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Carleen, I Feel The exact same way about deb as you do about your husband, Married 9 years and fighting almost 3 of those 9. This is agreat place to vent and do it when you want. DOn't keep it bottled up inside. I PRay for every one afflicted with this disease every night, under the stars in my backyard. Its a little more like 1 on 1 with god that way and I can get a lot off my chest that way also. It is a great therapy for ME! Ibelieve in the power of prayer, and will say an extra one for you and your family.

Thoughts and prayers are with you always

As long as you fight, This disease I Will Pray . Even if you don't fight this disease I will Pray for everyone

Hope All is well for now and am offering up prayers for you guys this holiday season.

DEb was diagnosed almost 3 years ago this spring. She has been through about 7 chemo drugs. Pleural Effusion, C.Diff, and maximum curative radiation. While on radiation she actually painted the Inside of our 1300 square foot house. She was in school for a semester before the C.Diff this past fall. Hoping to go back soon and pickup where She Left off. Enjoy the good days and don't let the bad ones get you down. There is always a Ray of sunshine around the corner. Oh YEah We spent a week on the Outer BAnks this summer for a vacation. Every day is a blessing to Us.

Prayers From The Carolinas coming at you

Sending Prayers Your Way From the Carolinas

HAve You tried to google this treatment Xeloda? This Might give you some info. Also try Chemotherapy.com. Seems to be a good link / source. Best wishes for a Happy Holiday and A better New Year.

To All Out there, HAve A Very Merry Christmahannakwaanza holiday and be festive. Think Positive and always say a prayer for each other.

Peace Love and Prayers are with you from us at this time.

News Far From Benign Is South Florida's most notorious pimp peddling a fake cancer cure? By Jeff Stratton Published: Thursday, December 22, 2005 The last we heard of infamous local pimp Arthur Vanmoor, he was hopping a plane back to Amsterdam. The Dutch-born sex impresario had been deported after a racketeering and conspiracy conviction last summer. But until his sudden exile, Vanmoor wasn't just the busy operator of multiple escort services that had cornered most of the illegal sex market in Broward County. He had also gained a reputation for litigiousness as he used the courts to fight previous law enforcement efforts to shut him down — and won. He was also a Mensa member and a holder of patents for inventions as diverse as medical cures, a rotary engine, and a chastity belt. Described as a genius with a mean streak by people who knew him, Vanmoor seemed to have finally run out of luck when he was sent packing ("Gingerbread Man," January 29, 2003). But now, it seems, Vanmoor is again trying his hand as a South Florida entrepreneur. The Dutchman appears to be connected to a website offering bogus cancer cures that lists a Boca Raton address. Ralph Moss, a Pennsylvania medical writer and physician, noticed the site, cancercure.org, and exposed its fraudulent claims in a weekly newsletter he writes for cancer patients. The cancercure.org website features slick testimonials from supposed medical professionals, makes reference to FDA approvals for the products it sells, boasts that more than 10,000 customers have already benefited, and offers a "100 percent money-back guarantee" for pills it sells at $150 a bottle that it claims will cure even the most advanced cancer in a matter of weeks. But the FDA approvals are obvious fakes, the doctors don't exist (just try to find Dr. Kennedy Ross at the University of Texas at Austin or Bernard M. Satterfield at the University of Sydney, Australia), and, Moss says, the pills offered are likely just aspirin or placebos. The ingredients of Cancer Control, the drug offered by cancercure.org, are listed as a mix of harmless amino acids, some available over the counter. But in a twist Moss calls "unbelievable and diabolical," the website also claims that Cancer Control is its own trade name for Camptosar — which happens to be a legitimate drug in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer. Prescription-only Camptosar has potentially fatal side effects — "it would knock people's socks off," says Moss — but he doubts that Camptosar is really what the website is selling. Camptosar is injected and can't be made into pill form. Despite its false claims, however, the slick-looking website might be catching some people off guard. "Sometimes people in desperate circumstances will lose their ordinary skepticism," Moss says. Cancercure.org claims to be part of a company called Flu Fighter Laboratories. According to state records, Flu Fighter was incorporated on November 1 by Amanda Vasquez Medina of 22 SE Fourth St., #209, Boca Raton. Moss, meanwhile, found that the website's Internet host is in Australia, and it lists the contact for cancercure.org as Arthur Vanmoor of 22 SE Fourth St., #219, Boca Raton. The website features a 24-hour hotline with an 800 number as well as a 561 area-code prefix. The unit 219 address is also registered in state records to Vanmoor Pharmaceuticals, incorporated in 1999. In February 2003, the U.S. Patent Office approved patent number 6,525,097 — Vanmoor's "method for treating a cancerous condition by enhancing the effectiveness of the human immune system." His remedy calls for "the administration of... a sulfur-containing amino-acid derivative." Flu Fighter Labs claims its cancer cure is "a powerful Immune System Booster that supercharges your immune system into a cancer-seeking guided missile that targets cancerous cells and tumors and destroys them." Don't buy it, Moss says. "He lists ingredients that have nothing to do with Camptosar at all, just amino acids with scientific names." And Moss doubts that even these are in whatever is shipped to customers. "It wouldn't surprise me if there's nothing there at all; I mean, why would he bother?" Could the man once known as "Big Pimpin' Pappy" really be behind the magic-bullet cure in Boca Raton? "He's not back here, I can promise you that," says Karen Moore, assistant U.S. attorney in Miami in charge of a federal forfeiture case of $343,726 seized from Vanmoor's illegal businesses. Moore says she knows Vanmoor is still in the Netherlands because she's been trying unsuccessfully for months to get him to travel to Miami to give a deposition. But Vanmoor characteristically has fought back, filing numerous motions to get a change of venue to Broward County, to disqualify Moore as the government's lawyer, to have the judge removed, to hold the Coral Springs Police Department and Washington Mutual Bank in contempt, to delay the case, and to have it dismissed entirely. If Vanmoor is behind the bogus cancer cure, Moore says, "he's undoubtedly doing it from overseas." The government can't force Vanmoor to leave Amsterdam to appear in court here, and she believes he fears additional prosecution if he returns. Scott Dressler, the assistant state attorney for Broward County who prosecuted Vanmoor's criminal case, promised to call local detectives and tip them off about the website, and Kim Ward, a local FDA agent, confirmed that a criminal investigation was under way. Dressler points out that it's a violation of federal law for Vanmoor to re-enter the country and that the Department of Homeland Security has given him no such permission. (An exception would be granted if Moore can work out a visit for a deposition.) But even if Vanmoor is still in the Low Countries, someone local is answering cancercure.org's phones. When Moss called the website's 800 number, a gum-smacking young woman listened to his (true) story about a friend with terminal cancer. "She assured me they'd be cured within six weeks," Moss says. When a New Times reporter called the same number, a woman answered with "Flu Fighter Laboratories," and the sound of ringing phones could be heard in the background. When she was asked about the effectiveness of Cancer Control, the woman placed the caller on hold for several minutes before the call was disconnected. Moss, who searches out and investigates alternative medicines, says, "I've always considered myself sort of a friendly skeptic, but I'm not feeling too friendly about this one." He's been researching cancer treatments for more than 30 years and says "it attracts the best and worst in mankind. "And this is one of the worst."

