“The Fight Has Come to a Stop” – Not the Results Post

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  • plh4gail
    plh4gail Member Posts: 1,238 Member
    #22
    It's you
    My money is on you Craig! You are one of my inspirational heroes. The words you write are full of power and I don't think you even know it. You are sharing your thoughts. Thank you!

    Love and hugs, Gail
  • angelsbaby
    angelsbaby Member Posts: 1,165 Member
    #23
    plh4gail said:

    It's you
    My money is on you Craig! You are one of my inspirational heroes. The words you write are full of power and I don't think you even know it. You are sharing your thoughts. Thank you!

    Love and hugs, Gail

    Craig
    you r in my thoughts, u always have the right words for every one u r awsome and don't ever forget that.

    michelle
  • pokismom
    pokismom Member Posts: 153
    #24
    Odds on you!
    Hi Craig,
    I am betting on you! If theres anyone who can tame the beast it has to be you!
    donna
  • abmb
    abmb Member Posts: 311
    #25
    sorry
    Sorry, Craig that you have been so lonely. I don't go on-line much anymore but when I do I always check in here with this board. so many new names, this cancer just keeps hitting more and more people. when i check in I always look for familiar names, especially yours. I am sorry that things are so rough for you, I will keep you in my Prayers! Margaret
  • herdizziness
    herdizziness Member Posts: 3,624 Member
    #26
    Craig
    My dear friend, will be anxiously waiting these 30 days with you, waiting to see how great you did!!! My money's on you Bud!!!!
    Winter Marie
  • SisterSledge
    SisterSledge Member Posts: 332 Member
    #27
    Craig, you lift me up!
    I'm so happy you're done with your big fight and hope you get a long break now. I wish I lived in Texas...I'd come visit you and give you back some of the smiles you've given to me.
    Best wishes,
    Janine
  • Nana b
    Nana b Member Posts: 3,030 Member
    #28
    SisterSledge said:

    Craig, you lift me up!
    I'm so happy you're done with your big fight and hope you get a long break now. I wish I lived in Texas...I'd come visit you and give you back some of the smiles you've given to me.
    Best wishes,
    Janine

    Keep fighting Craig. So
    Keep fighting Craig. So sorry for the loneliness you have felt. I have so many people in my live that I have to hide now and then...what we take for granted! It's a shame that we are not closer together so that we could see each other and chat face to face. I guess what we should be doing is reaching out to local folks, and helping each other, and providing companionship. I am amazed that I have not encountered more local people on this site.

    I wish I could do so much more. For you Craig, I am reaching out tomorrow and helping someone in need. I signed up for big Sisters and I didn't hear back from them. I volunteered for and asked for information to be sent to me from Children's hospital, and I never received that, guess I just need to get in contact with the local CSN and see what I can do to help.

    Craig, do you have skype?
  • smokeyjoe
    smokeyjoe Member Posts: 1,425 Member
    #29
    Nana b said:

    Keep fighting Craig. So
    Keep fighting Craig. So sorry for the loneliness you have felt. I have so many people in my live that I have to hide now and then...what we take for granted! It's a shame that we are not closer together so that we could see each other and chat face to face. I guess what we should be doing is reaching out to local folks, and helping each other, and providing companionship. I am amazed that I have not encountered more local people on this site.

    I wish I could do so much more. For you Craig, I am reaching out tomorrow and helping someone in need. I signed up for big Sisters and I didn't hear back from them. I volunteered for and asked for information to be sent to me from Children's hospital, and I never received that, guess I just need to get in contact with the local CSN and see what I can do to help.

    Craig, do you have skype?

    Craig, I'm relatively new to
    Craig, I'm relatively new to this, but from your posts I can see you're a wonderful man, and everyone on this board loves and respects you. You really have a way with words. When feeling lonely come here to your friends, they understand what you're going through. I think even with a lot of people surrounding us we all feel alone/sitting on the outside watching life go on around us and somehow feeling some kind of disconnection. Keep up the great posts!!!
  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #30
    smokeyjoe said:

    Craig, I'm relatively new to
    Craig, I'm relatively new to this, but from your posts I can see you're a wonderful man, and everyone on this board loves and respects you. You really have a way with words. When feeling lonely come here to your friends, they understand what you're going through. I think even with a lot of people surrounding us we all feel alone/sitting on the outside watching life go on around us and somehow feeling some kind of disconnection. Keep up the great posts!!!

