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STABLE!
Praise God! I am so happy to hear this good news
Laurie
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My Sister Has Passed
I wrote on here a lot about my sister and thought I would let you all know that she passed away on March 11th. She was home until just 3 days before she died she went into Hospice. Hospice is wonderfu...
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Avastin AND Decadron?
My sister only had one treatment of Avastin/Cpt-11. By the time we went for the second treatment she was so weak she couldn't walk anymore. The nurse called the doctor in before they started the I...
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Avastin AND Decadron?
My sister is getting Avastin IV every two weeks now and is on Decadron. As a matter of fact they just increased it from 4 mg. back to 6 mg. again. She is not doing very well :(
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Avastin
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I found this about Avastin, it was pretty easy to understand. Hope it helps
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Like A Nightmare (At Times)
I have been following your posts and I love the relationship you have with your brother. I have never been close with my 2 brothers and I kind of regret that. Gwen is my brothers ex wife but we call e...
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Good News Today
Thanks for sharing your good news. My sister starts her treatment of Avastin and CPT-11 on Monday. She is scared but I will let her know how good your brother is doing. My thoughts are with you
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Like A Nightmare (At Times)
I remembered that when was first diagnosed in the hospital she developed diabetes from the Decadron and required insulin. I questioned why they weren't testing her sugar at home when she is on Dec...
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Like A Nightmare (At Times)
I know I am being a bit negative here but my sister is not doing as well as a lot of people following the typical course so far. The oncologist told us the other day that she is not the typical GBM pa...
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Not So Good News
My sister went back for her 2 month checkup with Duke. They found her brain was very swollen and what they weren't sure was a tumor 2 months ago is a tumor and it has grown much bigger since the l...
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My wife has Glioblastoma IV and its inoperable due to size and location.
I am so sorry. I was just reading your post again last night. You seem like a wonderful man and a wonderful husband
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Not to sound morbid
I spoke to a woman and her husband was on his 44th month of Temodar so it just proves that some people live a lot longer than statistics claim. My sister was diagnosed 5 months ago. About 3 weeks ago ...
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Just don't know what to do
I am going through the same exact thing with my sister. On her follow up MRI after radiaiton they found a new spot but the Duke specialist thinks it's only from the radiation, not a recurring tumo...
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NovaTTF device
I don't know of anyone using it yet. I read about it and got excited until I looked further into it it said that if a person has any type of device or hardware in their head they cannot use it. My...
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