I'm so sorry to hear this My MIL is currently battling malignant melanoma too, hers was found in her brain at first. Please don't give up hope, there are a few new drugs approved recently that can buy some time. There is one called Zelboraf that works in 50% of patients. If your doctor doesn't come up with a treatment plan, I would get a second opinion at a large university hospital. Take care and I wish you and your mom the very best.
Thank you guys <3 I'm home, working was actually good, I had to concentrate on something else. I'm eating and then I'm going to take an ativan. If I'm still here, I'll be loopy...
I'm so so sorry Em. I can only imagine how devastating this must be. Take care of yourself, and don't be afraid to grieve and be sad. Spend as much time as you can with her, I know that is what I would do.
I'm so sorry to hear this My MIL is currently battling malignant melanoma too, hers was found in her brain at first. Please don't give up hope, there are a few new drugs approved recently that can buy some time. There is one called Zelboraf that works in 50% of patients. If your doctor doesn't come up with a treatment plan, I would get a second opinion at a large university hospital. Take care and I wish you and your mom the very best.
I've never heard of this, thanks. I hope things have changed a lot in three years.
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” - Natalie Goldberg
I'm so sorry, em. I'll be thinking about you guys.
Good job getting a grief counselor. I wish I had talked to someone sooner about my mom's health.
((Hugs))
I told my mom I had made an appt. Mom: "WHY???" Me: ? Mom: "Are you going to tell him about the time that I accidentally forgot you at that birthday party?"
Post by paddywagon on Feb 25, 2013 23:12:57 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear about your mom. Things have come a long way in three years as far as treatments, etc. Like someone else said, if she beat the hell out of it the first time, she can do it again! Don't give up hope yet and think it's over now.
My mom was diagnosed in the fall of 2008 with stage IV b stomach cancer. It was, as far as everyone was concerned, terminal. No options for surgery, very few options for treatment. It had spread into her lymph nodes in her neck, as well as other places. Her oncologist didn't know of any treatments that had been successful at treating her cancer. The oncologists at Barnes in St. Louis really weren't hopeful either. Whatever they did, it worked. She's been in remission for 3.5 years now. It will be +5 years for survival in October. The +5 years of survival for people with her type of cancer was less than 10%.
Don't give up hope yet. It's not over until it's over. Fuck you cancer!