Most recent by sue Siwek
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