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NO ONE DESERVES TO GET LUNG CANCER!!!!!!!
I JUST WISH OUR GOVERNMENT WOULD FESS UP AND DO SOMETHING INSTEAD OF ALLOWING IT TO HAPPEN AND BENEFITING FROM IT
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Thank God! He does answer prayer!
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My husband will go in for his second bone scan after we requested it. As soon as he was over the radiation, in Dec, he started getting pain in his rib. So we want to see if the cancer has spread more, or if its a fracture. We know it was cancer after the CT scan, but the Dr says it was healing. (?) He only has mets to his bones so far! If necessary we will go to Tacoma for the 3D radiation. The first radiation just about did him in. It was real hard for him. So we will pray no more new mets! We won't find out the results until Friday (?) We'll let you all know what we find out.
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Cy,
Everyone who has quit smoking knows how bad this addiction is. If you need help, I reccommend this website, "whyquit.com" it is a great place for information to stay strong and get off the nicotine for good. Using the inhaler is only prolonging the addiction. It only takes 3 days for the withdrawls and then its all mental. Check it out, I had success with it and so have a lot of other people around the world. Maybe your friends should check it out too! There is a website for support too, called "freedom", but you have to be quit for 3 days first to join. Just read all you can and it will help you overcome this killer addiction! This website just may help your friends and you more than you can imagine!
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TAnn,
My husband is going thru Chemo too, taxotere and paraplatin. He is doing really well, and we think its because hes taking supplements, they are doing wonders for him. He hasn't even lost his hair. He only feels a little bad, and he loses his appetite a few days after Chemo, but thats it. He uses Mannatech. Even if you just take a good multi-vitamin it would probably help. If you want more information on the Mannatech, go to the web site and look around. My husbands cousin had breast cancer, with a 60% 5 year survival. She started the supplements and is now in remission. (4 years now) She has since given birth to her first child at 40 years of age. So There is something there. I don't know if anyone has read anything about plant sugars, but they have a patented item called Ambrotose. My husband takes this and the vitamins and amino acids, and his latest report was no new mets any place. He tolerates the Chemo great. I think it would be good to check it out ! Mannatech.com.
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Glad you are feeling better. Things get much better when you get to go home! my husband also has NSCLC, he is 48. He didn't get surgery, the Dr said it was already stage 4 so no need to go thru all the pain of surgery. They did radiation, it was real hard for him to take.
You sound like your spirits are good, and you have a great sense of humor. Laughter is the best medicine. Good luck to you in the future!
You know I can't believe that your Dr was worried about getting addicted to pain meds? Why should you be in any pain? My husband's Dr says there is no reason for it, and we agree.
Tess
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Thanks to you who wrote back. I forgot to tell you that Rob is 48 and that his CTscan showed his primary tumor in the lung was originally 5cm, but now has shrunk down to 4.2cm. He is also taking supplements called Mannatech. He is doing quite well and tolerating the Chemo great!
Tess
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Hi,
I've been reading for quite some time now. My husband has stage IV NSCLC, (left lung) with mets to his T 12 vertebre, his left hip, and now one right rib. His diagnosis was on Sept 25, 2003. He has gone thru radiation (30 doses?) and is currently going thru the third (4 total) round of Chemo. Taxotere and Paraplatin. He was almost instantly relieved from the bone mets with the radiation.(still has his hair!) The spot on his hip was so small, two doses of radiation and he quit hurting there. It was so small it didn't show up on the bone scan, but the radiologist caught it because of the pain. He finished the radiation and got pnumonia, not sure if it was from a virus he got from me or from the radiation. His rib began to hurt right after that, so we thought it was from plural effusion maybe. A few weeks ago, he got another Ct scan done. No mets anyplace new and the Dr says the pain in his rib now is from the bone healing itself. We go back to see her in about 9 days. He (Rob) is also getting zometa. What we don't understand is if the rib is healing, why is it still hurting so much?? We are going to request IMRT (Intense Modulated Radiation Therapy) on the rib to relieve the pain and hopefully kill the cancer. Rob has a hard time with the pain, he takes 30Mg of Oxycontin twice a day. He has just kind of lost interest in doing much at all these days. We have our own remodeling business, and we have a great crew working for us, so Rob doesn't have to worry about working steady. We are just lucky and thankful to have great people working for us. Sometimes, I just wish I could wake up and find this was just a bad dream. We both used to smoke, but I quit last summer. Rob quit the day he found out about the cancer. He smoked two packs a day. He has done a documentary for a high school to get kids to realize the dangers of smoking. He hopes to maybe help some one to quit or never start. I just can't believe how many young people here have lung cancer and have never smoked! It makes me wonder why does this happen ? I guess only God knows the answers to that. Anyway, to sum it up this is our story in a short but brief story. Thanks for reading this, and God Bless everyone who has to endure this demon. My husband hasn't read anything here, I keep him informed, but for some reason he doesn't want to read any posts, so I just keep telling him what I read, and remind him there are a lot of people a lot worse off than him.
Tess
My prayers are with you all. I'll be back....
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God Bless!
I have 2 friends with lung cancer who still smoke.Help!
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You are so right Fay. My dad told me he learned to smoke in the Navy back in 1945! He finally quit after 38 years of smoking. Keep up the great research you do. You really help make a difference here! Thank You so much!