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09-17-2010, 08:16 AM
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Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
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 my sympathies, Elspode. - one week....wow. so hard to reconcile....
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09-17-2010, 09:45 AM
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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09-17-2010, 12:42 PM
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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So sorry, Els - just glad he didn't suffer more though, liver cancer is one hell of a hard way to die.
Just to try and temper that with a bit of good news... From looking at the X-Ray, it looks like Mum is completely in the clear. She has an appointment to go back to see the specialist, but at first glance it seems the lumpectomy did the job. And yes, I did write her a card and cut her a rose. We're almost back to normal now, thank goodness. |
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09-17-2010, 08:17 PM
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Beware of potatoes
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Upstate NY, USA
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To all who post here, who have or have had cancer, or who have friends or family with it, you have my sincere empathy. Having lost both parents, two sisters and a brother to that disease, and having it myself, I want to second what Bruce said, in that wonderful large font.
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09-17-2010, 09:26 PM
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Right on spud. Fuck Cancer
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09-18-2010, 09:53 AM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
Join Date: Dec 2005
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 "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce
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09-18-2010, 09:58 AM
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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I guess I'd choose that over the long lingering pain-filled cancer that took my Mom. 52 is too damn young though.
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07-07-2011, 09:44 AM
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
Join Date: Nov 2007
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One of my oldest friends is near the end. He's been battling one of the worst cancers for a few years. I just talked to his sister - He is back in hospice trying to manage the pain and the swelling in his legs. He keeps saying he just wants to go home, begging to go home... Gahhhhhh. I'm not close enough, nor do I have the freedom to just go see him.
I'm torn between wanting him to fight and stay longer versus letting him go and having him finally be at peace. He's been in so much pain for so long.
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07-07-2011, 10:18 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
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So sorry classic. The choice - fight on or go - isn't yours. All you can do is help the family with what is. Wishing you strength to help you through your grief.
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07-22-2011, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Oklahoma
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I'm glad I had 13 months to cherish time with and say good-bye to my daughter, (although I'd never wish 13 months of cancer on a 2 year old - mine or anyone else's) but I'm glad my step-Dad only had 6 days of cancer filled time. It was strange losing him after only 6 days of knowing he had cancer, but very little time for pain-filled cancer for him. And as for your friend, hopefully he had that week to say and do some things that he wouldn't have if he'd lost his life suddenly......I guess I always try to find some little "bright side of things"....I know that has to be irritating to some! And most of all....................... FUCK CANCER!!!!!!! |
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07-29-2011, 12:05 PM
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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07-29-2011, 12:49 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Fuck cancer.
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08-06-2011, 04:29 PM
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.....short for Caz
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: The West Coast of England
Posts: 358
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Fucking Right
Love to everyone xx
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04-19-2013, 10:46 AM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
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My cow orker who retired a bit early due to health issues just stopped in to tell us her cancer is back.
she'd had esophageal cancer some time ago. It came back last year. She fought it, and retired. Well, it's back again. This isn't good. I've lost a friend to esophageal cancer. And there's her husband, with her every step, taking care of her and loving her. He loves her so much, and it isn't fair and it isn't right for two such good people to have to deal with this. They also have young triplet granddaughters. FUCK CANCER.
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