    Wise words, joe!
    Welcome!

    Hugs, Kathi
  • robinvan
    robinvan Member Posts: 1,012
    #31
    You inspire me...
    Hi Craig,
    You continue to inspire me with your thoughtful reflections on this journey. I'm home after 10 weeks in the hospital for a sacral resection and rehab. Recurrence #3 and 7 years at stage 4. I'm waiting now for 25 more rounds of radiation and a course of capcitabine (Xeloda). And that will be the end of it for me. We will have this sucker licked!
    Thanks for continuing to share your thoughts.
    Rob; in Vancouver

    Go Canucks Go!
  • Kenny H.
    Kenny H. Member Posts: 502 Member
    #32
    robinvan said:

    You inspire me...
    Hi Craig,
    You continue to inspire me with your thoughtful reflections on this journey. I'm home after 10 weeks in the hospital for a sacral resection and rehab. Recurrence #3 and 7 years at stage 4. I'm waiting now for 25 more rounds of radiation and a course of capcitabine (Xeloda). And that will be the end of it for me. We will have this sucker licked!
    Thanks for continuing to share your thoughts.
    Rob; in Vancouver

    Go Canucks Go!

    Thanks for sharing.
    Great
    Thanks for sharing.
    Great read Craig, keep a positive additude most of all.
  • geotina
    geotina Member Posts: 2,111 Member
    #33
    Craig:
    Thank you for sharing. Yes, the cancer journey can be a lonely one. I remember sitting in those waiting rooms by myself while George had this that or the other done, 6 times, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, not including chemo treatments and doc visits. Yes, I have a fairly large family but they really don't call much anymore, I guess that is ok, we get kinda tired talking about cancer. George does have a couple business friends that in over two years have never failed to call him weekly with a where are we going for lunch today, he is luckly in that arena. Family, well, its hard to be annoyed with them, their lives keep moving on and it seems like we are stuck in limbo.

    Baby steps Craig, it is all gonna be ok.

    Hugs - Tina

    PS - Be kind to Kim. She hasn't bailed in 7 years and I put my bet on that she is around for the long haul. If you read some of the crap I have read on caregiver sites you would know what a gem she is, she is as tired of cancer as you are, but, she is still there.
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #34
    Nana b said:

    Keep fighting Craig. So
    Keep fighting Craig. So sorry for the loneliness you have felt. I have so many people in my live that I have to hide now and then...what we take for granted! It's a shame that we are not closer together so that we could see each other and chat face to face. I guess what we should be doing is reaching out to local folks, and helping each other, and providing companionship. I am amazed that I have not encountered more local people on this site.

    I wish I could do so much more. For you Craig, I am reaching out tomorrow and helping someone in need. I signed up for big Sisters and I didn't hear back from them. I volunteered for and asked for information to be sent to me from Children's hospital, and I never received that, guess I just need to get in contact with the local CSN and see what I can do to help.

    Craig, do you have skype?

    dear raquel
    you are an exceptional cancer patient, according to my heart.
    we all are. especially on this board.
    we number say 100 active posters even 200.

    now around the world, is its close to 1,000,000 new colorectals a year, in the us in 1996 it was 150000. thats every year. now about 50% goto god give them peace. but we should be adding 50,000 each to the list of survivors.

    we are the 1% conservative who are focused on giving support and love and hopeflly picking up some advice to give us the edge not the ledge. if you get my meaning.

    i have bashed my head against a brick wall here for 10 months trying to start my own colorectal support group with limited success. the only good thats come out of the lack of support locally is i found my csn family.

    simply by us being here, being alive, by caring we help each other. i benefit, craig benefits we all do. we articulate our journey, some in detail, some not but we all vent and share and care. we survive in the most noblest of ways i feel.

    hugs,
    pete on morphine not dex
  • daydreamer110761
    daydreamer110761 Member Posts: 487 Member
    #35
    mr. lion...
    stop making me cry. you've always got a friend. i don't post often anymore. i just am a lurking person now. i am daydreamer110761@yahoo anytime.i expect to see you at CP in Chicago this year. i am a few hours away from there, and you and your wife could stay with us. ya know, you just can't.
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #36
    I agree 99% except, you thanked us for reading
    Hi Craig,

    You deserve the thanks.

