Tiny
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My condolences for the loss of your beloved Jim. May God's grace help you, the children, and others through this terrible time.
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Thanks for the link. Very interesting!
Happy Birthday to Mr. Specter!
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Happy, happy, happy!
As a new Tarceva user, this does my heart a world of good!
Sorry I don't have any help regarding your specific question.
Carry on!
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I love the positive outlook! Thanks!
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Maryanne & Joel
Thinking of you tomorrow and praying for perfectly wonderful results. I know scan time is always and anxious time. Fingers xed.
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Love to hear the good news! "Well up" all you want, and I'll add a few tears of happiness as well!
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Sending best thoughts and prayers. This journey can be to trying at times. Hope the love and support here helps.
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Congratulations on your marriage and the happiness and support your love affords you both.
Hoping for some positive news on the cancer front. Prayers.
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Bucky-
Hope this next go-round has positive results for you.
Prayers!
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Wendy-
What an uplifting, supportive post. Just in time for me! You will be a role model for me. Thanks for the positives!
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Yipee Skipee! Glad to hear the verdict of inflammation once again! Positive thoughts your way.
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Pamee-
May the Lord's strength continue to comfort you. This site can give a lot of support too. Welcome and good luck.
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What wonderful, sparkly, life-reaffirming news! Congratulations!
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Love to hear the good news; especially after a scare. Here's to continued good results "clink"!
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It's a hard call. When I had my lobectomy and was staged IIa the standard of care was no chemo or rad; I had a second opinion and was given the same information. All was well for 6+ years. Just had a recurrence and have started Tarceva. Who knows if chemo would have negated the recurrence or extended remission??
As others have said, the pathology reports may be very instructive. I went into surgery as a Ia and came out a IIa.
One thing we DID do was make darn good use of those interim years!
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This is a tough road to travel, but you can have support on the way by visiting here.
We used Hospice for both my parents at the end, and they are WONDERFUL. Get them on board ASAP and be honest about needs, concerns, pain, etc. No question is too insignificant. They need you to communicate with them so that they can do their best job and help the family too.
So sorry.
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Wow! Here's a laugh/sob! What a scary thing! The chemo taking the finish off the watch reminded me of the email that went around about putting coke in the crapper to get rid of buildup. Yikes!
Sounds like your sense of humor survived intact. Bless you!
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Welcome to a very supportive and knowledgeable community. You'll find love and information in equal parts.
My best to you and your precious family. Keep positive!
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Many thanks to Barb and all the posters. The links and information were really helpful. I go Thurs. to see the onc and will discuss rach options
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I love the USS NED analogy! How clever!
Wow! I couldn't be happier for you! It doesn't matter what they do or don't call it as long as those C cells are not showing on the radar!
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Glad to hear that you are having follow-up chemo to fry any little latent cells. I'm betting your mood improves with a little more time and the emergence of the sun once again. Hang in there!
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You've had a rough go of it! I know that you are happy to be home and so glad your mom is there for you. Prayers.
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CT/PET results in January confirmed a recurrence of my cancer with multiple new nodules showing up in both lungs, lymph nodes, and a spot on the liver. Yesterday I had a bone scan and do not have the results from that yet.
I started TARCEVA last night. A whole different story is that the insurance company has refused to pay it because I've not failed another line of chemo first. We contacted the Genentech and they were going to try to help get some while the insurance thing is being contested, but we earned $6000 too much to qualify for free help
, so we went ahead and bought a month's supply ourselves to get started. Hope we don't have to do that too often 
I will certainly be posting and reading faithfully now! If there are any Tarceva posters out there with good hints and information for me, please post or send me messages. Any and all help appreciated.
Bruce and I put the almost seven-year respite to good use . . . traveling, building a new house, visiting friends and family. We're on a new journey now.
Love to all!
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Couldn't be happier to hear that the Tarceva is working because I just started taking it last night!
Hope it works for me as well!
More than a bit annoyed
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Chiming in with the others about having to be your own best advocate. I had a similar occurrence of a test ordered by a substitute doctor not being followed up and it delayed my recurrent diagnosis by about 2 months until I coughed up some blood. Mostly I'm mad at myself for not going to see about the scan results myself. When I didn't hear from anyone (the onc's office or my primary doc who had been cc'd), I wrongly assumed everything was OK. WRONG!
Keep following the trail and try to get some answers. Best of luck on new scan and treatment options.