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    My Dad -- Mr. Lam

    in HOPE

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    Berisa, I am so happy for you and your Dad!!! It is an accomplishment to be proud of. Tell him not to overdo it too soon. My prayers will be with you and your Dad every day. Keep us posted on his progress.

    David C

    I feel lost and hopeless

    in GENERAL

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    GO GET ANOTHER ONCOLOGIST!!!!!!!!! Like has been said before, this guy sounds like he has given up on the 2 of you, that is unnaceptable!!!!!! Keep the positive atitude and always fight, never give up. Never let a Doctor tell you to give up. I sure wish you were having a better birthday Carleen, I spoiled our 10 year anniversary with my diagnosis. Please keep your head up and let us know how it is going. My prayers are with you and your husband.

    David C

    Port Questions

    in GENERAL

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    There is no worse feeling than having to "fish" around for a vein to have an IV needle inserted. I have good veins but I have had the experience of a bad stick and then they have to keep poking and it hurts. I am on Warfarin, a generic brand of Coumadin and I have a port. My vote is to get the port---It really is nice and the surgery to implant it was very quick and easy.

    David C

    destructive behaviors

    in GRIEF

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    I agree with Bess. She needs to stop being so selfish and grow up.

    And she is wrong. Stopping smoking after 15 years, your lungs will surely start repairing themselves, at least some. If she doesn't smoke, then the damage will snowball and get much worse.

    I tried to get Dave to quit for the entire 10 years we have been married and he wouldn't. The easiest cold turkey quitting for him came when the oncologist looked him right in the eye and said "your type of LC is almost always caused by smoking". I think he meant SCLC. Dave smoked for 20 years. I'm sure if he had quit 10 years ago this wouldn't have happened.

    She has got to stop, she's just looking for a convenient excuse not to take the initiative.

    Hang in there.

    Karen C.

    Rob Lost His Battle Sept 29, 2003

    in GRIEF

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    This sounds terribly selfish and not much comfort to you, but you are living my worst nightmare. I am sitting here feeling your pain and your loneliness. I am so, so sorry.

    How long were you two married - how old was your husband? Did you have children together? Just wondering, maybe it will help to talk more about your life together.

    You were a wonderful wife and a faithful and loyal partner. Know that your husband is in heaven and telling God what a good job you did for him.

    My thoughts are with you,

    Karen C. (wife of David C.)

    no antioxidant supplements with chemo?

    in GENERAL

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    Dave's oncology nurse told him the same thing. She told him not to load up on too many antioxidants because chemo is an oxidant, so the vitamins may interfere with the chemo, but did recommend that he take Centrum Silver (or something comparable) vitamins.

    Now that he's off chemo we're trying to power up on antioxidants, mostly through healthy eating, but I also got an "immunopower" vitamin at the natural foods store for us both to take.

    Hope that helps.

    Karen C.

    Hi! I'm in 7th grade and doing a project for school...Help??

    in INTRODUCE YOURSELF!

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    I think everyone else has given you some good answers, I just want to say that I can't believe you are only in the 7th grade - you sound so mature and together! I was a good student and a good girl in the 7th grade, but I would never be taking the initiative you are, or sounding so poised.

    Best of luck with your project and with your friend's mother, and God Bless you,

    Karen C.

    wife of David C. - Mom to Faith (adopted from China exactly a year ago and the world's most wonderful two year old!)

    Staging and Chemo Questions

    in GENERAL

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    Hi Sam, I felt better than I had in months for the first week after my first chemo treatment but the side effects, mainly fatigue, started to set in the 2nd week. Extreme fatigue was my real problem........of course my hair started coming out so I went ahead and shaved it all off. Please let us know how your mother in law does.

    David C

    Can your counts go down months after chemo is over?

    in GENERAL

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    Hi, Katie, and everyone else looking at this -

    Dave talked to one of the oncology nurses yesterday afternoon. She told him that overdoing it like that on its own would not bring his counts down, that he was probably just physically worn out. I didn't realize this, either, but he had a count check a week or so ago and they looked "great". They won't let "guests" in the lab area with the patient so I sometimes miss out on these things, Dave said the doc mentioned it when I was there but sometimes he can be a bit softspoken so I must have missed it.

    I think he may be a little dehydrated so he's drinking lots of gatorade and water. But he feels better already, I think just hearing he's probably OK from the nurse helped lift him up. He felt well enough this morning to take Faith to get her hand x-rayed (she was born with an extra thumb and we are consulting with a surgeon about having it "repaired").

    thanks everyone,

    Karen C.

