Hi bigmumma I just read your crystal ball response and saw that you are off to get scan results this afternoon. Good Luck. I read your profile and you have the same as me except I have 2 lots of mets - liver and lung - great - as if the bowel wasn't enough! There are a few people on this site who have been where we are now and are going really well - but you are the only woman who has the liver mets too. I look forward to discussing symptoms - only joking - how awful - I look forward to talking to you on this site and I really hope everything is going well for you. ... View more

Mrs Elton I sat and thought very hard about your question - my mind changed several times but now I would tentatively look into the crystal ball. I am fed up with the waiting and not knowing, the cancelled appointments when I have myself psyched up to attend. I want to know- yes or no- if I have a future - I do not want to know specifics - I do not want to know what the future holds. I would love to look into a crystal ball and ask "Do I keep going"?. ... View more

Hi Chris and everyone - the offensive email was taken off very promptly yesterday - I agree with you it is disgusting - the people who send these things are disgusting and very very cruel - I sincerely hope they and others who promise the same false hope are severely punished in whatever manner. Take care all cats ... View more

I am wondering if the above cancer cure from cancer healers is regarded as spam - I presume so - Cancer Connections will get rid of it. ... View more

Hi all of you wonderful people. I wonder if any of you have ever had a reiki session and if so, did you find it helpful. As I have no idea what happens except that it is something to do with energy passing from the person doing the reiki to the recipient!!??!!. A neighbour who I have met a couple of times while walking my little dog said she is "a healer and practices reiki" if I am interested in seeing her. Hmmm I don't know - if people have found it beneficial then I am willing to give it a go. A friend and I were discussing anger and cancer and she said she has read that unresolved anger and anger causing you to implode has been shown to cause cancer!! I read recently that this is nonsense and that cancer causes are in the main, unknown. Yes I know there are hundreds of differing views on causes and treatments but I was hoping reiki could ease my self loathing and unresolved anger and guilt - or maybe just soothe my mind!. Until recently, I believed my cancer was a punishment for stuffing up my life - now I believe I brought it on myself for not looking after myself properly over the past 20 or so years. Thanks if anyone can assist. ... View more

Bugger that last bit I thought was deleted from an earlier line- oh well - yes we can hope the kids remember the laughs etc how embarrassing - hope I don't do that too often!! ... View more

Hi Sailor or hello sailor takes me back to my cheeky days in the Defence Department- they were good days, happy days and I have heard that at least 9 of the people I worked with are still at the same place doing the same work - their superannuation will be looking good!. Well I was not going to talk about ancient times. If you read my two pieces of last/previous week - about my niece and nephew - you would understand my smile when I saw that part of your resolve to stay around a bit longer is the same as mine - 2 little people who we absolutely love and who love us. I know your grand sons are only very young and I can understand your worry that if something happens to you they may not remember you as they get older. Even though mine are 7 and 9 I am scared not so much they will forget me, but all the things we did together and especially the things we have learned from each other - looking after them from 1 year old while their Mum and Dad were at work was one of the most joyous experiences of my life. Sailor,in Melbourne it is a very grey,miserable,cold day as you stated, but the sun shone in your home this morning and you delighted in it- to me that is a treasured moment. Keep well and look after yourself and don't let them lil' rascals chase the cat!!!! but more so the things we did together and all of the laughs. ... View more

vinouche-thankyou, your words were very kind but remember you too have contributed greatly to helping us in our lives. I had a rude awakening of sorts when you wrote that you are feeling good and that your tumours have shrunk-but you know 'sooner or later' that will change. I am feeling the same - if you have read any of my blogs you may remember that I have been taken off all chemo for 6 weeks. I also have tumours on my lung and liver. I have never been given the all clear on bowel cancer - but I think it may have been eradicated-I still have pain and a few difficulties, but nothing like before when I was receiving treatment and of course before that! Yes- I too am scared and to be honest - very very scared - I do feel the best I have felt in nearly 12 months but if I had been kept on chemo, I still would have had a few more cycles left, so I was no where near finished. I really won't know anything until my next scan in June and it is getting closer and I am becoming more nervous. I am not telling my family or friends that I am scared - they are still reeling from the diagnosis in August last year - TAKES A WHILE FOR THINGS TO SINK IN IN MY FAMILY (that was meant to be funny!) In the meantime I thank everyone as you have - you have all been inspirational in my journey of trying to cope with one of the most horrid things that could happen to us and our loved ones. Thankyou all - I really feel as though the people I communicate with on a regular basis are friends even though I have never met you - I feel comfortable in your 'cyber company'. vinouche - let's prove our doctors wrong - let us continue to feel good and maybe the cancers will just go away - highly unlikely - but we do have wonderful families . ... View more