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I am having to use Google group to post this as my Outlook Express has
gone weird.
When I ask to synchronize account to collect new messages I am getting

Has anyone heard of complications from chemo or radiation for cancer
victims who had polio when they were children? My wife nearly died from
polio when she was a child but survived and learned to walk using
forearm crutches. But now at 57 endometrial cancer (stage IIIc) was

Can anyone tell me if the side effects such as chills & sweats disappears
after stop taking Lupron for Prostate Cancer?
Thanks in advance

A friend of mine sent me this website.  It looks quite interesting.  Has
anyone ever heard of it before.  It looks like something I would like to
sign my mom up for.
http://www.chemoangels.com/

Now that it finally hits me that this stuff is ototoxic, I'm wondering
just how much hearing loss I can expect. An audiologist friend suggests
that most of it will be high-frequency hearing loss due to ciliary death,
but she claims to be no expert.

Mom had her surgery yesterday.  They had to remove more of her lung than
initially planned.  Actually removed about half of her right lung.  I saw
her this morning and she was alert and comfortable.  Her pain is being very
well managed with the aid of an epidural catheter, which ...

Getting chemo tomorrow, but i feel like i am fading fast now.
Irony of ironies is that cancer victims can't donate organs, since by the
time we die are organs are generally fully involved, even if not detectable
in a particular one.  I had signed my organ donor instructions years ...

This is about our experience with the Shaman so if this isn't for you, stop
reading.
I won't get too involved but let me say that when Curt and I arrived at
T.M's house Friday evening we were very nervous. we met Steven (the Shaman)

I have to say I'm not looking forward to it.
But I understand that Dad is belligereant as can be, fighting everyone. For
97, he is very strong.
I hope that in his all-too brief periods of lucidness, that he somehow know

onc recommended halting chemo as ineffective.  His best guess is that I'll
be gone by September.

I'll be leaving on Wednesday for Calif. to see my Dad. He is doing poorly.
Miriam (his wife of 16 years) has finally come around and broached a topic
we were both thinking about:
We will be making funeral arrangements when I get there.

good news - I can tell the sore throat is definitely getting better.  I can
drink with only the mildest discomfort. Next I'll try eating.  
Meanwhile, I am back to two handed typing.  Figgertoes says my grip is
definitely stronger, although still not normal.  The typing is a ...

Does this give any information that can help me understand what type of lung
cancer she has???
Note from my dad:
Laurie,

You can read all kinds of studies by so called experts, but my own
personal study says of the aproximately 8 people who took chemo, maybe
twice that I barely knew, only one I know of who survived more than 5
years, and she didn't look sick to begin with. OTOH i've known only one

Is this happening to anyone else?
Talked to the radiation oncologist the other day about my breathing
difficulty when in the Horror Mask From Hell. He said that would be an
ENT specialty and sent me forth to see one.