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"friendship"
To all our wonderfull friends here.Lisa P. --pay attention!!!!! FRIENDSHIP To have a friend and be a friend, Is a joy and privilege too. To know a friend accepts your faults,And loves you 'cos you're you. To be a friend is something fine, It makes one understand. How selfless is the love which gives, The ever helping hand!…
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Reoccurance and Irinotecan
Hey, I logged on a couple weeks ago with higher than normal CEA results and have just found out that I have a new, very small growth on my liver and will be undergoing chemo treatments again. 5FU, Leuokovorin, and a drug I'm not familiar with, Irinotecan. Has anyone undergone treatement with this combo before? I would love…
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surgery - update - he's in a stupor???
Hi guys, Thanks for all your encouragementover our good surgery news. Althought the dsurgery seems to have gone well, hubby does not know what is going on, its like hes still trying to come out of the anesthesia. forgets stuff, pulls O2 off, takes clothes off, trys to get out of bed without help. they have a 24 hr nurse by…
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Home again
Hi all, Just got back from 2 weeks vacation beside a lake in Maine, joining up with old friends. What a nice break, but I sure have missed keeping up with you all. Since I finished chemo the beginning of July, I feel better each week. (Well, except for the week that I had my thyroid removed!) Saw my endocrine surgeon…
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Why do I feel like this?
I am really doing better. Still have drainage tube. Also butt still taped up because of drainage. Also catheter because bladder not working and permanent colostomy. But.....I'm alive. So, why am I having the feelings I am??? I've been crying a lot. I've even had thoughts of "why didn't I die? My body would be perfect in…
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back pain?
Hi everyone, It's 7 weeks since my mom's operation. She started 'clean up' chemo last monday. She has had some back pain in the past couple days. She explains it has a lower back hollow feeling. She's thinking it could be from sitting for a long time, surgery, or the epidural from the opertaion. Did any of you have back…
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Hopkins liver surgery - went well:)
HI all... Just wanted to let you know how things are going... Hubby had his surgery yesterday am. Did pretty well, although they had to remove 60% of his liver because the tumor , although small, was located too close to some major vessels. He is pretty groggy today and in a lot of pain. The drugs and anesthesia have him…
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neuropathy (sp)
Hi all. For those of you in the know or who are on oxyplatin, how do you know what is normal neuropathy and what may be too much? Yesterday, 1 day after my treatment, even room temperature liquids produced razor sharp pains in my throat. Then, last night I had a couple of gulps of again, room temp water ( a big mistake),…
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oncologistfirsttime
hi all. am still recovering from the surgery i had to remove a tumor from my rectum on july 28th. finally found out it is in stage b2. but surgeon says i cant see an oncologist till am healed. never been to one. am nervous about what i might have or not have to do. have heard about new chemo you can take by mouth was…
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To Monika
Where do you live in So.CA.?
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Woddy - Dr. Gary Schwartz
Woddy, Hi, my name is deneen and my dad was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer in June. I saw your response to Ramona about not going to Dr. Gary Schwartz at Sloan Kettering. I was wondering why you would recommend against seeing him. I ask because that was the first Doctor that my father saw and we liked him and felt…
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hey kanga !!!!!!!!!!!!
hope all goes well.!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we are all pulling for ya fed
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School's out!
