Prayers and best wishes from Connecticut

Wow! Great posts. I'll bring up the questions of treating some symptoms before they are problems. I was in a lot of pain during the visit and haven't been sleeping...so I'm surprised I remembered as much as I did. I do recall he said I could start certain treatments now to relieve whatever I had goi...

Well, I thought about not posting at all about this, but then what is the point of being here I thought. So I posted what I felt like posting about it and now I see the benefit. Actually, I see I wrote longer than I thought too. I guess I've found a workable laptop-from-bed use with my laptop laidba...

Met my radiologist tocay. Wonderful guy, very thougough in his explanations. I also like his positive but not vacuous attitude. He asked if the overall process had been explained. I told him what we already knew included that I probably...no, seems definitely...will have a permanent bag. He explaine...

Aha! Great thread. I've got some, and I've only been diagnosed about 11 days ago! I'll have to first explain that my wife has been balding for years...her hair is very thin...makes no diff to me as she's talked to her doctors and it's an understood condition. Anyway, she took my news hard. That's wh...

What a love-ly thread. î'm going to my church's website next to find their prayer line. I was diagnosed about 11 ago. I've spnt most of last week in the presence of God, in the form of wonderful conversations with friends and family. I know He won't give me more than I can take, and I pray only to m...

Thanks everyone

Well, travel didn't do me in, so I was happy about that! It is rectal cancer very low, not well defined. Digital exam was difficult and whatever the other probe was was very difficult, so there is no way to do the ultrasound at this time. I'm looking at a permanent bag when the time comes as there i...

Wow! All the stage IV folks piping in here, thanks so much. I don't even know any of you, but I just added to my prayers.... Weisssoccermom - Wow. Great suggestions. Lots there i hadn't thought about. I do have a folder I started but I didn't have a good concept yet. I can see I need another for rec...

Wow guys! I don't remember all the anethesiologist told me, but god bless her, I was out seconds after the injection and only recall wondering why the nice ladies were waking me from a wonderful nap. Then I thew the cranberry juice across the table and onto my shoes LOL I guess I wasn't awake enough...

It's weird. I had my 39th birthday on a Sunday...still ill on the couch a day before an appointment with my brand new gastroenterologist. That Wednesday tney knocked me out for a colonoscopy, and on Friday, with wife in tow and kid ad camp, I learned that I had colorectal cancer. Boom. I don't drink...