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- From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
- Subject: Re: Prostate Cancer--it's now in the bone :-(
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.030456.26233@netcom.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 03:04:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.043330.2599@netcom.com> <1k10hfINNoi@menudo.uh.edu>
- Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
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- In article <1k10hfINNoi@menudo.uh.edu> KATTAN@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU (Mike Kattan) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan23.043330.2599@netcom.com>
- >ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear) writes:
- >
- >>I had the bone scan today. It showed two spots on the spine: one in the
- >>thoracic area, and one at hip level. The nuclear medicine specialist
- >>hasn't seen it yet, to confirm that it's cancer, but I have little
- >>doubt. The back pains have been fierce. If this is what a small spot
- >>feels like, I hate to think what it's going to be like when it spreads.
- >
- >I hope not. I had three bone spots and never really felt any of them.
- >Your case sounds like Bill Bixby's. They said he was on Sumarin, or
- >something like that. Maybe that's another option.
-
- I don't know too much about Bixby's case, except that I think he's dead,
- and I'm not--yet. Anyway, mets are confirmed, but I'm assured that more
- radiation will knock them back and relieve the pain. Meanwhile,
- morphine sulphate will at least let me sleep. Could be worse. :-)
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