Promise Me: How’s a Sisters Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer
Promise Me: How a Sister’s Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer
by Nancy G. Brinker
Suzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She [...]
Good site for Chemo Brain
Is it real? Yes, oh, yes, oh yes. Read on.
http://csn.cancer.org/node/177445
Full body scan? Bill Weir…
I found this more than interesting, because my husband, my wonderful loving husband, in the year of 2005 died from a sudden heart attack, and I know, he never knew what hit him. He was 49 years old, and his death, shook my life more than any earthquake could ever shake this world. [...]
Epidermolysis bullosa
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/tripp-roth-louisiana-toddler-inspired-thosands-dies-mothers/story?id=15365445
By ALICE GOMSTYN (@AliceGomstyn) and SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Jan. 15, 2012
The tiny toddler whose struggle against a devastating disease inspired thousands has died.
Tripp Roth, who was diagnosed with junctional epidermolysis bullosa at birth, died Saturday in the arms of his mother, Courtney Roth, who had chronicled her life with Tripp in the popular blog, “EBing [...]
NEGU=Never Ever Give Up by Jessica Joy Rees
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California girl who became a nationally recognized face of child cancer with a blog that chronicled her fight against brain tumors has died. Jessica Joy Rees was 12 years old.
Jessica’s family announced her death on her Facebook page, stating that her 10-month battle with brain cancer ended [...]
Hot Chemo Bath
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/business/heated-chemotherapy-bath-may-be-only-hope-for-some-cancer-patients.html?pagewanted=all
By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: August 11, 2011
SAN DIEGO — This is cancer therapy at its most aggressive, a treatment patients liken to being filleted, disemboweled and then bathed in hot poison.
The therapy, which couples extensive abdominal surgery with blasts of heated chemotherapy to the abdominal cavity and its organs, was once a niche procedure [...]
All Anemias all kinds are hard to deal with
I deal with a Hemoylotic anemia, which in itself is disgusting. I got to watch the temps, for, for me, it is a cold-antibody and the cold temps play havoc on my red blood cells, therefore, my oxygen levels.
So, I feel for anyone who has to weather any anemia. Here is [...]
The need to grieve
When my husband had past away, when he died, I had to start at the same time back on chemo. I had to deal with so many things at that time, with my health especially, so, I wouldn’t leave my kids without any parent. I can’t imagine how scary that had to be [...]