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		<title>What to say to a person who has cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your friend, colleague, aunt or sister was just diagnosed with cancer. What do you say to her?

Sometimes you mean to say something kind and sensitive, but it comes out all wrong. It would be great if someone would give you some idea of what is the right thing to say, that will convey how you really feel (or how you know you should feel.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildrosespirit.wordpress.com&blog=2698932&post=100&subd=wildrosespirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, July 6 &#8211; Moving prep, day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really only have two weeks before I'm scheduled to pack up the car and go. Will I make it? If today's progress was any indication, I think I will. And I might even fit most of the stuff I need to take into my little car.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildrosespirit.wordpress.com&blog=2698932&post=93&subd=wildrosespirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving is such a &#8230;.joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wild Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm feeling well, too! This is Day 12 after my last (and final!) chemo June 24. I'll get my port out this week Tuesday. That will be nice. It's an in-office procedure (I hope my surgeon puts me in "twilight" because I've been on the edge of panic and having serious panic attacks for a while). Next Monday is my final blood draw; I see the oncologist for the last time on Tuesday, and at that time, she'll release me into the wild.

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		<title>I has a flavah — the side effects of chemo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wild Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way chemo works is that it kills off all fast-growing cells.  These are targeted because cancer grows quickly. Unfortunately, with the die off of cancer cells we also get a die off of healthy, normal cells that also happen to grow fast. These include hair and taste buds, among others.
In their enthusiasm to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildrosespirit.wordpress.com&blog=2698932&post=37&subd=wildrosespirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Cancer Cannot Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It cannot cripple love
It cannot shatter hope
It cannot corrode faith
It cannot destroy peace
It cannot kill friendships
It cannot suppress memories
It cannot invade the soul
It cannot silence courage
It cannot steal eternal life
It cannot conquer the spirit

Origin unknown: I found this in my oncologist&#8217;s office on my first day of chemo treatment.
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		<title>Financial Help for Cancer Patients</title>
		<link>http://wildrosespirit.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/financial-help-for-cancer-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wild Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look what I found! A page of links to websites for people to get financial aid to help with cancer treatment, medications, and other things.
If you don&#8217;t have health insurance, but think you have cancer and are afraid to go to the doctor, check this page out. There may be an organization there who will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildrosespirit.wordpress.com&blog=2698932&post=30&subd=wildrosespirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemo Totes</title>
		<link>http://wildrosespirit.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/chemo-kits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An idea that I found on BCO (breastcancer.org) is the idea of &#8220;chemo totes.&#8221;   You may not know this, but I have my own business called &#8220;Water Lily Naturals&#8221;  (see the links box) where I sell handmade lotions and things, all natural, no chemicals. I&#8217;ve been using my own lotions since my mastectomy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildrosespirit.wordpress.com&blog=2698932&post=25&subd=wildrosespirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knitty Titties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a mastectomy last month.  Now I have to figure out a way to appear balanced and normal when I go out in public. I have &#8220;coconut&#8221; bras, the kind with the molded cups, and my doctor suggested a light fluff of gauze bandages would be appropriate at this stage, since my incision is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wildrosespirit.wordpress.com&blog=2698932&post=19&subd=wildrosespirit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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