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08-03-2007, 03:22 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: I live in south Carolins, Anderson.
Posts: 40
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jury duty
hi, everyone,
Has any one ever gotten a jury summons while on chemo?
I got one today and called them, but the lady said if I wasn't 65
I needed a drs. statement.
kathy
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08-03-2007, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posts: 66
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I got a jury duty summons while on chemo. I just gave it to the girls at my onc office and they sent a letter and got me out of it. That was over a year ago and I haven't gotten one since.
Stephanie B.
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08-03-2007, 05:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 312
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I am currently going to be AWOL from jury duty. I have had two summers of treatment and this summer I will not stay around for jury duty. I am traveling. The judge let me off for duty with a doctor's excuse but rescheduled it again. The doctor did not specify the reason for an excuse. If I can't make the next date, I will write the judge and he can do what he wants. But I won't be there. If you are on chemo, I can't imagine the judge wouldn't take a doctor's excuse. I am all for serving--but--sometimes you just can't.
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Janet
Endometrial Cancer 2002
Mammogram 11/2004
Lumpectomy 12/2004
Stage 1, 9mm DCIS, grade 2, Her2+++, ER/PR negative
Refused A/C as recommened by two oncs.
35 treatments of radiation that ended March 4, 2005
Changed oncologists and began
Taxotere/Herceptin August 2005. Finished Herceptin July 2006
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08-03-2007, 08:36 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 823
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I got a jury summons while taking Chemo. My Onc wrote a letter and I faxed it to the court house along with a copy of jury summons filled out in the area where I couldn't serve, and that was all it took for no jury duty.
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Vicki
Texas
Biopsy Dx'd 3-23-05 Age 48
MRM 4-5-05 w/ 2 tumor's 5cm, and 6 cm (right side)
IDC (poorly differentiated infiltrating ductual carcinoma)
5+/16 nodes
Stage III A
Grade 3
ER/PR-, Her2/neu ++
Ki67 78%
Begin Chemo 5-2-05 4XAC Dose Dense , 4X Abraxane Dose Dense (ended August 05)
28 Rad's ended October 13 2005
Started Herceptin Weekly August 2005 for one year
Had a Simple mastectomy left side after Mamo showed incresed micro-calcifications. Jan. 17 2006.
Brain MRI Feb.2006--All Clear
August 28, 2006 Last Weekly Herceptin.
October 2006--Colonoscopy, 6 Polyp's removed--all B9
PET Scan July 2007
Abdominal MRI Oct. 2007---2 Right Kidney Cysts
Core Biopsy-- Lump on Scar Line 1-10-08---B9
Brain MRI 6-2008--All Clear
PET/CT Scan 6-2008
Sept. 8 2008, 4CM area removed from mastectomy scar line. Proved to be B9.
PET/CT Scan-- July 2009 --All clear
August 17,2009 ---Had Port Removed
6 Years NED -- April 5,2011
DX'd with Melanoma left arm 10-10-2011
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08-04-2007, 01:27 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Streetsboro, Ohio
Posts: 365
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called and got off 3 times
I was excused when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant 1991, in chemo treatment in 1992, and just recently I was called again. I was willing to serve because I was on a tx. break but they excused me. I have a feeling someday I will be serving a jury.
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08-04-2007, 02:16 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Southern, CA
Posts: 2,511
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I *just* received a notice for Jury Duty. I was kind of surprised since I was already on permanent disabiltiy and sent them a note from my doctor and my award letter from SSDI YEARS ago. I have never recieved another request until now? I would like to serve but its pretty much impossible in my current situation.
Due to my disablity and now taking care of my Mother with stage IV lung cancer I just don't see how I could do it.
Chelee
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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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08-09-2007, 06:33 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: TAMPA, FL
Posts: 568
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I did
several times. All I did was fill out the form they send you and faxed it back to them. This happened twice while on chemo. I had already served several times prior to my cancer.
I just explained that I was on chemo and could not tell them how I would feel and that I might have to take treatment while on duty. They did not give me any hassles excusing me.
I dont think you will have any issues if you can't serve.
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Irene from Tampa
1996 - INFILT DUCTAL CAR.W/ LYMPH NODE INVOLVEMENT. ADRIA/CYTOXIN/5FU
1999 - RECURR. TO AUXILA AND 2 TUMORS IN LIVER
TREAT: STEM CELL REPLACEMENT/HERCEPTIN.
2002 - RECUR TO LIVER
TREAT: NAVELBINE, THEN GEMZAR, THEN XELODA.
2004 - TUMORS STILL IN LIVER
TREAT: RFA TO LIVER
STABLE UNTIL
2004 - TUMOR PROGRESSION IN LIVER.
TREAT: RESECT HALF OF LIVER.
2005 - RECURR TO LYMPH NODE OUTSIDE OF LIVER.
TREAT: TAXOL/CARPO/HERCEPTIN. FAILED ON
THIS TRIO. STARTED ON ABRAXANE.
2006 - PROGRESS WITH 2ND TUMOR GROWTH.
TREAT: AUG. BEGAN ON TYKERB/XELODA
TRIAL. CONSIDERED STABLE TO DATE.
2007 - TAKEN OFF OF TYKERB/XELODA TRIAL DUE TO
PROGRESS STARTING TYKERB/AVASTIN.
NOV 2007 - SCANS SHOW PROGRESS TUMOR GROWTH
IN ABDOM. AND TWO NEW TUMORS IN NECK AREA.
BEGAN HERCEPTIN/AVASTIN/TAXOTERE
Feb 08 - Ixempra/Xeloda
June 08 - Her/DM1 trial
"I WANT TO BE AN OUTRAGEOUS OLD WOMAN WHO NEVER GETS CALLED AN OLD LADY. I WANT TO GET SHARP EDGED & EARTH COLORED, TILL I FADE AWAY FROM PURE JOY."
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