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Caregiver Gift Ideas
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I am a caregiver to my spouse with Stage IV Colon Cancer with liver mets. Friends and family have been asking how to help out. Since you are a careg...
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| 0 | 05/08/08 |
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Is it time to accept?
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Hi everyone, My Dad was diagnosed with esophageal cancer with mets to the liver in October. When he was first diagnosed, we thought that conventional...
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| 1 | 05/07/08 |
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He has lost his brave fight
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Just wanted to post that my lovely beautiful Dad has lost his battle with cancer and passed over today. He was diagnosed in September 2007. I have used th...
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| 1 | 05/07/08 |
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Quality v. quantity
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I hope this isn't an insensitive or dumb question but I'd like to know how others have approached this. If and when there comes a point that the treatme...
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| 22 | 05/06/08 |
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Chest Tube
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Hello:My mother has lung cancer (adenocarcinoma) stage IV and has fluid on the lung. Presently she has a portable container which collects the fluid coming from...
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| 0 | 04/30/08 |
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Girlfriend Beginning Chemo
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Two weeks ago my girlfriend had an ovarian cyst removed (she's 43),
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will receive the &...
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| 0 | 04/29/08 |
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Saying goodbye to my Dad
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In my previous postings I spoke of my Dad wanting to quit chemo due many bad reactions he had to the chemo. April 1, 2008 was his official last treatment. April...
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| 1 | 04/27/08 |
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Normal vs. Super-Comfortable
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I want to help my friend with cancer, but there are forces at work here greater than me. It's not
just cancer. That sounds like a cakewalk, just cancer.&nb...
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| 3 | 04/15/08 |
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What to expect??
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My fatherinlaw was diag'd w/gastric adenocarcinoma in Mar '07- underwent partial gastrectomy....then in June due to stricture complications took the res...
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| 2 | 04/13/08 |
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caring for spouse
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To JW,Hopefully you are doing better after posting your letter. I am the caregiver for my husband of 38 years. We, too, do everything together and t...
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| 0 | 04/10/08 |
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What can we do?
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Hi everyone, I'm new here. Around August of last year, my dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 oral cancer. He immediately began chemo and radiation f...
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| 0 | 04/07/08 |
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hair growth after chemo
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Shaved husbands head before he started his chemo treatments. When will it startt to grow back? Any tips on what I can do to help it while it's growing back?...
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| 1 | 04/03/08 |
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thnks for response
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I just want to thank you all for replying to me so quickly and giving me so much information. I thank you and will be calling these numbers and contacting the w...
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| 0 | 03/31/08 |
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both parents diagnosed with te...
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Both of my parents where diaignosed with terminal cancer 7 weeks apart. I am their only caregiver as of yet. I have twin 15 year old daughters, and ...
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| 7 | 03/22/08 |
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Decadron
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My mom is having chemo for the first time on Wednesday. (taxol/carboplatin) She has stage lV lung cancer with mets. My concern is the night before s...
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| 3 | 02/18/08 |
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Controlling Mother
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My dad has cholangiocarcinoma and has reached a stage where the end seems relatively near. He was diagnosed in 2004. I have a mother who is good hearted but ver...
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| 1 | 02/16/08 |
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Caring for spouse with multipl...
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I would like to hear from patients and caregiver/spouses of Multiple Myeloma. My wife was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma March 04 1996. She was 33 yrs. old. We...
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| 1 | 02/15/08 |
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Hospice house
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Does anyone have any experience with Hospice houses? My mother has had home hospice, as well as 24 hour care for almost three months. When I arrived...
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| 7 | 02/12/08 |
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Lost my dad in JUne
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My dad was diagnosed with cancer on June 1st of 2007 and we lost him on June 23rd. Not a day goes by that i dont' wonder if there is something I could'v...
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| 3 | 02/11/08 |
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My Goal: Make her Every wish c...
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I recently found out that my mother has been diagnosed with colon cancer. It was a big blow to the image I had of my mom. She's so tuff, so... unbreakable. ...
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| 5 | 02/07/08 |
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Modified radical neck dissecti...
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My husband had Modified radical neck dissection a year ago and still having pains in his neck. Also, he has no feeling on his neck, face and ear after hav...
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| 0 | 02/02/08 |
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Time for Hospice? and Comfort ...
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As others have said before me...this is my first post, so forgive the rambling.My Mom has had Non-small cell lung cancer for over 7 years. She has had Leu...
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| 2 | 01/31/08 |
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Taking care of mom too
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I too, need to vent. It's been almost 2 years of me "taking care" of
mom. She didn't go to the doc's until she was stage III - or IV beca...
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| 1 | 01/24/08 |
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taking care of Mom
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Just need to find a way to vent. I was on the phone today for 45 minutes trying to make an appointment for my mother-in-law with her cancer doctor. She has Stag...
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| 3 | 01/22/08 |
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Alcoholism
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What is your experience when the cancer patient is an alcoholic and resorts back to it in an effort to cope?
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| 0 | 01/06/08 |
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