Living with cancer

[Joe]

Sounds like an exciting program, although I am sure we are all familiar with the content

http://em.mansellgroup.net/acs/LWC/LWCgen052007.htm

Regards
Joe

[Sandy H]

Thanks Joe, I just copied it to post but you already did. I am planning on watching it. Sounds interesting. hugs, Sandy

[Jean]

Thanks Joe,

Have placed it on my TO DO list....
How is Christine? Please give her a big hug for me.

Regards,
Jean

[AlaskaAngel]

Did anyone else hear the radio interview this morning on NPR with Ted's friend? I caught just the last half of it (it was on just before 5 AM here *yawn*). I have been following the blog from time to time and it has been very worthwhile.

A.A.

[cmljungren]

I did....good interview. I wondered if anyone else here had listened to it.

If you missed it, you can listen to it or read the interview and other items related to Leroy Sievers and the Ted Koppel special here....

NPR : Leroy Sievers' Cancer Conversations (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9984792)

Hope the link works. If not, go to www.npr.org (http://www.npr.org/) and you'll see the story highlighted on the homepage.

[Andrea Barnett Budin]

Can't find the posting I saw yesterday with this issue. When I was on Taxotere my eyes dripped like a faucet. I clutched a tissue in my hand at all times. Try eating, cutting your food with one hand. I kept a baggie in my pocketbook to collect all the drippy wet tissues of the day. My nose was also a bit drippy. I went to 5 opthamalogists. Dry eye. I know. Felt like I had broken glass in my eyes, or sand. Pain. One doc put plugs in my tearducts. They fell out in two wks and didn't help. Another said if worse comes to worse we can unclog the ducts but that's a pretty major surgery involving the bone in the nose. NOOOO. 5th doc said DRY EYE. I said I know. He said, No severely dry eye. Taxotere dries out the mucous membrances throughout the body, stomach, vagina, nose and eyes. USE DROPS. I am. How often. 4 times a day. No -- you have to use something like REFRESH + (no preservatives) every hour. Really? Really. I did this. Watching the clock. Kept the little individual vials in my bag, on my night table, next to the toilet, etc. Within 2 wks., I was cured! GOOD LUCK!

ALSO -- THE THE PERSON LOOKING FOR INEXPENSIVE COENZYME Q10 -- My oncological BC/nutritional expert says to take 100. My husband buys it for me at Costco. You do have to watch "quality" on the cheaper brands of vitamins, but this seems fine. Good for heart, gums, energy, lots of stuff.

Wish I could find the exact right spot to insert this info, but chemo brain is real I guess. That plus computer savvy at age 62 is asking a lot.

LOVE TO ALL YOU FABULOUSLY SPIRITED FIGHTERS. I think of you all ALL THE TIME! ANDI