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  • joy44
    joy44 Member Posts: 50
    #42
    Betsydoglover said:

    Stage IV survivor
    Nice idea Buzz. I am thinking of you all.

    Diagnosed Stage IV (liver met) 5/05
    Sigmoid colectomy 6/05
    6 cycles of Xeloda/oxaliplatin/Avastin - NED after 3
    Lung nodule showed up 11/08; Removed via VATS 4/17
    6 cycles Xeloda + Avastin
    Continuing on Avastin only every 3 weeks since 6/1/08
    PET scans every 3 weeks - NED as of last week

    Betsy
    BIG SNOWY ((HUGS))
  • AnneCan
    AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
    #43
    angelsbaby said:

    soccermom13
    good wishes for your scan you will be on my mind all week. married to angel 35 yrs stage 4 colon cancer survived 17 months died 4-16 09

    his loving wife michelle

    michelle
    Hugs to you from Canada!
  • tabur
    tabur Member Posts: 71 Member
    #44
    Joy
    My name is Al.
    Caregiver for Pam.
    She was dx 12/08, stage IV w/mets to liver.
    Currently in home hospice.
    I don't know if you are the caregiver or the patient but I see two lives in your picture, just like mine.
    Thanks to Buzz and the people on this board, I have room in my heart to think of both of you, sending you (((hugs))) and well wishes.

    Al
  • Sigma34
    Sigma34 Member Posts: 203
    #45
    tabur said:

    Joy
    My name is Al.
    Caregiver for Pam.
    She was dx 12/08, stage IV w/mets to liver.
    Currently in home hospice.
    I don't know if you are the caregiver or the patient but I see two lives in your picture, just like mine.
    Thanks to Buzz and the people on this board, I have room in my heart to think of both of you, sending you (((hugs))) and well wishes.

    Al

    Al and Pam, I will be
    Al and Pam, I will be sending thoughts and vibes your way and to your loved ones.

    Christine
    CC and melanoma~ Scan in 7 weeks
    Mom to 4 amazing kids-21,11 and 5 year old twins and wife to a smokin' hot husband~
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #46
    Sigma34 said:

    Al and Pam, I will be
    Al and Pam, I will be sending thoughts and vibes your way and to your loved ones.

    Christine
    CC and melanoma~ Scan in 7 weeks
    Mom to 4 amazing kids-21,11 and 5 year old twins and wife to a smokin' hot husband~

    christine I will pray for you
    Great idea Buzz,

    Hi christine,

    my details below.

    Rectal cancer dx june2010
    chemo radiation june and july 2010
    LAR october 2010
    FOLFOX november 2010
    Dad to 2 kids 5 and 9 and I am a husband to a lovelly wife.

    Pete
  • Fight for my love
    Fight for my love Member Posts: 1,522 Member
    #47
    pete43lost_at_sea said:

    christine I will pray for you
    Great idea Buzz,

    Hi christine,

    my details below.

    Rectal cancer dx june2010
    chemo radiation june and july 2010
    LAR october 2010
    FOLFOX november 2010
    Dad to 2 kids 5 and 9 and I am a husband to a lovelly wife.

    Pete

    Thanks,Buzz,this is a very
    Thanks,Buzz,this is a very special and great idea.

    Hi Pete,I will pray for you.

    My hubby's detail below.

    Rectal C Satge2A dxed in May 2009
    Preoperative chemo and radiation downstaged the cancer from stage 2A to stage 1
    Surgery Sep 2009
    Adjuvant chemo folfox from Oct 2009 to April 2010
    Now on follow-up,hubby is going to have a CT scan in this March
  • buttons1
    buttons1 Member Posts: 22
    #48
    Fight for my love said:

    Thanks,Buzz,this is a very
    Thanks,Buzz,this is a very special and great idea.

    Hi Pete,I will pray for you.

    My hubby's detail below.

    Rectal C Satge2A dxed in May 2009
    Preoperative chemo and radiation downstaged the cancer from stage 2A to stage 1
    Surgery Sep 2009
    Adjuvant chemo folfox from Oct 2009 to April 2010
    Now on follow-up,hubby is going to have a CT scan in this March

    great idea buzz, im touched by all who share they're story
    fight for my love , i will think of you and your husband all day. i'am on this site with my brother who has stage 4 colon with mets to liver and lungs,18 months of chemo every week. present chemo erbitux. he is not doing good at this time.so i will pray for all who has been effected with this disease. im a sister,a caregiver,an advocate.. best reguards buttons1
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #49
    buttons1 said:

    great idea buzz, im touched by all who share they're story
    fight for my love , i will think of you and your husband all day. i'am on this site with my brother who has stage 4 colon with mets to liver and lungs,18 months of chemo every week. present chemo erbitux. he is not doing good at this time.so i will pray for all who has been effected with this disease. im a sister,a caregiver,an advocate.. best reguards buttons1

    Buttons1 - I have your back
    With much appreciation to our caregivers. You mean so much to us. And extra thoughts and energy for your brother. I'll take you on as a two-fer.

