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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.




sue123's Cancer Blog

May 19, 2008

some good daysViews: 1035

I am happy to say that I just had 3 really ‘good’ days. Therefore, I shopped until I dropped, also spent some time with friends and family.

I even got out for a vette ride on Friday evening! Saturday it looked cloudy, but we thought we would just ride out past those fluffy gray clouds…NOT! It started raining got VERY windy – ugly–so we headed home. After we returned home we sat on our porch for about an hour– the sun came back out, and it got really nice out, soooo we ventured out again to find that the clouds found us again! We were riding through our nearby park and the wind kicked up, tree limps were falling out of the trees onto the street, dirt was flying everywhere,’yes all over the car’! Yikes! I just wanted to GO home. Soooo we headed home, only to find out that once we got home it got really nice out AGAIN! This time I said ‘no thank you’ when Bill asked if I wanted to try again! He decided not to also. Instead Bill ended up visiting a friend (one of our great neighbors) and his wife came done and visited me. Ended up being a nice evening.

Ok, now it is Sunday and we ask ourselves, should we take the vette out to Brett and Amanda’s for dinner? We both look at each other and outside at the same fluffy gray clouds mixed in with the beautiful white fluffy ones,yep just like yesterday. We ended up taking the truck, it turned out to be a perfect beautiful spring day, no rain, no nasty wind, no storms. Go figure??

Back to treatments on Tuesday…

Sue,
Isn’t it wonderful when we get those moments where life seems so normal? Thank you for sharing yours with us!

3 normal days ! it’s great glad you enjoyed them…...

Cheryl58

Bananas! I want to see a photo of you with that fly car!

Take care and keep outrunnin those clouds! : )

Timothy

Hi, I just wanted you to know that I found some good articles about colon cancer that could maybe help you along the way, I’m not sure and forgive me if I’m wrong.

My best friend has colon cancer and had a very rough surgery. She has been on xeloda for about three weeks and has very severe diarrhea. She wants to know if there is anything she can do for the symptoms. She has called her doctor but he acts like she is just wasting his time. Please help if you possibly can.

Ronda, for diarrhea I take Lomotil 2.5 mg’s. I take 2 at a time every 6-8 hours as needed. I take Zofran for nausea. Hope this helps.

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