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Meister
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49/F/Little Rock, Arkansas
Join Date: Jul 2006 |
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So far, I'm winning. The chemo seems to be helping me get stronger.
The only thing that bothers me, and it doesn't bother me too badly, is the pain. Even with the cla** 2 narcotics, I cannot seem to shake the pain.
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Been a very weird very trying two weeks.
Sept 15 was my thirtieth wedding anniversary. My husband and I spent a week in the POSH Hotel Baptist Hospital Oncology ward.
I got up that morning looking forward to getting a steroid epidural shot to kill the pain in my back being caused by four crushed or ruptured discs.
In the middle of it all, the doctor cancelled the shots and ordered more tests. By the end of the day I was admitted to the Cancer ward in our local Baptist Hospital .. being tested every which way from Sunday for different types of cancer.
What a way to spend an anniversary. On the 20th of September I was finally diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer and given six months to two years to live.
I was dumbfounded, scared, angry, upset. You name the emotion, I had it. I am still grappling with the progrnosis, the diagnosis and the treatments I am coming face to face with.
Chemotherapy by mouth every day, Chemotherapy by infusion once a week. Its so depressing. I watch my poor husband watching me with such worry on his face .. I just want to take the worry away and tell him its going to be ok .. but for him it won't be, I'm all he has save our son and two grandchildren.
I will fight this thing the best I can .. but how do you fight something this big and formidable.
Well, more another time ... maybe.
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