Cancer SUCKS

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  • Thank you all for your support. It has struck me that it can't often happen that being told you have a year to live is the cause of such rejoicing. ;) But I'm very happy happy with the news too.
  • bassobasso Shipmate
    Wonderful news, Robert.
    I had a moment of real worry when I saw the count of new posts on this thread. It so often means bad news. Glad to see things turn out!
  • idjidj Shipmate Posts: 28
    I’m going away now. There’s so much pain. I’m so tired. Please pray for me.
  • Upholding you in God's loving presence, @idj, @Robert Armin and all those going through this shadow of death.

    My mum's just surfacing now from her third bout of three-weekly chemo - the side effects this time were horrible. She's about to start a weekly regime, well next Thursday anyway. Who knows the joys......
  • Heartfelt prayers for @idj.
  • Excellent news!
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    (idj)
  • Prayers for @idj
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    🕯 @idj
  • idj wrote: »
    I’m going away now. There’s so much pain. I’m so tired. Please pray for me.

    Oh, I'm so sorry to read this.
    May the Lord lift his face on you, muffle your pain and give you peace.
  • Amen.

    @idj , please keep us updated, if you can.
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    What wonderful news, @Robert Armin! Live it up!

    🕯 @idj
    🕯 @ThunderBunk's mum

  • bassobasso Shipmate
    Prayers for idj.
  • Good news Robert Armin.

    Hugs for ((idj)), if acceptable.
  • I am exhausted

  • Continued prayers for all. May you find comfort from us who care, both known and unknown to you.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Oh, @idj, I'm so sorry. Still keeping you in my prayers.
  • 🕯 @idj
    🕯 @ThunderBunk's mum
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    ((( @idj ))) Please keep us updated!
    ((( @ThunderBunk and mum )))
    ((( @Robert Armin ))) Such good news!
    ((( @Galilit ))) Prayers always
    ((( From all affected by this evil disease )))

    I'm having tremendous pain and trouble moving around since taking a hard full-body fall on Saturday morning. Nothing was broken (I know this because I spent the day in the ER, having X-rays and CT scans), but you couldn't prove it from my pain levels and immobility. I'm grateful to have you all on my team.
  • Praying for you all, for rest, strength, and freedom from pain.
  • (((((( @Rossweisse ))))))
  • Prayers for all, with and extra Oomph for @Rossweisse.
  • ((Rossweise))
    ((idj))
    ((Galilit))
    ((Thunderbunk's mother))


  • ((Rossweise))
    ((idj))
    ((Galilit))
    ((Thunderbunk's mother))
    And For ((Robert Armin)) too.


  • Prayers for all!
  • Rossweisse and her poor abused body.
  • Twilight wrote: »
    Rossweisse and her poor abused body.

    Indeed and amen. And flights of orneries bring feather beds to cushion every protesting bone and joint.
  • Amen
  • I don't often post, but I read most days. You are in my daily thoughts and prayers. My recent check up mammogram was clear, but I'm still having unwanted side effects from the hormonetherapy. Seeing oncologist next week and the gynae/ surgeon the fortnight after. Hopefully something can be done.
    Ross, Robert, Galilit, idj, et al...may God give you all that you need.
  • Oh @Dormouse, the side effects often feel worse than the disease!

    Prayers for all, but especially @Rossweisse with pneumonia (in case anyone has missed the Prayer thread).
  • Praying for all affected...
  • OhherOhher Shipmate
    Holding all those in pain and all those in anxiety in the light of love and compassion.

    I have been reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Natural Causes, her 2018 investigation of the ways in which our collective struggles to extend life and battle ill health are sometimes anything but life-affirming. The cures and treatments sometimes do seem worse than the cures, ameliorations, remissions, etc. they purport to strive for. Her discussion of the role(s) of macrophages (and other types of cells) in both the destruction and metastasis of cancer cells is particularly unsettling. She writes, "If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and 'complexity,' we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else."

    While not an actual lab-coat-wearing practitioner of scientific research, Ehrenreich holds a Ph.D in cell biology and appears, at least to this layperson, to be keeping abreast of developments in her field.

