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Bill I believe there is a little microphone that you can purchase at a local electronics store (Radio Shack used to carry them near here) The mic attaches to the back of the phone via small suction cup and it transfers the phone voice to tape quite well. Perhaps that would work better? I know my father in law used to have one and he swore by it for recording calls to transfer to meeting minutes when he was a town secretary. Wish I had it now to send on to you. Best of luck with this, Chris

Cindi, Wonderful news!! Congrats! Chris

Dear Kat, My deepest sympathies and condolences to you and your family on the loss of your dad. I am so sorry that you have all of these heavy loads to bear. You have definitely come to the right place for support and hope as far as your mom's battle goes. Please let us know what we can do to help you and her along the way. Sending you prayers for strength and peace of mind as well as sympathy and condolences and love, Chris

Hello Kim and welcome. I am so sorry about your mom, but I am very glad you found this site. Although I cannot offer you much in the way of advice regarding your mom's treatment,I can tell you that there will soon be an outpouring of posts in reply to yours from some of the best people. You will find answers, advice and maybe the most important things, HOPE and SUPPORT. Let us know what you need and we will be here for you. Sending you prayers and many positive thoughts, Chris

Hello Rod and welcome. I am glad you posted and have begun to seek some advice. This board is the best as far as support and answering questions and offering advice. I am not as experienced in this nightmare as some of the others that I know will be along and reply to you, but my first bit of advice is to get another opinion! Your dads oncologist does not sound as if he is really willing to take an aggressive approach. I would definitely have someone else have a look at the results etc and get some additional input. Please keep us posted and let us know what we can do to help you.. Sending prayers and positive thoughts, Chris

I posted this in the Lung Cancer News forum as well, not sure where it really should be.. Sorry if I oops'ed! Chris Hello all, I received a rather interesting pamphlet in the mail today from the Lung Cancer Alliance and thought I should share this. Not sure if you may have already heard about this, but I felt it may be worth mentioning again if that is the case. The Lung Cancer Alliance has joined forces with EmergingMed to match lung cancer patients to clinical trials. There is a section devoted to this on their website; www.lungcanceralliance.org Just a side note..It was through the Lung Cancer Alliance that I found this wonderful site. I am so thankful for that.. I hope this information will be helpful... Best wishes and positive thoughts to all, Chris

Hello all, I received a rather interesting pamphlet in the mail today from the Lung Cancer Alliance and thought I should share this. Not sure if you may have already heard about this, but I felt it may be worth mentioning again if that is the case. The Lung Cancer Alliance has joined forces with EmergingMed to match lung cancer patients to clinical trials. There is a section devoted to this on their website; www.lungcanceralliance.org Just a side note..It was through the Lung Cancer Alliance that I found this wonderful site. I am so thankful for that.. I hope this information will be helpful... Best wishes and positive thoughts to all, Chris

Randy, This is FANTASTIC news!! Continued prayers for Annie and B9!!!! Chris

Lori What a GREAT post! How wonderful for ALL of you to be able to do this. I am so pleased for you all. Hugs, Chris

Hiya Shirley Wow I am really glad to hear that Beth Israel is agreeing to the cyber knife. Hopefully you will get the appt in the very, very near future! All of this in the past couple of days is so encouraging. I am just so glad you pressed on for a different opinion. I will catch up to you later... Prayers and positive thoughts continue!! Chris

Linda, My deepest sympathies and condolences on the loss of you mom. It has been a long, hard struggle for you both. I pray you will find strength and peace. Much love and prayers, Chris

Hello Debbie and welcome. As you can probably tell already, you found the greatest site as far as support and information and most importantly, caring people! Please know that you can ask any and all questions here and someone is bound to be along with answers or at the very least be able to point you in the right direction. I am so sorry you are being faced with this disease, but there is so much hope and support here. Just let us know how we can help and we will be right here for you. Sending prayers and lots of positive thoughts, Chris

