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Doug Haberstroh

Breast Cancer Husband

Keri's Metastatic Breast Cancer Story Comes to an End

A Note from Doug Haberstroh: This will be the last entry. Keri's struggle ceased. Her love, her memory, her being will live on forever in me, our families, and our friends. Her life was too short, and if I could have changed places with her I would have. If meaning I had to do it all over again just for one more minute with my Baby, I... Read more Chevron

posted 02/01/2008, comments (13)|

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alvin reiter

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Even Doctors Cry

I am a facial plastic surgeon and a cancer survivor of Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. I took care of my wife after she developed metastatic breast cancer and became a full-time caregiver, quitting my practice which was in Beverly Hills 90210. She passed away over 3 years ago after the worst possible medical care... Read more Chevron

posted 01/08/2008, comment (1)|

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Dorel

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I am looking for some guidance, Dec 20, my wife joined club mets

Hello from Indianapolis. My wife and I only met this last February but its been the happiest days of our lives. She a brest cancer survivor 2005 Stage I but proceeded to have a double radical masectomy and chemo. The chemo triggered a ruptured appendix. Reconstruction went beyond her expectations. I to am a cancer surviror. I had found a... Read more Chevron

posted 01/01/2008, comments (3)|

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dclee

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Effects of Chemotherapy and electric blankets

My mom just had a masectomy and will soon begin chemo. She is always cold. I want to get her an electric throw fleece/robe combo for Xmas. Will the electric fleece interfere with the chemo in any form?

posted 12/17/2007, comments (5)|

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Gigi

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How can I be everything to everyone and still support my sister?

Today is the day after Thanksgiving. I must preface this post by saying how grateful I feel to be healthy and living here in the US. My only living sister was diagnosed with infiltrating intraductal carcinoma with local metastasis (8 of 10 nodes), stage IIIA in July of 2006. My sister was 59 at the time, never married, no... Read more Chevron

posted 11/23/2007, comments (4)|

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