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You poor baby, Lilian. What a stressful time on top of the crises the world

now faces. Poor Allan, I hope they can keep him pain free as possible! I

pray for you and Allan that it's all over soon and with great success.

Love Lana

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Dear Lilian,

No, you are not alone! I pray that may find some comfort in the

support he gets from you. My prayers are also with you, that you may find

the strength to handle 's situation.

God Bless,

Judy King

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hi Lilian,

I am so very sorry to hear about Allan! I know how hard it is to watch

someone you love go through this. I sure wish there was something I could do

to help. If I lived nearer I would come and sit with him for awhile so you

could have some YOU time. You did the right thing by calling the Care nurse

to come so you could sleep. Is there anyone else you could call to be with

Allan just every once in awhile so you could do something for yourself? It's

so important for you to get rest and try to keep yourself as up as possible.

I will certainly keep you both in my prayers dear friend!

Love Lana

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Lilian, I am so sorry to hear all this. I don't know you at all yet, but I

have the feeling we'll be getting to know each other well. My husband is

going in for an endescope of the esophogus next Thursday. He has a

precancerous condition called Barrett's esophogus. It hasn't been followed

like it should (his fault not the docs) and they are now looking for a

cancer. The type of cancer he'd have from Barrett's has less than a 10 %

survival rate of 1 year. There are no 5 year stats. In other words, you don't

live 5 years.

He goes in next thursday, then we'll find out just how badly our lives are

being turned upside down. Right now he's struggling with bronchitis/pneumonia

and last week was having to go through cardiac testing. UGH.

This is hard. I'm so sorry you're having to go through it, if you need to

vent ... I'm here.

Peggikaye

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Allan and I saw the oncologist on Tuesday and the news is that he has

two types of cancer. The tumour in the lung was a carcinoid tumour

(slow growing) and seems to have been removed entirely.

Unfortunately he also has adenocarcinoma of the lymph gland in his

chest. This is the fast spreading cancer and at the moment we do not

know where the primary cancer of this type is. We were advised that 3

of every 5 patients with this type of cancer do not make it to 5

years from diagnosis. I did not have the courage to ask how many

made it to 1 year of diagnosis.

It is planned that Allan start 20 days of radiotherapy in January,

2002 and in the meantime I have to try and build him up both mentally

and physically. He is too ill at present to even consider

radiotherapy any earlier.

The antibiotics prescribed for the wound infection have caused him to

be so nauseous and sick that it has upset his diabetes and we have to

do blood sugar monitoring throughout the night as well as through the

day. After Saturday, Sunday and Monday night without medications or

much sleep (about 4 hours each night in snatches) I spoke to the

MacMillan Cancer Care nurse who arranged for someone from Care Watch

to come in last night and tonight to wake him for his blood sugar

tests to let me get some uninterrupted sleep.

I had to call in the doctor again on Wednesday and he said to stop

the antibiotics and hopefully once they are out of his system the

nausea and vomiting should settle down. The Stemetil prescribed to

stop the sickness also started him being sick immediately after

taking it so we have stopped that too.

Love, hugs and grateful thanks to you all for your prayers and

support.

Lilian

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In a message dated 10/10/01 10:26:55 PM Central Daylight Time,

mom2tazbug@... writes:

> Peggikaye

Hi Peggikaye,

You must be a strong woman having to go through this as well. I admire you

and Lilian a great deal. Please know that you and your husband will also be

in my prayers!

Love Lana

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In message , tootsalba

writes

>Allan and I saw the oncologist on Tuesday and the news is that he has

>two types of cancer. The tumour in the lung was a carcinoid tumour

>(slow growing) and seems to have been removed entirely.

>Unfortunately he also has adenocarcinoma of the lymph gland in his

>chest. This is the fast spreading cancer and at the moment we do not

>know where the primary cancer of this type is. We were advised that 3

>of every 5 patients with this type of cancer do not make it to 5

>years from diagnosis. I did not have the courage to ask how many

>made it to 1 year of diagnosis.

<snip>

Lilian,

I am still sending hugs, purrs (sorry about the drool) and prayers to

you and Allan. And my offer still stands. If there is anything I can do,

please let me know. Not well enough to travel or I would be there

helping you.......

--

Fuller

Winchester, England

HEDS (VEDS overlay), FMS, OA, IBS, lumbar scoliosis, tinnitus, some hearing

loss, stomach problems, chronic depression, multiple allergies, asthma....

Please excuse any typos or odd phrases. I am talking to the Dragon.

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Lilian,

I'm sorry I'm so late with this but I just read about Allan having 2

different kinds of cancer. I'm so sorry. I pray that you get some quality

time with each other. Maybe it will help you to get through this better.

I'll pray for Allan during his radiation therapy. If there's anything we can

do, let us know!

Love ya, Janet

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Lilian,

I'm sorry I'm so late with this but I just read about Allan having 2

different kinds of cancer. I'm so sorry. I pray that you get some quality

time with each other. Maybe it will help you to get through this better.

I'll pray for Allan during his radiation therapy. If there's anything we can

do, let us know!

Love ya, Janet

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