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Esther Kowalski

Esther Kowalski

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ANOTHER TRAUMATIC CHANGE IN MY LIFE

I JUST FINISHED UPDATING MY PROFILE.  MY HUSBAND DIED AT THE AGE OF 67 AFTER SIX WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL.  HE HAD BOWEL SURGERY AND DIED OF COMPLICATIONS FROM THE DIVERTICULITIS ON 12/14/2007. I THOUGHT GOING THROUGH BREAST CANCER WAS TRAUMATIC BUT WATCHING MY HUSBAND DIE WAS WORSE.  HIS FUNERAL IS 1/8/2008. I KNOW I HAVE TO GET... Read moreChevron
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peaches

Thank You All.

Hello again.I am so touched by all the warm and friendly notes i have received.  Encouragement, hope, help..... Women shareing some of the most traumatic times in their life with me so that i don't loose hope.  Well, i'm trying to hang in there in spite of more bumps in the road.  I pray to God that how ever it turns... Read moreChevron
peter peguero

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new here

Hello I am a Nuclear Medicine technologist in Upstate New York and found this site and would just like to learn more about the "patients" perspective of dealing with the disease. My own level of contact is limited but have been involved directly for over 12 years with doing diagnostic imaging of breast Cancer patients and prostate Cancer... Read moreChevron
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Laura Zigman

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Hurdle #3: Getting Through the First Days at Home

 Coming home from the hospital is a trip. And not just because it is, literally, a trip -- surviving the car ride (it's hard taking curves when you're ab-less), getting out of the car, getting up the stairs, getting into bed. It's a trip because as impossibly difficult as things seemed in the hospital, they seem even more... Read moreChevron
2 cancers

My second cancer.

They say it is over. All I need is a nipple. Are they over rated? Breast cancer was my second cancer. I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 95. I knew that a second cancer was possible. When.... always When? I was not shocked when the phone call came. The hard part was the call the day after my breast MRI. "We want more test". I knew what that... Read moreChevron