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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/6/2013 12:01:05 AM   
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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/7/2013 9:15:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oncology waiting rooms, I learned today, are home to some amazing stories.

I met a man whose wife had 30 tumors--and no, that number is no typo--plucked from her lungs five years ago. The docs back then gave her a one-in-five chance of seeing out another year.

Now, alas, the cancer is back: a fist-size tumor in her lung and (their real heartbreak) a tumor in the brain.

Found myself remembering a favorite bit of old wisdom: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."




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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/7/2013 9:25:36 PM   
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(should I check the spam filter?)

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/8/2013 5:08:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		DC, you got mail, hon!

There's a couple who are friends of mine. The husband has brain cancer when I moved away, and things were looking rough. When I came back to town after six years, I was afraid to go and see his wife, not knowing what to say if it turned out her husband was gone. He opened the door when I knocked--and he's doing great.

Gotta keep the faith! New stuff happens every single day in oncology.

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/8/2013 5:09:47 AM   
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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/8/2013 3:47:00 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

Oncology waiting rooms, I learned today, are home to some amazing stories.

I met a man whose wife had 30 tumors--and no, that number is no typo--plucked from her lungs five years ago. The docs back then gave her a one-in-five chance of seeing out another year.

Now, alas, the cancer is back: a fist-size tumor in her lung and (their real heartbreak) a tumor in the brain.

Found myself remembering a favorite bit of old wisdom: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."



So...what is your prognosis?

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/10/2013 5:37:01 PM   
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So...what is your prognosis?

Happily, they're still talking treatable and beatable.

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/10/2013 5:40:21 PM   
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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/10/2013 6:17:36 PM   
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Happily, they're still talking treatable and beatable.


YES!


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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/11/2013 4:16:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've started using the radiation sessions as opportunities to make gratitude lists in my head.

They do seem to go much faster now. Of course, that could also be the techs' being used to me by now.

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/11/2013 4:18:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

I've started using the radiation sessions as opportunities to make gratitude lists in my head.

They do seem to go much faster now. Of course, that could also be the techs' being used to me by now.


You're on radiation?

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/11/2013 4:28:20 PM   
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You're on radiation?

Yes. It's the first leg of what I call the oncology triathlon: chemo-radiation (radiation synced to small doses of oral meds), then surgery, then traditional chemo.

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/11/2013 4:43:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
Happily, they're still talking treatable and beatable.


Good man. This is what we like to hear. :-)

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/11/2013 5:05:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		treatable and beatable is good! sending you positive positive thoughts and energy. a friend of mine just finished the last leg of the "triathlon". please keep us updated when you can with your results/recovery process.

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/11/2013 10:00:51 PM   
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I've started using the radiation sessions as opportunities to make gratitude lists in my head.




DC, your ability to take everything thrown at you and spin it into something good amazes me. You're unstoppable. Carry on!

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/12/2013 3:05:49 PM   
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DC, your ability to take everything thrown at you and spin it into something good amazes me. You're unstoppable. Carry on!

<blushes>

It's funny: The gratitude idea just came to me. Or so I thought.

Only later did I remember that giving thanks was a key lesson of one of my favorite books: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom.

You can get the gist of the story here.

If you don't want to read the whole thing, start at "The move to permanent quarters came the second week in October."

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/12/2013 9:30:44 PM   
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Happily, they're still talking treatable and beatable.


Best news to read all week!
You are doing all the right things good for both your body and soul.

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/16/2013 11:03:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nine radiation sessions down.

Nineteen to go.

I can do this.

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/16/2013 11:23:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

I can do this.



Yes you can, DC.

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RE: Got Prayers? (Or Good Wishes?) - 3/17/2013 3:50:34 AM   
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i have a little ritual thing i do with candles for me and mine, but i have included you in those too.

needles

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