Talk Cancer

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I’m 1b and approaching my 5th shot of IFN…I haven’t had a biopsy.  I have a bleeding disorder, don’t want to take the chance, and my doc agrees it’s not absolutely necessary for me.  Because I have minor esophogeal varices, she assumes I have some cirrhosis. Ddavid "Thomas Wagner" <t…@capecod.com> [...]

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Poor Tiffy!  Purrs coming up! — Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that’s covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Tiffy is ill again. [...]

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Finally received my vl count results after week 24. It is negative. Will celebrate with pizza and Evian tonight. cb (week 28/48, 1b)

Response:
Great news Captain!!! I’ll hoist up an Evian in your honor. Mark

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Yippee!!!!  Congrats, Cap’n!  Sorry I’m having a hard time getting excited this morning. [...]

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* Mick Ronson: dead.
Never knew that, he was undoubtedly Bowie’s best guitar player, and Bowie picked his players well, ala Robert Fripp on Scary Monsters, Lodger. *David Bowie: still, against all the odds, David Bowie.
Of all the over 50 rockers still going I think Bowie’s appearance belies his [...]

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Toxins, no doubt.  With the liver, it’s so often those darn toxins. .. Actually, milk thistle is a reasonable thing to take, as best I can determine.  at least in terms of it being beneficial to the liver.  It If it is [...]

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| |: a diagnosis is a shorthand label encompassing a | given set of symptoms – why focus on whether the label is artificial in | nature, or that the causes of the symptom are unknown or not fully | understood? | Because the map is [...]

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I tell people that my doctor has said that I have to be eating this  way because it is easy on the pancreas and liver so that I don’t die of pancreatic cancer or liver cancer. I tell them (this is true) that my grandfather died from pancreatic cancer.  I also [...]

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This weekend, I spent the day with my MIL.   Now you should know that she is very aware of my husband and my’s way of eating.  When we go to her house she trys to make sure that there are things we can eat.  She doesn’t fully understand all the details, [...]

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suggestions?
do what your heart tells you to do. — astri

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Well put, astri.  trill, I think it is perfectly okay that you can’t be friends with her but that you hurt for her and want to express that visibly to her. Domino – Hide quoted text — Show [...]

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Here in the UK, my mother is on a drink – called something like ‘Build-Up’ – only available on prescription.  It has all the body needs to sustain life. Available in various flavours, both sweet and savoury.  When I visit her tomorrow, I will make a note of what it is definately [...]