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Click Here to send your Story by e-mail Cancer Survivor's Stories I was happy enjoying with my family and was working as an umpire at West Indies. But a distress was waiting for me and my family that is I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. This made me to suffer a lot. I was very very depressed when I heard that I was attacked with this deadly disease kidney cancer that was at fourth stage. The doctors also said that I was about to die in 70 or 90 days. I went to hospitals in search of cure for it. As my condition was worse my kidney was removed by doing a surgery at the hospital. But I could not find any remedy from it. As the doctor said that it was my final stage all my relatives from London came to see me for the last time. Later on, after the surgery I was unable to move even my hands. I lost about fifty pounds of weight. The doctors of the most recognized hospitals said that it was incurable. Then I got the lost hope that is Dr.K.Rao the specialist who cures the suffer with the natural and herbal dietary supplements. I did not have a belief at first. But they really worked on me and now I am fine and willing to continue my work as an umpire. I also went for a foreign trip recently to London my relatives were really surprised to see me there. I am really thankful to Dr. K. Rao and his organization for making me a normal person. For more details visit him at http://www.drraomd.com/
I am a 56 year old teacher who was diagnosed with breast cancer(lobular) almost 3 yrs. ago. It was also found in 3 lymph nodes. After 12 rounds of chemo and 33 days of radiation I was cancer free - for a year. The cancer had metastasized to my bones. (Spine and pelvis). I have had no symptoms and feel great. I receive a treatment of zometa every 3 weeks and a shot of faslodex every month. There are practically no side effects except a little tiredness at the time of each treatment. My dr. tells me there are many people with this type of cancer and there are many things that can be done but I have yet to talk to anyone with the same thing. I'd love to hear from anyone who has this, the type of treatment you are having, your symptoms if any, word of advice, etc. My prayers to everyone out there.
December 05 I was feeling very tired and couldn't get out of bed and I had just started a new job that September and felt bad because I just couldn't get it together to get into work, On December 21st, 4 days before Christmas, I crawled out of bed to the shower, I was determined to go to work, I collapsed in the shower within minutes and knew there was something seriously wrong with me so I called my husband at work and said he had to come home right away and take me to the hospital. Within hours the blood results came back and I was told I had AML. The doctor's said I had gotten it in time but I just laid there in shock. I just sat there and said there must be some mistake. Well, I was admitted and started chemo, I remember being so so sick, the doctor's showed me a list of some things I might get from the chemo, Well, I got them all, like vomiting, blood gushing from my nose and mouth, sores on my private and very painful hemorrhoids that needed morphine to take away the pain. I came home on Feb 17th; I had been in the hospital for 2 months. I was told I needed a BMT ASAP! Boy, another knock down to deal with, all this was happening way too fast for me. I was in remission for about a month and a half then I was told the cancer had come back. So, On to Boston to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. I had my hicmans placed on June 2nd and was admitted on June 4th, started chemo the first day and radiation every day for 3 and half days, twice a day. Then finally on June 9th I received my cells, It was a very emotional day for me, knowing that someone out there cared enough to do this for me, all I know is she's from California and a female. I think about her every day and would love to talk or even meet her some day, after all, she's saved my life!! I am home recovering now but there's a lot I can't do for 100 days, this is only my 36th day, I see life in a very different way now, I cherish all the little things in life and every morning when I awake, I know it's going to be a beautiful day,.... :)
I had breast cancer back in 1993. It was in the advance stage (stage 1V) I KNOW YOU MIGHT SAY A PERSON DOES NOT LIVE THAT LONG WITH THE TYPE CANCER THAT I HAD. BUT GOD KNEW BETTER THAN THE DOCTORS. I HAD HIGH DOSE CHEMO. & STEM CELL TRANSPLANTS. WITHOUT GOD AND MY HUSBAND, AND PEOPLE PRAYING FOR ME, I WOULD NOT HAVE COME THROUGH IT. A FEW MONTHS AFTER TREATMENTS, THE DOCTORS TOLD ME I HAD PARKINSONS (I said to myself, I'm not believing this) the Parkinson's is a daily battle, but I'm not letting it get me down. I have not missed a Sunday at church since I finished chemo. In 1993.i love my church, and I love GOD. THANKS FOR LETTING ME SHARE THIS MRS. C STEWART
My cancers occurred in 1969, 1973 and 1982. The first two were breast cancer and the third was ovarian cancer. I was 28 when I had the first cancer. All the cancers were primary. Now I'm sixty-five, have been told that I do not need an oncologist as I am viewed as having the same chance as anyone else of having cancer in the future. My two sisters have died of ovarian and breast cancer, one was thirteen and the other was fifty-seven. I am happy to still be alive but I find it hard to identify with the new cancer survivors who hand options on surgery and mostly opt for lumpectomies as I had Halted radicals. Are there others out there like me? I would love to correspond with women who outlasted their doctors and their doctors' prognosis. Thanks, Ann D'Onofrio, Rhode Island
First I thank the Lord that I got shingles. I had not seen a doctor or had a mammogram for several years. Then when I got the shingles I had to see a doctor. He recommended a mammogram, and then because something suspicious showed up he recommended another mammogram. Then I had to have a biopsy. The biopsy revealed ductal carcinoma in situ. It was still noninvasive. I had to have a mastectomy and a TRAM Flap. Today I am a survivor. If I had not had the shingles and seen a doctor, this noninvasive cancer would have become invasive and traveled to other parts of my body. Today I have two healthy breasts, a flat abdomen and NO CANCER. Life cannot get much better than this.
