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  • Forum Post: My Mum is dying...

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    Posted 1 month ago
    Hello all, I am new to this and am looking for some comfort. My mum was diagnosed with Diabetes@ 2 years ago. She was admitted to hospital over 3 weeks ago with a 3-4cmcyst on her pancreas and was going to have an ascites drain. She now has abnormalities everywhere in her abdomen and the ascites...

  • Forum Post: Want your thoughts - 10min online survey

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    Posted 2 months ago
    My name is Natalie Seebeck and I am a student at the Lo ndon Metropolitan University studying Psychology. As part of this course, I am conducting a research project on people’s beliefs towards their illness/health condition and related treatment. You have been invited to take part in this study...

  • Forum Post: Update unfortunate ...........

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    Posted 3 months ago
    Hi all, I hope everyone is keeping strong. Just thought i would update you and also thank the people that replied to my post when i was really needing support and advice. I only just got the guts to come back on here ................... My mum passed away 10th August 2012. I spent the last few weeks...

  • Forum Post: Cancer patients and the feeling of 'Otherness'

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    Posted 3 months ago
    My name is Alex Reitemeier, I'm a psychology student at Nottingham Trent University doing some research into cancer. I want to find out if other people's reactions to a person's cancer shapes and changes their self-perception. I have emailed and received permission form the Macmillan...

  • Forum Post: Husband has pancreatic cancer

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    Posted 4 months ago
    I am looking for help dealing with my own emotions while trying to support my husband who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May 2011. He had a whipple in October 2011 and had to have chemo following the surgery. All seemed good until July when it appeared that the cancer had returned. Even though...

  • Forum Post: feeling useless

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi guys im new to the site so a bit lost at mo, my partner is 48 and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August after having problems eating. He had tail of pancreas removed in November and they also removed spleen as it was in way. During op they noticed lymph nodes were affected so removed 21 and...

  • Forum Post: I had bone cancer and now my dad has pancreatic cancer.

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    Posted 4 months ago
    I got bone cancer young at 21 and my dad got Pancreatic cancer at 55. It has spread to his liver and he has chemo. Worried what the will happen as my dad not as open about like me. Even tho he went private in Ireland and I'm NHS in the UK and I don't think his chances good because mine haven't...

  • Forum Post: Chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer

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    Posted 5 months ago
    My Dad, who is 75 years old, has pancreatic cancer with liver mets. He is having Gemcitabine chemotherapy and it is knocking him sideways. His quality of life is really poor. He drifts in and out of sleep and is so weak. He and I are wondering what his quality of life would be like if he were to opt...

  • Forum Post: Re: What to expect :(

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    Posted 6 months ago
    Hi everyone My mom was diagnosed it must have been around August, she began feeling ill in May/June. We went on holiday and she was all panicked and convinced something was wrong- she previously had breast cancer. She developed jaundice and then it was all snowballed from there, but it took 6 weeks...

  • Forum Post: Re: What to expect :(

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    Posted 6 months ago
    My husband was diagnosed in august too and was told the same thing - a matter of months. He said that the chemo could extend his life by a few monthsat most, but that seemed better than nothing. It gives you a fighting chance in what seems a hopeless situation. After all there are exceptions where the...

  • Forum Post: All Party Parliamentary Group meeting on Pancreatic Cancer 19/11 - pester your MP to go!

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    Posted 6 months ago
    Hey all Thought I would add this info here in case anyone feels able to lend their voice. Pancreatic Cancer UK ( http://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/ ) had a "day of action" on 1st November, encouraging supporters to contact their local MP and invite them to the next All Party Parliamentary...

  • Forum Post: My dad recently got diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and it has also spread. In 2008 I got bone cancer, it seems to never go away from my family and friends.

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    Posted 8 months ago
    Does anyone know any new treatments for Pancreatic Cancer? By the way my dad lives in Ireland. Thanks. xx

  • Forum Post: Husband had/has pancreatic cancer. Totally confused, in denial ad afraid for the future.