    Alice - survivor, Appendix Cancer, stage 4, dx'd April 2007.
  • elaineG
    elaineG Member Posts: 20
    #50
    abrub said:

    Buttons1 - I have your back
    With much appreciation to our caregivers. You mean so much to us. And extra thoughts and energy for your brother. I'll take you on as a two-fer.

    Alice - survivor, Appendix Cancer, stage 4, dx'd April 2007.

    Thinking of you Alice!
    Special thoughts go out to you from me Alice!
    Elaine, colon cancer stage 3 - diagnosed 12.7.10. Currently on chemo (only two more to go - hurray!!)
    xx
  • CherylHutch
    CherylHutch Member Posts: 1,375 Member
    #51
    elaineG said:

    Thinking of you Alice!
    Special thoughts go out to you from me Alice!
    Elaine, colon cancer stage 3 - diagnosed 12.7.10. Currently on chemo (only two more to go - hurray!!)
    xx

    Thinking of you too, Elaine!
    Although we don't really know each other (I think I've only seen a couple of your posts), I just wanted to say "Hi" and I'm thinking of you during this wonderful little projects of thinking about the person who posts above us :D

    Wow... only two more chemo treatments to go?? How did you luck out and get so few??? Or is my Chemo Brain kicking in and you have been on Chemo for awhile now? I know when I was first diagnosed in December 2006, I didn't get my surgery until January 2007 and once I had that, then I was on chemo in one form or another for 8 months (with 6 weeks of radiation in there as well)... but then I had a lovely almost 3 year break from chemo, but had to start again last June, on the Xeloda... and then this week started on Irinotecan. So, I'm very envious of anyone who gets to only do a handful of chemo treatments... what's your secret??? :D

    Cheryl
  • joy44
    joy44 Member Posts: 50
    #52
    tabur said:

    Joy
    My name is Al.
    Caregiver for Pam.
    She was dx 12/08, stage IV w/mets to liver.
    Currently in home hospice.
    I don't know if you are the caregiver or the patient but I see two lives in your picture, just like mine.
    Thanks to Buzz and the people on this board, I have room in my heart to think of both of you, sending you (((hugs))) and well wishes.

    Al

    I am a caregiver, my husband
    I am a caregiver, my husband has stage 4, we are in early stages of all of this but we are doing well as long as we stick toghter. I am very blessed to have a wonderful husband sometimes I think he takes care of me more than I do him. I have only been on the board a couple of weeks but I have fell in love with all the people here they are so much help and so insightful.
    I am so glad to meet you.
    And I am sending you SUNNY ((HUGS)) take care!!
  • hopeforcure49
    hopeforcure49 Member Posts: 111
    #53
    joy44 said:

    I am a caregiver, my husband
    I am a caregiver, my husband has stage 4, we are in early stages of all of this but we are doing well as long as we stick toghter. I am very blessed to have a wonderful husband sometimes I think he takes care of me more than I do him. I have only been on the board a couple of weeks but I have fell in love with all the people here they are so much help and so insightful.
    I am so glad to meet you.
    And I am sending you SUNNY ((HUGS)) take care!!

    Big Texas HUGS!!! to Joy & Husband
    I'll keep you in my prayers, and good vibes to all... I'm Lourdes, 49yr, patient, mother of 3 older kids, 30yr, 20yr, and 16 yr, and 2 stepkids, plus 7 grandkids, married for 22yrs to a wonderful man. DX. 12/2009 with colon ca. stage IV with liver mets.. still in chemo after liver resection in 11/2010. Blessings from Lourdes
  • Kenny H.
    Kenny H. Member Posts: 502 Member
    #54
    hopeforcure49 said:

    Big Texas HUGS!!! to Joy & Husband
    I'll keep you in my prayers, and good vibes to all... I'm Lourdes, 49yr, patient, mother of 3 older kids, 30yr, 20yr, and 16 yr, and 2 stepkids, plus 7 grandkids, married for 22yrs to a wonderful man. DX. 12/2009 with colon ca. stage IV with liver mets.. still in chemo after liver resection in 11/2010. Blessings from Lourdes

    Heres to you hope.
    From one Texan to another!


    Stage 3a. Tumor in rectum, total removal (rectum) perm ostomy. 6 nodes pos.
  • SisterSledge
    SisterSledge Member Posts: 332 Member
    #55
    Kenny H. said:

    Heres to you hope.
    From one Texan to another!


    Stage 3a. Tumor in rectum, total removal (rectum) perm ostomy. 6 nodes pos.

    Howdy Texan :)
    Nice idea Buzzard!

