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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMrs Marble Falls had cancer surgery yesterday ...
... it was a very small tumor (9mm) and it was taken clean enough that the follow up will be one week of radiation in July.
I don't know if cancer will be eliminated or not, but there seems to be a lot better outcomes than there used to be.
dem4decades
(14,500 posts)biophile
(1,614 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)... she supported me in any way I can think of, and she's a 28 year vet of CIA. She's encouraged and supported me in everything I've put my hand to for the last twenty years.
The fight regrets coming at us.
Walleye
(45,635 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)SheltieLover
(82,030 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)Solly Mack
(97,332 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)brer cat
(27,720 posts)Good wishes to you both.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)DFW
(60,555 posts)My wife has had cancer twice, and the second time was a rare form that is always fatal. Here, oncologists call it the murderer. She was that one in ten thousand that actually survived it (now ten years ago).
A cheer to our durable spouses!
marble falls
(72,787 posts)DFW
(60,555 posts)MLAA
(19,819 posts)💫✨💫
marble falls
(72,787 posts)Permanut
(8,625 posts)All the best to the two of you.
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(72,787 posts)Bettie
(19,947 posts)and that it was eliminated.
I hope you are well too. It's hard to be the partner, just watching and waiting, unable to affect the outcome.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)surfered
(14,631 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(182,948 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)Grim Chieftain
(2,154 posts)Best wishes for a positive outcome.
hlthe2b
(114,896 posts)Scrivener7
(60,179 posts)You're both in my thoughts.
democrank
(12,692 posts)Take good care.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)ms liberty
(11,407 posts)If you're going thru cancer. Been there myself, but getting clean margins for me meant having my left breast gone. Twenty eight years and counting!
marble falls
(72,787 posts)JMCKUSICK
(6,711 posts)Continued well wishes to you both!
lark
(26,129 posts)The seret is all were caught early and were small. Hope the same is true for your wife.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)Spazito
(56,292 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)Fla Dem
(27,816 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)malaise
(298,558 posts)Sending good vibes
marble falls
(72,787 posts)NNadir
(38,698 posts)...followed by radiation, chemo and a SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator.)
Cancer is not what it used to be.
All the best to you and your spouse.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)NNadir
(38,698 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)... dirty work.
TBF
(37,431 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)mopinko
(74,097 posts)i do believe we do much better in cancer treatment these days. ive had a couple cancers trying to get me that wd have killed me by now in my parents days.
hang in there, and take her somewhere nice for a good dinner.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)mopinko
(74,097 posts)im ready to see a surgeon for my back issues. ive tried pain shots, tried meds, tried pt. nothing is working and pt is making it worse. plus its triggering my fibro. so im stuck.
i didnt want to do it cuz i learned the hard way that when u start fusing discs, u set off a chain reaction. and my spine is rotting, both discs and vertebrae. just hoping they have something better to offer than what was available 18 yrs ago when my neck exploded.
ive had a melanoma and a couple of squamous cell growths removed, so im staying ahead of that. but it does still bug that every blip on my skin cd b a killer in waiting.
on the plus side, timely scopes have saved me from colon cancer, and my mammos remain clean. so, dodged the big killers of my moms generation.
getting old is def not for the faint of heart.
u hang in there, my friend.
KS Toronado
(23,969 posts)She'll be fine before long!
marble falls
(72,787 posts)electric_blue68
(27,504 posts)niyad
(134,478 posts)and strength for you both.
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(72,787 posts)sdfernando
(6,124 posts)Best of luck to both of you.
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(72,787 posts)harumph
(3,453 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)mwmisses4289
(4,884 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)orangecrush
(31,465 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,881 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)debm55
(62,267 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)highplainsdem
(63,376 posts)much better than they used to be. Her cancer was caught early, too. She should be fine.
Sending hugs, too.
calimary
(91,070 posts)Please make sure to tell her shes in our thoughts over here.
Clouds Passing
(8,226 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(4,857 posts)sheshe2
(98,702 posts)Old-8643
(44 posts)LoisB
(13,631 posts)cancer.
