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Hi List,

I have been battling colon cancer since March of 2004. Here's my

story.....On March 23, 2004 I was involved in an head-on collision

with a jackknifed semi truck which was sitting in the middle of the

road. I don't have a lot of memory from that point on but did wake

up in ICU about two days later. While I was in the ICU the doctors

found that I was bleeding from the rectum so they did a colonoscopy

and confirmed that I had colon cancer. I was in such bad shape that

they couldn't do anything about it at that time. In June 2004 I went

in for the colon resection and followed up with six months of

chemotherapy - 4 weeks on with 2 weeks off with FU5 and leucovorian

(sp?). That ended in February 2005.

I went back for my check-up in late May and they found that the

cancer had spread to my liver. I went for surgery in July to have a

liver resection and the surgeon said he was sure he got it all and

there was no cancer found in the margins. He also did a sonogram on

the remaining part of the liver and found no cancer. My oncologist

didn't feel that I needed to follow up with chemo so that's where I'm

at right now.

I will go back in December for a CT scan and am hoping for the best

but am cautiously optimistic. I am having a hard time living with

the fear of the cancer recurring and would like to know how all of

you deal with it.

Many thanks and hope to become a regular on this list.

Sue