    I've been to Texas a few times and really liked it there...beautiful country and the people were real nice :) Good luck with your health, Kenny. I'm rooting for you!

    My name's Janine and this is my first post. I'm from Oregon, living in Utah. Just diagnosed with colon cancer with liver mets two days ago. I'd had a "non-cancerous" tumor removed with colon resection 9/10 but got a surprise when I went for a checkup after a minor car accident...pain in my tummy is actually an enlarged liver with two big masses. Biopsy confirmed adenocarcinoma, doc says it's colon cancer. Very scared and don't know what lies ahead.
  • lostit2003
    lostit2003 Member Posts: 53
    #56
    SisterSledge said:

    Howdy Texan :)
    Nice idea Buzzard!

    I've been to Texas a few times and really liked it there...beautiful country and the people were real nice :) Good luck with your health, Kenny. I'm rooting for you!

    My name's Janine and this is my first post. I'm from Oregon, living in Utah. Just diagnosed with colon cancer with liver mets two days ago. I'd had a "non-cancerous" tumor removed with colon resection 9/10 but got a surprise when I went for a checkup after a minor car accident...pain in my tummy is actually an enlarged liver with two big masses. Biopsy confirmed adenocarcinoma, doc says it's colon cancer. Very scared and don't know what lies ahead.

    Hi Janine
    Janine so sorry about your dx. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers

    My hubby Randy has stage IV CC w/mets to the liver. He just started a new treatment.

    Thanks Tina
  • AnneCan
    AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
    #57
    SisterSledge said:

    Howdy Texan :)
    Nice idea Buzzard!

    I've been to Texas a few times and really liked it there...beautiful country and the people were real nice :) Good luck with your health, Kenny. I'm rooting for you!

    My name's Janine and this is my first post. I'm from Oregon, living in Utah. Just diagnosed with colon cancer with liver mets two days ago. I'd had a "non-cancerous" tumor removed with colon resection 9/10 but got a surprise when I went for a checkup after a minor car accident...pain in my tummy is actually an enlarged liver with two big masses. Biopsy confirmed adenocarcinoma, doc says it's colon cancer. Very scared and don't know what lies ahead.

    Welcome Janine
    I am so sorry you need to be here, but I can assure you you have come to the right place. It is very normal to feel scared, but we are here for you.
  • SisterSledge
    SisterSledge Member Posts: 332 Member
    #58
    lostit2003 said:

    Hi Janine
    Janine so sorry about your dx. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers

    My hubby Randy has stage IV CC w/mets to the liver. He just started a new treatment.

    Thanks Tina

    Thanks Tina
    I hope your Randy has the best of outcomes. Really glad there's treatment to help this mess. Hopefully they can do something for me too.

    And thank you too, Anne. I'm glad to be here. Well, kinda...you know...
    Janine
  • mukamom
    mukamom Member Posts: 402
    #59
    AnneCan said:

    Welcome Janine
    I am so sorry you need to be here, but I can assure you you have come to the right place. It is very normal to feel scared, but we are here for you.

    Lostit2003
    Caregiver to hubby, Robert stage iv cc Dec 2008, mets to liver, over 40 chemo tx, 3 surgeries, cyberknife. Hang in there, ya'll are both in my thoughts

    Hugs,
    Angela
  • Dean22
    Dean22 Member Posts: 12
    #60
    mukamom said:

    Lostit2003
    Caregiver to hubby, Robert stage iv cc Dec 2008, mets to liver, over 40 chemo tx, 3 surgeries, cyberknife. Hang in there, ya'll are both in my thoughts

    Hugs,
    Angela

    New Here
    Age 47, diagonsed December 2010. Stage iv rectal cancer with two small mets to the right lung. The mets were both less than one centimeter and were removed January 2011 via a VATS procedure. Just started my first chemotherapy on February 8th. Scheduled for 6 treatments then evaluate to resect primary rectal tumor. Still can't believe all of this. I'm sure I will learn from everyone as I travel down this path!
  • schnauzerheads
    schnauzerheads Member Posts: 53 Member
    #61
    Dean22 said:

    New Here
    Age 47, diagonsed December 2010. Stage iv rectal cancer with two small mets to the right lung. The mets were both less than one centimeter and were removed January 2011 via a VATS procedure. Just started my first chemotherapy on February 8th. Scheduled for 6 treatments then evaluate to resect primary rectal tumor. Still can't believe all of this. I'm sure I will learn from everyone as I travel down this path!

    Hey Dean
    Kevin here, diagnosed Dec 2010 with Stage 3 Colon Cancer (2 of 14 nodes and a clean CT scan)... CEA went up after surgery, MRI showed that it actually made it to the liver. Oops, make that Stage 4. Starting chemo today. Will be thinking about you (and all the rest of you good people), you'll do well if you stay positive and love life.

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