So....talk about.....CANCER SUPPORT THREAD !!

[bwebb7]

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I hope so!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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I hope so!

She better have a good reason for making us worry or she's gonna be grounded for a week!

 

[bwebb7]

Hey Luna-
I just caught up with my cousin Mary, she is 7 treatments down -5 to go. Her husband took her to AC for dinner & drinks on Mothers Day. It was nice to hear.

 

[verthandi]

I guess I live the closest to her, don't I?

She's got 12 hours to show up, or I'm loading up the smelly old pickup and heading to NJ to see what is going on. I don't like NJ much

but she will not like explaining my truck to her neighbors either.

So she better snap to it and get on here.



edit..hey when did we get the rant smiley? that's hysterical.

 

[Lunachick]

Howdy y'all. I'm doing good. It lasted a lot longer there today, I showed up at the right time but today was a full day there, every chair was taken. So by the time they got to me to get hooked up a 1/2 hour came and went. So I didn't get out of there til after 2. Then we stopped and had lunch and went to the store for a few things. Then I made a pizza and we watched TV. We're starting to sound

Those nurses are very nice over there. They remember each and every one of us and knows exactly what we need and are always there for any little thing to make you comfortable. One older gent was complaining about how he felt, and they would check him and he was fine physically, he just had so much anxiety, and he didn't want to continue with it and just wanted to go home. After they unhooked him they told him to just sit there and relax for a minute and send you home. They made an appt for him tomorrow to see the Doc. All of us were listening and wondering about him. After he left, the two nurses were discussing him and the word "terminal" was used. So they are probably going to tell him to go home and enjoy your life while you can without the chemicals. Poor guy.

Then this other older guy came in and did his treatment, and the nurse congratulated him because it was his last one. When he left we said congrats, and he looked at us all and said Good Luck everybody. I think I'm the youngest one there. The woman next to me had an accent and she was telling me what she was there for, and I hardly understood her then she lowered her shirt to show me where her one ta used to be.

Then they all go to sleep and I just read or do crossword puzzles.

 

[#1California Chick]

Boy! Sounds like you had a BUSY day today!!! Maybe you should check to see if there is a day with fewer treatments so that you can just get out as soon as possible!!!! I am hoping that you will have a good day tomorrow and not feel too tired!!

Cindy

 

[CoyoteMagic]

It's about time you got home young lady!!

Glad to hear it all went well. Aren't the ONC Nurses wonderful? I had one that was a dingy Suzie Sunshine, but she knew her stuff. All the ones at my place are Level IV Onc Nurses. Something about they have to take courses every year to maintain their specific Certification.

I'm sorry for the older guy. My Aunt Del (my dad's aunt=my grandma's sister) decided not to go through chemo when they found her cancer. She had always lived her life to the fullest. She saw how it was for my Grandma, she was nothing but skin and bone at the end of her stomach cancer, and Aunt Del said she would rather go out faster than living like Grandma did. She went to sleep on night and didn't wake back up.

Cancer runs in my family. Stomach Cancer-Grandma and Aunt Dell, my older brother-Lung Cancer, Aunt Tiny--Breast, Daddy--skin, Mom--uterine, and me-Breast. Half are gone, but then again half are still here.

You have to watch out for us breast cancer people. We get so used to showing our chest to gazillions of nurses, doctors, or one kind of tech or another, it's no longer a big deal to use.

Was in the hospital for one of my allergic reaction. Young guy nursing student, asking all these question. I'm so out of it at this point he ask, "Have you ever had a masectomy?" I just pull up my shirt like it was not big deal. His chin hits the floor. DH is rolling on the floor laughing and the Charge nurse says, "Guess that's a yes"


Take it easy the next couple days. What am I saying, you've got this.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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Hey, no all of NJ is horrible. I grew up down south were the more normal people live. Nothing but farmland, beaches, and the Jersey Devil

 

[#1California Chick]

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WOW CM! Your family has had a lot of tough times!!! I hope that you will have MANY good years from here!!

Cindy

 

[verthandi]

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Hey, no all of NJ is horrible. I grew up down south were the more normal people live. Nothing but farmland, beaches, and the Jersey Devil

LOL...I know, some of NJ is darn right beautiful, but saying that got her to show up, maybe? Apologizes to all from NJ.