Molly72

Molly, I so appreciate what you wrote re Trump. And, yes, this may end in a revolution. I still can't quite believe this is all happening. Hugs, Carol

Hi Molly72. Thank you very much for your interest. It went well with the surgeon. She will be outting the spot on the 6th of March. I so appreciate you caring. Hugs and giggles

Hi, Molly! Writing to say that I hope your skin surgeries went well. Hugs, Carol

Molly72, I love your "Oy!"!

Thank you kindly. About 2 months ago, I posed a question about the "hole". It didn't take off. That happens to all of us at one time or another. The few people that did get curious thought that it was either cancer or bone death caused by radiation. I had sort of figured those options out by myself. Somebody did post that medicine has shots that forces bone growth, but there's lots of pain and calcification. I really appreciated finding that out.

I didn't start talking about myself in the Newsweek question, but Sharlie complained that she had a difficult time getting labs ordered. I told her that I understood, and I had to get my family doctor to order the necessary labs.

There is one person here that I don't get along with at all. I just ignore her. I don't look at her posts-and she decided to do the same---so we get along pretty good now-we usually ignore each other- I avoid posting where she has a good presence in-and she seems to be doing that for me.

talking to Sharlie-her thinking out of the box really has been supportive for me. Again, I appreciate your kindness and support.

Hi Molly how are you doing today. I hope that you're getting around OK. I think that your post was very nice, well worded, and a good balance.

The weather is nice here today- so far- 35 mph winds are supposed to come up this afternoon. Snow is being predicted for the northern mountains- and dust storms in the south.This is one mixed up state for sure- and it's small for a western state. Oh well.

My X died from mesothelioma cancer almost 2 years ago-August. We were married for 37 years, and we had many years of love and tenderness. I hated him for a few years after the divorce-a young blonde was involved. After awhile, I had forgiveness and tenderness-not that I wanted to get back with him. He moved almost 2,000 miles away, and we talked several times a year.

Anyway, I decided that I'd put mesothioma lung cancer on my profile for mourning, sort of finding out what it was like, etc. Anyway, yesterday I removed lung cancer from my profile.

Now my wall should have less clutter on it, I don't want to sound like I don't value any person's experience, but the soft ware is throwing too many questions on my wall that I don't understand or don't know who the person is.

Anyway, I hope that you don't mind talking to me.

Did your surgery leave you with a speech impediment? I know that nerve damage like you are talking about can leave a person with a speech impediment. I don't have nerve damage, TG for that. Do you have people trying to hustle you in for cognitive assesments because #1-you had head cancer. #2 you had treatment for head cancer. #3 because the damage to muscles/nerves scream to them that they can get extra money for treating a cancer patient/survivor.

My muscles are finally relaxing, and my nose looks OK, and I can open my mouth pretty good.

I feel for you. The surgery site started bothering me-hurting pretty bad the last 2 weeks. I'm pretty sure that it's scar tissue inflamed by cooking some meals this last 6 weeks. I quit cooking for a few weeks, and the general feeling of pain and irritation has been going away.

I know what you're talking about, eventhough we have different types of cancers. The surgeon did a biopsy for an odd pimple that I had for years. She looks at it and says that it reminds her of Congressman Steve Schiff, who died in 18 months from a stage 1 skin cancer-Even French and English oncologists consulted in his care. 4 days after the biopsy, I had about 6 new cancers in, around, my nose and lip.

OK, my son is a disabled vet, and he freaked out during a colonscopy-he can't stand to see anybody unconscious, it reminds him of dead friends. So, I insisted on being awake in the office, while she did the second biopsy that turned into surgery. I'm so lucky that she's a plastic surgeon, because my varient seems to be like a dandelion, with it's seeds blowing in the wind. The term is that the "Scalpel spreads the cancer" or "The cancer falls off of the scalpel".

So, in the 2nd biopsy, I heard her cutting and scraping bone in different parts of my nose and sinus. Finally, she says, "OOPS, I CUT WAY TOO MUCH OUT. IT'S EVERYWHERE AND I CAN"T GET CLEAN EDGES." By 3 days my right side of my face, my nose, lip, etc was filled with tumors that ran the size of a gree pea to large marbles. My nose was turned sideway, and my lips looked like a BOTOX overdose. It also saved a month of waiting to get into oncology.

Hi, this wouldn't post on the Spring question.
WIND-DUST STORMS-BLIZZARDS-FOREST and PRAIRIE WIND SWEPT FIRES (8)-WIND and more WIND. WIND THAT BLOWS TREES DOWN. WIND THAT BLOWS CARS AND TRUCKS OFF OF THE ROAD. They test robots and outer space equipment for MARS here because of the extreme temps.