Hello Susan and welcome. I am sorry to hear about your father, but very glad you found this site. Please know that there are so many knowledgeable and caring people here that will be willing and able to answer your questions and help you along this journey. The support and care you will find here is just amazing! Let us know what we can do to help you. Keep us posted, Sending prayers and positive thoughts to you and your family, Chris

I wish I knew.. I lost all the saved messages from Brad and was so heartbroken when I realized they were gone. My best advice would be to maybe play the message into a tape recorder? I wish I had known that my old messages would be deleted after a certain amount of time as I would have tried that myself. Good luck and hugs... Chris

Ok I posted a reply and clicked submit and POOF, it vanished and made me log back in.. Hmmm, computer demons! ANYWAY, Shirley Consider the parking prayers done! lol.. I am sending you more prayers for wonderful news tomorrow and positive thoughts and all that good stuff! Good luck with YOUR appt! Let me know.... Talk soon, Chris PS.. daughter has a download going here so my puter is slowwwwwwwwwwwer than normal.. Out here in the boonies all I can get is dial up which normally is really quite fine, but the downloads tend to wreak havoc with the speed. I WILL do my best to be on aim later though!! C

Hello Tiffsmom, Wow, Tiff sounds like an incredible young woman. I am so sorry she is faced with this horrible disease at such a young age. I am very glad that you have begun posting here, though. As you can tell from all the replies so far, there are many, many wonderful and caring people on this site who will be more than willing to help answer your questions and provide information and encouragement. You could never ask for a better group when it comes to finding support, love and care! You and Tiff and your entire family are in my thoughts and prayers, Chris

Oh wow, you just keep these great news stories coming and I will keep up the positive thinking and prayers!! What time do you need to be at Beth Israel? Prayers to parking space gods too!!! Catch you later, Chris

Shirley, WOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!! What great news on ALL fronts here. I am very, very happy to heat all of this especially the part about YOU making an appt, FINALLY!!! I should be around tonight and will look for you later to get caught up on everything. I am just so over joyed that there is so much positive news from you now. Praying for that to continue!!! Catch you later, gator! HUGS!!! Chris

Judy, I am so very sorry about your husband. There are no words that can begin to ease the pain you have, but please know that you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.. My deepest sympathies and condolences to you and yours, Chris

Hello Lizard. I am so sorry about your mom. I must agree with Shirley and Randy YOU ARE NOT A LOSER! It sounds very much like your mother needs a new dr, one who is willing to take a more aggressive approach to her treatments. Have you tried giving mom Boost or Ensure to get some calories into her? It may help a lot with her overall strength if she can manage to drink some of those type of drinks. As far as crying etc, this is probably one of the biggest emotional rollercoaster rides anyone could ever experience. Cancer effects everyone, the patient, the caregivers, the family and friends. What you have mentioned here sounds pretty normal to me. Please keep us posted and let us know what you need so we can help. Keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers, Chris

justjen I am so sorry about your dad. I am glad that you have found this site though. Being able to talk about your fears and concerns is very important. I wish I could offer you more in the way of suggestions or advice. What the others here have said is great. Randy is right about love never dying. Please remember that. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. Please keep us posted as you can. Hugs Chris

Thanks Grace! Enjoy the fireworks!!! And a very happy 4th to both you and Shirley, too! I am so very optimistic about the new oncologist and options!! Chris

Hey Shirley!~ Welcome home and WOWSA!! this is sounding much more positive than before and I am soooooooo glad!!!! I do not know much about the RFA but was reading something about it not too long ago. Sounds promising!!!!! I am just so glad you got a different dr and opinions and OPTIONS!!!!! Saying extra prayers and thinking tons of positive thoughts!!! Chris

Continued Prayers... Chris

Linda, Just adding my prayers to the mix here. You have so much great advice here now that nothing I can add would be much different, but I wanted to let you know I am thinking about you and mom and keep you both in my prayers and positive thoughts, Hugs Chris