  • "If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and 'complexity,' we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else."

    ISTM that this chimes in (sort of) with the Ministry of Healing practised in, umm, sensible Christian churches. That is to say, 'healing' may not necessarily mean the complete eradication of a Fell Complaint, but may mean being given the humility, and grace, to accept it, and to do something positive with it.

    Does that make sense? I'm not really quite sure what I mean...
    :confused:
  • Perhaps it's relevant to quote Ron Ferguson, a former Leader of the Iona Community and later the minister of St Magnus in Kirkwall (also a very wise and funny writer). He once wrote that when we are praying we’d better make sure we know the difference between curing and healing when we’re asking God for help. He later elaborated:

    I'd heard a radio programme in which a woman said she'd prayed for her husband - who was suffering from cancer - to be healed. Her husband did die, but before his death they discussed the matter, and he said he'd felt more "whole" than at any time in his life, even though his cancer was worsening. He was ready to meet his Maker, and that, for him, was a form of healing/wholeness/health. I think that makes sense”.
  • Perhaps it's relevant to quote Ron Ferguson, a former Leader of the Iona Community and later the minister of St Magnus in Kirkwall (also a very wise and funny writer). He once wrote that when we are praying we’d better make sure we know the difference between curing and healing when we’re asking God for help. He later elaborated:

    I'd heard a radio programme in which a woman said she'd prayed for her husband - who was suffering from cancer - to be healed. Her husband did die, but before his death they discussed the matter, and he said he'd felt more "whole" than at any time in his life, even though his cancer was worsening. He was ready to meet his Maker, and that, for him, was a form of healing/wholeness/health. I think that makes sense”.
  • Please pray for N and her family. She died yesterday, leaving a husband and three children (16, 14 and 11). I haven't seen much of her since her diagnosis (mid November) due to my own condition, and the speed with which the cancer moved has shocked me. Her family are in bits.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited February 2020
    So sorry for your loss, RA - may N. rest in peace.

    [tangent]
    ST - Ron Ferguson is indeed a very good, wise and funny man. He succeeded Bill Cant, the minister who married us, at St. Magnus and we got to know him when we came back for holidays.
    [/tangent]
  • Peace for all of us affected by this disease, patient, carer and friend.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    (((For N and all who love her)))
    <votive> For @Robert Armin, for @idj, for @Dormouse, For @Galilit, and for all who suffer from this monstrous disease,

    I’m back in hospital, with pneumonia (unless it’s heart), severe pain, and what not. I hope I can return to my home and felines very soon.
  • Prayers going up for N and her family.
  • Rossweisse wrote: »
    (((For N and all who love her)))
    <votive> For @Robert Armin, for @idj, for @Dormouse, For @Galilit, and for all who suffer from this monstrous disease,

    I’m back in hospital, with pneumonia (unless it’s heart), severe pain, and what not. I hope I can return to my home and felines very soon.

    [flexes arms, cracks knuckles] Can I bag you a cardiologist? Got some curare arrows, right here.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    I’m sure that one will turn up soon.
  • Wish the kitties could visit.
  • OhherOhher Shipmate
    ORNERIE ALERT: To your stations, and start singing.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    I think I'll just hum quietly. Last time I started singing the cat made a rude noise and left the room. :bawling:
  • AmosAmos Shipmate
    Out of the depths I have called to thee, O Lord. Prayers ascending, especially for Ross today.
  • It's great to hear from you directly @Rossweisse. Is it time for a crack team of Ship ninjas to kidnap a team of cardiologists for you?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited February 2020
    Does the Ship have Ninjas?
    :flushed:

    If so, time for them to get to work, along with the Orneries, and the Feline Ministers To The Sick...

    <votives galore> for all on this thread.
  • bassobasso Shipmate
    Huia wrote: »
    I think I'll just hum quietly. Last time I started singing the cat made a rude noise and left the room. :bawling:

    My mother used to have a cat that would lunge at her throat if she started singing. (Starting from her lap, of course.)
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