    Don't thank me for reading when I am thanking you for writing.

    I and I belive many others thank you for caring and sharing.

    You are the living embodiment of hope and fighting spirit.

    What you give to us all HOPE and ENCOURAGEMENT.

    When sometimes I feel our medial system's specialises in removing it.

    Your are that light at the end of the tunnel.

    I am so jealous of your amazing writing ability, but glad we have a diverse board that goes from cannot spell to gifted in written communication.

    maybe after a break you might have a look at lifestyle risk factors eg diet, exercise, meditation. you have won, i would love you to keep cancer free

    Love Pete
  • Joy1216
    Joy1216 Member Posts: 290 Member
    #37
    pete43lost_at_sea said:

    dear raquel
    you are an exceptional cancer patient, according to my heart.
    we all are. especially on this board.
    we number say 100 active posters even 200.

    now around the world, is its close to 1,000,000 new colorectals a year, in the us in 1996 it was 150000. thats every year. now about 50% goto god give them peace. but we should be adding 50,000 each to the list of survivors.

    we are the 1% conservative who are focused on giving support and love and hopeflly picking up some advice to give us the edge not the ledge. if you get my meaning.

    i have bashed my head against a brick wall here for 10 months trying to start my own colorectal support group with limited success. the only good thats come out of the lack of support locally is i found my csn family.

    simply by us being here, being alive, by caring we help each other. i benefit, craig benefits we all do. we articulate our journey, some in detail, some not but we all vent and share and care. we survive in the most noblest of ways i feel.

    hugs,
    pete on morphine not dex

    Cancer Support Group
    My friend and I started a cancer support group at our church last year. She is currently in treatment for Stage 4 colon cancer. There are only about eight regular attendees in our support group, but we are so blessed to have the group members in our lives.
    Joy
  • kathybd
    kathybd Member Posts: 126
    #38
    daydreamer110761 said:

    mr. lion...
    stop making me cry. you've always got a friend. i don't post often anymore. i just am a lurking person now. i am daydreamer110761@yahoo anytime.i expect to see you at CP in Chicago this year. i am a few hours away from there, and you and your wife could stay with us. ya know, you just can't.

    Hang in there, Craig,
    Craig

    I have been reading your posts for a long time. Just checking in to see how people are doing. I am so very sorry to hear what you have been through. You have to know from the posts before me that you are a very loved guy. Remember that during those lonely times and reach out. Take it one day at a time and enjoy life, the little things. You are amazingly strong and can beat this. Know that many people care and love you.

    My husband recently passed away and being a caregiver is tough. You want so badly to help and take away the pain and the disease. I truely believe your wife feels helpless and surely loves you tons.

    Hang in there and I will be waiting for the next "good News" post.

    Thank you for sharing such a poignant story and the fight you have almost conquered.

    Blessings to you!
    Kathy
  • Aud
    Aud Member Posts: 479 Member
    #39
    Craig
    I am in your corner...always. You have been through so much and you are such an amazing, strong man, an inspiration to us all. Holding you in the Light for continued healing, strength, and hope...also holding your marriage in the Light for healing.
    ~Aud
  • dorookie
    dorookie Member Posts: 1,731 Member
    #40
    ALL I CAN SAY
    is I LOVE YOU Craig, you are AWESOME, I am so very blessed that I got to actually meet you in person this past year. You are always in my prayers and in my heart, as many here are. I am so very proud of you, you have the strength of a 1000 warriors, my HERO!!!

    I will pray a special prayer for you tonight that #4 NEVER happens!!!! Prayers are answered my friend, they are!!

    Love you
    HUGS
    Beth
  • BettyJoM
    BettyJoM Member Posts: 82
    #41
    Well said
    Read every word. thank you so much for sharing. brought me to tears
    Betty Jo

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