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Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 2 Jun 21

I thought it was about time to give an update on my Aunt Diane, let’s start with the awesome news. She’s in remission (inserts happy dance)! It’s been a long hard battle, but this speaks of her strength, but the chemo did do...

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Update on My Aunts

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 7 Dec 20

My Aunt V seems to be doing okay, her Oxygen saturation is at 96 percent. The doctors are going to be sending her to a skilled nursing rehab center, (locally) to continue recovering, and then she will be moved to a group home...

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Fried Friday

Kareng @kareng (80243) • United States 6 Jun 20

It is pushing 1:30 am here and it is time for me to wind down and put the laptop up. I'll do a little bit of reading but probably not much. That bites because I only have about 20 more pages in the book I am reading. But that...

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Good Morning, myLot ! 4-13-17

Stacey @xstitcher (39003) • Petaluma, California 13 Apr 17

I slept last night, for which I am happy. Sounds like it's raining out, so don't know if Angel -- well, she'll get a short morning walk, as she'll need to go before Mom and I leave. Today Mom is having a chemo treatment, so...

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How would you treat your cancer?

Angel Santos @Montecristodog (787) • United States 5 Mar 17

You walk into the doctors office. Previous to that, you went through a series of tests. Now, the moment of truth comes. You've got cancer! There is a bright side to this---You've got stage 1 and can be treated through medical...

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It's starting to come out...

Stacey @xstitcher (39003) • Petaluma, California 9 Feb 17

Mom is noticing more and more of her hair coming out in her brush. It was bound to happen, but I find it sad. I always liked Mom's hair. Even after it went grey it still has a lot of brown undertones. Mom got a...

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Long chemo today...

Stacey @xstitcher (39003) • Petaluma, California 2 Feb 17

Mom went for chemo today--today was her long (two bag) treatment. Next week, she has a break from chemo, and then I think sometime next week she sees the oncologist to talk about whether or not the chemo is working. We sat in...

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Okay, so....

Stacey @xstitcher (39003) • Petaluma, California 25 Jan 17

The physical therapist came over this afternoon, and talked to mom about her medications and stuff and had her walk around the house. Then he set up appointments for the future, and said that Mom should try walking around the...

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The most depressing time of my whole life. My mom has a colon cancer..

cyclopz @cyclopz (251) • Sydney, Australia 9 Apr 13

We just recently knew that my mom has a colon cancer after doing a checkup with a doctor. I think it had been there for quite some time already, as she had been complaining of having a hard time doing her bowel movement for more...

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My Dr. said it spread to my liver now. But it's tiny and probably won't affect

writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 28 Aug 12

me for a long time. I had taken the summer off from chemo. I had basically no summer last year between all the chemos and a deconstruction and reconstruction operation. This year, they started the summer with a chemo that made...

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Update on new chemo

daeckardt @daeckardt (6237) • United States 17 Aug 12

I don't know if I had mentioned it a couple of weeks ago, but they started me on topotecan. It was supposed to be given three weeks on and one week off. Only problem was my white counts were too low on the second two weeks. I saw...

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To catch you up on everything.

writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 22 Jun 12

The Dance, Yoga, etc. weekend was awesome! It was frustrating at first because like I told someone here, the music was going one speed and my feet were like they and my legs had led in them. Then the adrenaline kicked in and I...

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my chemo was postponed

daeckardt @daeckardt (6237) • United States 30 Jan 12

I went in today for bloodwork so they could decide whether I would have chemo tomorrow or not. I waited for the results so they would know whether they should deaccess my port or leave it in so I wouldn't have to be poked again...

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Will it never end???

daeckardt @daeckardt (6237) • United States 7 Jan 12

Hi everyone! As you may recall, I was in the hospital over the holidays with a bowel obstruction. Although the doctor mentioned it while I was in the hospital, he never did go into detail. "It" being the possibility of going...

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Got my picture for my substituting ID yesterday.

writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 21 Sep 11

I wear a head scarf due to loosing hair from chemo. So I was nervous that they would make me take my head scarf off. I saw the woman in front of me have to have one picture with her glasses on and one with her glasses off. So I...

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Went to one of my Drs. yesterday. The news is rather confusing.

writersedge @writersedge (22563) • United States 16 Sep 11

For those of you who don't know, I had 4 founds of 4 chemos. Then took a month off and had a bunch of operations all at one time. Bladder removed, 18 lymph nodes removed, rt ovary removed. Part of my colon cut out, flipped over...

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My appointment with the doctor.

marguicha @marguicha (230334) • Chile 27 Jul 11

Today I went to the doctor´s appointment previous to my next chemo. The bad part was that my defenses were too low so she preferred to wait another week for the next one. But the good news were that the bone marrow biopsies came...

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More of the same to come...

daeckardt @daeckardt (6237) • United States 27 May 11

I called the study coordinator to find out what the plan was on my treatment and found out that I will be continuing to receive the infusions at the hospital and that they will be administered over the same amount of time as this...

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Boy, was that ever a long day!!!

daeckardt @daeckardt (6237) • United States 26 May 11

As you may recall from the post I made yesterday, my chemo was moved from the cancer center to the hospital about 8am because they knew it would take longer than the time that the office would be open. Boy, were they ever right...

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My chemo has moved

daeckardt @daeckardt (6237) • United States 25 May 11

I woke up at 5:45 this morning because they wanted to have extra time to do my treatment. My ride showed up at the motel at a little before 6:30. While we were on the freeway, we had a blowout but the driver kept going until we...

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