Hello

[Guest guest]

I am joining this group after having found you in my search for information about SLE-induced pericarditis. I became ill with lupus ten years ago, but wasn't diagnosed for another 5 years. I live in the Chicago area, and until this year, most of my symptoms were joint problems, fatigue and rashes (especially sun sensitivity.)

This year I've had pleurisy twice, three pericardial effusions, and a bout with pericarditis that landed me in ICU/CCU until I was released yesterday.

I'd like to know if others in this group have gone through this, and if there are any particular ways you cope with this aspect of the illness...or ways of preventing it from happening again. I'm a single mom with an active, adorable 8 y/o daughter who needs a healthy mom! (My family all live hundreds of miles away.)

Thanks for including me in your group!

Sheri

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Hi Abduhl,

I had a mastectomy almost 13 years ago and I am doing fine. There are many

ladies whos cancer does not return. I know its easy to say don't worry. But as

time goes on it does get better and you worry less. Please keep us posted and we

would love to have you wife also join us.

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hello

hi

my wife got this desease and she had breast mastectomy , chemo and

rays treatment, now she is taking the bills, but sice the day we

discovered her illness we live in horor, sice this kind of cancer is

new to our comunity we don't know much about it ,

my question is : IS THERE ANY HOPE OF COMPLETE CURE OF THIS DESASE?

My sincer prayers is for any one suffering from this

and love to all

Abdul

[Guest guest]

I'm sorry about your wife. There is no cure for breast cancer yet. But the

treatment is much better than it used to be. Many women live for many

years, ten, twenty, and still counting, after receiving the treatment your

wife had. nne has probably told you she's been around for I think

fifteen years and counting and has no plans to stop!

Often I find it hard to live in the moment and appreciate that I am alive

right here and now; nevermind what might happen in one year or five years

or whenever. But I should live for the moment. In the end, that's all we

have. The only guarantee every human has is that they will die someday.

When and how, we don't know. I hope you and your wife (and I!) can manage

to enjoy the good times more, and worry about the bad times and the future

less.

There's always hope. And new research all the time. Maybe it would help to

think of cancer as a chronic condition. Your wife is not chronically dying.

She has a disease that might or might not kill her. Plenty of other things

in life might kill her, too. Thinking about death and the horrors of

treatment a lot, which I still do despite my best efforts, is kind of

pointless. I'm much happier when I just concentrate on each day, and

appreciate what's good in every day, and allow myself to be angry at what's

bad in every day.

Best of luck. I hope someone one this list can help you.

Jill

At 12:18 PM 4/26/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>hi

>

>my wife got this desease and she had breast mastectomy , chemo and

>rays treatment, now she is taking the bills, but sice the day we

>discovered her illness we live in horor, sice this kind of cancer is

>new to our comunity we don't know much about it ,

>

>my question is : IS THERE ANY HOPE OF COMPLETE CURE OF THIS DESASE?

>

>My sincer prayers is for any one suffering from this

>

>and love to all

>

>Abdul

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