Could This be arthrits? Deb has visible calcium build up in shoulder and sports therapist says it is massive arthritis. HAs had 2 cortizone injections. Will say a prayer, but think about this possibility.

AM Going to say an extra special prayer for your Family To night. Good Luck witheverything that is going on

Ask about Promethazine. This pill works for nausea butwill make you very sleepy. Eat when you want and what you want. Also Deb uses Immodium sometimes. Always Praying

HAve ypu checked out chemotherapy.com? Supposedly this is all things chemo related. Just A thought. Good Luck and always praying.

So Sorry to hear the news. Will say prayers for your family

http://tomslighthouse.net/lighthse/foot134.htm I Hope This works.

Nelson My wife was a smoker and was diagnosed 2.5 years ago w adenocarcinoma. This is the most common type of Lung Cancer and is very treatable. Shehas been through a lot of chemo treatments after 2.5 years and is still fighting this. Chemo has different reactions for everyone. Some have haor loss, some with appetite problems, Lack of energy. Taste problems. You have found a wealth of oinfo and a world of caring people here. This is my favorite group of people.There has been a lot of research into this type of cancer and a lot of treatment options are being worked on. Every reaction to chemo is different. Ask about anti nausea medicine and steroids for energy. That is what deb did when she first started chemo. Think about radiation therapy too. Deb had 8 weeks of Maximum curative radiation to help prevent spread and so far so good. Think positive and always pray. It has helped me a lot. Also keep us posted and ask lots of questions. These folks are great here. Compassionate Supporting and wise.

Praying and you might want to ask about Etoposide (VI=16) It helped my wife real good for a while.

Going Outside for a nightly prayer for your Family

I Work For Ruths Chris Steakhouse as a pastry chef and we get the drug sales reps booking dinners to promote and educate the Oncs at the Hospital around the corner. Did anyone know that supposedly Michael moore is working on a documentary about the companies? They called us to see oif he was in the area and they check for recording devices befor e the dinners. Now I know why the high prices. We are not cheap and that is a known fact.

DEb has had so many transfusions that we do not think she has her own blood anymore. the antibiotics can be crazy sometimes. Her last transfusion they gave her primaxine IV to avoid any complications and it caused a very bad case of c.diff. The antibiotics killed off all the bacteria in her system except for this one which ran rampant after the transfusion. Usually you will feel more energetic afterwards. Good Luck and hope all goes well.

DEb got hers a while ago and she said that they take you into a room that looks like a fishing bait shop with all the wires and hooks on the walls. Iwasn't there to verifybut it sounds funny. Hers didn't hurt and is great; Keep it fflushed and that will keep it clean on the inside. good luck

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DEb used nivea with the White top. I also heard somewhere that Udder Cream Available at walmart was good for the rash.