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Great Shampoo for Cancer/ Chemo patients
THYMUSKIN shampoo has Been working wonders for me!! I recently finished my Folfox treatment last month and have been using this shampoo for 2 weeks now and have noticed new hair growing already!! Tons of new hair sprouting on my hairline! I use this shampoo every other day.. Pretty pricey but a great investment:) its not…
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Need some uplifting
I've been battling breast cancer for 8yrs now but along with fighting the cancer I've been fighting my loneliness, that has occured since I've had this stinking disease. I want to be in a relationship but I guess that means I would at least have to have a date first. I just want someone to go to a movie with, maybe take me…
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Wedding
I am so sorry I have not written in a while. My dad passed away in 2011 from Sarcoma in both lungs. I was 28 - he was 56. I would love to get connected with anyone that has gotten married without one or both of their parents by their side, and how they have dealt with the grieving process during the planning. I miss him…
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Anxiety about work, daughter 2 1/2 years post cancer
Hi, I haven't visited these boards in a long time. Have had my ups and downs since thyroid cancer and an earlt melanoma in 2010. I have been a stay home Mom since my daughter was born 6 1/2 years ago. I am now about to start a new job after being out of work for 6 years, going through 2 cancers, and loss of loved ones. I…
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unable to understand my husband's emotions after cancer
Husband was diagnosed with stage1 testicular cancer in June of this year. Surgery to remove the tumor was scheduled quick and afterwards he was required to go through 9 weeks of intense chemotherapy. I lost an Aunt close to me to pancreatic cancer this February, after she had survived breast cancer few years earlier, so of…
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Anxiety about work, daughter 2 1/2 years post cancer
Hi, I haven't visited these boards in a long time. Have had my ups and downs since thyroid cancer and an earlt melanoma in 2010. I have been a stay home Mom since my daughter was born 6 1/2 years ago. I am now about to start a new job after being out of work for 6 years, going through 2 cancers, and loss of loved ones. I…
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Songs for survival
I find music to be very therapeutic with me. What are some of your favorite coping songs? For instance, a good song to wallow to is: Cold Desert - by Kings of Leon (http://tinyurl.com/colddesert) Features the lyrics, "No one ever carried my load/I'm too young to feel this old" Another song I like is also melancholic, but…
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Carrying On Enthusiastically After Surviving Cancer
One of my biggest challenges is to sustain the enthusiasm for living live fully and creatively. Before my ovarian cancer diagnosis, I was a dreamer and a planner. Half of my excitement in life was daydreaming about what I was go ing to do in a few days, months, years. After my diagnosis - I noticed that a tiny voice keeps…
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20 year old College student, mom has brain cancer
I'm currently a Sophomore in college. My mom was diagnosed with a primary malignant glioblastoma (GBM) during the last week of my senior year in high school. She had the tumor successfully removed and has been doing a variety of treatments ever since. The doctors told her she had around a year to live, and it's already…
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Normal?? Help!!
I just lost my dad to stage 4 malignant mesothelioma In June. Now I have awful feelings that I an going to loose my mother. Is this normal?? What can I do? I can't loose her too.
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Carrying On Enthusiastically After Surviving Cancer
One of my biggest challenges is to sustain the enthusiasm for living live fully and creatively. Before my ovarian cancer diagnosis, I was a dreamer and a planner. Half of my excitement in life was daydreaming about what I was go ing to do in a few days, months, years. After my diagnosis - I noticed that a tiny voice keeps…
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Carrying On Enthusiastically After Surviving Cancer
One of my biggest challenges is to sustain the enthusiasm for living live fully and creatively. Before my ovarian cancer diagnosis, I was a dreamer and a planner. Half of my excitement in life was daydreaming about what I was go ing to do in a few days, months, years. After my diagnosis - I noticed that a tiny voice keeps…
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Carrying On Enthusiastically After Surviving Cancer
One of my biggest challenges is to sustain the enthusiasm for living live fully and creatively. Before my ovarian cancer diagnosis, I was a dreamer and a planner. Half of my excitement in life was daydreaming about what I was go ing to do in a few days, months, years. After my diagnosis - I noticed that a tiny voice keeps…
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RELAY FOR LIFE CONCERT HELP NEEDED FROM PEOPLE WHO LIKE MUSIC!! :)
I am a creator of a benefit concert that helps people with cancer and I need help finding songs that are appropriate for this cause.... I am wanting to play this playlist between bands so its not quiet while the bands are changing and such (people who go or have gone to concerts know what I mean....). Any suggestions? I…
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I'm crying lot :(
Hello everybody :) I'm girl 19 student in AOU in Kuwait study English Litereture. I'm Egyption but living in kuwait all my life. My problem is I'm crying alot and feel sad alot without any reason. Although I get supporting from my family, my friends and my teachers in unversity. My story with canser is :- In the last yeaar…
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Could hiccups be related to the brain, nerve or tumour
Patrick has had hiccups for 6 years,with no joy from his doctors..loads of medication and a camera down his throat still no luck,after trying years of medication,we started looking on the internet for advise,the only story that stood out was a story about a british guy that had hiccups for 4 years, finally he found out his…
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I lost my mom a year and a half ago along with my sense of self- need some encouragement
So I was on Google trying to find a discussion board for people that have lost their moms to cancer- this was the first one I found. I need some life encouragement. My mom was diagnosed when I was 15 years old with Breast Cancer. The doctor told her she would be fine and that they were just going to remove the lump. After…
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Crying
It has been a few months since I posted here. I broke my ankle in May, had surgery on it, and I can now run again which is important for me. My wife is on her third course of chemotherapy for stage 4 colon cancer with mets to liver and abdominal wall. She was diagnosed almost 2 years ago; it has been a journey for both of…
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Returning to Work -Advice?
