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JB, I never played ice hockey because I hate cold but I did manage a few years are roller hockey. Good luck!!!!

Well dang just when I need you ... you are nowhere to be found.

Add my best wishes to those above and welcome aboard.

Welcome to a wonderful place Manifest. It sounds like you are going to be receiving the same treatment plan I had. I had 6 weeks of carbo/taxol along with 37 radiation treatments. I do remember being very tired by the end of the 6 weeks but I experienced no other bad side effects during that treatment period. Keep a good attitude, eat well and drink lots and lots and LOTS of water to stay hydrated.

Way to go Bucky!!!!

Thanks Stacey .... I posted somewhere that they cancelled it because they felt it was too dangerous. Now scheduled for an MRI on Wednesday with a follow up with the doctor on Friday.

Shelley I got your pm and feel free to e-mail me or whatever you need to do. The first time they clamped my tube they said they would be back in thirty minutes to check on me. Within 5 minutes I knew I was in trouble and would have clamped a few of their heads off if I could have drawn a big enoug breath to move. From that time on they never left me when they clamped a tube they stayed right with me and I believe the second time they clamped it I kept my hand on the clamp because I was not going to wait on them to get air to me. Tell your mom to hang in there and things will improve. We have to climb each darn mountain they place in front of us but somehow we manage to do it. Judy

Shelley ... they collapsed my right lung during the original biopsy and then collapsed my left lung when they put in my port. They used the big chest tube each time with the suction to reinflate my lung. Both times it took a total of 5 days before the released me. They finally quit unhooking me and taking me to x-ray and just ordered the portable x-ray to come to me. I had the big tube in two different locations the first one was put in above my breast in front on the right side and the second was place in my back on the left side. The one in the back seemed to be the most painful for the longest. I do remember the port site hurting some but the tube was a great distraction. Hope you mom is doing better.

Thanks to each and every one of you. Not sure if it was your support and responses or the Ativan but for now I am calm. Thanks you are all great!!!!

I am scheduled for a bone biopsy (T2) this Thursday at 1:00 p.m. I am asking for prayers that this is and remains an out patient procedure. I am also looking for anyone that has had a bone biopsy because I want the brutal truth concerning amout of pain involved. Thanks all.

Hi Corrine and welcome to the board. It sounds like you are undergoing the tests and things can seem overwhelming and the answers do not come fast enough. I thing Maryanne above meant we are here "24/7"!!! Someone is usually around to support and answer questions. Not know all the particular of your situation it would be hard to say about the possibility of an operation. Glad you found us and hang in there.

Thanks Kasey ... you also Randy.

On our evening news last night there was a segment on a new treatment for lung cancer that Dr. Nader discovered. I believe it was for use when the cancer was such that the individual was having trouble breathing. It was the injection of cisplatin directly into the tumor follwed by guided radiation. If I can find the segment online I will post an address to it. Dr. Nader is the pulmonoligist at the Cancer Treatment Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Welcome Val ... this is a great site with great folks. It looks like you and I took the words inoperable and incurable and kept right on walking. Keep us informed.

I for one would not even wager a guess ... this is EXACTLY why I never want to see my records or any reports. LOL I am an ostrich.

Hi Sandra and welcome to a wonderful site. I am sure many folks with come along with advice on how the help the kids. My only kid was 36 at the time of my diagnosis and I think he dove into denial ... so I am not the one to speak to that subject. If you fill out a profile with all your information it will help tell us about you and keep you from having to answer the same questions over and over. Do you have non-small cell or small cell cancer? What are your chemo cocktails made of, etc. etc. etc.

Welcome GranFran .. you go girl. Glad you are a candidate for the surgery. My cancer was inoperable but with radiation and chemo they have deemed it stable. I feel that you will do fine. Prayers for you.

I always cover the entire LCSC in my prayers but will put a speial one out for you tonight.

Welcome sweetie.

Hi Dick, I can't be of much help with the pain but do drink lots of water. Most of my pain was caused from radiation burn on my skin. As for the smoking I swear to you that I tried EVERYTHING known to man from patches, pills, hypnotism etc etc etc. What finally worked for me was setting my mind to quitting and littering (beat me) the highway all the the way home from a doctors appointment with my LAST pack of smokes. Yep, I went cold turkey and found it very easy. The trick is you have to have the WANT more than you want the smoke.

Hi Bruce and welcome to LCSC. The final decision will be yours or course so you need to arm yourself with all the information you can stand to absorb and then take it from there. Keep us posted. P.S. with red face Christine you had already cut his message out and started it here. Sorry.

Welcome Cy to a message board filled with great people and lots of support. Keep us posted on what is going on with you. Congrats on that baby!!! Bruce you might want to post your question as a separate thread or perhaps a moderator and sort it out from the thread. LOL

Welcome Richard. There are many folks here that have traveled the road you are now looking at and they will help you, support you, or simply listen if that is what you need. Keep posting and let us know how treatment is progressing.

So sorry Randy. I watched the accidentally taped segment again and what they said was that it was a Clinical Trial that utilized traditional radiantion with a TIME sensitive chemotherapy. They did not mention any drugs or anything else. It was done by a Dr. Nader at CTA. I just wanted to post this to clarify my last post. I must have been delerious!!!

Randy my dear friend and great chat moderator. I was taping something on tv last night and let the tape run a bit to long. I picked up something on our Channel 6 news station about a new trial radiation type therapy being utilized by the Cancer Treatment Center. I am going to go online and see if I can find out anything but was wondering if you knew of anything new going on in that area.