Donna G
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Yes, I agree, it has been quiet around here.
I am up here in Minnesota.
Last week we broke all recorded records for the coldest July day.
This week today we are having a dangerous heat wave today.
It is crazy.
It is too hot now to take the dogs out for a walk.
This is a sad week for me. July 23 it will be 1 year since my husband died from lung cancer I still seems so weird that my tumor was bigger than a golf ball and I am a survivor since 1997. He had 2 tiny but obviously vicious tumors and his kept spreading and he died.
Donna G
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I had the upper right lobe removed. I remember waking up in ICU and the nurse was listening with her stethoscope to that area. I was still not thinking good with the drugs and anesthesia in my system. I thought she was nuts to listen there.
I am a nurse and should have known that when a part of the lung is removed the rest of the lung left enlarges to fill the space the best it can.
I had no logic at that point though. The nurse knowing that I was a nurse wondered what I was thinking!
I am now thinking that no one explained to you that the rest of the lung would fill the space.
Hope you are doing well.
Donna G
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Thanks Jennifer, that is great news. Keep us posted.
Donna G
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Hi Jennifer. I know you read my post I made in March. You know I had a Pancoast tumor and have survived. Sorry to hear your Dad is going through this also but am so glad you found us! I never worked in an asbestos plant but my husband was in the Navy for years and was in the shipyard assigned to ships being built. He would come home and I washed his uniforms. No one told us about the asbestos back then.
Keep us posted.
Donna G
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Keep your hopes up. I am a survivor since 1997 Stage B. I have a friend who also had a lobe on the right removed then in a few years it was on the left , she had a lobe removed and is doing fine years later.
Keep up posted,
Donna G
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Most of us know what you are going through. My treatment started with daily radiation and chemo. Glad you found us. Please keep us posted on how you are doing.
Donna G
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Good Morning. It was 26 degrees this am but at 11:26 CDT it will be SPRING
The sun is shining. We had snow yesterday, and more snow and cold for the weekend but there is hope that this long very cold winter is coming to an end.
I met a gentleman the other day that had treatment for a Pancoast Tumor in 1988! Like me he had chemo and radiation, then surgery but had 2 lobes on his Right lung removed and 4 ribs then more chemo. He is celebrating 9 more years than me !!!!!!!!!
Happy Spring to all.
Donna G
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WE are celebrating here in Minnesota. We made it to 53 degrees today, wow! We started a melt down of all the snow ! It has not been that warm here since last November.
Donna G
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Hi Brenna. I grew up in Boston, Roslindale. I also am a survivor. I remember well when I was diagnosed and treatment started. It was very hard. For me it was well worth it. I was just 50 then, now I am 66.
Please keep us posted on how you are coping and doing.
Donna G
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Hello all from Minnesota.
We have had 41 days so far below zero.
Tomorrow morning we start at -14 degrees fahrenheit.
the weather man says there is good news coming. We may even get to 30 degrees this week!
I am telling you it really hurts to breath when it is so far below zero.
Relief is coming, hurray !!!!!!!
Donna G
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I was Stage 3B, diagnosed 12/3/97. I am still here and cancer free.
Donna G
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Tuesday's air here in Minnesota is Cold ! It is minus 18 degrees F. Should we also mention the windchill? It feels like 25-45 below. The schools up here have closed for the 5th time. It is too dangerous for kids to be outside waiting for the school bus, which are mostly diesel which doesn't run well in cold weather and also there is what they call " black ice on the roads" . What happens is the exhaust from cars freezes on the street and becomes ice and slippery. They could get frost bite in 5 minutes! Did I mention that salt on the street does not work when it is this cold!
I don't have to work today so I don't think I am going anywhere.
Donna G
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Diagnosed 12/3/97 Stage 3B Pancoast turor ( tumor in the R upper lung pressing on nerves going down R arm and on lung lining, larger than a golf ball.
Am Cancer free, am over 16 year survivor.
Donna G
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I check in once or twice a day. So Randy do you think that people are getting there info and support on facebook?