Hi guys. It's the prodigal daughter posting from Canada. Have not seen my Mum for more than four years due to my illness and her bad knees. Great to be back in ole Montreal. Speaking of which; you can access an architecture site of centuries-old buildings at:…
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kanga "humour"
Tomorrow kanga goes in to hospital to submit his somewhat "aged" body to a Thallium excercise stress test.-huh?--yu ask? Well, thats when some crazy nutter in a hospital gown thinks he has aright to stick ya with an inch long horseneedle just so's he can imbed yer body with something left over from the testing of an atomic…
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Please read my answers 8/22 chat
I hit reply on you answers, but they came on my message. Sorry, I am doing something wrong. Anna
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Please read important info! Thanks to all that replyed
My first surgery was 11/03 (2feet of my colon taken out), but my resection leaked and I got an infection inside and had to have emergency surgery within a month. Yes, had to be cut again from bellybutton to pelvic area. So, please if you get a fever and start vomiting, after surgery go to the ER and have them do a CT. This…
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Prayers
I pray for every CSN cancer patient and their caretakers every day.. talk to your god about us every chance you get - we will overcome.. bud
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Can't get over throughts of having cancer
Hi, I live in Duarte, Ca. Would like to talk or meet with those in area. Hard to find a support group for colon cancer. I can't stop thinking of the cancer it haunts me day and night. Does anyone have any suggestions? My prays go out to all of you. Anna
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Pelvic Exenteration
My husband and I are going to Duke Univ on Monday to discuss the possibility of a pelvic exenteration as a result of his huge recurring cancer. Is there anyone who has any knowledge or experience of the real life consequences of this life changing surgery? We've read everything we can get our hands on and have two surgeons…
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Thanks Guys! - liver surgery/prayers reply
Thanks to all who replied to me about liver surgery/prayers request! You guys are my inspiration! SpongeBob - if I see Michelle, I tell her Howdy! And thanks for the rainbow too :) We actually had on over our house last evening! That is the third time this year so i take it as a good sign. I will be looking more into the…
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I had my colonoscopy this a,m,
Hi All, I had my colonoscopy today...First thing I want to mention is that I do not want to see a bottle of "fleet" for a while, that's stuff is so discuting, the taste is one of the most discisting things I have ever tasted, but that aside I got good results, they didn't find any polypes, so to me that's amazing news as…
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FAP - multiple polyposis
I am a 38 yr old woman who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer last dec. It appears I have a FAP - which appears to be the first in my family. I had pre-op radiation & then had a total colectomy and protectomy with the formation of a permanent ileostomy. I am now undergoing chemo. Anyone else out there with FAP? Barb
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Wonderful News
I just saw my onc. this morning to go over the PET scan done Tuesday, and I am now officially in remission from stage 4 cancer. Nothing could be seen on the PET!!! In February I had surgery to remove the colon cancer and they discovered two mets to liver. One removed for biopsy, the second which was 2 cm was left to see…
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SPONGE-WORTHY?
Ahoy, y'all (I'm starting to tawlk lahk theyuns do down heya in Mis'sip...) Sorry - I've been on the road and incommunicado. Back now but getting ready to sail off into the Bounding Main again in a few days. Should have good internet connectivity this time around. If anyone is ever interested in what I'm up to when I'm at…
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"can I shout too??"
Hiya guys--well--had two more ECG'S yesterday and did a heart stress test(treadmill) and at the moment the specialist is not real sure if my chest pains are heart problems.My cholesterol is not real flash and blood pressure is all over tha place--bout 122 over 95 to 100. He said it is possible the chemo has affected my…
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prayers please
Hi all. One of my daughters classmate's mom is in bad shape. I was going to reach out to her next week and introduce myself. ( Maybe she had some tips on chemo and all this crap). I just got a phone call that she is back in the hospital and it doesn't look good. She is stage 4 ovarian and it looks like the tumors grew…
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Surgery on Tuesday..prayers needed...
HI all, hope all is well with everyone. Just posting cause i am getting a little nervous. Hubby's surgery for a met to the liver is on Tuesday morning at Johns Hopkins. Would appreciate any advice or encouragement, and of course prayers. Hubby's had a tough time rebuilding his red blood cells after blood donation for the…
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Spleen scare
I'm doing chemo even tho I'm stage IIB because the colon cancer was on the blood vessels that take the blood to the lungs, heart, kidneys, stomach.... you get the idea. My CT scan came back mostly unremarkable but I have something "unusual" with my spleen that is not usually seen with colon cancer so now I'm on pins and…
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Prayers for my close friends!
Hello Guys!! Bob and I are hanging in there. I am posting as I need to ask my new friends to say a prayer for a very old friend of mine who just past away from cancer. He gave it all he had for the last 20 years but he lost the battle this past Monday. The prayers are for his wife and family who are having a very hard…
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After surgery
I guess I should start out by saying I was diagnosed in March of 04 of rectal cancer. It was very low so we tried chemo, 5fu' and radiation at the same time for six weeks. After that didn't kill me I had surgery but they ended up taking my whole rectum out and now have a permanent colostomy. Since the surgery I have felt…