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  • Personal downsizing
    7 Apr 2010 - 19:11
    harker's picture

    I liked the phrase when I heard it thirteen years ago, but I won't use it in relation to myself now. It seems to apply to hard rubbish collections more than cancer recovery.

    What do you thnk?

    H

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  • Very scary when the white blood cells gone down to ZERO!
    7 Apr 2010 - 17:42
    tsey's picture

    Here we are, my husband is waiting for his 3rd chemo round on Avastin for his advanced bowel cancer. (stage 4). Then, the nurse called and told us that his white blood cells has gone down to Zero. The 3rd chemo has to wait for couple of days. I was shocked (as he is eating quite well these days, as he becomes more a normal person) but nothing my husband can do. He just has to wait for his body to rebuild. The chemo drug killed the cancer as well as the good cells. His Cancer Marker has gone down from say 2,400 to 1,000. Of course, we are all happy.

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  • Thank you for your help
    7 Apr 2010 - 10:47
    vera's picture

    Wow I am overwhelmed that I got so many responses, this is a great site and just having your thoughts has been great for me, so thank you everyone. Unfortunately my husband health is no better now with swollen feet and ankles and the onset of jaundice - just another hurdle I guess.

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  • wait, wait, waiting for results
    1 Apr 2010 - 16:20
    jodielee12's picture

    i am sitting here waiting for the phone to ring so that i can find our how my sister's PET scan went today.

    she needs to know its OK. we need to know its ok.
    my fingers are crossed.

    Linda

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  • Pancreatic Cancer Support
    1 Apr 2010 - 11:21
    vera's picture

    I have been caring for my husband with Pancreatic Cancer since Aug 09. We have never been offered any counselling or support - is this normal and where do we turn, things are pretty tough at the moment and I need someone to talk to

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  • Don't Quit
    31 Mar 2010 - 18:44
    tsey's picture

    When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
    When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
    When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
    And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
    When care is pressing you down a bit,
    Rest if you must, but DON'T YOU QUIT!

    Success is failure turned inside out,
    the silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
    And you never can tell how close you are,
    It may be near when it seems afar,
    So stock to the fight when you're hardest hit -
    It's when things go wrong that you MUSTN't QUIT!

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  • Will it ever be the same ??
    31 Mar 2010 - 18:33
    AmieR's picture

    My life before this horriable thing happened to my family and i was wonderful. Just 6 short months ago i had a great place to live , wonderful friends , an awesome job , was just about to leave on my first adventure around the world , loved my family so much and i was pretty care free - i remember saying to a friend , "hay lifes pretty great at the moment". sure i craved for some things to be a little better , my love life was and still is no existant , but hay with everything else looking great that wasn't an issue.

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  • Whatever will be.. will be...
    31 Mar 2010 - 18:20
    tsey's picture

    Doris Day's song: Just remember a Doris Day’s song …. “whatever will be, will be. The future not ours to see, que sera sera, what will be, will be….”.

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  • Struggling
    30 Mar 2010 - 20:39
    AmieR's picture

    People keep telling me that there is hard road ahead - well people it's pretty crap already , my Dad has stage 4 lung cancer with secondary tumors in his brain and as of last Friday they think that there is cancer spreading into his bones.

    I am finding it hard to discuss things that aren't clinical with most people i know because i don't know if they will understand, so looking around today and found these wonderful blogs from great people who have been there done this and found myself reading through and gaining inspiration from some and heart break from others.

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  • Is something in the air or is this normal???
    30 Mar 2010 - 16:14
    Katie GC's picture

    I don't know what it is, can't put my finger on it, don't understand it, don't know what to say....

    This is my predicament and I don't have the answers (yet again!)

    My parent have been married of 50 years, no dramas ever (well not that I can recall), no cross words in front of us kids, I was blessed to have 'ideal' parents.

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