Who's Been Touched by Cancer?

[AngliaGT]

Judow's post got me to thinking (& after reading the-
article),who's been impacted by Cancer?
I was thinking that maybe I could make the trip to the
East Coast & back,& maybe do something wortwhile in the
process.

- Doug

 

[DrEntropy]

I think the more appropriate question to be: Who has NOT.

 

[NutmegCT]

Doug - are you asking who at BCF has been diagnosed with cancer?

Or are you asking who at BCF knows someone, who has been diagnosed with cancer? I think *everyone* here has some personal connection to cancer, either directly or indirectly.

There are major health, emotional, and financial issues involved, also either directly or indirectly. It would help us reply, if we knew exactly what you're asking.

Tom

 

[billspit]

My F-I-L died of lung cancer several years ago after a lifetime of smoking Luckies.

My wife went for her annual mammogram a few months ago and was called her back for another look-see and biopsy. Turned out it isn't cancer. That was one long, long wait.

I had bladder cancer that was zapped and hasn't returned and prostate cancer that was removed. So far so good.

 

[judow]

Cervical Cancer diagnosis in 1970. You all know I'm still here. I was daughter of mother who took DYS, a medication to prevent morning sickness. Stats - 80% of the daughters of these mothers develop the cancer before age 30. Fit the stat perfectly. Cancer has and does touch us all. Sad but true.

 

[Basil]

MIL Died of Breat Cancer. Sister diagnosed with BC but treated with success.

 

[Guest]

I think the more appropriate question to be: Who has NOT.

X2, was thinking the same thing. Weird thing is, the prayer list @ church is TWICE as large for just cancer than everything else combined. Like 30 to fifteen. We're in between a dump and Stennis Space Center. They got a bunch of Agent Orange buried out there too.

 

[DrEntropy]

More to the point: "PLASTICS!"

Plastisizers released into our environs from about everyplace we exist.

 

[martx-5]

I was diagnosed with rectal cancer in September of 2010. Got radiation and low dose chemo treatments before surgery to shrink the tumor. They cut it out in January of last year along with eighteen inches of intestine. No cancer cells showed up in the surrounding lymph nodes, so they didn't do any follow up chemo...it's a good thing, as I'm 65 and still have all of my hair, not like all the guys I work with! :laugh:

 

[judow]

Art, being a cancer survivor quite often makes us appreciate the simple things in life. I'm not saying you have to be a survivor, I'm just saying it's a real jolt to our business as usual attitude. I think the reason for my emotional attachment to Agatha is that she affords me the ability to just enjoy without having to make excuses for 'me' time. It's accepted when I say, "Agatha and I are going tooling." Not so accepted when I say, "I'm going to do nothing to today." Congrats on joining our survivor club.

 

[judow]

Tom, I'm presuming personally. And indeed you are correct, it's health, financial, emotional, etc. I know I ran the gamut of all in spite of having done it a long time ago. It changed me in many ways and sure did force me to take a second look at my life. It even included a divorce from the first husband and now I am so very blessed - second husband a keeper and at 31 years and looking forward to more.

 

[CZ_Dave]

Not been touched by Cancer,
BUT have been a Bone Marrow Donor

Twice!

Through the National Bone Marrow System
I had the honor of being selected twice
as a donor to two individuals that I was a
match with, and who I shall never meet.
Down at the UCLA Susan G Bohmen Med. Center.

I recommend that everyone get on the donor list,
if you don't have the money to sign up, look for
corporations that are doing a donor drive,
then it will cost nothing.

You stay on the list till your 62, or dead.
Whichever comes first.
They tell me if I match one more time,
it is Guiness book of records for me.

 

[Guest]

I recommend that everyone get on the donor list,
if you don't have the money to sign up, look for
corporations that are doing a donor drive,
then it will cost nothing.

.

Huh? It cost you to donate? That's nuts! This is why I have problems with the health care industry.

Not so accepted when I say, "I'm going to do nothing to today." Congrats on joining our survivor club.

Judy, try pottery or some other art form for "me time". I get the same release from art as I do a drive, however; they aren't interchangable. That being said, it's been four months since I've gone tooling around.

 

[70herald]

Not been touched by Cancer,
BUT have been a Bone Marrow Donor

Twice!

Twice is absolutely incredible. I was called back for second level testing once but wasn't a good enough match.

 

[70herald]

I recommend that everyone get on the donor list,
if you don't have the money to sign up, look for
corporations that are doing a donor drive,
then it will cost nothing.

.

The test is fairly expensive (at least a few years ago it was), which is why they usually ask for contributions to help defray the cost. Back when I was living in NY, there was a big drive testing donors for a young kid, and an equally large drive trying to raise money to test the samples, most of which were frozen for month while money was being raised to pay for all the tests.

There also are several levels of tests. Usually they start with a fairly general level of testing and then if you are "in the ball park" will run a much more specific / accurate test.

 

[judow]

Not been touched by Cancer,
BUT have been a Bone Marrow Donor

Twice!

Through the National Bone Marrow System
I had the honor of being selected twice
as a donor to two individuals that I was a
match with, and who I shall never meet.
Down at the UCLA Susan G Bohmen Med. Center.

I recommend that everyone get on the donor list,
if you don't have the money to sign up, look for
corporations that are doing a donor drive,
then it will cost nothing.

You stay on the list till your 62, or dead.
Whichever comes first.
They tell me if I match one more time,
it is Guiness book of records for me.

Thumbs up to you.

 

[AEW]

My wife is an AML survivor. Now it is 20 years after her bone marrow transplant! We greatly appreciate everyone who cared and helped.