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Any parents living with adult child, both have cancer???? WOW
My mom wants to know if anybody else has lived with their adult child, while both having and undergoing treatment for cancer??? She feels like they are the only ones, yet believes that certainly others have had the same situation. Would love to hear from you! Wow, really? The dynamics for them are really unique in some…
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Katie Kirkpatrick
My sister sent me an email with this story - I am pasting a link to where you can read it and see pictures on the web.…
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New Look Good Feel Better Program for Counties in Mississippi
New Look Good Feel Better Program for Counties in Mississippi Serving Tallahatchie and all surrounding counties such as Bolivar, Greenville, Coahoma, Panola, Leflore and more. Her name is Mary Frances Gentry 662-375-8235. She has helped me a great deal!!! She gave me free makeup, wraps, wig, and a breast form. My insurance…
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My husband's battle has ended ;(
I wanted to let you know that my husband's long and brave battle has ended. He fought so bravely and I'm so proud of him. We couldn't do anything....the cancer finally beat us. His last moments were peaceful and I was holding him in my arms. I told him that everything was going to be okay and that he needs to follow the…
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My husband answered me today
Before my husband passed while I was holding him and talking to him I asked that he send me a sign he is with me after his passing. Many people ask that lights go on or off....some ask for pennies to be found. But I wanted to ask him for something different....something that no one else would understand. I asked him to…
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Feeling Alone
HI, I;M NEW TO THE BOARD. I'M NOT SURE I ENTERED THIS IN THE RIGHT FORMAT. I JUST HAD A DOUBLE MASTECTOMY JUNE 3RD FOLLOWED BY A FIERCE INFECTION AND EXPANDER RECONSTRUCTION. I WAS FEELING PRETTY GOOD I HAD SURVIVED ALL THIS WITH A GOOD ATTITUDE, BUT MY HUSBAND IS STRUGGLING WITH IT ALL. I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD GET ADDITIONAL…
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Ways to stay strong?
Hi I'm new to the site and am looking for alot of support somewhere. My life has been flipped around this year after being diagnosed with cancer. I am only 15 years old. Its been really hard these past couple of months. At first i was strong about getting through this but now i've just been really depressed. All this…
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Response not neccessarily required ;-)
There probably is no magic answer here, except for all your prayers for my mom and brother that I can get. My brother has been told that the treatments are no longer working (for the third round) and that his recurrent nasopharyngeal tumor has grown much larger than they had thought. The only treatment option a team of…
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How do I do this?
There's this coworker that really wants to help me a lot, but she is above me and works really close with me, and it just feels really really really weird. How do I let her know that I don't need her help in a nice way? I mean, I neeeeeeeed help, God knws, but you know...sometimes people are best kept at a bit of a…
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also....
I want to say that this wonderful new discussion board you have here has been a great place for me to go. I am very grateful. I have read many many of your discussions and cried thru most all of them. The strength and passion here is exactly what I needed. God Bless each and every one of you. I feel selfish and 'naked',…
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Need Advice on Emotional Support
Hi all! A year ago, my girlfriend's--then my colleague's--father has been diagnosed with colon cancer, stage 3, with metastasis to two nearby lymph nodes. He underwent surgery, yet no further treatment could be administered since his surgery wound did not and has not healed. Although, quite surprisingly, a recent CT scan…
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Best book I have ever read by a cancer survivor that deals w/ the emotional issues of surviving, cop
I would like to get the word out to the cancer community about an amazing book written by a Carcinoid Cancer survivor called "Between Me and The River" by Carrie Host. I am an oncology nurse and this is simply the best book about surviving, coping and recovering from cancer that I have ever read. This book is so…
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a dear friend of mine
my friend just had a mascetomy on monday, along with this she had been discharged the same day, the very next day i had to take her to the primary doctor for nerves damaged during her biopsy, she is taking norco, flexeril, klonipin, and norco , she tells me she is following the prescribed dose, but her boyfriend tells me…
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body image
Has anyone on these boards had plastic surgery after cancer to undo what the surgeons did? If so did it help? I'm not coping with my scars at all or the daily reminders I'm still having from colon cancer. I'm still very bitter about this. Don't tell me to focus on what I have to be thankful for. I just want to look at…
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Anyone heard of this
There is a therapy out called EMDR. It stands for eye movement, therapy desensitization and reprocessing. Sounds far fetched but let me tell you IT WORKS. Please if you're having a rough time give this a try. It will allow you to release past trauma's and get past all the bad crap. I tried this yesterday and know it works.
