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Prayers are with you TAnn!
Please know I will be thinking of you and sending positive energy your way.
Hugs,
CathyR
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I pray your dad has a successful surgery and comes out of it healed!!!!
May God be with you and your family.
Hugs,
CathyR
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Great news!!! I am so happy for you and your mom. It is wonderful when something "good" happens for us. It's too long and inbetween. I hope 2005 continues to be a healthy, happy year for your family.
CathyR
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Fay,
You are the best! Thank you for always being there giving encouragement and support in spite of your own dilemma. We all care about and love you.
Hugs,
CathyR
Lets hang in there girlfriend!
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Hi everyone,
Thank you soooo much for your support and prayers. The best news is that there is no bone involvement -
. There is a 3 cm. left lung tumor and several right lung tumors, a right axillary lymph node and right adrenal gland pet scan activity. I guess I will have to figure out where this left lower shoulder blade pain is coming from. I wonder if it can be from the left lung tumor itself? I haven't spoken to the doctor directly, but he left a phone message for me with these results. Thank you again for your help.
I love you all........aw....
CathyR
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Hi folks,
I just found a wonderful site that many of you have probably checked out before, but in case you haven't. here it is.
The originator of this site is Richard Bloch of the H&R Bloch company. He survived lung cancer with a terminal diagnosis back in 1978. He passed away this past June of heart failure. After he survived his diagnosis, he devoted the rest of his life to cancer research. There are very inspirational messages from him. There is also a place on the site where you can see how many people have survived 5 years or longer from a lung cancer diagnosis in your particular area where you live.
Hope that you like it.
CathyR
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Welcome Charlie,
Sorry to have to meet you here like this, but if you have l.c. it's the best site to be. Many of us have either been or are going through whatever you are. Please stay in touch, keep the faith, and lets all beat this darn beast!!!
Hoping 2005 is a safe, healthy, and happy year for you!
CathyR
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Hi Friends,
Well, I am sitting on pins and needles waiting to hear results of a PET scan I had on Thursday. I have been experiencing increased pain below the left shoulder blades close to the lobectomy incision. My fear it that the beast has gone into the ribcage. It sure feels that way. It's been a year since I was diagnosed stage 4 and have had no PET scans or MRI's since. I have had CT scans which can only show so much.
I will let you know what the doc. says. In the meantime, I continue to thank you for your prayers. May 2005 be a healthier one for ALL of us.
Hugs,
CathyR
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I wish everyone a safe, Healthy, and happy New Year.
Hugs to you all!
CathyR
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Amen! Please dear God, help us find a cure for this evil disease. There's been too much suffering.
CathyR
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Thank you both! You are amongst the kindest people I know. I feel very blessed to have this web site to go to.
May you both have a happy, healthy, and safe New Years!
CathyR
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Cheryl,
God only knows we are all praying and pulling for you. If anybody can beat these mets, you can. You and your darling husband. And, they will still include you in the vaccine trial. So many people have come through just fine with eliminating brain mets. You will too!!!
We are all here for you today and every day. Alll of us have been so inspired by your spirit to survive. Keep fighting, girlfriend. We are right with you.!
Hugs!!!
CathyR
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You have indeed helped make this a very merry Christmas. We all love you Dean Carl! It's so good to hear from you again. Congratulations on 15 months.
CathyR
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Tina and Charlie,
My prayers to you both. I agree that "one day at a time" is the best any of us can do. Just know you are both in all of our prayers.
FEEL BETTER CHARLIE!
Hugs Tina!!!
CathyR
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Well, it seems that the bad news just continues. My onc. office called at 8:30 a.m today to tell me that the blood test came in for the protein I was being tested for to qualify for the epimmune trial. I do not have it which means I cannot do the trial. I don't have any idea what is going to happen so I'll just keep you posted.\
I so wish I had better news to report.
CathyR
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Beth,
My prayers are with you! Hurry up and get out of that hospital. We don't want you there. We need you here!
Hugs,
CAthyR
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Thank you all so much for the good wishes. I don't know what I would do without this group! I will keep you posted on whether or not I get into the epimmune trial. In the meantime, I hope everyone has a happy and healthy xmas and New Years.
I love you all!!!!
CathyR
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Well, just got back from the onc. office. I've been on Iressa for 2 months and went off it Friday after the published reports. As it turns out, the Iressa was not working. I have progression of the disease in multiple nodules in the right lung as well as several more lymph nodes. I dread telling my family. This will break my mothers heart.
I am being tested for the protein necessary to be in the Epimmune clinical trial and should know in a few days if I have it. Please pray for me. The doctor is going to check into trials at UCLA for me as well. He is not advising Tarceva for me since I've had such a tough time with Iressa. He also did not seem too positive about Navelbine or Alimta for me.
Sorry to have to write about this, but this is the only place I can be totally honest. I will have to sugar-coat this for my family.
CathyR
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Peggy,
That is great news! I am very excited for you both. Please, please don't you or anyone else ever feel that they can't post good news for fear of making anybody else feel bad. Believe me, everytime we hear something positive it gives hope to all of us!
Now go enjoy your holidays! That's an order!
CathyR
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Margaret,
Get better soon sweetie! We miss you.
Prayers to Dr. Mazurik that she is able to help you.
CathyR
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Lisa,
I am so very sorry for your loss. I know how you feel as I lost my darling husband 4 1/2 years ago to lung cancer. Now I fight it for myself. Ahmed was very lucky to have you fighting for him. My heart goes out to you and your son.
Many hugs,
CathyR
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Sharon,
I am so sorry to hear of your dear fathers passing. It makes it doubly hard at this time of year. I'm so glad he "left you a message." Now you have a guardian angel!
Hugs,
CathyR
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I am posting this so that anyone who is taking Iressa can check this out for themselves. A report 2 hours ago from Astra Zeneca (mfg. of Iressa) just announced that Iressa has proven to be no more effective than a placebo and may be taken off the American market. The web site to check this out is
http://news.google.com/news?q=iressa&hl ... a=N&tab=wn
It said that new patients and any existing patients still on Iressa will probably be switched to Tarceva. I just wanted to give you all a heads up!
CathyR
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Sharyn,
I'm so sorry. I pray that you and your family have the strength to get through this. May peace be with you.
CathyR
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Hi Cindy,
I, too, am sending prayers your way. Let's hope it is just stress from the holidays. Positive vibes beings sent your way!!!
Hugs,
CathyR