Cancer SUCKS

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  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    So glad to hear about your son @Merry Vole .
  • Mr Image has passed. It was peaceful.
  • And may peace be with you too, Graven Image.
  • God keep you at this time and always.
  • bassobasso Shipmate
    Peace to you and to Mr Image.
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    So sorry for your loss.
  • I’m so sorry, @Graven Image! Thankful it was peaceful, but so sorry!
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    May he rest in peace. I'm sorry for your loss.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
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  • I am so sorry for your loss 🕯May he rest in peace.
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I'm so sorry, Graven Image.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Our deepest sympathy
  • WandererWanderer Shipmate
    I'm sorry for your loss @Graven Image RIPARIG Mr Image.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    I am sorry to read this. May Mr Image rest in peace and may you know peace also.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    I am so sorry, Graven Image.
  • Thank you all on this thread who have shared this long journey with me. It was nice to share news and feel less alone. Thanks also for kind ears on those moments when I needed to rant in a safe place. I have been blessed these past few days by many who have shared Mr. Image stories with me. My best so far is our 54-year-old son told me when he sat with his father and held his hand last week they did something they had not done since he was small. He told me he and his dad use to play a game whenever they held hands. His dad would squeeze his hand 3 times really quickly and then he would try and squeeze his dad's hand faster. He said his dad always won until this last game he beat him. Bittersweet.
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    That is a wonderful last memory for your son to have. Glad Mr Image's passing was peaceful. A my late mother in law always said look after you.
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  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Oh Graven Image, I'm so sorry. May Mr Image rest in peace and rise in glory.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Thank you all on this thread who have shared this long journey with me. It was nice to share news and feel less alone. Thanks also for kind ears on those moments when I needed to rant in a safe place. I have been blessed these past few days by many who have shared Mr. Image stories with me. My best so far is our 54-year-old son told me when he sat with his father and held his hand last week they did something they had not done since he was small. He told me he and his dad use to play a game whenever they held hands. His dad would squeeze his hand 3 times really quickly and then he would try and squeeze his dad's hand faster. He said his dad always won until this last game he beat him. Bittersweet.

    Bittersweet, yes, but a wonderful post.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    @Graven Image I'm so very sorry for your loss. I'm praying that your heart will be full of peace and happy memories.
  • DormouseDormouse Shipmate
    I'm sorry. I've not been on the Ship for a while. My prayers for you @Graven Image May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
  • @ Dormouse, Thank you his service was yesterday so your thoughts were indeed right on time for the day. It was a day of happy memories from friends and a beautiful service. I did a thing that was a bit in reverse from the usual I held the reception first in the church garden, and people shared their memories and then we went into the church for the service. Many told me they liked meeting Mr. Image's other friends and hearing about his life before the service.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Glad to hear it went well, GI. 🤗
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    That sounds an excellent idea @Graven Image . I’m so glad it went well. Thinking of you.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Glad it went well.
  • The thread no one wants to be in ... after years praying through this thread and its predecessors, it's my turn to report in a prostate cancer diagnosis given yesterday. Caught early and eminently treatable but unsettling nonetheless. After reading the PCa online support groups and the last 121 pages, I'm very fortunate. Prayers would be appreciated for five assorted adult offspring who are concurrently watching their mum (my ex) going through surgery and chemo for breast cancer.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Praying for you and your family @Qoheleth . So sorry to hear this.
  • So sorry to hear this.
  • I'm sorry, how scary.
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  • Prayers ascending. I have a blood test this week to montor my CLL.
    Lord have mercy!
  • @Qoheleth , Prayers for you and your family. May all be well.
  • SarasaSarasa All Saints Host
    @Qoheleth, prayers for you and your family. My brother in law was diagnosed with prostate cancer a few months ago, and after surgery is doing very well
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Qoheleth wrote: »
    The thread no one wants to be in ... after years praying through this thread and its predecessors, it's my turn to report in a prostate cancer diagnosis given yesterday. Caught early and eminently treatable but unsettling nonetheless. After reading the PCa online support groups and the last 121 pages, I'm very fortunate. Prayers would be appreciated for five assorted adult offspring who are concurrently watching their mum (my ex) going through surgery and chemo for breast cancer.

    Prayers for you, Qoheleth. There has been enormous improvement in treatment, but when I had my operation coming up to 30 years ago now, the operation still had various side effects. The good thing was that having had the operation soon after diagnosis, I was now free from the risk of that common cause of cancer death amongst men.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Prayers ascending
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Prayers ascending
  • I am really rather frightened at the moment. My mother is being kept alive by capsules which provide replacements for the pancreatic secretions which don't happen because her pancreas is full of cancer cells. This can't be removed because it is lovingly wrapped around a number of huge blood vessels.

    The scary part is that the main manufacturer of these capsules appears to have gone bust, and certainly the supply she has relied on has more or less dried up. Getting hold of these replacements has turned into a full time job, and a replacement or a solution to the company's ills is desperately needed before my mother resumes starvation, because she can't digest what she is eating, as lead her to a desperate state in the three months before the (new primary) cancer was diagnosed.

    Prayers/positive thoughts/purchasing of small to medium sized pharmaceutical company all welcome.
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    So sorry to hear this @ThunderBunk ; praying for you and your mother and a swift way forward for obtaining the medication she needs.
  • How scary for you and your mother. Praying for a quick solution for her and all who need this medication.
  • That's terrible. Prayers.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Truly horrible, and prayers from us.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host
    (((ThunderBunk and ThunderMom)))
    Praying.
  • MPaulMPaul Shipmate
    Thunderbunk: prayers/positive thoughts/purchasing of small to medium sized pharmaceutical company all welcome.
    Definitely will. Very sorry to hear that.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    Just a piece of good news about a medical discovery. The advances in medical sciences these days are amazing.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Ariel wrote: »
    Just a piece of good news about a medical discovery. The advances in medical sciences these days are amazing.

    Amazing is an understatement.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    That is wonderful. My late father had myeloma - I knew nothing about myeloma until he was diagnosed and we found that other people tended to confuse myeloma with melanoma.
  • Such hopeful news. Thanks for the post.
  • Wonderful news!
  • I've seen a similar piece of news about a drug developed for solid tumors that has just gone into stage one trials on humans after succeeding amazingly in mice, etc. I read up a lot on stuff that was in the pipeline back in 2017 when my sister was dying, and some of this may be finally coming to fruit. I hope so, but I'm wary of putting much hope in anything that hasn't gotten to stage three trials in humans.
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