my prayers and best wishes for Tony, Barry, and Paul...i hope to enjoy your company here for many years to come.

i was trying to correct my previous post...and i posted this again...but you guys are worth it.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

Dan,

thanks.

FOr me that is the most maddening thing. I can't work and therefor cannot help people ... THAT is what hurts the most. Anyway, not out of the woods yet this week ... I can "feel" it starting ... :(

But, we shall see ...

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Well for me, it will be my first go at this (chemo is to reduce chances of reoccurance of a stage II colon cancer which was fully excised). I figure I'll work through how I react to it over the next month or so. Just had the subclav port inserted this past week.

Regarding depression, well my wife is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst...

We've lost a friend earlier this year to breast cancer and know a batch of current cancer survivors.

We also get a bit of extra attention -- for several reasons -- first, my wife is an MD, and that helps, second a very good friend of ours is a pediatric oncologist (talk about a field that fosters depression), and third, I'm going to be in a clinical trial -- which can increase the level of care significantly as there are additional 'watchers' for the entire span of the study (both during the therapy and post therapeutic follow up).

The good news is that this does not cost much. The bad news is that it is annoying to not be able to walk safely. Well, I am better enough that I can get through the forums each day. But not much else yet. We'll see Monday...

Is chemo still making you guys nauseated? I don't keep up with the bio stuff that much... and curiosity strikes.

I hope it works in any case ... thankfully though the fatality rate for depression is high, I don't think it is going to get me ... but cancer, ugh ... we had a friend die of pancreatic cancer ...

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Hey, we hijacked a thread -- then again, the thread title works (smile).

my prayers and best wishes for Tony, Barry, and Paul...i hope to enjoy your company here for many years to come.

i was trying to correct my previous post...and i posted this again...but you guys are worth it.

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Guys.....esp BarryAZ and Tony...... We don't know each other....but..... I wish you all the very best in your continued fight. God bless you and may you come through this and live long.

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My thoughts and well wishes are with all of you also.

Jim

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