In April 2005 I found a lump under my arm. This was two weeks after my yearly physical at my doctors. At the subsequent mammogram I pointed it out. My doctor gave me the name of a surgeon who he recommended. At this stage everyone thought it was a cyst, even the surgeon. It wasn't. A week after the surgeon took out the lump she wanted to perform a mastectomy and maybe (her words) take out a few lymph nodes. Here comes the good part. Fortunately I had good friends. One an oncology nurse and one a breast cancer survivor. They told me to have a second opinion and I took my pathology reports to Moffitt Cancer center in Tampa. After every test you can imagine was done they found the tumor in my breast which was next to my breastbone and has metastasized to under my arm. I started chemotherapy. It was a long haul, AC for three months and then Taxol for three months. I found Taxol a dream. My wonderful surgeon took out the reduced lump from my breast and removed 39 lymph nodes from under my arm and the surrounding area that had cancer. Radiation followed and then back I went for a blood test. I was scared because I imagined that the cells from the lymph nodes were running around my body. The blood test showed no cancer markers. Yippee I am now happy and keeping fit, mostly by swimming. I watch my diet, eat lots of vegetables and fruit and enjoy fitting again into a size 14 (I am no slim thing) instead of the 18's I got to when on the chemo. My hair is growing back -- looks a little like a Brillo pad at the moment. My grandkids call me "trendy gran" I am 65. I am now planning the rest of my life. Whoever reads this I want you to know there is life afterwards, God Bless You All, Annie
"Truly Alive" by Leandra Smith Leandra Smith posted this remarkable message to the CANCER-L mailing list in August 1996. Just thought I'd share with all of you a wonderful experience I had yesterday. I went to the ocean here in San Diego and it was so beautiful outside. It was around 77 degrees and the water was around 70. There was a slight breeze and the beaches weren't too crowded. I went with my friend Roxanne and her boyfriend/surferdude Oden. I brought a giant parasol and sat underneath it in the shade (my skin has not been the same since radiation). I just lay on the sand and listened to the crash of the waves and the crowing of the seagulls and the laughs of the nearby children. Then I decided to jump into the crashing surf and wash away all of my frustration and tension. It was my first time back into the water since radiation; my burns are finally healed. It was so incredible; the taste of the salt water, the weightless floating and being rocked by the gentle currents. I played in the surf and swam into the deep waters, letting the ocean cradle me and rock me. Then I walked with my friends and we went to the tide pools. The tide was coming in and we sat on the rocks and watched the waves crash into the shore. Each wave would produce three wonderful crashes and explosions of surf into the rocks. I positioned myself within two feet of the crashing surf and miraculously could sit that close and not get wet. When the initial wave would hit, the white foam would explode right in front of me. I could see the wet drops freeze briefly in the air like fireworks. It looked as if it would come straight for me and drench me, but at the last minute it would fall straight down and land on the rock in front of me. The giant waves looked as if they would produce huge explosions, but it was the smaller waves, the less evident ones, that would produce the larger effects so when they snuck up on you it was so unexpected and exciting. I sat for an hour watching the waves crash and looking at the setting sun over the Pacific....... I sat for an hour feeling the gentle misting of sea air and waves made into one breeze across my skin. For that hour I was truly alive. I hope you all enjoyed my ocean visit, I know I sure did. With love and hope to you all...........................Leandra EDITORS NOTE: Leandra Smith died in the Fall of 1998 - she was a beautiful soul who will be missed
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