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Living with lung cancer - Introduce yourself & come say hi
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Sep 25 12:58pm | Replies (1044)Comment receiving replies
I am so despondent. My Opdivo infusions have been very successful; however, I have developed colitus and my infusions have been postponed until it is resolved. I have fear and anxiety because of the lack of treatment opportunities that directly affect my lung cancer. All the healthful eating I have done must cease because it affects colitus. The lectures about this is just a bump in the road are not helping. I don't know how to handle this setback.
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Thank you. Your such means a great deal.
Welcome to Connect :
I have been following your lung cancer journey. It’s undescribable how the diagnosis can affect us.
I understand somewhat because I am a 10 year lung cancer survivor.
It’s remarkable how much research has advanced since my diagnosis ! As if this year there are more than 1100 therapies
for lung cancer! WoW.
Do not give Up! You are in the best place with your Mayo Team!
One important part of my healing was when I met Dr Amit Sood and was introduced to his Paced Breathing Research Study! By learning how to change my brain, with a meditation program for cancer patients, with practice and a workbook and support from an oncology nurse calling me every week I soon learned how to rethink
a lot of things! You can Google Dr Amit Sood’s TED X Talk and watch his great insights.
This helped me save my life. Supportfrom one person is huge!
I have kept active and I feel this this has greatly improved my quality of lifr.
Let’s stay connected! All my rst!
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linda wortmans
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I feel for you! One thing you might try to keep in mind is that there is no one universal 'healthful eating' program. So now you are doing healthful eating for your colitus and it is still putting good nutritious food into your body to help you to be strong and healthy. I hope it will be under control soon so that you can begin your infusions again.