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I miss my dad =(
Hello there everyone! I am new here. My dad passed away on 2013 Christmas night and he was only 56 =( I am originally from Brasil but I have lived in Chicago for the last 11 years. When they suspected my dad had "something going on" , firstly they said it was pneumonia, they gave him meds and he went back home. After a few…
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Out of options
This has been a hard week. I brought my husband into the ED last Thursday because of vomiting, thinking he had another obstruction. CT scan that night showed lymph node tumor pressing on duodenum not allowing anything to pass from stomach so it was an obstruction, but from the outside of gi tract. Nasty NG tube needed to…
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Our quest: to find some amazing surgeon somewhere in the world that can operate on metastatic colon
2014-09-16 My wife , Anne, 63, was diagnosed with colon cancer metastatised to her liver on May 2013. We live in Ottawa, On and she has been receiving FOLFIRI until August 2014 and then she was switched to FOLFOX which she didn't tolerate very well. After the third injection , the onc gave her a break and she has been 9…
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Discomfort in rectum
Now that I've found this site I'll probably post like crazy, sorry everybody! I've been having rectal pain since about two months after the resection surgery. It feels like I'm constipated but no matter hom long I sit on the toilet I never go or feel better. Some days it's so bad I can hardly sit and standing for any…
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Bon Voyage, Trubrit
Blessings galore on your trip back to your beloved England! Savor every moment. Can't wait to hear all about it when you return. Leave cancer here. Enjoy! hugs, CM
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SBRT
My husbabd is getting ready to have SBRT in the next couple weeks... I'm just wondering if there is anyone who has had this treatment and how it went. Thanks Brenda
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chemo maintenance
get my 12th treatment this mon folfox with advistan, my dr told me today after ct scan go on advistan and one other in pill form every 3 weeks for 6 mths my last scan came back clear, i know they want to make sure but i just don't know. yolllmbs they knocked off oxi for the last one
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Stage 4
My husband was diagnosed back in 2011 stage 4. He had a resection and they removed everything they could see. Everything went good until it showed up again. A mass in his liver near the main artery. The doc said he thought he could remove it but he went in and closed him back up and said he did not want to risk it, to…
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Update
I'm now 4 days since FOLFOXIRI/bev treatment two of six (treatment #25 overall). This round was a lot better managed. I am now eating more and fatigue is waning. Diarrhea was not as bad and although nausea was an issue I seem to be beyond this as well. And as I previously reported, CEA dropped from 18 to 11, giving us…
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Liver resection went great!
Thank you everyone for your prayers, good vibes and well wishes, the surgery went off without a hitch and I'm doing fine. The docs are very happy, good margins (they check before they close me up- I didn't know that,) only 1 met and no other concerns when they poked around. I have an epidural in now, IV Tylenol and…
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Results from MRI
Thank you all for keeping me in thought and prayers. Good news and they are being cautious. It doesn't look like cancer but there are two areas of caution that could just be related to chemo and radiation in the back of the hip area. They said the way it looks does not look like metastic but won't rule it out. Therefore…
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My Colon Resection is Tomorrow, 9/19/14
Hello. My colon resection surgery is scheduled for tomorrow, 9/19/14. And I get to prep today, fun fun. I will have the laparascopic surgery at MD Anderson/Cooper Hospital in Camden, NJ. I was told it will be about a four day stay at the hospital, assuming no complications. The surgery will be about 3 to 3.5 hours. Since…
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FOLFOXIRI/bev Treatment two of six
Well, I went in last Thursday for treatment two. Nausea came on quick but stronger medication and quicker response allowed be to get this far without vomiting. I did have dirrehea Saturday nigh kind of bad but it has lessened considerably. Staying hydrated and eating small bland meals seems to work so far. Still not myself…
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Not good news about hip
Didn't get good news about my hip. They took an x-ray in December and things looked good but 8 months later my ball joint blood vessels have died and now my used to be rounded hip bone is now flattened. It's like rubbing bone on bone. Dr. told me to limit my walking, which is the only exercise I love, and to limit any…
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ER Visit :(
Last week I started to have lower abdominal pain. I thought I had a UTI. The pain got progressively worse and I thought I might have a kidney stone, the pain was just on the right side. By Monday I thought I was going to die, so Monday night went to the ER. We just moved 3 months ago so I didn't know any Drs and my onc is…
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returning colon cancer stage 4
I had colon cancer in 2009, stage 3 and now it has returned in my uterus, colon and 1 ovary, stage 4. I have had 5 months of chemo, Avastin and Oxilaplatin. Got another CT scan last week and my tumors aren't shrunk enough and one tumor is too close to a major artery to my leg, so, surgery isn't possible right now. I have…
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And so it starts...
