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Shelly, I'll be praying for you and your dad. Hang in there.
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Mo - prayers for vaporized c-cells and for you to feel great.
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Kate:
Tell your dad that my mom was in ICU on a ventilator for 4 days due to bleeding from a bronchoscopy. That was back in November. As you can imagine, she was very weak at first - she'd been hospitalized for over a week before this happened.
You'd be amazed how fast it is possible to regain strength - if you eat. And work at it.
Mom had another setback at Christmas - staph infection and chemo reaction.
But Sunday, she attended my 12-year-old's Jr. Allstate band concert, and today will visit to celebrate my 4-year-old's birthday.
She's not 100%, even though the disease is under control. Tired. But she's proven a lot tougher than some of the doctors thought.
Unless the dr. has a crystal ball we don't know about, he can't predict how your dad will fare with more/different chemo.
Determination, I believe, has a lot to do with how well a person recovers from a setback. Keep fighting.
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39% Yankee. Some of my pronunciation comes from my dad's Midwestern influence
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Forgiveness? Boy oh boy, that IS tough.
I left my first husband - father of my oldest son - 12 years ago. I think I've finally managed to forgive him for the things that happened during our mariage and divorce. But I seem to have a lot of trouble being tolerant of his current shortcomings. Seems I get lots of practice on the forgiveness thing with him. Not getting any easier.
Part of forgiveness is accepting the limitations of the person you need to forgive. In many cases, that person is doing their best.
“We pardon to the extent that we love” - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Don - thanks for the book recommendation. Must get that one.
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Thinking of you while you go through that special he11 called "waiting".
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Glad you're back and doing well. Hope those nasty little c-cells are doing all the suffering
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Dan, I'm so glad you have felt you could share your private thoughts here. How beautifully written.
I hope you won't take offense in my thoughts on this. I believe whatever truth is contained in sacred writings concerning Heaven, Hell, and the creation of earth and humanity have to be non-specific. Can you picture giving primitive man a discourse on physics?
I also believe that if our "scientific" knowledge continues to advance, we may someday "find" God in a way science will accept. Just because we currently lack the science to explain God and Heaven doesn't preclude its existence, any more than x-rays failed to exist before the Curies. There are many forces, abilities, and creatures we have only recently come to understand in the course of human history. They existed before we understood them.
I must admit, this concept seems very simple and basic to me in part because I had several precognitive dreams as a child (please don't laugh). None of them were about anything really important - the best example was dreaming about a house with red-and-black shag carpet.
Some time later, we were helping my aunt move into her new house. While sitting on a packing box, I noticed red-and-black shag carpeting on the stairs. For a moment, I wondered where I'd seen it before. Then I suddenly said "I've been here before". The family looked at me like I was nuts (I was about 8 at the time). They explained I had never seen the house before. I told them I had dreamed about it, and then told them the layout of the entire house from where I sat, including details such as the colors in the bathroom, which bedroom would be given to each child, and where the washer and dryer were going in the basement.
Creepy, in a way. And not at all useful. And I have no idea how or why it happened. But it did. And because I have personally experienced something science claims does not exist, I have no problems with faith in God despite lack of "evidence".
I consider myself Christian, but am probably more liberal about my faith than most.
Dan, I hope you do not despair. You have good company here, and I hope you write more, and often.
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Good grief. I remember reading about your added medical problems - God has a warped sense of humor sometimes.
I hope your doctors take very good care of all your challenges - for a long time.
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Kim and Janet, I am so sorry.
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"Denial" ain't just a river in Egypt.
You know they are making treatment more difficult. They probably do, too. You can't change someone's mind if they don't want it to change.
Let it go. Concentrate on using this story to convince young smokers or would-be smokers that it is VERY hard to quit. Most young people who start smoking feel they can quit at any time.
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My mom's undergoing radiation to her lung and pancreas. The "blast" takes a lot longer than your average x-ray. So after a few days of this, my mom asked her radiologist how he would know if the blast was too long.
He looked at her with a straight face and said "If the little blue tube pops up on your side, it's too long".
It took me a second to get it...
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Quiz
in JUST FOR FUN
I got 19, and I was born in 1968! Maybe that's why I'm married to someone born in 1949.
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Yes, the "blame the victim" stigma of LC needs to end. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known. Cigarettes are agressively marketed.
Most cancers, as well as some other major diseases, have significant lifestyle factors. As far as I'm concerned, anyone more than 10 pounds overweight has no business pointing fingers at smokers.
Nobody asks breast cancer patients about their diet, or whether they breast-fed their children (which reduces the risk of breast cancer).
Type II diabetes is very strongly influenced by lifestyle. Yet they get all kinds of treatment options - maybe because drug companies know they'll live a long time dependent on their drugs
.Smokers don't "deserve" lung cancer any more than a person going 5 mph over the speed limit "deserves" a fatal crash.
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Dean, I can imagine it must be difficult to ignore looking where the path leads. I'm sorry to hear you're having more symptoms.
Pain sucks. Pain is not your friend (when you're in a situation where you KNOW something is wrong and/or can't fix it). Pain is depressing. The pain needs to go. I certainly understand and admire your reasons for not wanting to up your medication (my husband is a non-practicing alcoholic), but it sounds like it's time to call in a bigger gun.
You can always back off the meds if you hate the side effects.
Hope you feel better soon. And sunshine will certainly help!
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Joanie, I'm so sorry you're feeling down. I can't say I know what it's like to lose a child, but it must be one of the most difficult things in the world.
Sometimes you need to be on the receiving end of the support this board can offer. So please know you are in my thoughts and prayers.
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Great news! My mom's in the same boat - doing radiation now. Where are you located?
Radiation and chemo together are tough, but it's worth it.
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Yeah, get something truly hideous, plaid and paisley, with the slogan "Think this shirt is ugly? Try lung cancer"
And then "I can burn the shirt, but there's still no cure".
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Oh, Colleen I am so sorry.
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Good link, John, thanks!
The procedure is certainly no walk in the park, but the phrase "possible cure" is awfully attractive. Over 50% survivng 5 years?!
If Mom is eligible, she really wants to try it.
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Bleah!
Hope your flush is very boring.
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I read recently (can't remember where) that new evidence show that the pre-cancerous changes in the lungs which occur after years of heavy smoking NEVER go away.
This is a highly-charged issue. On one hand, it can be used to support the idea that smokers-get-lung-cancer. On the other, it could make younger smokers taking quitting more seriously. And on the other again, older long-term smokers may think "why bother"?
Indeed, if my mom had quit 10 years ago and still ended up with sclc, she'd be pretty darn ticked (to put it in printable language
).It's a thorny issue all around. I've never smoked myself, but have seen first-hand the special he11 that smokers who want to quit go through.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone 10 lbs. or more over "ideal" weight (and I sure qualify) had NO business judging a smoker's habit.
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Calling All Fat Cancer Survivors and Caregivers
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I have no idea how I'm doing, since JJ has turned my scale onto KG settings and I can't figure out how to get it back.
Can't be good, though. Took 3 weeks off from running - 2 weeks for a cold, one for laziness. Ate everthing that wasn't nailed down.
Remember the days of reckless youth, getting badly hung over, how whatever caused it would make you retch just to smell it afterwards?
I can fully attest it won't work for chocolate.