Thankyou, DU!
To everyone who supported me in this last round with my cancer fight -
All those prayers, thoughts, vibes, kind words, advice ....
They worked. Its a hard work coming back that could have been SOOOO much worse.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!
= new reply since forum marked as read
But I know we were all on the sidelines, praying for you and cheering you on!
I have another smile on my face! It was so good to see this thread. Keep up the great work!
Those of us who have have friends and relatives that have battled cancer know what you've been through and we support you with continuing thoughts and meditation.
I just lost my best friend to cancer and your story lifts me today.......
I'm so glad your disease was treated in good time, whereas my friend's was not.
We need better ways to recognize the symptoms of cancers of all type before they are past the point of being un-treatable. We also need improvements in our medical care system that would make routine preventative care much easier for the elderly. This experience had taught me some huge lessons on life.
Receive every new day as a precious gift.......
Thanks for sharing your story. My friend was not so lucky. She had an odd bump on the back of her head and was planning to see a dermatologist soon. As it turned out, that lump was brain cancer spreading outside her skull which was a metastisization of a cancer in one of her lungs. Cancer was also spreading to her bones and lymph nodes so by the time it was discovered, it was too late. I lost her only about 2-1/2 months after the discovery.
There's a bizarre story behind the discovery: I was taking her for blood work for an unrelated issue and her rollator toppled over in the parking lot, striking the back of her head and she was taken to ER. A cat scan then revealed the mass in her brain....and here we are. She had already survived breast cancer and open heart surgery and was only 74 when she passed.
Following old southern tradition from back in the 50s and 60s, she and I both were smokers for many years. Chest x-rays were common in family doctor's offices for a long time, but now they're farming it all out so you have to go to a hospital for that. As a result, neither of us had a chest x-ray for many years. Needless to say, I plan on getting one very soon (or whatever test they're using these days for lung scan).
I hope you can have periodic precautionary tests done to be sure everything is still OK, if nothing else for emotional and mental relief. Perhaps someday there will be a simple doctor's office test developed that will indicate a warning flag of possible cancer activity in our body.
Best of luck!.......
I don't know if you remember my response, but I meant every word that I said.
I'm glad that you're still here with us!!
I grew up in Austin, not terribly far from MF.
Keep up the good fight!
