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Name:
sue (sue123)

Member Since:
June 27, 2007

Home page:
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Location:
Michigan

Birthday:
5-1-52

Type of Cancer:
Colon and Rectal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer:
colon cancer

Diagnosis Date:
6-03

Stage of Cancer:
Stage 4

Lymph Node Involvement:
Yes

Surgery:
Lymph Node Removal, Re-excision Surgery

Chemotherapy:
Fluorouracil

What I Hate Most About Cancer:
How it hurts soooo many people!

What I Have Learned From Cancer:
I live to the fullest everyday.

Things My Supporters Can Do To Help:
Pray for everyone's pain and suffering.

Cancer Symptoms:
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.

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects:
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.

Radiation Description, Dates & Side Effects:

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

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects:
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 29, 2008

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I went back on chemo yesterday and it really was icky. First of all my platelets are still really low, but we went ahead and did 2/3’s of a dose. I started getting really ill (nausea) while getting it, so they turned the drips down. I ended up there from 11:30 am until 5:30! I felt horrible when I got home. My friend Gerri had made us dinner so I was so happy to see that Bill was being fed. I ate a little and headed to the couch after taking everything I could for nausea. I have the fanny pack pump on too. Today I have a 3 hour drip and refill the fanny pump for another day. I also had restless legs all night that about drove me nuts…I was up most of the night. I hope the infusion goes better today. I am going to come home and go to bed..try to sleep it off.

I do not wish to complain, but I guess yesterday day and night kind of got me, BUT today I feel better and I hope it continues through my treatment.

It is a beautiful day outside today! Couldn’t ask for more.

Thank you Jacque for sitting with me yesterday. I had a nice time considering how I was feeling, chatting and catching up with you!

Be well everyone!

Posted on May 29, 2008 at 7:16:30 AM by sue ( Link to this post.

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Sorry things didn’t go well for you. Boy I understand about the legs. I get such horrid muscle spams in mine when I become to toxic every hour on the hour…. Hang in there things could get better tomorrow..

Cheryl58

Posted on May 30, 2008 at 3:07:31 PM by cheryl58

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