Exp
(1,047 posts)BaronChocula
(4,850 posts)and complete eradication!
Diamond_Dog
(41,287 posts)And her prognosis is good. She will breeze through one week of radiation. Wishing both of you all the best!
I am a stage 3 survivor and its been 18 years for me.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)... of growing up in Cleveland.
ProfessorGAC
(77,442 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)... I'd gladly pay you for one! Might just have to post some cuts!
c-rational
(3,226 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(179,452 posts)I'm happy to hear that the surgery went so well.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)mercuryblues
(16,527 posts)May I suggest giving her a hug, like you mean it. People would hug me, like they were afraid I was going to break. Drove me crazy.
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(72,787 posts)gademocrat7
(12,048 posts)A good and speedy recovery.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)KitFox
(605 posts)feeling! Your attitude and strength makes me smile. Heres to the very best outcome!🩷
marble falls
(72,787 posts)... worse things that happens: we get a funny story and we make sure we don't get bit again.
hamsterjill
(17,855 posts)It is indeed good news that it was small and clean and as said earlier on this thread, she will breeze through the one week of radiation.
I lost a parent to cancer at a very early age, so I was schooled young about the impact. I have been quite happy and very grateful over the years to see advances in treatment and survival rates. It is indeed so important to catch it as early as possible.
My wish for the two of you is that you can take the next couple of weeks before the radiation and concentrate on yourselves and what makes you happy. Take some time and relish the fact that this is fixable, and remember that life is to be enjoyed!
All the very best.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)... I was four and I had a playmate up up the street and she had the nicest mother, who disappeared one day and a week later my grandmother told me her mother had died of cancer and she went to live with her grandparents.
After that I saw relatives who were sent home to die with cancer once it was determined there was no more medicine to help them. It was always a death sentence.
Not so now.
hamsterjill
(17,855 posts)The cancer that my mother died from would be easily treatable today. It saddens me so very much to see Trump cutting funding for research and development because that means that people will die.
It was uplifting this week to read the advancement stories about pancreatic cancer and lung cancer, etc. But it scares me that now the United States will be behind in implementing things that are available. One of the ways that I've learned to deal with my childhood trauma is by staying aware of medical advances and believing in hope. With Trump, that gets harder and harder to do.
Again, I wish your wife health, happiness and strength.
HeartsCanHope
(1,768 posts)Hoping for the very best outcome and will keep you both in my thoughts.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)mountain grammy
(29,273 posts)hope her treatments are tolerable and she gets the all clear!
marble falls
(72,787 posts)... a tan splotch at the area the radiation is aimed at.
canetoad
(21,100 posts)Sounds like it went well.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)... only a little ol' harmless cyst.
Beartracks
(14,678 posts)==================
marble falls
(72,787 posts)Figarosmom
(13,974 posts)There are better outcomes and less chemo.
Great advances in heart care too.
Now if only people could afford it like it should be.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)... is beyond me.
We've become a nation where more and more businesses are merely middlemen, which increases costs with no benefit for anyone past the middlemen.
Skittles
(173,291 posts)yes indeed
marble falls
(72,787 posts)Skittles
(173,291 posts)Dunc
(495 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)... We know how to embrace the suck, brother!
blogslug
(39,235 posts)and healing wishes
marble falls
(72,787 posts)Celerity
(55,117 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)B.See
(8,949 posts)and a speedy recovery.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)IcyPeas
(25,895 posts)Continued healing thoughts.
marble falls
(72,787 posts)... very small, very clean, with a great prognosis. Much easier than the way I got it!!!
riversedge
(81,789 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)... with a couple hitting 100.
MaryMagdaline
(7,977 posts)Modern medicine is our friend. Ive seen great results in my immediate family. Heres hoping you have the best medical professionals and the best results!
marble falls
(72,787 posts)... we have no reason not to be entirely optimistic.
yardwork
(69,780 posts)marble falls
(72,787 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(17,764 posts)I hope everything goes well with the follow up. Sending healing vibes her way.