A WASTED HEALTH CARE - MORE DOLLARS DON’T BOOST LUNG CANCER

August 27th, 2008

A Wasted Health Care - More Dollars Don’t Boost Lung Cancer

A New Generation of Asbestos Victims in Australia

Who I turned to and What I fear
Who do you turn to after existence diagnosed and what do you fear the most? Perhaps meliorate questions are, what every do you fear and who is there to turn to? This is a biggie, is it not? Well, in my housing the respond is surprisingly simple. I feared everything and had no idea as to whom to turn to at all! After you become to terms with the awful facts of your cancer, it every sinks in, you rattling do not know the respond to much of anything. But I crapper deal what I found out. The answers surprised me, matter of fact I was astounded! The rattling modify thing is, you do not rattling have to wager for them, they will expose themselves to you when you are primed to do so.

The hardest thing for me was telling my family and those near to me. Oral Cancer exclusive has a 50 % survival evaluate within the first five eld of diagnosis. Not to good, is it? Totally and completely Freaked me out! But you mobilisation up what you must, tell your family and friends what is going on and what the latest programme is. It is said that you find discover who your true friends are when the chips are down. Little did I know just how many I had. My family was every supportive of uncouth which was to be expected. What I never thoughtful is how much it strained them. They stood by my wishes and allowed me the time to digest.

This is when I found just how lucky I was to have the children I do. Raising children crapper at times be a thankless job. Little do you know just how much they listen. They of uncouth were devastated with the news, still wanted to stay strong for the older man. I could wager that it discomposed them a lot. Yet they did their prizewinning not to let on to that fact. They would do anything to make it every meliorate and just go away. I find myself existence strong for them, attempting teach them digit more lesson, the lesson of overcoming life’s hardships with grace and dignity.

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Tags: cancer drugs, cancer, cancer doctor, drugs for cancer, boob cancer

A CANCER DRUG FOR GLIOMA

August 27th, 2008

A cancer drug for Glioma

Tags: lung cancer, endocrine cancer, living with cancer, mentality cancer, cancer drugs

FESTIVE FUNNY

August 27th, 2008

Festive funny
Looking backwards at this time last year, just before the Festivities, I was half way through my chemotherapy, denudate as a coot, and feeling even less like stuffing turkeys and preparing vegetables than I do normally.

Now my fellow river Sylvie Fortin is at the aforementioned stage and has cursive interestingly about it on her journal - click here to view.

I’d like to wish you every - and especially everyone currently undergoing chemo - a tranquil and quiet Festive Season and a happy, healthy, constructive 2007.

And to ammo off, a story to give the girls a smile…

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female cervid grow antlers in the summer each year, male cervid drop their antlers at the first of winter, usually late Nov to mid-December.

Female cervid keep their antlers till after they give relationship in the spring. Therefore, according to every historical performance depicting Santa’s reindeer, every azygos digit of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen - had to be female.

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Tags: cancer drugs, boob cancer, lung cancer, drugs for cancer, cancer doctor

EXCITOTOXINS

August 27th, 2008

EXCITOTOXINS

To DIE with DIGNITY

Tags: drugs for cancer, living with cancer, cancer drugs, lung cancer, cancer

‘CUTTING BY COLOR’: NEW IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR MORE PRECISE CANCER SURGERY

August 27th, 2008

‘Cutting By Color’: New Imaging Technique For More Precise Cancer Surgery
Instead of “paint by number,” you might call it “cutting by color”: Researchers in Massachusetts today inform development and early clinical trials of a newborn imaging system that highlights cancerous tissue in the embody so that surgeons crapper more easily wager and vanish diseased tissue with less damage to connatural tissue nearby the tumor. Their investigate will be presented in August at the dweller Chemical Society domestic meeting in Philadelphia.

Tags: cancer doctor, lung cancer, living with cancer, drugs for cancer, cancer therapy

ROAD TRIPPIN’: A PICTURE STORY

August 27th, 2008

Road Trippin’: A Picture Story
“If it’s doable for a automobile not to have an amenity, then mine doesn’t,” I said to my lone compadre, T2theZ. I had to wager Dr. Andre Million in Minneapolis for my five-year transplant anniversary. There’s no meliorate way to do it than travel the land and wager ballgame games, even if your automobile doesn’t have noesis windows, cruise curb or even mirrors on the visors.

We kicked soured our trip with an appetizer, a hurried hop on the Metro to the brand-new Nationals Park. I won’t feature it’s as pleasant as metropolis Yards, but it gets damn close.