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Invalidation Rears It's Ugly Head Again, Sigh
You know I really thought I was over the kind of doctor's report I got today but nope guess that isn't the case - not over it. I had seen this rheumatologist about a month ago and when I was at my GP's today for my monthly appointment I asked if she had got his consult letter yet and oh ya she sure did. I asked for a copy…
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how do you start over??????????
It has been 2 years since I lost Richard to lung cancer. We had 34 years together and all I want is my life back, the way it was. It doesn't matter if it was before or after he was sick. I don't know how to start over without him. Does this even make any sence? I was 19 when we met, he was 21 so we basically grew up…
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where do I start?????
I found out yesterday my mom is dying......and even as I write the words and know they are true I don't know how to begin to wrap around the changes that are coming......I don't even know where to begin.....she is alone in Nebraska I am in Ct......I have little money to get there and don't know what I will do to suport…
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My opinion letter to the "Chicago Tribune" regarding a public choice for health coverage
www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/chi-090617kosinski_briefs,0,2232068.story chicagotribune.com Insurance companies should prove public option won't work June 17, 2009 Opponents of a public option for health-care coverage should stop deluding themselves into believing private health insurance companies don't…
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Are there any bikers out there fighting cancer?
Hi friends. Just wondering if there is anyone out there who's a biker or loves motorcycles? Our Oregon chapter president, "Warbird" found out over Christmas that his cancer has returned. We'd love to hear words of encouragement and support for our dear friend and fellow biker, and prayers are appreciated too! Thumper BFC…
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my husband died and i miss him
Angel passed away april 16 2009 Now I have to go on alone how do you do that after being married 35 yrs he was 53 and i am 51 Just going home is heartwrenching for me because i will never see him againor talk to him like before. I am a wreck. he did instill in me to be strong and i am trying my best. michelle
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how am i suposed to feel
hi, i am 24 yrs old diagnosed with ovarian cancer stage 2 at 21, had my las chemo february last year, and it was so hard since the chemicals where so agresive, now iÃÂÃÂÃÂôm ok taking lucrin depot as an endometriosis treatment, i donÃÂÃÂÃÂôt have a partner and i am so afraid that the minute i bring out my…
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Help I need someone to talk to.
Hi, my mom has adenocarcinoma of the right lung in the pleural lining. She had surgery for a complicated pleural fluid build up in her right lung. The thoracic surgeon found the cancer mass when he lifted up her lung and said it was in the back wall too. She was in the hospital with a chest tube for around a month and wore…
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It's Aimee again, just updating
Hi Everyone, Well first I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. If you guys didn't know I am the one that posted the subject "I'm about to lose my mom" a few weeks ago. Well just to update everyone, she has taken a turn for the worse. Her oncologist is saying it will be a matter of weeks, if that. I came home from…
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fearful of the unknown future
I was diagnosed with breast cancer 3 years ago. It took a whole year of chemo, radiation, surgery. Now I have been diagnosed with secondary lung cancer (it metastisised) I have to wait til the 27th of this month for a biopsy so the oncology Dr. can know how to treat it. I am saddened by having to go through it all over…
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I just lost my best friend to non-hodgkins lymphoma
One month ago today, I lost my dear friend and employer of 34 years to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He was diagnosed in "05 when a small lesion turned out to be Non-hodgkins. He had the lesion removed and all tests -MRI's,Pet Scans following were negative.He went ahead with R-chop and rituxin treatment, and he had decided to go…
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Dealing with the loss of a loved one
how can we grieve? what is right or wrong? does anything make sense at all? going through this process is very hard, very painful. I just lost my mom to cancer, it was through her whole body at 83 years old. why cancer? no dignity... she died May 20th, last Sunday in NY... I am now back in Florida trying to cope with life…
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metastatic breast cancer and SURVIVING AN ABUSIVE EX-HUSHAND
Dear CSN community, I need your help! A bit of background: I was diagnosed with breast cancer in April of 2005. Had a radical mastectomy, breast reconstruction, was on tamoxifen for years, and then in Feb of 2008 I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. I had chemo (taxol and avastin) for 10 months (3 weeks on, one…
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Mom just passed away from cancer
My mother just passed away on Wednesday. I feel so numb. If I don't think about her for 15 minutes, I feel like I am losing her all over again. She had adenocarcinoma of unknown origin. She didn't even get the chance to really fight with chemotherapy. She was diagnosed at the end of January and died in 4 months. I don't…
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9 month check up
okay, i am leaving tomorrow 6/28 for my 9 month check up. i have the usual nervous, uneasy, don't want to go do it, i need a vacation attitude. the only really off the wall thing this time is they want to do a colon-os-copy thingy. well, someone didn't read my chart. they planned it on my birthday!!!!!!!! happy freaking…