Tag: cancer
member name: Sharon K.
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February 27, 2009 11:42 PM EST --
My sister and I were talking about her colon cancer a year of so ago and she came out and said, "Boy, I must be a pretty terrible person that God has punished me by giving me cancer." . . .
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October 13, 2007 12:21 PM EDT --
My sister has colon cancer. It has spread to her lungs, liver, and abdomen. She's been on very aggressive chemotherapy since August of this year. So far, knock on wood, the chemo actually seems to . . .
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October 21, 2007 02:16 PM EDT --
When my sister and I went to her oncologist last week he told her that she would be taking chemotherapy treatments and chemotherapy pills for the rest of her life. Yes, there may be times that her tumors . . .
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September 04, 2009 11:01 PM EDT --
I'm still pretty angry at yesterday's health insurance debate over something that my cousin said. It's good to see that so many people are happy with the health care that they can afford that they criticize . . .
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October 08, 2009 07:45 PM EDT --
My sister's three and a half year fight with colon cancer will come to an end within days. She's in a hospice where she will soon die. I'm devastated. I cry all night and try to be brave for her when . . .
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September 01, 2007 04:48 PM EDT --
My sister has been battling colon cancer for 16 months. I would like to say that she is winning the battle but I don't think that is happening.
When she was first diagnosed in May of 2006 we were . . .
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September 06, 2008 12:57 PM EDT --
I just wanted to say something about oncology nurses. They are the heroes of every oncology unit.
There are four oncology nurses where my sister gets her chemotherapy. Usually there are about 25 patients . . .
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December 06, 2008 06:19 PM EST --
I used to have a rather nice green S as my icon. I liked it a lot until I found this new one.
The new icon is called a Blue Star and it represents Colon Cancer. There are so many icons out there for . . .
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January 24, 2009 10:28 PM EST --
This is pretty depressing so if you don't want to read further I totally understand.
My uncle Leo died. He had Leukemia. He was in his 80s and had some health problems for years but it was cancer . . .
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December 25, 2008 11:18 PM EST --
This past week has been terrible. My sister knows that she is dying from colon cancer and this week that fact has been getting to her. She cries all the time. I don't know what to say to her. It takes . . .
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September 05, 2008 10:03 PM EDT --
I'm tired of cancer. I'm tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of thinking about it every waking moment. I'm tired of seeing my sister slowly get sicker and sicker with it. I'm tired . . .
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September 29, 2008 06:31 PM EDT --
Gail Konop Baker author of CANCER IS A BITCH: Or, I’d Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis , will be chatting with Gather in October. I thought you'd like to know a little about what Gail went through . . .
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October 25, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
I saw a documentary about a husband and wife. The husband ate well, exercised, maintained his weight and did everything the "media" tells us to do thinking that he would never die. He didn't . . .
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October 30, 2008 03:22 PM EDT --
My sister has been having chemo for over two years and it was always given to her intravenously. It hasn't been working for her so they are going to try two other kinds of chemo to see if the cancer . . .
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December 02, 2008 12:43 PM EST --
Yesterday I took my sister in for her chemo treatment. She gets about three different kinds of chemo by infusion and one she gets by a pump that she has to take home. It takes 48 hours.
She's taken . . .
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October 31, 2007 10:54 PM EDT --
Well, today my sister had her marathon chemo treatment. We're there for at least eight hours every time we go which is once every three weeks. It's exhausting even though we don't do much . . .
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October 27, 2007 02:39 PM EDT --
My sister found this on the message boards On Caring4Cancer.com. It's a post from Kathy LaTour the editor-at-large for Cure Magazine . She talks about the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The . . .
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October 17, 2007 05:02 PM EDT --
My sister had an appointment with her oncologist this morning. For the past week or so she was wondering if she should just come out and ask him how bad her cancer is. We know it's bad but for some . . .
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October 17, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
Can something funny actually happen at an oncologist's office? I guess so.
The oncologist asked my sister how she was taking her chemo pills. I asked myself why he would ask such a question, after . . .
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October 19, 2007 12:52 PM EDT --
You know all those used ink cartridges that you have lying around or have thrown out? Well, instead of getting rid of them how about donating them to a great cause that will help childhood cancer?
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