Tag: health care
member name: Sharon K.
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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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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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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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October 19, 2007 02:13 PM EDT --
There's a wonderful magazine for cancer patients called Cure . My sister has subscribed to it for a few months. It is filled with advice, help, education and everything else you need to know to battle . . .
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October 31, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
When I first heard that doctors were agreeing to inject young girls with Gardasil I thought that it was ridiculous. Especially when a governor of a state made it mandatory unless the parent signed something . . .
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November 26, 2007 02:21 PM EST --
I'll start by saying that I do not smoke and never did even though both of my parents were heavy smokers. Maybe that's why I never even thought of picking up a cigarette.
With that being said . . .
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April 08, 2008 05:53 PM EDT --
My friend had a mastectomy done back in January. Along with trying to cope with a diagnoses of breast cancer she was also forced to leave the hospital 24 hours after her operation.
She was terrified . . .
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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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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 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 01, 2007 06:24 PM EDT --
Many people look at me oddly when I tell them that I haven't voted since 1984. They know I'm fairly intelligent, educated, and I keep up on the world around me. But with all that I still will not . . .
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November 10, 2007 07:10 AM EST --
This morning I read an article on Gather about how Oregon "voters really don't want higher taxes to pay for the uninsured's healthcare."
Among all the posts condemning the poor because . . .
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March 06, 2008 04:32 PM EST --
My sister has been battling Colon Cancer for just under two years. I often think that it's a losing battle because her cancer has spread. I know she feels the same way but we don't discuss it. . . .
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September 15, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
Some people think that the concept of an overweight person playing sports is a contradiction in terms. Well, it really isn't. Look at Babe Ruth or football players, most of whom weigh between two and . . .
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February 28, 2009 11:44 PM EST --
I'm getting fed up with what is going on in the US. The taxpayers have to pay for everything. We don't have jobs, can't pay our mortgages, rent, no money for food, and yet we are paying for . . .
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