My father's recently been diagnosed with extensive and widespread mets to
bone - pelvis, shoulder, and spine. They found the primary today, in his lung,
I'm assuming it's adenocarcinoma.
Four weeks ago the pain started. Because he had an extensive Hx of

Up until I got CRC stage 4, I was pretty active, into competetive
distance running. When I got d/ged 2 years ago I stopped because the
chemo treatments just made me too sick to do much of anything. Over
the months I've had 36 treatments. Right now I'm off chemo for a

For a while now I have had tooth ache, I made it to the dentist who
performed a root canal and took an x ray last week, the bone showed up
as a dark shadow around the root.  I have been returning to the
dentist every couple of days and he has been putting antibiotics into

-- Snipped from earlier post --
Brief update on Consultants appointment today.

Subject:    Re: Jaw Bone Metastasis????
Date:       Tue, 24 Apr 2007
Isi:  >>When do you go for your check up?

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Press Release, April 26, 2007:
ANTIFUNGAL DRUG STOPS BLOOD VESSEL GROWTH
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered to their surprise
that a drug commonly used to treat toenail fungus can also block

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/koppel/koppel.html
Ted Koppel is doing a program about living with cancer tonight.
It looks promising.

Is this a milestone ?  A millstone :)
Got a 25 unit patch today after my throat became the home of "mother of all
strep throats" (mucositis, I assume).
Now I begin to understand (unfortunately through direct experience) what

The following is an article that came out in the paper yesterday in case
anyone wants to read it. It was in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The
reporter interviewed Don when he was diagnosed, so this is sort of a
follow-up piece. His photo was included in the hardcopy newspaper, ...

Did y'all see the Ted Koepple "Living With Cancer" three hour special on
Discovery last night?
There is supposed to be an encore presentation tonight although it is not
listed on my tv guide.

Yesterday evening while watching TV, I felt a stich in my left side
under my rib cage. I didn't think much of it, hoping it would work its
way out. I went to bed with pain and then in the middle of the night
it woke me up. It was aweful. I could not breathe. Each time my lungs

You know ridingthe old style harleys was very hard on the kidneys and
bladder. Lots of guys had to wear special kidney belts. wonder if
anybody ever studied on that as a possible cause of many kidney bladder
troubles in the old days. That'd be some class action suit. Remember

I'm reaching out to this forum for direction and advise for my wife
(age 40).
2/3 months ago, my wife came down with what she describes as a "pain
in her abdoman".  She says that it feels like someone is kicking her

Well to top things off it appears  I have thrush in my mouth and throat
from all the blasted anitbiootics they gave me to clear up the ERCP
infection. Another one my oncologist who thinks my female primary doctor
is an idiiot misdiagnosed. I told and showed  him (my onc) the classic

Just a up date on my husband.  Michael finished another round of
radiation this time it was focused on his L2 vertabrae.  His
oncologist  told us that he would not do anything about his adrenal
gland as it is a major operation.  As he put it Michael has tumors on