Cancer Support Club! Members: 10! What are you doing to make a difference? Contest! Win 6 PSFs of your choice!

[gracie503]

Thanks! I'll add those links to the front page!

[JJ08]

Actually we have an ACS meeting tonight! I totally forgot about it until now! Actually once we went to this hotel for cancer patients that were staying in town while they have there treatments with no where to stay so this hotel let's them stay there for free. Well we went to that hotel and talked with the patients and got to know them it was fun

[gracie503]

It sounds fun! The VA is really depressing, but I like to go and flash a smile at a person and watch them light up.

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My story:



I have been hearing about cancer and the sorrows it brings ever since I was very little. You know, the latest gossip that flies around a small church: "Jenna's grandmother was just diagnosed with bone cancer." "Martha Ann won't be here today, she had her chemotherapy yesterday."

But I never really, really, truly, cared , until now. I mean, of course I cried a few tears over my friend's cousin, teacher's sister, etc., but I never really felt the need to do anything about it. Never until now.

Recently, the cancer came back in my grandfather's mouth. We went through weeks of chemo with no results. The doctors said that the cancer was in his left jaw bone, tongue, and 3/4 of the left side of his face. The only option was surgery. But they would need to take out his tongue and jaw bone. My grandpa was worried that he would "Look like some God *beep)* freak" without his jaw bone. He refused to have the surgery.

Unless you've been through what I have, you won't understand what it's like. What it's like to know that if the person you love doesn't have a surgery, they will have holes in their face as the cancer slowly and painfully eats it way through his face until he dies. I cried, prayed, cried some more, prayed, cried, cried, and prayed at Youth Jubilee.

When I got home from Jubilee, I found out the news.



























































































He agreed to have the surgery! I was overjoyed. He had the surgery, and is still living today. Looking fine.

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Oh wow. My keyboard is now soaked from tears. lol

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Does anyone have a good thread title to change it to? I need a better title so more people will come!

[gracie503]

I am thinking about having a contest and making a newspaper! What do you guys think?

[JJ08]

good ideas i mean the contest and newspaper

[gracie503]

I'm working on ideas for the newspaper...Do you have a good new title for the thread?

[prettybelle05]

Form:
What would you like to be called? Maddie
Which ribbon? What ??
Do you have any fundraisers? No
Do you know someone who has had/has cancer? my dad
What's your story? So in october 2008 there was a small lump in his neck. the doc said swollen tonsils , and so on jan 2 , he got his tonsils removed. on january 6 he told he had stage 4 cancer. I cried so hard , i couldn't believe it. i was going to go up to his room , but i didn't think i could see him . that is how overwhelmed i was. so he does aggressive chemo until mid-may. and in the end of march he will get radiation until mid may. so when he starts radiation we move to a 3 bedroom apartment for a month or more. at the biggest , his cancer tumor was 7.7 mm. but now it is about 3.2 mm.
Do you want to receive the news letter? no

[JJ08]

Hey gracie i would like to receive the news letter

[gracie503]

Originally Posted by prettybelle05

Form:
What would you like to be called? Maddie
Which ribbon? What ??
Do you have any fundraisers? No
Do you know someone who has had/has cancer? my dad
What's your story? So in october 2008 there was a small lump in his neck. the doc said swollen tonsils , and so on jan 2 , he got his tonsils removed. on january 6 he told he had stage 4 cancer. I cried so hard , i couldn't believe it. i was going to go up to his room , but i didn't think i could see him . that is how overwhelmed i was. so he does aggressive chemo until mid-may. and in the end of march he will get radiation until mid may. so when he starts radiation we move to a 3 bedroom apartment for a month or more. at the biggest , his cancer tumor was 7.7 mm. but now it is about 3.2 mm.
Do you want to receive the news letter? no

Thank you so much for joining! I hope your dad fights hard and survives. You should go see him, you'll feel better once you do. Even if it's hard.

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Originally Posted by JJ08

Hey gracie i would like to receive the news letter

Okay! I was thinking I will send the newsletter out at the beginning of March. And then every week/few weeks after that. It will probably be pretty lousy at first, but once more people join I have big plans for it! I was thinking it could be like an actual newspaper (I'm sort of involved with my school newspaper, I love newspapers! Just not the depressing kind). People could submit to me their art, comics, poems, articles, etc. They would all be on subject of course.

[dadora1]

Form:
What would you like to be called?samantha
Have you ever been in any fundraisers?no,but i support 11:11 AM
Do you know someone who has had/has cancer?my uncle does
What's your story?i dont really have a cancer realted story.except my friends grandmother died from cancer last year.and my uncle has cancer now.
Do you want to receive the news letter?