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Hello, my name is Charlotte I am 38 and have two children 12 and 8 years old. I used to worry about my husband getting lung cancer since both his father and grandfather died at an early age from it. We both quite smoking cigarets 11 years ago. He still has an occasional cigar.

March 15, 2008 saw blood in my urine and made an appointment with doctor for next day. For the next month they treated me for UTI and Kidney stones.

April 16, 2008 now having dark red urine. Had a complete physical and was told I was healthy and was told to hang in there the stone would soon pass. I demanded to

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I forgot to mention my classification has been changed from Mx to

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Dear Forum,

Today I had an appointment with my Urologist to discuss my scan results.

He was very happy with the results so far and suggested that I have a repeat CT scan in three months. This time it will be a full body scan instead of the usual torso.

Having just come back from a Urology conference his advise to me was that I should supplement my diet with all of the B vitamins and eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables instead of processed foods. And to take regular exercise to reduce body fat.

Sounds pretty much how a healthy diet should be I guess...Oh I do love a quarter pounder cheese now

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Dear Forum,

The days building up to my appointment today for the results of the CT scan were very difficult although this weekend I had a feeling of peace. A feeling that everything will be ok and this gave also a feeling of calm.

Today in the waiting room of course my stomach was once again turning with nerves until my oncologist called me in.

The scan was clear which is fantastic news....nothing could be seen except a small bladder stone in my new bladder.

I was taken on a step by step tour of my body looking at each section of the CT scan. Even the cysts that I had in my right kidney and the

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Dad had r/c on the 2nd of april, Operation went really well, it took a bit longer than they orig said as they decided to also take the urethra or water pipe as Dr put it, he also had to have his left urita cut down further as the cancer had advanced into it.
So he had bladder, prostate, urethra, lymp nodes (not sure how many) & a large section of left urita taken out, which they cut & sent of to path whilst he was under, news came came back still cancer, cut again, sent off, still cancer, cut more sent off, clear.
Dad seemed to recover quite well, apart from some blood pressure issues & being

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Hi everyone, thank you all for caring. Joes lymphoma is stage two , confined to the groin area, He had his first chemo mon and is very tired , tonight he threw up for the first time, so now I guess it will be about getting into a new way of living for awhile.
    We got some very bad news on Mon morning . Our nephew Jimmy who was 36 died. Jimmy was on blood thinners and fell down the steps carring a load of clothes. He hit his head ,they got him to the hospital but couldn't save him , he bled into his brain. Jimmy leaves behind his wife 6 year old daughter and 2 year old son. Joes to sick for

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Hi everyone, hope you are all well. Tomorrow we go back to the hospital for the first chemo treatment, they are going to keep him because they expect the tumor to die off fast and they have to make sure it doesn't ruin his kidneys. He told me to go skiing today as it was the last day of the season, I went but didn't stay long , it's like my son said whats the point.
  I have been thinking of my bladder cancer more and I guess that is natural, and I wonder does it scare me yet. I know to some I might sound flip about the bc sometimes and if I have ever offended anyone that is going thru the

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Hi everyone, thank you for all your kindness, I took my husband back to the hospital the next day and they put the port in. I was doing pretty good then I caught the creeping crud in the hospital and ended up pretty sick.
    I guess just having my own tur done and then this has left my body worn down. It is hard to keep it together when you feel so tired and sick yourself. I can,t evan walk like I do to get rid of the stress. I keep forgetting to set up my next scope . Thank you all again for  your kindness you are all in my thoughts. Rocky
 

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Hi everyone ,thanks for the good thoughts. It is diffuse large cell b type. They are doing a pet scan and bone marrow next week to find out more about the lymphoma.
  The oncologist had a fellowship in bone marrow transplantation at John Hopkins so she has to be on the ball I guess . She wants to start chemo now ! She said this is an agressive type ,but because of that it should respond to the chemo .
  The hospital discharged us at 9:45 tonight and we had an hour ride home, we waited all day for a port to be put in but the surgeon couldn't get to him , so it is now 12:30 and I am very tired

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  Hi everyone,  Thanks for the quotes the mother t one gave me a chuckle.
  It is lymphoma, now they just have to figure out what kind . The leg is really swollen and the worst part is not having the time to do any research  (because it is acute) to find out where and who is the best to treat this , at least with my b.c. I had time to figure out who was the best in my area (John Hopkins). I got to come home for a couple of hours today while my daughter sits with my husband so I will start trying to figure it all out.
  The staff where he is are wonderful but the place is filthy !! They

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