4 days ago by jaydub26

Well, what a weird few weeks I’ve just had! Three weeks ago I was feeling really healthy (or as fit and healthy as you can feel on chemo ). I had started to get into the routine that this chemo has me on which is chemo on Thursdays, feeling yuck Friday, tired Saturday and Sunday and then pretty good ...

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8 days ago by whymommy

(by Susan) The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network is a great source of information about legislative action in your community and nationwide that affects screening guidelines, insurance coverage, and standard of care for cancer treatment and detection. In a world where the problems loom e ...

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14 days ago by drktruddy

Inflammatory breast cancer is a very aggressive form of the disease with a very poor prognosis. Typically, the disease presents in a fashion that, at first, suggests infection. Often the patient is treated with multiple courses of antibiotics, all futile, and then is finally referred to a breast spe ...

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23 days ago by Dr.Kut

Although there has been lost of research and developments done in the medical fields and medicine has reached a very sophisticated platform, still there is a lot to be done, and diseases like cancer are still claiming lives all over the world at very high rates. One of the most common cancers is bre ...

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26 days ago by Joanna

Cancer is bad enough without complications due to the insurance company denying payment for prescribed treatments. My oldest bill that is in dispute is for Herceptin and other treatments that I had at the hospital from September of 2008. Over the course of cancer treatment, I have received denials s ...

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27 days ago by jaydub26

I have had an extremely good week post-chemo and have as yet not had a phone call from the hospital – it’s Thursday morning and I must admit I wont relax until about 10am because I know that the hospital will ring before that if my blood counts are too low. But given the way I have been feeling this ...

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27 days ago by Joanna

If I get an ache or pain, it is so complicated to figure out what is wrong precisely because I have had so much treatment for IBC and for MRSA. Don't you love how disease is just a string of letters? I have had chemo, radiation, surgery, intravenous antibiotics and oral antibiotics ad nauseum. And j ...

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28 days ago by whymommy

There are as many ways to fight cancer as there are types of cancer. You know that. You’ve already been touched by cancer, and your sharp, sharp memories are in many cases what moved you to comment on my last post. Your words are powerful. As I read the comments, I felt your pain, your frustration, ...

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31 days ago by jaydub26

This is a blog post I have been thinking about for a couple of weeks now. Someone wrote into the IBC mailing list with the subject heading “Have I lost my mind?” talking about how her head still feels fuzzy 6 months out from chemo and her memory was gone. Wow, do I know how she feels! This coupled w ...

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32 days ago by jaydub26

This was my response/comment to someone elses (an IBC survivors) blog post about the facebook bra colour message that went round and thought I would share my thoughts here as well. You can read her original post here “I understand where you are coming from but as an IBC stage IIIc survivor currently ...

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