Different types of cancer
Patti J
Member, Dragonfly Posts: 589 
Just recently, when out shopping, I have spoken to two women with cancer. One woman was at Myer. She was bald and had bladder cancer. She is undergoing constant infusions of chemotherapy at home. She looks well and is getting on with her life.
I have just now spoken to a lady, when buying ribbon to make my own metastatic breast cancer ribbons, who also had bladder cancer a number of years ago, and now has ovarian cancer. According to statistics, she is very lucky to be alive.
Cancer, in all of its forms, affects everyone.
I have just now spoken to a lady, when buying ribbon to make my own metastatic breast cancer ribbons, who also had bladder cancer a number of years ago, and now has ovarian cancer. According to statistics, she is very lucky to be alive.
Cancer, in all of its forms, affects everyone.
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It sure does Patti! In my family alone, I've had an Aunt die from breast cancer, another from lung cancer, another from bowel cancer and my Grandmother had bowel cancer (I think). Plus me with breast cancer. Oh, and an Aunt on the other side of my family just recently passed from cancer as well!1
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It does, which makes me all the more aware of how lucky we are to have this great network of support. So many other cancers have nothing like this.
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Unfortunately we all know someone who is fighting cancer in varying ways. At home here (my town) there has been two recently with Pancreatic Cancer...........far out! My Mum had bladder and lung cancer, her brother had Esophageal cancer, my mother-in-law had Ovarian cancer years ago and then it came back as bowel cancer and then progressed into the liver, an Aunt had Breast Cancer, fought it, initially ignored it when it returned and then it was too late .................it gives me the shudders when I think about it
At least we have the forum to share and receive wise counsel when we are at a low ebb.............
Thank you to all that contribute
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We are incredibly lucky to have this forum. Unfortunately, I'm aware that there are women who refuse to access it because they're so scared of the bc that they don't want to have anything to do with it, not realising just how much support there is here.4
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I'm much too nosy...I stalked for a few days before speaking up. I'm glad you came online.2
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I wish someone had told be about this forum when I was diagnosed... instead I ranted all my emotions and feelings in a journal first and now in the form of poems. It sure would have been lovely to have vented here and not been judged but supported... what doesn't kill you makes you stronger eh?! My late mother (who also passed from BC) would also have said "no rest for the wicked and only the good die young!!" God, that being the case I'm going to go down in the Guinness book of records as the longest living woman!! Woo hoo!
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Well you're here now @Faerygirl. Unleash the hounds!!1
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Just reading all your posts about having lots of relatives with cancer and it started me thinking0
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Started me thinking that I have so many family members who have died of cancer. Perhaps we have a genetic predisposition to develop cancer? None of my husband’s family have had cancer( bar 1 aunt) and his 92 yr old father is fit and healthy- never been to hospital despite drinking,smoking and eating rubbish most of his life.
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@melclarity has written some poetry
From memory there's poetry ......
This is another unfinished draft
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