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Name:  Sandi1

Current Status:  Caregiver to my husband (Mike) diagnosed 8/08 Stage IV Colon Cancer, surgery 10/08, chemo since 11/08.  Has had all chemos for Colon Cancer, and has become toxic to all.  Found a small tumor on his spine 2/14 and has had radiation which has worked.  Now he has pain on his left side ribs and health insurance refuses to pay for a PET scan to find out what it is.  We are off to Philly next week to see if we can find a clinical trial.

Current Hopes:  To just have a few more years with my husband without thinking is this the last time i will ever do this with him.  Trying to keep our hopes up, i know the future looks bleak for him.

Sandi

 

Mdm2
diagnosed stage 4 small

Mdm2

diagnosed stage 4 small bowel adenocarcinoma after emergency hemicolectomy with mets to peritoneum and node involvement dec.2013

current status on capox treatment one more round to go then get scanned and checked for eligibility for HIPEC

current hopes-beat cancer and watch my children grow up. 

impactzone said:

Chip
Stage IV
going in for

Chip

Stage IV

going in for scan on Monday. Dx 2006 with liver and lung mets. Colon surgery, 4 thoacic surgeries, liver surgery and chemo and I am still on the right side of the green. Kinda suffering severe scanxiety

Thanks for inspiring us.

How long have yu been on chemo for? 

 

My husband dx stage 4 colon Nov 2013.  He's 46. 

rare tumor found in colon with regular colon cancer mets to liver. Rare tumor removed

chemo 5fu and irinotecan since feb 2014.   

Fels good, no pain just low energy.  

April 9 th PET scan.

I keep telling him that there are stage 4 survivors. He just has to believe!!!!!

Kathleen808 said:

**** and Kathleen

Hi,

Kathleen, caregiver to wonderful husband ****.  **** has had 3 surgeries and over 100 chemo treatments in the past 5 years, 3 months.  He has actually been in good health up until about 2 months ago.  Right now pain management is key.  Tomorrow he will have a biopsy to be sent to biotech firm in San Francisco.  Then, start on Zaltrap and hopefully beat back the cancer that has been growing in the lungs and lymph nodes.  Also, **** is battling lymphedema (swelling) in the legs and pelvic area.  It takes up many hours a day mangaing the lymphedema and has cut down his physical activity, which is hard.

We hope the Zaltrap will beat things back.  We continue to treasure all our time together as a family.

Aloha,

Kathleen

Randy and Kathy

Cargiver here.  Wife was diagnosed with Stage IIIA Dec 2013.

- Ct Scan last Monday ---- > All clear

- CEA ---- >1.0

- Colonoscopy to be done on April 15th.

What a journey this has been.  Thoughts and prayers for all on here.

 

 

DD3 said:

Randy and Kathy

Cargiver here.  Wife was diagnosed with Stage IIIA Dec 2013.

- Ct Scan last Monday ---- > All clear

- CEA ---- >1.0

- Colonoscopy to be done on April 15th.

What a journey this has been.  Thoughts and prayers for all on here.

 

 

Jeremy, 39, stage III rectal

Jeremy, 39, stage III rectal cancer

Diagnosed March 3,2014

Chemo and radaition now. Surgery to follow.

 

Wow, how my life has changed in a blink of an eye. Hope treatment takes care of it and im cancer free.

Hello

Name: Megan

Stage: Father has Stage IV - two primary tumors - 7cm in colon, smaller one in rectum, one 7mm node on liver, two 5mm nodes on lungs (one on each - never confirmed to be mets as new PET shows scar tissue more likely) 

Current Status: No more mets found (lungs are scar tissue, liver met completely disappeared). 5cm tumor left in colon, no mention from doc about rectal tumor (presumably gone -  we will find out more when he talks to the surgeon). Possible inflamation due to chemo around tumor, so possibly smaller than 5cm. Finished 12 rounds of Chemo three weeks ago and is doing well with the exception of neuropathy. Eating well and much more active. Surgery is the next step and the oncologist belives they can eradicate the cancer with surgery since there is only "a little bit left." 

Current Hopes: Surgery goes well. He is excited to get it cut out. He's in no pain at this point, so I hope that continues. I hope he takes after his mother and is cancer free for the rest of his life as she was after her surgery (she lived about 10 years after very aggressive uterine/ovarian cancer and ended up with Alzheimers - but the cancer never came back). His hopes are that they cut it out and get this over with so he can go back to normal again. 

Phil64 said:

Phil64

Phil64, Stage IV.

Status: Had a second liver resection done on 2/7.  I'm back to work and waiting for a 3/20 appointment with my onc. My last CEA (on 2/27) was 1.0

Hopes: I hope to continue healing from surgery and hope my CEA remains low and NO MORE RECURRANCES.  If I have to do chemo, I hope it WORKS and I can stay NED for a long time.

 

Second liver resection

Hi 

I am scheduled for a second liver resection due to a recurrrence - single met approx 2.5 cm in MRI and 1.6 cm in ct-pet.

my first liver resection was billboard with extensive mets - that was done aug  2012.

that was extensive and i was in hospital for 15 days and thereafter further 39 days before I could catch a flight back.

will it be easier the second time around ? Doc says the second time around the recovery will be 7 to 10 days in hospital and another 7 days post hospital before I can take a flight ! 

how was your second resection recovery in comparison to the first surgery recovery ? 

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patty in Minnesota

dx'd 6/08 with stage 3B  CC

coming on 6 years free and clear of this beast

hope that my 60's are way better than my 50's have been

bakerwoman said:

Status from Idaho

Carol, caregiver to husband Jim, who was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer on August 30, 2013. Partially resected tumor, just finished eight rounds of 5/FU chemo. CT scan on Wednesday morning, March 5, of Jim's chest, abdomen, and pelvis to see if the chemo slowed things down. This is palliative care only -- the cancer was present in all eleven of the lymph nodes that the surgeon removed.

My goal is to enjoy all the time we have left together, and to not have my sweetheart be in any more pain. We've grown very close over the last six months of trying to get Jim recovered from his surgery. He still has an open abdominal wound after all these months, because the chemo, of course, pretty much stopped his ability to heal. CRUMB! We've only had ten years together, but he was well worth the wait. We married in our fifties.

You guys are going to be a great help to me as my husband gets sicker. He's not much of a talker, so I have to get support from other people.

Be strong carol
This hits home because I'm stage 3 diagnosed march of 2013. I've been married 30 years. You know what? We found our soulmates and even 10 minutes with them is more than many people can say. I'm puttingngood thoughts out to the universe for both of you.