This state borders Mexico----One day last week- WE had Snow, ICE from the early morning, WIND that knocked down trees-by 5 PM, here in Albuquerque, we had the patio door open to enjoy the evening. The next, day ice in the morning, an afternoon wind-30 mph and up a pleasant evening. WIND----It's not just North- it is also altitude--Even the state of Chihuahua shares this weather.

Hi Molly, I want to thank you very much for writing what you did at the question which seemed to try to ridicule barryboomer. Im truly very sorry for your pains.

I dont know how your $$ are holding out but I wonder if you wouldn't be willing to try a no harm, no foul experiment? If you are still under chemotherapy it may not work. If you have some specific allergy, it may not work. Other than that it will, almost assuredly, ease yours pain just a bit. Come to think of it, I also dont know your height and weight so the strength of the effect may be big or small but you will, almost assuredly, notice some lessening of the arthritis. It works for my arthritis. It worked for an arthritic pal who is a jewelry maker ... again.

Anyways, it is a simple trick. All it is is to eat (minimum) a cup of strawberries and 1/2 dozen cherries, daily, for a week. Lol, it wouldn't hurt if you included more and/or other berries and cherries too but the cup plus is minimum. If you can get them, a cup of sprouts (very young plants) daily would also be helpful but so many people draw a line in the sand there for some reason.

The worst that could happen it that you would eat something good tasting and good for you for a week. The minimum amount is very important. Most of us eat this and that occasionally but this becomes a minimum daily requirement for easing of symptoms.

I guess the request is for me as much as for you. So many people discount the healing possibilities of simple things like good food, good air, clean water, a little movement and a bit of attention to personal hopes.

Thanx for reading. Best wishes to you in any case. Please dont take offense. I mean well.

I watched "Cancer-The Emperor of all Maladies" and I still think cancer is hereditary. The program was an interesting source of info though & very encouraging. Incidently, I'm 83 and grateful to have lived this long before getting cancer.

Thank you so much for your feedback to my question. You expressed yourself well and gave me some things to follow up on and address in my book.
Food is a pleasure and also necessary for life. It's tough when something so much a part of our existence also becomes a source of such struggle, on a dailly basis.

How are you doing?

GIST tumor on my stomach diagnosis

Molly, How was your skin cancers diagnosed? Did your oncologist do a thorough exam or what? I was diagnosed/surgery on Feb 1st 2013.

I liked your post very much on the cancer being our fault question. Maybe we can share a post to be burned on

Have basal on face. What is the MOHs like? Have uterine cancer also. Judy

Hi! Read your notes on depression and fatigue and I adore the way you think. What can you possibly change in your life that might improve your health? Best wishes for recovered good health.

Dear Molly,

I saw your post on the site in response to the question re changes in appearance. I'm AlizaMLS, and I'm a breast cancer patient and also a Medical Librarian (retired). On this site I offer advice (non medical usually), referrals and research - I also do this elsewhere and for other people as well.

What you mentioned about all of the scars you have and how they can't be hidden touched a nerve for me. The cancer rates in my family are very high. That's one of the reasons I'm on this site doing what I do.

I can tell that you're in pain from all you've suffered from what you said in that post. I wanted to tell you that CancerCare is a great place for you to get a different and perhaps better perspective on what you've been through. The Social Workers there are trained specially and specifically to deal only with Cancer patients and their caregivers. Talking with them isn't like "regular therapy". It's wonderful. I see a CancerCare Social Worker and I feel much better than I had before.

I want to tell you a bit about me so you don't think I'm just being so nosy just to jump in. I had a mastectomy in Dec. I'm engaged and my Wedding was originally planned in Dec. (it was my second wedding-I'm 54). My future husband is a widower whose first wife died from ALS. I was diagnosed with Cancer in August. I told him to run like hell because his wife died a horrible, slow agonizing death and he was her caretaker, and I truthfully didn't think it was a healthy thing for this man to go through that again. I had Stage I cancer. I ended up being very lucky. I'm the only Breast cancer patient I know who didn't have either radiation or chemotherapy because I didn't need it (I had genetic testing which ruled it out). I'm on adjuvant therapy - Tamoxifen, which blocks Estrogen. And I'm being carefully watched. I'm treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. My fiancé stuck it out with me. He's a wonderful man! I just feel that if someone tells you that they notice that you're in pain and that you might benefit from chatting with someone, you deserve at least on this site, to hear their story too!

You have my best wishes. If there's anything I can do for you to help you from giving you information on books for recreational reading (I've been a Public and School Librarian as well as Medical) to book groups to research, please let me know. You can message me here or email me offsite.

Warm wishes,
AlizaMLS

Molly how are you doing? My husband just was found to have GIST and I am trying to find somebody who has been there to talk with me about it.