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My husband will be getting his 5th chemo today and starting the 5th week of rads. But last Tuesday he had what the doctors think was a TIA (transient ischemic attack). I came home from walking the dog and found him unconscious on the couch. I was unable to get him to full conscious only mumbling an...
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My mom has had cns lymphoma for six years.It comes and goes. It has been a long rollercoaster ride. My husband and I are her caregivers ontop of our jobs and our two children. I dont know if anyone knows of any supprt groups for this type of cancer,We all need counsiling to deal with her 5th bout of...
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My daughter was dxed on April 22nd this year with met breast cancer, spread to bone (compression fractures c6 and t6-t11. liver and spleen. Lungs questionable, they thought they saw a few spots. On June 27th after she opted out of chemo, very sick, 3 infections, and she decided quality is better th...
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My best friend is getting married in two weeks and yesterday her family received the news that her mom has ovarian cancer. Her mom does not see the oncologist until Wednesday but the initial reports suggest that the cancer can probably be completely removed with a hysterectomy.
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My husband was first diagnosed with cirrhosis in August, 2009, though he doesn't drink, and then stomach cancer cells were found when the doctor performed an abdominal tap to withdraw built-up fluid.
It's been 6 1/2 months now, and he has done better since he was given a permanent drain, but the out...
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My Mom started having an extremely bad headache, nausea, vomiting, and confusion so I took her to the emergency room Wednesday and after seven hours of waiting she was so frustrated and sick she wanted to leave saying we could come back in a few days if she was not feeling better. I started the end...
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I just found out a few days ago that my mom now has brain cancer, she found out in March that she had lung cancer, she did every chemo and raidation perfect!! 5 weeks raidation M-F and chemo only on Friday.She then had 30% of her lung removed on July 13... and now she is completly healed from that.....
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I am told by the doctor - autopsy is the only way to know for sure which is awful. My mother who is only 73 has lost 40 pounds in less than a year. She has always been "a little flaky" acting and overly talkative. However, in this past year she has developed an inability to walk (she shuffles) s...
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It's been a few months and I feel like I'm going through every stage of grieve at any given moment.
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My husband was a vibrant, hardworking man. He loved life, people and above his family. It started with a back pain and no one could define the cause. a Cat scan was given their finding, a large tumor on his right kidney. The surgery was scheduled two months later and he had started loosing weight.S...
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I am 34 year old woman who is the final stage of CML. I have to young children and am kinda scared. I have little support from family because its to much for them. The other person who was my main support person has now walked away. I am sure it may have gotten to be to much for her. I feel alone a...
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My dad was just diagnosed with gliobastoma multiforme, a type of brain tumor. It's inoperable and we got the sad news that he has only three to six months to live. He's going to have radiation treatment, but that's just to reduce the swelling, it can't make the cancer go away. We're all really upset...
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My mother was diagnosed w/ stomach and ovarian cancer two years ago. Apparently, she had a very unique situation where the two locations were not the same cancer. In order to keep the ovarian cancer from spreading, she had a hysterectomy. Unfortunately, the ovarian cancer was in Stage IV. We jus...
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My mom was diagnoised in Sept. 07 with lung cancer. She had 42 treatments of radiation on her lungs which in turn burned her throat , she had 10 chemo treatments and then they did 24 radiation treatments on her brain. Everything seemed to be going fine but, now it seems that she has lost her memory...
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Hi this is the 3rd time around he was diagnosed with nasophargeal cancer, had radiation treatment then 2nd time had both chemo and radiation again. Well this time back in March when he was diagnosed it had spread to his lungs. He had treatment for 3 sessions, and decided to stop..Since June he had ...
