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March 8, 2008 12:24am
It's been a long time since I wrote an entry in my journal; and I was once an inveterate journal writer. I never missed a day and I kept my …
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About Me
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About Me
After 19 years of chronic pain from degenerative disc disease and chronic intestinal blockages on Thanksgiving Day I ws diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. My family doesn't really want to hear about how I feel emotionally, they want me to fight it. But I'm depressed and tired and I need to talk to other people like myself. I grew up about 20 minutes north of New York City in a suburb on the NJ side of the Hudson River. I lived there until 1999 when I moved to the area of Pennsylvania where I am now. One relative calls me a "gypsy" because I've moved so many times since I came here. Now I would love to move back to NJ but not up north. I'd like to move someplace close to the coast in the southern-most part of the state. I live with my ex-husband and I have 1 human child, a daughter plus six furry children ages 3 to 11. Three are boys and three are girls but all are felines.
After 19 years of chronic pain from degenerative disc disease and chronic intestinal blockages on Thanksgiving Day I ws diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. My family doesn't really want to hear about how I feel emotionally, they want me to fight it. But I'm depressed and tired and I need to talk to other people like myself. I grew up about 20 minutes north of New York City in a suburb on the NJ side of the Hudson River. I lived there until 1999 when I moved to the area of Pennsylvania where I
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Interests
I used to be able to garden, and make quilts and join fitness clubs and travel (my favorite place was Ireland) and collect antiques. My "ex" and I owned a flower shop and I worked in my father's accounting practice. I love animals (especially cats) and Japanese culture for its simplicity. It makes me feel peaceful. I dropped out of graduate school 3 credits short of a Master's Degree in Psych. but I still love psychology and theology. I'm disabled but I can still paint, so I do. And I read. I lost a lot of my hair so now I like wigs. I never had such glorious hair as I do now. I've been getting rid of things, giving stuff away. But I think I might collect wigs, I feel the collecting urge coming on. Hats too. Cats, hats and hair!
I used to be able to garden, and make quilts and join fitness clubs and travel (my favorite place was
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
February 27, 2008 3:49am
This will be short because by now I'm practically falling asleep on the computer. It's happened in the past, more times than I could even …
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
February 26, 2008 3:13am
I ramble so that's an appropriate description for my 1st journal entry. I've wanted to start a journal for a long time and keep it on the …
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Hi there I don't often come on this site but wanted to hug you now I'm here. hope you're ok xx :) noyzee-still@hotmail.com
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{{{{Weekend huggies}}}}Hope you are doing good,my friend! xoxo,poohscorner
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Wishing you a Mother's day filled with peace,love and beautiful blessings!
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Thank you so much for the kind message,I apperciate everyword you said. I am so bless and Thankful for a friends like you :)
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Close Lung Cancer
Dx Small cell lung cancer and cancer markers on bones. Found this out on Thanksgiving Day while in hospital for something else. The Dr.s aren't too encouraging but I'd rather hear the truth. It's a lot to sort out. Am also disabled and in a wheelchair from Degen. Disc Disease but I've dealt w/ that for many years. I take life 1 day at a time. Seems to work best for me.
Treatments
- Chemotherapy Working / Worked
- Started chemotherapy around Christmas time and next treatment (#5) is scheduled for the day after Easter. The oncologist said the cancer "was responding". Worst side effects: feeling exhausted and confused. Each treatment is harder to "bounce back from"
Close Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
My first experience with this was around two years ago at Christmas. I'd dozed off in my wheelchair and accidently fell out, landind on the floor. Somehow I just KNEW I wasn't going to be able to move my left leg. An Ultrasound revealed a DVT behind my left knee. I stayed on coumadin until an intestinal blockage had me in the hospital this past Thanksgiving. They found that I had sm. cell lung cancer AND a "big mean ugly DVT" also in my left leg. Wonder if there's anything Right with me!
Treatments
- Coumadin Somewhat Helpful
- Somewhat helpful at first but then the side affects got nasty. Get violently sick, lose my appetite, bleed profusely, suffer the chills and dizzy spells.
- Lovenox Working / Worked
- Was given this by injection in the rehab center I was sent to after being discharged from the hospital. No one on staff gave me any feedback about whether or not it was working but the injections gave me hugh welts that lasted weeks. And once I received the injection in my left upper arm; the swelling was "cantaloupe size" according to the IV nurse.