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    Posted 9 months ago
    Hi all. I am new to this site and the reason why I am here is because I need somewhere where I can speak my mind, hopefully get support and be free to say what I need to say without feeling guily or consumed by the fact that I am not that important or selfish for just a while thinking about ME and...

  • Blog Post: new here

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    Hi all Just joined this site today, for some reason during my many, many trawls of the internet, I hadn't come across this site before. I'm 43 and undergoing chemo for pancreatic cancer following a whipples in mid Feb. I suppose I'm like everyone else in that some days I feel positive...

  • Blog Post: Another weekend

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    Well its another busy weekend, it has to be or I don't survive, I'm going to a country fair and ploughing match, I make cards and sell them for a pittance but it gives me something to do, as I have Epilepsy and Arthritis in my Spine, left hip and ankles, so I find it difficult to stand for long...

  • Blog Post: Some news

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    I have not written on here for a while as we have just been getting on with things. My mum is surviving on chemo, she is ill for about 3 days a week and very tired the rest of the time. It is unfortunate that the majority of times people write on here it will be bad news or at least when I am feeling...

  • Blog Post: The first oncologist appointment

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    This morning my parents visited an oncologist who suggested a plan of how to proceed. On friday she will have a minor operation to place a stent that will stop her from becoming jaundice. After resting for a week she will begin a course of chemotherapy which will consist of 3 mondays of treatment and...

  • Blog Post: A week after diagnosis

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    On friday the 19th I was told that my mums pancreatic cancer had spread to her lungs and that from now on any care that she received would be palliative. For a couple of hours I did not react but merely asked questions, " Can they not do chemo?"/ "Cant they cut them out" It took...

  • Blog Post: My Dad

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    Posted over 4 years ago
    My dear Dad passed away on Sunday morning at home with my Mum, my sister and I with him. We have spent the last three months caring for him after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer mid July. This last week has been a dreadful time for us we went to hell and back as Dad deterioated. I am not sure...

  • Blog Post: This is where the worst begins... I think.

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    Posted over 4 years ago
    My mother in law was diagnosed in August with Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer but has remained remarkably well since. She has had some swelling of her legs due to loss of Liver function and some bladder incontinance but has otherwise been able to do most things for herself. Last Saturday she was admitted...

  • Blog Post: my darling mum has gone

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    Posted over 4 years ago
    My wonderful darling mum has gone, passed away at 0110 hrs 10.09.09, myself and my daughter were with her, although we knew this was coming, IT HURST SOOOOO MUCH!!!!! She will leave such a huge hole in our lives..what a wonderful woman, mum and best friend......I love you mum xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so glad...

  • Blog Post: Finally

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    Posted over 4 years ago
    Finally my Bobbie has had his last lot of chemo on Friday, he has been wonderful and made it through 18 sessions, now to face the radiotherapy in a few weeks time. He is not looking forward to this at all. We have also been given a wonderful surprise, our children have booked us a holiday to Crete (Greece...

  • Blog Post: What an inspiration.

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    Posted over 4 years ago
    My sister was diagnosed in april with AML, and a month ago my friend phoned to tell me her dad had been diagnosed with Terminal Pancreatic cancer, and liver secondaries, he was a fit and healthy person, a runner, didnt smoke etc, it seems if your supposed to get cancer you do, without prejudice, no matter...

  • Blog Post: So sad to say

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    Posted over 4 years ago
    Hi Friends So sad to say Mum died this morning - such a shock Thanks for all your support in the Chat room tonite Chris xxx

  • Blog Post: So sad to say

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    Posted over 4 years ago
    Hi Friends So sad to say Mum died this morning - such a shock Thanks for all your support in the Chat room tonite Chris xxx

  • Blog Post: Who do I complain to now?

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    Posted over 4 years ago
    Went and had the blood work and CT scan w/ contrast a couple of weeks ago. Got a copy of the CD that day no report yet. Got the O.K. for a "Follow-up" meeting with the folks at Loma Linda Cancer Center on Wednesday the 19th. Chased down the report on Monday the 17th. Report said had some lymph...
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