I had a colonoscopy on August 18, CT scan on August 22, surgery on August 26 with a diagnosis of Stage IIIB colon cancer. Today, I met with my oncologist and mapped out the short-term future. I will be having my port put in on September 18 and begin FloFox6 on the 30th. I am shell shocked...I was expecting, perhaps, IBS or…
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Brooks (Just4brooks) checking in
Hi everyone, I thought that maybe afer a year away I'd check in to see how everyone is doing. As for me I'm doing okay, I'm now just a stay at home dad do to all of the post cancer problems with Oxaliplatin-induced neuropathy and my extream leg pain. It's hard at time to accept the life changing facts that I can no longer…
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Its been a tough month already
I have been fighting with the insurance company for almost a month now to get SBRT done on the chestwall spots. Then I went for treatment last Friday and all of my blood counts crashed so they delayed it until this Friday. I never had problems with my blood counts before. Then I just got a call from my wife that her mother…
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Tests, More Tests, and a Couple Questions
It seems like I have spent the last few weeks going from one test to another or knocked out with anesthesia. Yikes. It's been a year since surgery, so it was colonoscopy time (even though my tumor was in the small intestine). Everything looks good! I do have a hemorrhoid that was described as "fibrous" in nature (not like…
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Hi!
Just saying hello. I don't post, but I do keep up and send lots of love and good thoughts and energy to all! My husband is having a scan soon with results oct 8. Nerves are creeping in. He's going on 5 years in and is stage iv. Wishing everyone a pain free and peaceful weekend.
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Dying to be me. Death experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhcJNJbRJ6U&sns=em http://youtu.be/-DExbitdDfA k
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If you're able to move about,exercise while undergoing chemo......
This is but the most recent to emphasize the importance of being active www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/exercise-boosts-tumor-fighting-ability-chemotherapy-penn-team-finds (wish i gnu this five years ago) and on being active www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282745.php or this…
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Kathleen808
Just wandering how you are doing?
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Take a minute please
http://youtu.be/tNy3WY6TW2c I'm so proud to call this man my friend. On my down days, his plight gives me strength. Yolanda
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Easyflip - Richard
You can't post and run. We want to know how you are feeling. I presume the resection went well, and that you are recovering. Definitely recovering enough to be your wonderful, supportive self here on the forum. Please, tell us how things are. Sue - Trubrit
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FOLFOXIRI/bev Treatment 2 of 6
Heading into UMHS for CEA test, general blood work, meeting with onc, then treatment 2 on Thursday 9/18. I'm already anxious. I should be sleeping right now but instead I'm tossing and turning. What if CEA is not impacted by treatment 1? What if my blood work reveals issues? Diarrhea was a much bigger issue than past…
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hello everyone
just finished my 11th treatment 1 more to go, have numbness in fingers and cold effects me but other than that ok thanks everyone for your support, special thanks to trubit, i feel bad talking when theres so much sickness going on thanks again
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Folfox 9th cycle
Well ladies and gentleman- It's that magical time again. Chemo round 9. I have a meeting with my oncologist today, who will nod his head when I complain and say let's just keep going. I know I can do more. So far the challenge has been big but not undoable. I have 4 more to go. Thanks to everyone who prepared me. The first…
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Chemo Holiday
Doctor put me on a Chemo Holiday for about thirty days. Apparently the blood work is slipping but the CEA is holding at between 2.5 and 3 for the last couple of months. We discussed it and it seems that there is minimal danger of backsliding, in his eyes. Regardless, this has me spooked. The last short holiday CEA spiked…