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Pain. The metastasis is skull, spine, ribs, liver, lung and lymph nodes in chest and pelvis, liver, pelvis, hip. Half of my tongue is paralyzed due to c-spine involvement so talking, chewing, swallowing are difficult.
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Weill have gamma Knife radiation to brain lesions
Taxol, Carbo, Avastin (pain, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, confusion). Zofran was the BEST anti-nausea drug and I tried them all. Broken pelvic bone, NEUROPATHY (very bad so I am on an anti-seizure drug to control it). Tarceva, Alimptor…
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Friends collected a “Luxury Fund” for me to spend on anything. They wanted me to get massages and nail care but my bones were too fragile for massages, I broke my pelvic bone doing nothing at all. And the neuropathy in my hands and feet was so bad that I couldn’t stand them to be touched. I got many beautiful scarves, a wig, make-up, and took my kids to the movies. I had 3 groups bringing our family dinners 
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 gaile's Cancer BlogNovember 9, 2008
I will post soon. I appreciate everyone’s concern. I have been tired and depressed, and not in the mood. My news has not been good and I have had a lot going on. Sometimes posting feels like homework and I keep procrastinating. I have treatment tomorrow and I will try to update y’all after that. I am still here, just unmotivated. Much love, Gaile
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I, for one, wasn’t the least bit worried…
I figured you and the girls were holed up in Vegas, watching some all male review and shooting tequila. I knew when you ran out of singles you would drop in for a visit.
Tired, depressed and too busy. I pray for you and send hugs and mad love. When you just need a safe place to curl up and rest remember “we” are here to tuck you in and watch over you until you are better.
Mac
Please don’t apologize. You know we understand. Fatigue and depression seem to go hand in hand with this hideous disease. I think about you and pray for you everyday. If I may speak for everyone concerned….we just hope the best for you and need to hear from you even if it is not so great news. You have touched my life. I will always use your example on how to keep fighting.
Prayers, Blessings and HOPE. Love, Denita
I was stricken. I even contacted the site and asked where you were. Their response was sad. I am thrilled to see you on again. Words cannot express how you and your courage and writtings have strengthened me in my own fight. I need and want you to be okay. Just look at those beautiful moments you have posted in your pictures.
I am praying for better & brighter days in your very near future. Please take extra good care of you & post when you are feeling up to it. I miss ya!
Love & Hugs,
Monica
Gaile, thanks for checking in with us. I’ve enjoyed reading about your unyielding fight against cancer because we all should be spending time with our families and friends and just enjoying life to the fullest. I wish you well and lots of rest. Don’t post until you feel up to it. We understand.
Hey Gaile,
I, like Mac, was hoping you and your girlfriends were at the coast and that you were doing well and living it up! After your last post…I kind of doubted it…but I SURE WAS HOPING that was the case.
Certainly, no apologies for not posting are expected. But as you know, we all seem to get a little worried when we havent heard from the people that we really care about.
I wish you peace and strength.
Celeni
Gaile, why do you feel unmotivated,, sometimes we are not very well and don’t feel like doing these things,, but to me it is very important that we continue to do so, for your own sake and for the sake of others,, that what you might be going thru is going to help someone else,,, I have been going through my lung and lump node cancer since Jamuary of 2006, It is now Nov. 2008 and yes i have moment that i have felt dowm, but maybe it is because i am to stubborn to give up .. Really i laugh at the face of cancer, yes it can kill us but it will never be able to attack my spirit, and the Spirit that lives within me is from God.
What God wants from me besides me beign there with him to to continuew while i am on this earth to lift other people spirit and make them realize that there are worst things than cancer
You may laugh at this but when i go for treatmemt the staff there are glad to see me because i am to bring joy to others and to help them in whatever way that i can.. I can’t replace the doctors and the technicians but i am me ,,, yes me
who loves to laugh and maybe the best part is that i have accepted my cancer,, and why not what can i do with,, but i also try to live each day as if i did not have it and many people that i see and talk to say ” oh how would you know, you don’t have cancer, and they are shocked when i tell them that i have been living with cancer for almost 3 years,,, I won’t lie to you because it has not always been easy but i guess that sometimes my stubborness comes in handy..
I am not telling you to go out and do what i am doing but find out what you are to do and then to go ahead and do it…. I know that i owe alot of people alot of thanks for the prayers that have been said for me.. and know what the prayers that i ask for are very simple ones,
I ask God for the grace and the strenght to follow His will whatever that may be
I have a very good wife at which i look as a gift from God to help guide me and she constantly keeps on praying for me..
Bless you Gaile and may God show you what you are to do in life and do it.
I hope that i have not offended you , by what i have said but instead i hope that i have given you some hope ,,
God bless you in a very special way, in a way that you will understand… Thanks for sharing with your support group,, it is very important to do so ….
Dear Gaile; I just read your other recent post and thought, oh my gosh she is really coming apart at the seams, she is finally crashing at the thought of what all this means to her. Yes I really was feeling very sad at your most clear and present danger, that all these things, all these efforts of decorating each room, all these fine beautiful treasures that were passed down to me and what will be come of them all? I suddenly felt a kindred kind of female thinking that only women likely feel at certain moments, when all is falling down, and the mind just happens to search for the tiny details that probably are small to most people but pretty large to the person that its happening to. Gaile, I am so sorry you have so much to deal with and think about and worry about and fight about and love even though it takes so much energy. When is there a time for you? Well my dear, it will only be when you let it be. Thank goodness for your wonderful gal friends, for without them we would be at a loss. Our husbands don’t really get it, but they are like children, always needing attention. I hope your daughter is coping, I guess she has your iron will and strength to help you through. I won’t ask about the husband because you are pretty clear on that part of your life. Gaile, we are all sending prayers, that this time will be better and that whatever the Dr.’s are doing, is not causing you pain and anguish. You have taught us so much along the way and I truly wish for you that your family and friends will be with you every step of the way. I know what you mean about tired. That is certainly a time when you don’t want to talk to a bunch of people about how low you are. As Mac said, we are here to tuck you in, and keep you warm. God bless you Gaile and your honourable fight.
Weezie
Gaile,
We will always be here when you need us. I am thinking of you daily.
Yuyu
Ok Gaile…
We need to hear from you now hon…
I hope all is ok
Celeni