vonnier

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• vonnier has replied to a post on the message board

  thank you, all prayers accepted

  Monday at 3:40 PM view post

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  I has melanoma that has spread to my lungs and liver. I start Yervoy next week.  The doctor has given me 6 months to live.  What I want to know is will this yervoy make me ill with the side effects?  I don't want to spend my last six months in bed sick, has anyone had good news with these infusions?  How bad do the side effects get?

  May 18 at 4:21 PM view post

• vonnier has replied to a post on the message board

  thank you, I appreciate the info.  I had the second surgery, and have some pain and I can tell it is muscle and nerve pain.

  May 25 at 6:52 PM view post

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  thank you, you are right, i should not let them just walk on me.  I had the second surgery, they said they removed 4 more lymph nodes and the rest did not show cancer.  Now they want me to do radiation therapy.  Since they won't give me a full mri body scan, I am waiting until I get a new doctors opinion. 

  May 25 at 6:50 PM view post

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  I have been diagnosed with Melanoma, had one surgery to remove the tumor on my back and they also removed a lymph node under my arm, now they are saying I have a secondary malignant neoplasm of axillary node and I am scheduled to go back into surgery on May 4th to remove more lynph nodes.  Since I don't think my doctor is listening to me, I had a strange pain when the melanoma on my back began, had the same odd ...

  April 28, 2012 view discussion