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- Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!peterma
- From: peterma@microsoft.com (Peter Mason)
- Subject: leukemia - chemo
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.053426.10761@microsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:34:26 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
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- I am a 32 year old woman who was diagnosed with acute
- lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in September of 1992. I've been in
- chemotherapy ever since then. Right now I have about 4 more months
- of (consolidation )chemo left to go. So far, I've weathered the chemo
- pretty well. I'm in remission, and my doctor is keeping me out of the
- hospital as much as possible. Nonetheless, I feel totally inconsolable
- right now. I'm sick to death of telling myself, "just try to get through
- another day". I can't kid myself anymore. I've hit the wall. Does
- anyone out there have any good ideas on how to psyche up for such a
- long haul? I think I'm having a particularly hard time with this because
- I realize that I may go through all of these hellish months of chemo
- and still relapse and require lots more treatment and a bone marrow
- transplant. The odds of success for this chemo alone are only about
- 30-40%. It's sure hard to accept all of this uncertainty. If anyone out
- there has a few words of inspiration they feel like sharing with me, I'd
- be most appreciative. Or if you're in a similar predicament and would
- like a sympathetic ear, I'd be glad to listen.
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- Roberta (I'm using my husband's account to post this)
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