After a looong haul, I finished my chemo treatment and series of methotrexate shots. PET shows clear! The oncologist has ok'd my returning to work (8 hr days) about a week from now. My job is sitting at a computer all day processing pension related information and detailed. It will take me awhile to get "up to speed" and I…
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Still looking for support
I am SO ANGRY at my family. I have had to sacrifice SO MUCH of my life for my mother's cancer. I don't mind helping and I want to help-but it is absolutely not fair when I am the ONLY person doing anything. I sit at the ER when she goes. I take her places. I do ALL of the chores around our house. When I go out with my…
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Please don't call me a "survivor"
I don't want the designation of "Cancer Survivor". I've survived MUCH worse and yes, there are some things that are MUCH worse than a cancer diagnosis (think Holocaust for one). As I come to the end of my first, initial and hopefully only round of treatment for lung cancer, I'm seeking suggestions on how to respond to…
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How to motivate someone with poor survival odds
I have a friend who is a "survivor" from a few years ago. The odds given her were 5-7% at the time. this year tests showed a return; radiotherapy didn't help, and she's started Chemo this week. She's a massively tough cookie (far more than I would be), but I think having to go through this all again is destroying her. The…
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Donating Hair for those who have lost theirs
I want to shave my head and donate my hair to those who do not have such a luxury, due to their battle with Cancer.
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Thanks to all
I would like to thank everyone here for their words of encouragement over the years. I am going to take a break for awhile, I will stop by from time to time and check in on everyone… Again thank you all Steve
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Cancer in you and me
Your rage, anger, aggression toward me are always there in the back of my head. I wish I can burry them deep down under the earth and stay there forever!!! But I can't....they keep coming back I wanted to forgive you, but I can't I wanted to move on, but I can't I can still feel the warm on my cheeks from your burly hand…
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Misdiagnosed. How do you get over the anger?
My husband was first diagnosed with a brain tumor 10 years ago at the age of 27. He had surgery to remove the tumor (mixed glioma) but we were told there was 100% recurrence. As a result, we were extra vigilant about getting his MRIs on time from a provider with a good reputation in another state. Up until last year, I…
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First Time Visitor.. Would love to talk...
Hi everyone... I was surfing the net to find out about first time visits to the oncologists, mine is tomorrow. I am here because within the last month I have had two bone biopsies on my illiac crest both came back benign. With that over, my doctor tells me your blood is telling us different and I need you to see a cancer…
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Having a hard time getting back to normal
I'm just a few months since my first clear PET scan. I am still having trouble getting back to normal. I get scared over things I know shouldn't be scaring me anymore like kids coughing (I work at a school) or friends being sick. Sometimes when I get a little cold, I take my temperature constantly... I also don't have a…
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Social Withdrawal
Well, I haven't been on here in a while, but lately I have been feeling the need to reach out to others and see if you all have experienced anything similar to this. For a quick recap, I am 20 years old, a survivor of Hodgkin's disease and my boyfriend is currently fighting Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors. In March of…
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My husband has started hospice!!!! I can't believe we here.
My husband was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in Nov. of 2010 and had to have a brain tumor removed in Dec. 2010; we are in our early 40's and have been married for 21 years. I never thought we would end up here at this time in our lives. We have 3 wonderful children, not kids anymore, oldest is 20 and the youngest is…