Today my mummy got the results from her blood tests and CAT Scan....
100% clear!
100% cancer free!!
Everything is right with the world today.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
100% Cancer Free!
My mummy, the fighter, has been battling stage 4 appendix cancer for the past few months. It is a rare, painful and often swift cancer.
After meeting with an oncologist who gave her no chance, we found the most wonderful blog. Carolyn Langlie-Lesnik started http://www.appendix-cancer.com after her own grim diagnosis and triumphant survival. The lack of information about appendix cancer spurned Carolyn to begin the website.
Without Carolyn my mom would not have a chance. Carolyn is an angel on earth.
The appendix cancer website lists various treatments and doctors that specialize in the rare cancer. This is where we found our Boston specialist.
Yesterday my brave mummy endured an almost fifteen hour surgery and came through well.
Today my mummy is 100% cancer free!
100% cancer free!
100% cancer free!
Happy tears are now replacing the sad tears.
Thank you to my sweet neighbor, bus stop buddy and fellow blogger Ruth Dynamite for honoring my mummy in her blog today! Please take a peak at Ruthless in the Suburbs
After meeting with an oncologist who gave her no chance, we found the most wonderful blog. Carolyn Langlie-Lesnik started http://www.appendix-cancer.com after her own grim diagnosis and triumphant survival. The lack of information about appendix cancer spurned Carolyn to begin the website.
Without Carolyn my mom would not have a chance. Carolyn is an angel on earth.
The appendix cancer website lists various treatments and doctors that specialize in the rare cancer. This is where we found our Boston specialist.
Yesterday my brave mummy endured an almost fifteen hour surgery and came through well.
Today my mummy is 100% cancer free!
100% cancer free!
100% cancer free!
Happy tears are now replacing the sad tears.
Thank you to my sweet neighbor, bus stop buddy and fellow blogger Ruth Dynamite for honoring my mummy in her blog today! Please take a peak at Ruthless in the Suburbs
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Cancer Cluster
Years ago there was a lot of talk in the news about "cancer clusters." Picture a map with a pin in the house of each person with cancer. Then picture lots of pins in a particular town or area. Most of these clusters are in highly educated areas. The cause of the majority of these cancer clusters is unknown. Scary stuff.
I am tossing another town into the cancer cluster mix. Holliston, Massachusetts.
In the interest of full disclosure, you should know that I am not a doctor or scientist. I do not wear white. (black is more slimming) My declaration is purely from my own, concrete knowledge.
After over a month of searing stomach pain, my mummy's doctor called with some test results. Malignant cells were found. The doctor is guessing the cancer may be colon, ovary or pancreatic.
This isn't Mummy's first brush with cancer. It isn't even her third. Her strangest cancer was the rare brain tumor that only had been documented in nine young children. This same brain tumor was found in Mummy's spine while she was in her 50's.
So many of Mummy and Daddy's friends in town have been touched by cancer. The energetic childhood friend who lost her battle with a brain tumor. The many, many friends who have battled breast cancer and won. The friend with throat cancer who moved and then the next friend developed throat cancer while living in the same house.
I'm scared.
I do my best to keep nasty chemicals out of the house. I do my best to eat lots of fruit and vegetables. I do my best to move as often as possible. What if all of us keep doing our best to live healthy only to be whopped by some unknown force?
I am tossing another town into the cancer cluster mix. Holliston, Massachusetts.
In the interest of full disclosure, you should know that I am not a doctor or scientist. I do not wear white. (black is more slimming) My declaration is purely from my own, concrete knowledge.
After over a month of searing stomach pain, my mummy's doctor called with some test results. Malignant cells were found. The doctor is guessing the cancer may be colon, ovary or pancreatic.
This isn't Mummy's first brush with cancer. It isn't even her third. Her strangest cancer was the rare brain tumor that only had been documented in nine young children. This same brain tumor was found in Mummy's spine while she was in her 50's.
So many of Mummy and Daddy's friends in town have been touched by cancer. The energetic childhood friend who lost her battle with a brain tumor. The many, many friends who have battled breast cancer and won. The friend with throat cancer who moved and then the next friend developed throat cancer while living in the same house.
I'm scared.
I do my best to keep nasty chemicals out of the house. I do my best to eat lots of fruit and vegetables. I do my best to move as often as possible. What if all of us keep doing our best to live healthy only to be whopped by some unknown force?
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