francesbean

I'm a little late but happy anniversay Kasey!!!!

Dear friends, I know I have not posted in more than three years, and I just thought I'd check in again and share some good news. My dad is still stable as of yesterday's CT scan. We have been in this cancer journey for almost six years. I'm also very glad to see many friends from back in the day still active and posting. I pray everyone is healthy and doing well. Love, Frances

Hi, I'm Frances, and I live in Manila, Philippines. I've been here since 2005, I haven't been visiting much but I do drop by once in a while. The wonderful people I've met here at the boards has helped me cope in my dad's LC journey. I post some photos over at frances.effronte.org Nice to meet everyone!

Mike, I'm so very glad to hear from you! About two weeks ago I suddenly remembered you and proceeded to search for updates. I found out you haven't written in months, so that got me a bit worried. I'm so glad you decided to drop in. Enjoy the coming holidays

Rochelle, I haven't been logging in to the site, I am very much surprised to hear this. Please accept my sincerest condolences. I wish you and your family better days ahead. Take care.

Glad to hear that!

We don't really celebrate Thanksgiving in this side of the world but please allow me to show my appreciation as well. Happy thanksgiving to everyone on the boards. I hope everyone had a meaningful holiday.

Thank you for letting us know about Don!

That's beautiful! Happy thanksgiving to you and everyone here at the boards.

Don, here's to many many more years of survivorship!

My sincere condolences to your family.

My sincerest condolences.

Beautiful beautiful babies!! Congratulations on your new bundles of joy

Hi everyone! I haven’t visited in a while. I haven’t posted since December, I realised. Two evaluative scans have passed (March and June) and I’m happy to report that dad is stable. The tumors never shrank any, but I’m glad that they never grew. Hope that the remaining masses are just dead cells! Things have been going well for my dad I guess. He used to be in bed all day, but he’s been up and about lately. He’s having our dining area and kitchen reconstructed so he’s been pretty busy supervising the work. I'm glad for this semblance of a normal life. He stopped working but he's keeping himself busy. That's very good. We had a prostate cancer scare a month ago, though. He was having problems with urination and turns out, he has an enlarged prostate. We were all worried like crazy as we definitely can’t have a second primary! Thankfully his PSA’s turned out normal.. Thank God. Currently still treating and observing the UTI. I’m off to browse the forums some more, and see how everyone’s doing! I wish you guys well. Yours, Frances

Congratulations Amie!

Excellent!!

Wonderful :)

Kelly, I haven't been dropping by so it was a shock to hear about this. My deepest sympathies! Love, Frances

oh gosh :( Love and prayers to Frank's family...

My sincerest condolences. Love and prayers. Frances

Aww! Congratulations Amie, so happy for you

Nice to meet you Kevin, best wishes to you.

Hello and glad to meet you Trish.

Hello and welcome, wiesia. I hope and pray the treatment plan for your dad will be very effective. I reckon that radiation will do the trick for the bone mets.

My mom had four miscarriages. I'm sorry Mitzu. *hugs*