[Joel's home]

Glad he is home and feeling better.

[Treatment for Alan Starts Tomorrow]

Debi and Alan,sorry you are having to start the new year with having to deal with this again.Keeping you both in our thoughts and prayers.

[Hopsice Starts Today]

This is a very hard time for both of you.Sometimes the treatments we take make a person so sick they want to stop them.Depending on the tx's and the results they are yielding the side and after effects get better after they end.It is my understanding that if a person wants to stop the Hospice that is permitted as well.

Wishing you and your mom the best during these tough times.

[Hello From a Newbie :)]

Danielle,welcome to our support family.There are many here that have been up against just about anything you will have come along.Hoping your mom's treatments work with good results.

[Prayers for Kasey]

Kase,this is not the kind of news any of us want to hear.Hoping the drs. have a solution to get you back up and running again.

Please let us know what is going on with the drs. so we can formulate a battle plan to help you out with this.

We are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers.

[I am New!!! Happy to Join]

Welcome to our support family.There are many good people here to help you and your dad along the way.

[Hello - I'm new to this forum]

Hi Tannner,and welcome to our support family.Sorry you and your wife and children have to go thru this.

You will find many good people here that can help you along the way.

[WBR Club (Decadron questions)]

Joanie,The steroids have to be gradually diminished by a little bit at a time.They do affect the mucles in the top of your legs.I was told it is not uncommon to have to go back on them (about 90% of the time).They are very important in reducing the swelling in the brain.There wasn't much I could do about the lack of sleep,nothing seemed to help except just staying up.

[Almost Gone]

Great News,I am very happy to hear such good results so quickly.Hoping the remaining treatments yield more good results.Congratulations.

[My Christmas present...]

Nancy,that is great news but sorry you had to endure all the other treatments and side effects.

Good luck with the surgery and wishing you a speedy recovery.

[A sigh and a tear]

Gwen,I am very sorry for the loss of your father.

[My Small Triumphs]

Debi,that is a really encouraging update and I am very glad to hear it.We all knew what you are capable of long before you went to Ohio.

[Christmas Eve 2006 - I am still here and so are you]

Valerie,welcome to our support family.There are many here to help you along the way.Congratulations on being a survivor this long already and ai am very glad you are doing well.

[New Member - husband diagnois with nsclc]

Flo,welcome to our support family.There are many here to help you along the way.The very on-set of this disease to me seems the worse part of it.

Once you all diognosis and scans and devise a game plan to begin beating and fighting the cancer it seemed to get easier for me.

[Curiosity Never Gets Old]

[Just not prepared!!!]

Sue,I can't but only imagine how difficult this must be for you and the others that have lost their spouse or loved ones to have to go thru this.

Hang in there best you can.Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

[The test of body & mind-soul, continues but moving forw]

The waiting is always hard to do.Wishing you the best of luck next week.

[So Bittersweet, So far Behind. in Supporting YOU]

Hi Holly and welcome back.

[Dad said he is ready to go]

I'm sorry to hear this.Hope the pain can be managed and he reamains peaceful.

[Merry Christmas to our Dr. West.......Thank you!]

I thank you too Dr. West and wish you and your family a Happy Holidays.

[Jut lost my Dad to Lung Cancer]

I am very sorry for the loss of your Dad.

[We said goodbye]

Rochelle,I am very sorry for the loss of your mother.

[Pat's Update]

Glad to hear she is tolerating the treatments well.Chocolate cake is usually a good weapon of choice

[Happy Birthday Mom!]

Happy Birthday Sue,keep it going a long ,long time.

[A Dean Carl Poem (re-post from march 2004)]

Many of us here remember Dean Carl.Many newer members mabe don't.Dean was one of our very supportive and inspirational members here and was blessed with much wisdom.We lost Dean a while back but his wisdom still exists here in the Path Less Traveled Forum.This is a poem he wrote himself back in March2004.

Cancer!

Oh, how we fear that word!

I say to you, "I have cancer"

And I watch you,

refuse to hear.

I say to you, "I have cancer"

And I watch you,

bury me with your eyes.

Yes, I have CANCER.

Please,

Please hear the word.

But do not lay me in my grave,

At least,

Not just yet.

Oh, I know this disease

Will someday take my life.

The chances of that are,

Shall we say,

Rather high.

Yes, I know that which will take me,

From this world.

But not today!

But then again,

That's all I've ever had.

Today.

And to tell the truth,

(which I've been known to do at times)

That's all any of us ever have.

Today.

So today, I think,

I'll get up early,

And watch the sun set fire to the sky.

Today, I think,

I'll tell my wife,

"I love you", at least a hundred times.

Today, I think,

I'll find a way to laugh so hard,

I'll give myself a stomach ache.

Today, I think,

I'll go to the cliffs above the ocean

And ask old man Ocean what he knows that I don't.

Today, I think,

I'll climb down into the abyss,

And spit in the Devil's eye.

Today I'll do so many wonderful things.

And those I don't get done today.

I'll do tomorrow when tomorrow becomes today.

Yes, I have cancer

Yes, I will die from it someday.

But not today.

Not today.