In desperate need of dust :(

[iluvcarats]

Date: 7/31/2009 10:33:06 AM
Author: iluvcarats

Test results:

Two spots on her liver.

Please continue to pray that she can have as much time with her kids as possible.

Thanks

Today they told her she has a 20% survival rate for 5 years

That is the best she can hope for.
She is the bravest person I know.
Thank you all for your kindness and support. It means a lot to me, and hopefully helps to bring peace and comfort to her.

 

[Bia]

I''m sorry...

 

[joelly]

Oh my God, thats terrible. I am so sorry to hear this, iluv. I''m sending many dusts and prayers to your SIL. Get well soon, sis!!!

 

[mtjoya]

My thoughts & prayers are with your step SIL. I completely understand that feeling and I have always hated the word cancer. I completely understood why I hated it when my mom was diagnosed with cancer this past month. I will have her in prayers and hope that she has a very speedy recovery!

 

[JStrauss1981]

Date: 6/30/2009 1:48:41 PM
Author:iluvcarats
Last year my step SIL was diagnosed with breast cancer. They found that she carried the BRAC gene. She had radiation, chemotherapy, a dbl mastectomy, and a complete hysterectomy. They gave her a clean bill of health. Last week, she started having headaches. They found a tumor at the base of her brain.
Please, if you have any dust to spare, could you sprinkle it her way? She is 43 years old with 3 kids 13, 11 and 5. Any kind thoughts on her behalf would be appreciated.

Everyone at Solomon Brothers Jewelry in Atlanta Georgia send out their best wishes and prayers for you and your family!

 

[LaurenThePartier]

ILC, continued prayers and dust being wished upon your SIL and your entire family.

 

[UCLABelle]

I am so, so, sorry. This is horrible, but my prayers continue.

 

[dragonfly411]

Iluv - I am so so sorry

 

[Burk]

iluv~Clearly I have been living under a rock...I just saw this!! So sorry! My thoughts and prayers are with you and your step sil!!

 

[TooPatient]

iluv --

I''m so sorry to hear about your SIL. Big hugs to her and her kids and all of your family.

I understand too well what you are all going through. It has been 5 years since I lost my grandmother to cancer (liver, intestines, etc.). She had chemo and many other treatments to slow it down. I''ve learned more than I ever wanted to about how much of the liver they can cut out, how to give injections, and the side affects of different drugs.
The doctors diagnosed her with cancer and a few weeks later gave her 10 years to live. She fought it for 6 years. She would have been 71 last week.

Let me know if there is ANYTHING you need. I''d be happy to pass on any information I have. I have been through the healthy times, the getting sicker times, and the knowing her time had come. I remember what helped her feel better. I have memories of gratefullness and regret.


More hugs for everyone and hopes that she will have healthy feeling, painfree years ahead and a cure found in time to help her.

 

[goldenstar]

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I will be thinking of your step SIL on Oct. 3 when I participate in San Francisco''s Walk for Hope. Our team captain is a good friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27. After chemo and a double masectomy, she''s now 31 and cancer free. I am sending healing vibes your way...

 

[TooPatient]

You should look into the American Cancer Society''s Relay for Life.

It is an amazing experience. I volunteered to help with it the summer my grandmother died. What an amazing event. So many people. All touched by cancer in some way. People who survived after the doctors said they couldn''t. People who lost loved ones and are doing what they can to help find a cure so that some other family might not have to go through what they did.

Even if you aren''t able to walk in it or volunteer for it, you should try to get to one. They last for 24 hours. The most amazing and touching part of the whole thing is the luminaires ceremony at sundown. People get up and speak about their experiences and the candles are lit. The track is lined with paper bags each one in memory of a person who died or in honor of a survivor (or a person still fighting) and in the bleachers they set up more bags to spell out HOPE. Each bag has a candle in it and they are lit for the ceremony. The lights are turned off and you walk by the light of these candles.


I almost backed out since it was so close to when Grandma died. Until I actually got there I kind of dreaded it.
It is hard to describe. The feeling was just too.... I don''t know. But it helped me to be with these people.
(and my other grandmother was so proud -- she was diagnosed with breast cancer and was going through radiation at the time)

Relay For Life They are all over during the summer. Look into it. You won''t regret it.

 

[Stone Hunter]

I''m so so sorry. I know someone else who is going thru this. It is a terrible disease and the way it spreads is terrible.

But maybe with all the PS dust she will make it the 5 years and they will declare her free of cancer! I hope.

 

[Smurfysmiles]

ilc, how is your step sil doing? hopefully everything is going ok for right now

 

[iluvcarats]

Thanks for checking in Smurfy. She is deteriorating

It is just so sad. Her husband watched his mother die of breast cancer, and now it is claiming his wife.
Which means that their 5 year old little girl has breast cancer on both sides. It is all just miles beyond awful.
Sorry I don''t have better news.

 

[Smurfysmiles]

im sorry to hear that

*hug*
i''ll be sending as much positive energy your way that i can
my mother has been through a lot with all kinds of cancer and i know the toll it can take on them and everyone around them...if it gives you any hope..my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer and as im sure you know...thats basically a death sentence...well she was able to overcome it and im so happy to report shes still here with us today