Cancer (Page 1 of 2)

Today at work we held a coffee and cake morning on behalf of a UK cancer charity, with everyone who took part making a minimum donation of at least a pound.  Cancer has touched too many of our employees here over the past couple of years and we wanted to do our little bit to help such organisations in their progress towards better diagnoses, treatment and care.

my wife has scars that look like a mountain road map.....but she carries on, knock on wood......the first person i have ever seen turn yellow was my mother-in-law, just isnt right.....dont get me started bout chemo, nastiest crap you can ever put in your body

shred

Boy, where would I even start with this topic. For starters.....CANCER SUCKS!!! I wouldn't wish this on anybody. Shreds right as well about how bad chemo sucks, I was fortunate to only experience one round of it, trust me, that was enough. All the radiation treatments were not exactly a walk in the park either. The bottom line is, thanks to my Head/Neck specialist, my Oncologist, my Radiologist and the rest of the team, I'm coming up on my last check up in Feb. and if nothing has occured I'm done. Everyday is a good day here in the "Bonus Round"!!!

                                                                                               Give....Every Little Bit Helps!!!

                                                                                               J Dawg

I'm real proud of you Dawgy...I will NEVER forget that night in SF when we went to see Davy play and you could hardly swallow water, you scared the you know what out of me.....praying that that awful crap never comes back Brother

Cousin Shreddy

My stepdad went thru colon cancer two years ago -he was lucky in that it was very contained so no chemo or radiation needed, then  bam, one year later he gets cancer in his lower esophagus and had to go the whole treatment way - chemo, radiation and some pretty radical surgery.  He is doing great (he is a very healthy 77 year old), but he is frustrated how long it is taking him to get over this one,  It's only been four months since his surgery, so I keep trying to tell him give it time, but he gets so frustrated.  Prognosis for long term is excellent by the way.  Just as hard is watching my Mom have to go thru this with him.  My Dad died from a brain tumor 27 years ago, but it all happened so fast, and this has just brought all this stuff back to her.  I support her as much as I can, but it is so scary.

We thought my oldest son had testicular cancer when he was 22 (turned out it wasn't, but only found out after surgery).  I still can't talk about how I felt during that long month of waiting for answers and results.  It is so, so scary.

Positive thoughts go out from me to a lot of folks all the time.  This place is such a wellspring of love and support that is truly meant.  Love you all.

Sandy

Sorry to hear this and understand the anxiety.  It may be nothing though.  You two are often in my thoughts and prayers.

It is tough.  My tumor diagnosis was "atypical,"  whatever that means.  The Divine One reminded me that as long as she's known me, anything I've had wrong with me has defied normal description.  Drained a knee once, and the results came back as undefinable. 

Terminally unique.

The big C runs rampant in my family; lost both parents to it.   I hate to talk about it because I believe (like so many things) that it has political undercurrents.

And I have to stay calm, so that love & prayer can heal me, as well as the loved ones of so many of my BonaFamily.  I have

MuchLove
superSmoov
bjj fdol

Power and grace to you Doc. You're often on my mind.
Rick