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A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed
>> each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and
>> shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing
>> home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move
>> necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the
>> nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.
>> As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual
>> description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been
>> hung on his window.
>> "I love it," he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having
>> just been presented with a new puppy.
>> "Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait."
>> "That doesn't have anything to do with it," he replied.
>> "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my
>> room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how
>> I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. "It's a decision I make
>> every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed
>> recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer
>> work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
>> Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new
>> day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my
>> life.
>> Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in.
>> So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank
>> account of memories! Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I
am still depositing." Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
>> 1. Free your heart from hatred.
>> 2. Free your mind from worries.
>> 3. Live simply.
>> 4. Give more.
>> 5. Expect less.
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You have my prayers for another successful brain surgery, Karen. Are you having it done at the same place as last time?
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Thinking of you both.
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Heather,
You have made my Day with this news. One of the interesting things about BAC and Adeno with BAC features is sometimes those nodules go into a dormant (indolent) phase. They just sit there and do nothing...sometimes for years! (My first primary showed up in 1986. I was 32 years old. And it just sat there for about 10 years. Didn't grow. Didn't spread. Just sat there. Which is why my docs didn't think it was malignant...even though it was.)
As long as things stay stable you can live with it. And if the darn things won't disappear entirely then I hope they stay dormant/indolent/stable for decades and decades to come.
This IS good news, Hebbie. And I am very happy for you and those who love you...including us!
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I don't want to frighten you or upset you more than you are, but knowing what I now know I would obtain a copy of the report for myself before my appointment on Friday, and read it for myself. And I would then push my Docs for more information. The fact of the matter is women who are treated for breast cancer are at a higher risk for developing secondary cancers, including Lung Cancer. And frankly, there are a lot of us who have a type of Lung Cancer called Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma (AKA BAC)or Adenocarcinoma with Bronchioloalveolar Features (AKA ADC with BAC)who are either diagnosed with BAC after a diagnosis of Breast Cancer and sometimes before we are diagnosed with a separate Breast Cancer.
You don't get many chances for an early stage diagnosis. Push to make certain that you get the CORRECT diagnosis. And if it proves to be negative, I will personally celebrate your Great News. And while you are doing all of this always bear it in mind that most lung spots are really NOT cancer. I know...easier said than done.
Wishing you well...and I do mean WELL.
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No call back, yet. I am not good at waiting...
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I love these!
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Does anyone remember hearing:
He's a/She's a pure caution, that one is.
As near as I could tell that meant someone was a wild one in very amusing sort of way.
(Since it was sometimes directed towards me I hope my understanding is correct
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Contact the company that makes Procrit and ask if they have any help for folks who have such high copays.
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Is he having the NG (nasal gastric) tube or the one that is placed directly into the stomach? I have friends who have had both, and they agree that the stomach tube is the way to go. Easier on them-physically. Just have to make sure the tube is kept clean at the insertion site.
I want to tell you about my friend, Jim. Most of his docs had given up on him. He went to several places trying to find someone to treat his mets (he had only one lung and the mets were on the side of his only Lung.) He finally found a radiologist willing to help him, and in order to do the radiation he had to have a feeding tube. So he did. And here it is, many years later, and Jim is still with us. He is short of breath, but he is happy to breathing, and he lives each day with joy. (He raises Jack Russells!)
Tell your Dad I'm thinking of him and wishing him strength to get through what he needs to go through in order to live well.
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The Surgeon insisted that he could not operate to remove the tumor from my left and only lung without a biopsy proven malignancy...
But the pathology on the tumor from the FNAB came back inconclusive! It didn't prove anything!
And the Surgeon operated to remove the tumor anyway about 3 weeks later...
Have you guys considered contacting Kasey's and MaryAnn's surgeon out of the National Cancer Institute?
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| You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and
| Costello, and too old to REALLY understand
| computers, to fully appreciate this.