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Tags: wound cancer, lung cancer, cancer doctor, living with cancer, cancer therapy

BCG ROUND 4 - JULY 23, 2008

August 27th, 2008

BCG Round 4 - July 23, 2008

Night Before BCG #2 - July 9, 2008

Tags: drugs for cancer, endocrine cancer, cancer, living with cancer, cancer therapy

ONE MORE CHANCE,AGAIN!

August 27th, 2008

ONE MORE CHANCE,AGAIN!

WASTED BREATH

New Research on Cervical Cancer

New Research on Cervical Cancer

New Research on Cervical Cancer
by George Z. Rolland (Editor)

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Tags: lung cancer, drugs for cancer, living with cancer, mentality cancer, cancer drugs

MORE DELAYS THAN NETWORK RAIL

August 27th, 2008

More Delays Than Network Rail
Number of days since last chemo: 21
Number of days until incoming chemo: 7 (cell counts permitting)
Number of chemo treatments left: 1

As today was due to be the day of my final treatment I’m sure you crapper guess what’s happened - I’ve been delayed because of low WBC counts again. The Chemo Suite phoned me yesterday salutation to support that my WBC calculate is exclusive 1 (when it should be 1.5), which is the lowest it has ever been. It seems that in spite of a lower dose of Carboplatin, and a instruction of GCSF injections, those white cells are just refusing to mutiply!

I can’t feature I was specially surprised. It has been a wrinkled pair of weeks since I last wrote. I have been rattling dizzy and exhausted, and was worried that it was symptomatic of a low flushed murder count, which would mean having to have a murder transfusion. But, after murder tests at the start of last week, I saw my oncologist last Wednesday and he addicted that my haemoglobin calculate was high enough for me not to requirement one, which was a relief. Instead he formal tablets to try to help the dizziness. On Tuesday, after feeling no improvement at all, my gynae-oncology woman spoke to my oncologist again and he wise that we call discover the GP for me to be patterned over. So, a very pleasant doctor came discover the incoming day and formal some newborn tablets, which are still to do anything, though I’m still holding discover a very faint hope it’s just because it’s taking a few days for them to physique up in my system before I feel a difference.

Because I’ve been so wobbly on my pins I didn’t go to hospital for my usual pre-chemo murder tests yesterday, a woman came discover to me instead. At the moment I am struggling to do much more than get up and down the stairs, but the chemo woman who phoned me yesterday about my murder test results warned me to be extra certain about mixing with anyone who might have some bugs or germs because my white cells are so low, so it doesn’t rattling matter that I’m not confident of going discover I suppose!

The fact that my counts are even lower than normal, despite measures to try to increase them, just goes to exhibit how attrited discover my embody is. And I have rattling felt it this time - there was no way I felt able to get through added dose at the moment, final digit or not. It has made me actualise too just how long it’s going to take after the chemo has finished for me to start feeling well enough to go discover even for a cup of coffee, let lonely do anything ‘normal’ like walk around town or go backwards to work. Still, that is way too far in the future to think about. This incoming week is every about trying to get lots of rest and rest, and getting myself primed to go through digit final treatment. I rattling can’t wait to have the luxury of time to get myself meliorate after having the last one, and not be under the usual three week time frame that the chemo program imposes. And I think from the way I have felt after this dose, getting myself meliorate erst the chemo is finished is going to take a very long time.

Em

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INKED

August 27th, 2008

Inked
After getting my irradiation tattoos heptad eld past — sextet chromatic dots — I thoughtful getting a more fashionable one. Many cancer patients obtain tattoos before irradiation to make sure the invisible beams strike exclusive where they requirement to, and not where they don’t, like my nuts, for example. I’d kinda not have to modify the title of this journal or my book.

I thought about conjunctive the dots to make a constellation-like figure spanning my lower backwards and ass. Even I’m not modify enough to get that.

Years later the topic came up with my friend Hamburgers, and I erst again thoughtful a newborn tattoo. A roaring lion or a unerect tiger? A flaming depiction of Rick Astley miming “Never Gonna Give You Up?” The conception is you crapper exclusive get a tattoo if it’s symbolic to you. Although Rick Astley has the greatest penalization video of every time, that doesn’t rattling count.

It’s fairly ordinary for boob cancer survivors to get a tattoo like a sound slip or a flower, a symbol of their strength and courage. I, too, could get a tattoo to exhibit I’m conception of the survivor club. Of course, no gushy laxation for me. I’d go with a flaming, bloodstained tumor and a giant Rambo knife sticking discover of it. Maybe “Survivor” in Hebrew would be more fitting.

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