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| Have you lost a loved one to cancer? |
| Yes, and I greive for them to this day. |
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| Yes, and I'm glad they dont have to suffer any longer. |
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| I have (had) lymphoma. |
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| I have (had) a type of cancer. |
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| No, I'm here to offer my support to this cause. |
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| Not to lymphoma, but a differnt kind. |
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 Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:48 am
BlueKiM09 RainbowRainz Nerdy_boy and Diemend- someone I care about told me something to this effect when I was afraid of my grand father's passing-
"If I passed on and someone became depressed and ceased living normally, I would take it as a kick in the teeth. Mourning is natural, but when it rules over the rest of your life it's an insult to their memory. No-one you love or are linked to in such a way would want the people they left behind to lose themselves. Be strong, remember them and live on as they would wish you to."
I don't know if that would strike you as it did me, but it's fairly true... if we love them, we will live well with their memory.
The fact that in your case Diemend- he's still fighting, shows he is a true strong hearted person. As should we be through it all... and Nerdy- you shouldn't feel heartsore at not being able to greive for your father. Spare him a thought and a place in your heart- its just another way of letting him be a part of you.
Blue- this is a support group too, surely? If people want to talk of their mourning, just try and empathize =] .
I am aware that the topic is distressing- but cancer as a whole is a dark thing.
Anyway, here's the link to Gins Spoony Day . Be sure to read the front page before you post? xxx I think if you miss someone enough, you need to cry. Tears come from your heart- they're a part of letting people go in some cases.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:50 am
Nerdy_Boy_4evah napralina- Welcome to Team Lymphoma. I will add your name to the list when I get back from school. I gotta run, guys! See y'all later! later ^^
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:30 pm
I have a great respect for the starters of this thread....It's great to have this going
I lost my maternal grandfather to a rare form of Lymphoma almost a year ago when it spread to his brain
But there is also a success story as my maternal grandmother beat her form of Lymphoma and has been cancer free for several years now....my thoughts are with still fighting the fight and to all who have lost loved ones......at least we know they live on in our hearts
Blessed Be!!
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:23 pm
I'm back~napralina, Ill add ur name asap!
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:37 pm
Hi everyone ^^
This is one of the only guilds I can fully accept myself to because of the personal struggles my mother had [because she's beaten it] with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and support all those that are currently dealing with the worries and stresses that cancer can cause in daily lives.
Bless all of you for your continuing support here on Gaia! ♥
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:43 pm
-Mizu teh Artsi- Hi everyone ^^
This is one of the only guilds I can fully accept myself to because of the personal struggles my mother had [because she's beaten it] with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and support all those that are currently dealing with the worries and stresses that cancer can cause in daily lives.
Bless all of you for your continuing support here on Gaia! ♥
PM I was going to send you: Quote: Of course~ When I read your reason for joining, I knew that you were going to join. Im glad to hear your mother's fate was better than my poor father's. I do not know the stresses of having a family member with cancer **Although my father had Non-Hodgkin's too** but I hope that your mother stay cancer-free and recover completely from NHL. Im glad to have you on the team. I want to hear about your mothers fight, to learn more about how NHL affected your life. Ill tell you how it affected mine~
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:38 pm
It was a shock, to say the least. Me and my mother worked out regularily, and then she progressively started feeling weaker and weaker, stamina going down. She already had a doctors appointment to get a goiter looked at, and then the doctor noted something was off and got her a bunch of MRI's and CT scans.
That started happening around....June of 2009? Diagnosed in August as Stage 2 ...can't remember if it was C or T cell (the good one out of those ones) Non-Hodkin's Lymphoma, all in her chest cavity as it was constraining her heart somewhat, and her breathing was being affected as well. It wasn't found anywhere else, though it was funny for her because she found out a whole load of other things like having arthritis from a bone scan, a non-threatening cyst in her nasal cavity, and something in her abdomen, again non-threatening, and started chemo in October.
We were all laid back, never really showed our worries, and people saw this and would always tell us how strong we were as a family, and that it really showed! Once she started chemo, once every three weeks till the day before her birthday on February 1st, she took the treatments fairly well, in the beginning was very sick, and they finally found an anti-nauseant that worked really really well for her. In the end she had gotten tired of her itchy head, so my dad cut/shaved the sides off, took pictures of her with a mohawk xDDD and then my brother shaved the rest off. It was so funny xD and it really shows how much strength in reality we did have.
She got to ring the bell on her last day of chemo, the day before her birthday [happy birthday! xD], and all the nurses cheered for us too! The hospital staff were really amazing and great to talk to! From there, she had more scans, which revealed that she was pretty much all clear, but she did three weeks of radiation as a precaution. She had to travel to a partnered hospital about an hour and 15 minutes away, and she'd rally some available friends (and myself and brother. We got some highway experience to our driver's experience xD) and from Monday-Friday she'd go early afternoon, have a very quick 15 second session and away we went back home ^^.
It was an eye-opening as well as a strengthening moment for me personally. I knew my mother as a very strong person, both physically, mentally and emotionally, and even when she went through this she was extremely strong, and now shes out, walking about, her hair about as long as my brother's which is still kind of short, and enjoying life at 50 xD. She jokes that everything's happening at 50.
That's my story ^^ It's sad to hear about your case, as well as everyone elses, but I think even so it's a strengthening tool and a tool to really help each other family or a friend unit, no matter how far along things are, to be strong till it's done, and find a great sense of peace, knowing that the doctors will do all they can to help, and the rest is up to God and his work, through faith, and that's another thing that really kept us at peace.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:52 pm
*sniffles* Your story brought tears to my eyes.
I'm so happy that she survived and got over it. About the strength of your family. Im glad that NHL didn't take her life. God chose to bless her wihth a longer life and my father relief from the pain. I know he now watches me from above, along with his Navy friends. He is up there, partying with his best friend. I can just imagine all the names they are calling each other. *quietly laughs*
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:43 pm
BlueKiM09 
Can I cry now? Stop talking about mourning! You're going to make me cry! How about a play list contest? The more your play list is informative about cancer, the more your odds to win! So? Game?
@Rainbow:Sure! Why not? Great idea! I'll put it together tomorrow at lunch, then have it posted (hopefully) by tomorrow evening. My school blocks Gaia. Also, Nerdy, I'm sending 20k to the mule for more contest prizes. And I think I sent the updates to the front page to the wrong person, so I'll send them to you tomorrow. If you can update whatever possible in the meantime, that'd be great.
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:56 am
@-Mizu teh Artsi-: Great story! Good thing it was found before the disease got worse and your mother is now feeling well! Oh and by the way, Welcome to Team Lymphoma! The best team I've ever joined! Well for now... I think? sweatdrop
@FEELtheNOVOCAIN: Can I donate? I've already donated 30k, please use it for the contest!
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:05 am
Guys, I really have time problems... I can't catch up to you if this continues... Afternoon here morning there, April 13, 5:58 here, April 13 2am in the morning there! What shall I do? Any advice?
Who wants to hug the plushie I'm holding?
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:52 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:37 am
Nerdy_Boy_4evah *sniffles* Your story brought tears to my eyes. I'm so happy that she survived and got over it. About the strength of your family. Im glad that NHL didn't take her life. God chose to bless her wihth a longer life and my father relief from the pain. I know he now watches me from above, along with his Navy friends. He is up there, partying with his best friend. I can just imagine all the names they are calling each other. *quietly laughs* Blessed be, hun
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:43 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:34 pm
trying to be as active here as i can. this is actually pretty important to me because my father had stage 4 lymphoma and barely made it through. he is lucky to be alive and i currently live with him. i feel blessed. heart
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