    I made it

    in HOPE

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    Estrea, what wonderful news. I am sure you did have a good time, I used to play music on cruise ships and that is a nice cruise line you went on. 5 YEARS!!! What an accomplishment and a perfect reward for yourself. Here's to many, many more 5 year anniversaries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Thank you for this site.

    David C

    Questions?????

    in SCLC GROUP

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    Botely, sounds like they are following what I have gone through as far as treatments and I feel my Doc. has been pretty aggressive. As far as tests go my big tests were not performed until a month after my radiation. I will have a PET scan in about 4 weeks but really had to grill my doc several times to get him to agree to perform one. THe said the PET Scan will show the bones also so no need for a bone scan. To my knowledge I have never had a MRI, only CT Scans. Tell your mom Congrats! on making it through the chemo phase and don't ever stop fighting. My prayers will be with you.

    David C

    Can your counts go down months after chemo is over?

    in GENERAL

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    Hi, Karen C. here - asking for Dave. I'm at work and he's at home, totally miserable, he WAY overdid it this weekend. His last chemo treatment was the end of July (he did make it through all six treatments, however) and he finished up his PCI a week ago Wednesday. Granted, he did overdo it BIG TIME this past weekend and maybe he is just plain ole' exhausted - but I'm thinking he should get his blood counts checked TODAY. He did have to have one transfusion after the 4th chemo treatment, am wondering if he needs another one. The last time he got his counts checked was a week or two after his last chemo and then a week or two ago again. They had gone up slightly but were still a tad low.

    We took Faith to the Virginia State Fair on Friday and walked around for about 4 hours, then took her to the Crab Carnival (good clean fun, small town street fair) on Saturday and walked around for about two hours, stood and watched a parade, etc.

    Now he's beyond tired. He really seems weak.

    Any suggestions/experiences? :?::!::idea:

    Thanks a bunch,

    Karen C.

    Tumor is GONE!

    in HOPE

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    Mo, Congratulations!!! I know exactly how you feel. Is wonderful feeling, is it not. I just got finished with my preventative brain radiation. God cannot answer the prayers he does not hear. My prayers are with you.....and he will hear them!

    David C

    U Guyz are the 1st to know!

    in HOPE

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    David C

    Catfish

    in HOPE

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    Hello all, I still have not eaten that catfish yet. You know andrea I think that fish was actually 5 pounds, ha,ha. Thank you for all your replies. We made it to the State Fair and let me tell you our little girl, Faith, Had so much fun. I had to sleep until noon to get over my litle catfish expedition the day before and then We took Faith to a surgeon to have her extra thumb and a nasty scar on her hip looked at. She was born with an extra thumb which they told us about before we went to China to get her and then about 20 minutes after she was handed to us we changed her diaper and found this really nasty looking, freshly healed, scar on one of her hips (actually on her butt cheek ). When we asked what happened we were told that she received a shot which had become infected and they had to operate to get the infection out. No Dr. we have talked to about it knows of any shots you give a baby in the buttoks so we really don't know what happened. When we got her home and over the next few months the scar just kept getting bigger and bigger so we want to get it fixed so she can wear a bikini when she grows up....HA, like Daddy's ever going to let that happen!!!!!! Back to the Fair. Faith was mesmerized by the entire thing. She was really good and only had one little 2 year old tantrum and that was right before we were getting ready to leave after she was really tired. She rode a Pony, petted Goats, Sheep, Cows, and she touched evey single Bunny in the Bunny house even thoough you were not supposed to-did not see the sign until we were on the way out......oh well. The pony was the only ride she went on but we figured she is a little young for most of the rides there anyway. I had a Corn Dog with yellow mustard and an Ice Cream cone which is not really on the Anti-Cancer Diet but hey, it's the State Fair, right? I woke up with cramps in my thighs about 20 minutes ago, thats what I get for walking around the Fair for 4 hours. Today we are going to the West Point Crab Carnival. West Point is a little town where the Mattaponi and the Pamunkey River meet to form the York River which goes down to.....Yorktown and the Chesapeake bay. It has a little downtown area and they have have arts and crafts and a few little rides, bands playing and a firemans parade. It is a nice small town carnival. There is a paper plant there so I hope the wind is blowing in the right direction or I may not be able to take it. It is awfully hard to breath that sulfer. Well enough rambling. I really enjoyed the day and the Good News is I spent a wonderful day with my wife and my precious baby girl.

    David C

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