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| If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today,
| their infamous sketch, "Who's on First?" might have
| gone something like this:
| COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT
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| ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
| COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den
| and I'm thinking about buying a computer.
| ABBOTT: Mac?
| COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.
| ABBOTT: Your computer?
| COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.
| ABBOTT: Mac?
| COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.
| ABBOTT: What about Windows?
| COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
| ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
| COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look
| at the windows?
| ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
| COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer
| and software.
| ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
| COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I
| can use to write proposals, track expenses and run
| my business. What do you have?
| ABBOTT: Office.
| COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend
| anything?
| ABBOTT: I just did.
| COSTELLO: You just did what?
| ABBOTT: Recommend something.
| COSTELLO: You recommended something?
| ABBOTT: Yes.
| COSTELLO: For my office?
| ABBOTT: Yes.
| COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
| ABBOTT: Office.
| COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
| ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
| COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK,
| let's just say I'm sitting at my computer and I
| want to type a proposal. What do I need?
| ABBOTT: Word.
| COSTELLO: What word?
| ABBOTT: Word in Office.
| COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
| ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
| COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
| ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue
| "W".
| COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you
| don't start with some straight answers. What about
| financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track
| my money with?
| ABBOTT: Money.
| COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?
| ABBOTT: Money.
| COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
| ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer.
| COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?
| ABBOTT: Money.
| COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
| ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
| COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer?
| How much?
| ABBOTT: One copy.
| COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?
| ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
| COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
| ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!
| (A few days later)
| ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
| COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?
| ABBOTT: Click on "START".............
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Houdini agrees!
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Oh! And don't forget when someone asks how you are you might answer with
"Fair to middlin'."
(my roots are in the East Tennessee Mountains and the Marble Mines of Alabama)
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Well, I'm walking and talking proof that biopsy procedures are not without risks...
Best to have tumors removed with clear margins and undisturbed. The great big old tumor in my left pleura that is currently breaking my ribs is the result of a Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of a tumor in my left Lung done in August that went very, very wrong. I have seeding of malignant cells into the pleura/chest wall as a result. If you ask the docs about this they will tell you this almost never happens. I have read all kinds of reports on FNAB done on all kinds of cancers located in all kinds of organs, and the risk is much higher than the docs will admit. And really, Folks, if it happens to you or someone you love it is one time too many.
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Thank you for sharing this information with us. So many of the drugs we take as cancer patients are Liver toxic. After reading this I thought that if someone took just a plain Acetomenaphine along with this antibiotic it could be enough to do significant damage to the Liver.
Again, Thank you for thinking of us at this difficult time. You've just lost your wife and you continue to try to help others. It means a lot, and who knows who you might have helped by doing so.
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Perfect Poem! Years ago when I was first diagnosed I told myself that I would win my personal war against Lung Cancer no matter what happened. And I have made it a point to live my life as if I were going to do exactly that: WIN against Lung Cancer. I do not accept the idea of losing to this Beast. If the only way I can eventually kill the disease is to deny it a host then that is what will be. But I will NEVER lose to Lung Cancer. And I don't think any of those who have gone before me lost their battles, either. They are not losers...by any definition.
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Thanks for keeping us informed, Larry. We genuinely care about you and your wife. When I say prayers I like to name names.
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You have my prayers, Tami.
You know, I get down, too. And there have been points where I was so low I didn't see how I was ever going to smile again. It was about that time when I decided to take matters into my own hands. (I couldn't take the antidepressants, and at that point I couldn't afford to pay a Therapist.) So here is what I did:
I made it a point to pick out things that were good in my world. I didn't expect myself to appreciate it, or be happy about it, nor find any joy in it. But just to list things that were good.
I made it a point to focus on those good aspects of my life. I didn't ingore the negatives (they were too big and in my face for me to be able to pretend they were not there.), but rather I made a conscious decision to set the negatives aside for a certain amount of time. And during this time I made it a type of "Mental Exercise" to concentrate on the good things in my world.
Over time it became less of a conscious act to put aside the negatives and focus on the positives, and more a natural way of seeing things.
You are not alone in this, Tami. Not at all.
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Hello, Trish. Glad you found this site.
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Understatement is alive and well in Britain.
We're all laughing about this, but I lived there for three years. It took a while for me to understand that if I heard the term "...a bit of trouble..." it meant all H3!! had broken loose somewhere...
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We have itty bitty bunnies like that around here, too. They live on the slope behind my house, and run up into the veggie garden belonging to my neighbor (at the top of the hill) to eat their fresh veggies. I think the neighbors have planted beds along the fence line just for the wee rabbits.
Eppie, the white cat has the same color green eyes that I have! And the same frown line!
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These are great!
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Memo
in JUST FOR FUN
Becky,
I showed this to several friends who work for "the government", and they've all asked it be forwarded on to them. Since several of these folks work in Training Squadrons I wonder if they'll be using it for training purposes?
) But I'm open to hearing the true definition.
OT/ HISTORY EXAM
in JUST FOR FUN
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Not old here, but answered all of them correctly.