...our very own kennytwisted! Love the new one, you crazy man.

Nominees included brownbagger, CRGuy, sleen, Voxx...

BrownBagger wrote:I don't know if you find this as well, Kenny, but I've noticed that when it's fighting nausea, the pot doesn't really get me high. Same thing with narcotics--if they're killing pain, they have less of an effect on my conscious brain.

Second that.

You can't make everyone happy, and with all on your husband's and your plates you can't even come close. That's a hard truth that most of us long-term stage IVers learn. One thought: has your husband sat down face-to-face with his brothers and explained clearly his limitations with the intention of ...

CRguy wrote:BUTT it is nice to know there are good vets out there who can actually "put Humpty back together again !!!"
THREE times !!! ))

Absolutely!

How do you evaluate trials if you are not a doctor?? It's tough! I presume you have scoured the literature via pages-deep Google searches? I believe urelimab has been tried in non-solid tumors, so there should be something out there. Sometimes drugs have several names as they go through development...

May you be blessed for decades to come that a .6 CEA remains your biggest cancer worry!

CRGuy: how do you give a dog back to someone who lets their dog get hit three times? People!

Rob, this just shows what we already know -- you are special!!!

Yes to the cannabis, and your mom can take it in edible form if she doesn't want to make like Willie and smoke it. Also, I have found lorazepam (Ativan) to be better for my nausea than the other meds. It's normally an anti-anxiety med, but for some reason it helps with chemo nausea. When I had a rea...

Dear Fenchie, I am saddened to read your post, just like so many others here who care about you. I know you wanted to spend your last days in the mountains, and I'm sorry if that is not to be. Yet as I was thinking about this, it occurred to me that it is a strong person who has dreams until the end...

My MDA onc also said 5-FU bolus hasn't been shown to help, nor the leucovorin, they just make side effects worse. Didn't question it, just glad for a break. For whatever reason, my counts have always been good... so lucky me, I'll get the juice and think of you!

Katy, if you want inspiring stories, look for the thread titled something like "Longest living Stage IV survivors"... It'll be within the first 5 or 6 pages probably...

Deb, this just sucks and I'm sorry. If it is of any help, I too have "innumerable" mets (liver) and they haven't grown much going on 3 years now. Fall apart, eat ice cream, I know you'll come out swinging. btw, I looked into that study briefly earlier today for another poster, and it does ...

Oh, I feel silly. I had Celebrex on the brain and misread. I see the trial is with cetuximab. I'm on it, and it's a pain, but seems to be effective. Ignore the Celebrex comments, sorry! Don't think I messed up on anything else.

Katy, the TIL study may be a good option for your dad, and it is good you are collecting info. But be sure and check what results have been had in humans to date. I took a quick look at vemurafenib and it is heartening that it has shown some success for melanoma. From what I saw it looks like they a...

Thanks, Rob! For all who are thinking about SSDI, my experience has been that it is a very fair system with folks who really want to help. I was not at all sure about that when I started the process and I was pleasantly surprised every step of the way. mstults, I don't know if you've gotten to the M...