Does anyone keep tract of how many people view this site each day? I was thinking that they may be reading but not posting as much as they used to.
Donna G
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Hi All. I come and read a lot. I am of course a long term survivor , stage 3B diagnosed 12/3/97.
I also am in grief since loosing my husband 7/23/13 to lung cancer after a year of different chemo therapy it spread to his cerebral spinal fluid.
Recently on the news they are "celebrating" the 50 year anniversary of when it was announced in the news that cigarettes cause lung cancer.
I was alive then, 1964, in high school, everyone smoked on TV. Nearly 50 % of adults smoked , everywhere. When I was in nursing school ( I finished in sept. 1968) We were told not to smoke because the smell on our uniforms might could be offensive to the patients BUT all patients had ashtrays at there bedside, and most of the doctors smoked at the nurses station.
Now it is well known that birth control pills are in the same class as cigarettes as carcinogen causing cancer, the more abortions you have you quickly raise risk of cancer ( 3 abortions up to 90%) etc. But these according to Obama care are to be included in "Health Care" even the morning after pill ( as BCP is carcinogistic) is to be given to young without parental permission. How low do you think it will take for people to really understand this, ? as long as smoking? Donna G
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Merry Christmas to all !
We are certainly having a white Christmas here in Minnesota!
It was -11 degrees F when I got up this morning. At about 2pm it is suppose to start snowing again til about 9pm this evening. So we even get more fresh snow
I hope all of you are enjoying the season with family and friends.
Donna G
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Hi Amy. I remember well the day I was told I had lung cancer! I thought well that means I am going to die.
That was that was December 3 , 1997. I was Stage 3B. After months of chemo, radiation, surgery, more chemo , I am still cancer free! I pray this will be your story too, cancer free!
Keep us posted.
Donna G
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It was 15 degrees here in Minnesota when I got up this morning and found the heater for the house was not working! Fortunately I called a service company and they were able to come about 9am and started working on it. I am warm now thank goodness because tomorrow is suppose to be even colder!
Donna G
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My two dogs cheer me up--Rocky and Sally.
Donna G
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Our news is talking about snow tomorrow!
Still sunny , cool here today .
Donna G
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I got here before all of you! Amazing!
It was 30 degrees here in Minnesota when I got up this am. High expected to be nice----58 degrees and sunny.
Sunrise at 7:44, sunset 6:09, that will change soon when we go back to standard central time.
Hope all have a wonderful Sunday.
Donna G
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Years ago my husband was in the Navy. He was assigned to the ships the USS Virginia and the Jesse L Brown when they were being built in the shipyards. They never told us how they use Asbestos to build the ships, the air in shipyards is full of it and he wore his uniform home and I handled it and washed it.
Donna G
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Sorry to hear that you now are fighting Uterine cancer.
I was diagnosed 12/3/97, stage 3 and am still here, cancer free.
I lost my husband to lung Cancer July 23. He fought it about a year.
Hope we hear from some more survivors!
Donna G
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Thanks for the update, and Good News!
Donna G
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Welcome Bohohoney. Glad you found this site. Sounds like you will be a great help to your mother. You did a wonderful thing fixing all that healthy food and helping her maintain healthy weight.
When I was diagnosed I was 145 lbs (65.8 kgs) , I am fairly tall. I started treatment with daily radiation and 2 chemo drugs. They did not want me to loose any more weight so they encouraged me to eat all the candy and desert snacks they had in the clinic. I had been raised to eat desserts on holidays or birthdays only.
Boy did I learn from them how to eat lots of junk food! Here it is nearly 17 years later and I am still trying to break my new " habits" The blessing is that I am still alive and well.
Sounds like you are a little IRISH. My relatives are O'Hagan, Gilmartin, O' brian, Leahy, Sullivan, Murphy , to name a few.
We have a Lake Erie in the States, an Erie city in Pennsylvania, I wonder if the Irish had anything to do with naming them? Keep us posted on how your Mom is doing.
Donna G