Hi,
My name is Heidi, I am 32yr old and I was diagnosed with colon cancer stage IV, in November 05, I had colon resect surgery in Dec (no colostomy), found that it had spread to my liver. . In Jnuary when healed enough I started Chemo but not before they did a "petscan" and another CT, where it showed that I have 11 spots on my liver and a lymph node near where they took out my colon and another lymph node near my right ovarie that are both cancer. They thought that my right ovarie was caner but could not tell, in feb when I had my first ct scan again after starting chemo, it showed the spots to all be shrinking and lymph nodes, the ovarie they said does not appear to be canerous after all just a cyst. whew... ..I am on avastin, oxyplatin, lucovorin and 5-fu and I come home on an IV for an additional 46 hours. I have Chemo every 12 days, with it being this monday coming up. I am so scared all the time, everyone says the statistics are outdated. How long have you all been living with stage IV, for the ones out there with it. I am worried all the time again more so cause scans are coming up again on the 4th (the day after my Birthday). I hope to get through this I have 3 children and wonderful Husband, our son together was born 18 months ago and I just want to see him grow. My other two are 14 and 11 and they are taking this so hard, I have them both in counsling. Well I hope to hear from everyone and get to know you all very soon.