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The Truth Comes Forth

Jun 24, 2010 1 Comment ›› Cabana Boy

Last Wednesday night I was admitted to the hospital through the Emergency Room for treatment of pneumonia in my left lung. When the diagnosis came it was a relief, it was only pneumonia. Yes life is measured in degrees, and it has come to the point where pneumonia is the lesser of several potential evils. I ...

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M D Anderson MEN Conference, Saturday, June 26, 2010

Jun 18, 2010 No Comments ›› linda

Hageman Foundation will have a table at the MEN Conference on Saturday, June 26, 2010.  I (Linda) and Katie Kinney,  Program Director and Development for Hageman Foundation will arrive on Friday morning and will also be available  until Monday.  We have new information on MEN and Diagnosis and Treatment. Come by our table to chat ...

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Truth in Advertising

Jun 16, 2010 No Comments ›› Cabana Boy

All that stuff I wrote about working in the heat Monday. Yeah, it is all true. I have also spent the last two days feeling like if I felt twice as good the next day it would take me a week to feel like roadkill. Yesterday I was upright for about 4 hours feeling very ...

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Chemo, hair and fingernails and PTSD

Jun 16, 2010 No Comments ›› Cabana Boy

It has been six months since my last chemo, A lot is changing for me. My head is getting clearer. The 'chemo brain' I have known for so long is going away. In its place is a clear appreciation for life around me. Sometimes a little too clear. I get really bothered by the everyday ...

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Whipple Procedure

Jun 12, 2010 No Comments ›› linda

Hi Denise, Before making a decision about where to have the Whipple Procedure done do your homework.  Things such as how many Whipple Procedures are done at that hospital a year, how many Whipple procedures are done by the surgeon a year, what are their outcomes with the Whipple procedure.  Always get a 2ndopinion and if ...

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My conundrum has been solved

Jun 5, 2010 No Comments ›› Cabana Boy

The reason I haven't posted lately is that I have a burning idea inside my head that has flickered into a flame. I am 60. The average early age of pancreatic cancer. I am the family genealogist so I know the ages and causes of death cf almost all my ancestors back to my great, ...

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