LIVESTRONG Good wishes for the ones who need it... — Page 3

Sueleen, that's the best thought for the day!

Popular, good thoughts for your friend's surgery. Keep us posted.

PRS, hope you're enjoying the comforts of home. There really is no place like it...

Taz, I'm so glad you posted. Peace and love to you, too!

During this Thanksgiving week, I count the blessing of being part of this wonderful community.

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I have hesitated to say much in these threads cos when u are in "the biz", so to speak, you never sure how much to say, in case you end up 2nd guessing the primary care providers and muddying the waters. That being said, I wholeheartedly support Iflit & Phyliss in their fights against their disease. The one thing I feel safe in recommending is the book/program "The Healing Journey" by Dr Alistair Cumming, a cancer survivor himself. He has been running th program( mind/body connection) from my hospital for more than 20 years. You can probaly find the books in most major bookstores under the health/self help section. Or google healing journey and you should find the webpage. I've know an number of patients who've taken the program and all but one felt it was worthwhile & a positive experince. Good luck to you both and G*d bless.

I'm usually against the word "journey" but if sabrelady says it cool, it must be.

Can you just start with a cappuccino enema?

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Snake oil.

I had almost finished writing you a long-winded reply about that therapy yesterday when we had cable/internet outage and I lost it.

But the short version is that it's snake oil at a hefty price. If I'm going to indulge in expensive beans, they are going down, not up

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Thanks, abba. Your friend's story sounds similar to my go round earlier this year. Hopefully his is gone for good!

iflit, thanks for your thoughts. That's essentially what I told him, but it's been a real battle over this. I know he means well, but part of me just wants to tell him I thought he was smarter than this.

Sanka?

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I was thinking that today was the day Phyllis was starting treatment. Not sure if he'll be online (I think he's an inpatient for this course...), but I wanted him to know all sorts of good thoughts are heading West. May the treatment yield the best ever results with the least possible amount of side effects!

Meanwhile, I had my second treatment (actually a big ass injection in, you know, MY big ass). The side effects are so minimal that it's difficult to feel like I'm actually doing something that could be fighting the tumor. I understand it intellectually, but it just seems like anything that is being effective should cause more misery than this. Won't find out if it's working or not for another month and a half.

I'm also sending out good thoughts to all the other people who have posted in this thread about themselves and people they know.
May we all have an appreciable amount of quality time left to enjoy!

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Rumors of my chemo have been greatly exaggerated. That starts next Monday. Today I simply have a procedure to put my chemo port in, a pulmonary test, a meeting with my doctor and a CT scan. The first is at 7:30 (CST), the last at 3:00 PM. I won't be able to eat till it's all over, and I haven't been able to eat since midnight. I'ma be real pleasant come the end of the day. I mean, even more pleasant and sparkling than usual!

Thanks for the kind thoughts. I just wish I could go back to bed!

Thoughts and prayer for you Phyllis. Thinking of you.

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Always glad to hear good news Phyl. Hope it all goes this well.

please be alert as possible when people are accessing or hooking something up to your port! i got a blood infection last year that almost killed me because a nurse didn't use aspetic technique with it. so please please please make sure everyone is careful with it. be annoying in reminding them if you have to.

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What's up, Phyllis? Doing okay?

Everyone else?

I had the second big ass (any way you want to look at it) injection of my treatment on Tuesday. Nothing to write home about. It doesn't cause enough misery for me to actually think it might be doing any good and won't have any testing to find out until mid-January. So I'm basically just trying to get on with life and ignore the cancer while I can.

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