Still trying to cat's up.....

"kilikini" wrote:

Ovarian, breast, what's the
difference, right? It's still time consuming and all-consuming.

My niece, who is recovering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,
referred to it as "the elephant in the living room" -- much too
big to ignore, and no possibility of normal life while it's
there. Even if good treatment and good luck can restore you to
health, it still will have taken a fair-sized chunk of your
time.

A lot of people praying and cats purring have done the trick for
her. We'll all do our best for you.
--

Wayne M.

kilikini wrote:
Purrs to all who need them. I've been busy between doctor's appts. and
phone calls trying to get funding for my "crap".

Anyone who's a breast cancer survivor, I highly commend you! It's not easy
to deal with, as I'm learning now.

Lots of purrs and hugs on the way for you, Kili. I'm a cancer survivor,
but not breast, though. Mine was a fairly easily treated tumour of the
thyroid gland. The whole gland was removed and I was declared 'clean'
three years later - it hadn't metastatized.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.
Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

"Marina" wrote in message
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kilikini wrote:
Purrs to all who need them. I've been busy between doctor's appts. and
phone calls trying to get funding for my "crap".

Anyone who's a breast cancer survivor, I highly commend you! It's not
easy
to deal with, as I'm learning now.

Lots of purrs and hugs on the way for you, Kili. I'm a cancer survivor,
but not breast, though. Mine was a fairly easily treated tumour of the
thyroid gland. The whole gland was removed and I was declared 'clean'
three years later - it hadn't metastatized.


Good for you and congratulations, Marina! I'm curious as to if you have to
take thyroid pills now?

kili

kilikini wrote:

Good for you and congratulations, Marina! I'm curious as to if you have to
take thyroid pills now?

Yes, for the rest of my life. I had the surgery in 1985, so I've been
eating the pills for over 20 years now. Hey, I forgot to celebrate my
20-year anniversary last year! Maybe I'll celebrate in 2008, when it's
20 years since I was declared completely out of the woods.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.
Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Marina wrote:
kilikini wrote:

Good for you and congratulations, Marina! I'm curious as to if you
have to
take thyroid pills now?

Yes, for the rest of my life. I had the surgery in 1985, so I've been
eating the pills for over 20 years now. Hey, I forgot to celebrate my
20-year anniversary last year! Maybe I'll celebrate in 2008, when it's
20 years since I was declared completely out of the woods.


My mom has also had some tumour removed and has to eat thyroid pills and
cortisone, but her tumour was between the brain halves, not in the neck.

--
Christine in Vantaa, Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com
photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63
photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63

kilikini wrote:

Purrs to all who need them. I've been busy between doctor's appts. and
phone calls trying to get funding for my "crap".

Anyone who's a breast cancer survivor, I highly commend you! It's not easy
to deal with, as I'm learning now.

Hope everyone is doing well, sorry for those who have gone to RB, purrs for
those on the possible way, and hugs to all.

kili


My friend's mother had breast cancer and has been declared all clear a
few months ago.
Wishing you the very best, kili, and sending lots of gentle hugs and purrs,
Polonca and Soncek

"polonca12000" wrote in message
...
kilikini wrote:

Purrs to all who need them. I've been busy between doctor's appts. and
phone calls trying to get funding for my "crap".

Anyone who's a breast cancer survivor, I highly commend you! It's not
easy
to deal with, as I'm learning now.

Hope everyone is doing well, sorry for those who have gone to RB, purrs
for
those on the possible way, and hugs to all.

kili


My friend's mother had breast cancer and has been declared all clear a
few months ago.
Wishing you the very best, kili, and sending lots of gentle hugs and
purrs,
Polonca and Soncek


If there's good news in this, it's about the striking advances in breast
cancer treatment over the last few years. It wasn't long ago that the
introduction of tamoxifen was an incredible leap for long-term survival.
More recent clinical trials with the aromatase inhibitors had tamoxifen as
the control arm of best current treatment -- and the ethics committee
stopped the double-blind trial and gave aromatase inhibitors to all
patients, as they were so superior that they could not be ethically
withheld. Oh -- they are also safer.

Things haven't stopped; there are even newer hormone derivatives and
anti-inflammatories that have great potential.