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sue (sue123)


June 27, 2007


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Michigan


5-1-52


Colon and Rectal Cancer


colon cancer


6-03


Stage 4


Yes


Lymph Node Removal, Re-excision Surgery


Fluorouracil


How it hurts soooo many people!


I live to the fullest everyday.


Pray for everyone's pain and suffering.


animic—I also have lupus and this was found on a routine blood test. I had no other symtoms. Had I got a colonoscopy one year earlier at age 50, I probably would not have got cancer. Please have a colonoscopy at least by age 50! Earlier if there is a family history or if you have symtoms.


6-03 stage 3 colon cancer. Removed right colon, gallbladder, ovaries and lymph nodes (one positve)
12-06 stage 4 colon/liver cancer. Had 1/3 liver removed and swollen nodes near by (positive). Detected by CEA blood test-the pet scan. Did 28 days of radiation, then onto oral chemo therapy. I take Xeloda 21 days a month. I have been on this now for 8 months.
Febuary 08- spread to lungs—now on chemo therapy IV’s (folfox6, Avastin 5FU-levo and Oxi) 6 hours one day-4 hours next day and wear fanny pack filled with chemo for 48 hours at the same time as treatments. I do this every other week.


28 days after second surgery. Felt ok until the last week in which I was very tired.


6-03—36 weeks of IV chemo therapy. Had problems with severe diarrah, nausa and fatigue 3 days out of 7. Slightly ill the rest of the days with same symtoms, but milder.
2007—doing much better on chemo therapy by adding alternitves. (read below)
12-07- oral Xeloda (chemo therapy). Take for 2 weeks straight 2 times a day, then one week off. Side effects are slight now that I take fermented wheat germ, green wheatgrass and mangoseed juice. The juice improved my energy level a lot! I think we are seeing some results from the fermented wheatgerm as we are now starting to see on my cat scans that things have kind of stopped. In the England Cancer Journal they have proved that fermented wheat germ can slow and sometime cure cancers. The mangoseed juice is made in Asia, this is the only place it grows. It is extremely high levels of antioxidants! Knock on wood I haven’t been sick since I started it! I also only eat organic (as much as I can) I eat lot’s of greens and fruits. I get protein from the grains and I also eat a lot of nuts. I have felt so much better since doing this it is unbelievable.. I have hand and foot syndrome that this chemo can cause..this can/is be very painful.
Febuary 08-New treatments of folfox6, Avastin and 5FU—extreme fatigue-nausa-diarreha-controled by medications for the most part. Need to rest a lot.


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September 12, 2007

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Been, busy this week again. I am getting a bit tired, but still hanging in there.
Last weekend our son Brett married his sweetie Amanda. They had an outside fairy tale wedding. Just beautiful. They had it at the landmark; Henry Ford Estate, where Henry and his wife lived for years in Dearborn Michigan. The grounds were absolutely beautiful with the greenery and flowers. Inside was fabulous. They had 4 rooms to use, so they had odours (sp) in the inside porch, the living room had chairs and a huge fireplace where we hung out, sat and chatted, then they had another room-no sure what it was where the band was with beautiful wood floor and the one whole outside wall was windows and glass doors that opened up to the outside huge patio where they had chairs and tables set up so you could sit and watch the band or whatever. Many people took long walks through their gardens. Then the dinning room was in a wonderful ‘huge’ room that actually used to be their built in (inside) swimming pool. There were windows all across the top of the ceiling and flowered etc…so nice. If anyone wants any pictures to see let me know and I will email them to you. This house is on 34000 acres and the house has 57 rooms… Just beautiful. We had company stay with us that came for the wedding from PA. so our house was full. We had a wonderful time. We finally have another girl in the family! YES!
I am feeling so/so. I have a Dr. apt tomorrow (lupus) and I am still on chemo therapy 21 days a month and feeling pretty good on it. It has its ups and downs, but could be worse. My CBC results are good, CEA is 9. I am doing cat scans in 2 weeks to see what going on.
It is cooling down fast here. Summer is about over…I will miss it! I HATE winter and it gloominess.
Hope all of you are doing well.
Sue

Posted on September 12, 2007 at 7:59:41 AM by sue (Link to this post. , Post a comment. 2 comments)

Hey Sue! That wedding sounds like a blast. Love weddings. Let’s hang on to fall. Hope your doctors appointment goes well tomorrow. Cheers!

Posted on September 12, 2007 at 7:06:19 PM by jill

Hi Sue: The wedding was a beautiful event, they are such a happy couple. Good luck with your appointments and tests coming up, will be praying for you. Hugs, Deb

Posted on September 16, 2007 at 10:45:40 AM by Deb (unverified)
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