Hating cancer; it took my Mom

[RobertN]

One of the hard parts of all this is how active my Mom was in the Sacramento Ca area cancer groups.

30 years ago, she had went to Austria for a couple months to learn lymphedema treatment and management. She was a massage therapist and skin care specialist(esthetician) already, and had dabbled in sports massage.

When she returned home, she worked with cancer patients for years. She was able to provide treatments to either prevent or reduce the swelling associated with lymphedema that included skin care, manual lymph drainage, gentle massage. She worked a lot with Dr. Ernie Bodai, a Kaiser Permanente surgeon who was the director of breast surgical services for Kaiser, and the man responsible for bringing the Breast Cancer Awareness postage stamp into existence. She got to see Dr Bodai and the cancer stamp reach 1 Billion stamps.

She helped so many other cancer patients over the years.

It is hard to have here taken by cancer, when she did so much to help others who were going thru it.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I hate cancer. It took Jinman from us and others here on TBN have been thru it or affected by it.

Last Friday it took my Mom, less than a week after her 73 birthday.

She fought and beat it the first time around; mastectomy, chemo and radiation. Was doing well for almost two years.

It came back stage-4; she couldn't beat it this time.

Having worked at or around Intel since 1984, and having seen some of the computing horsepower used for Cray's and other super computers, I wish they could direct more of that to modeling a cure...

Sorry for your loss, Robert.. Cancer took my mother awhile back, and my wife currently has Pancreatic Cancer she has been fighting for just over 2yrs..

 

[cqaigy2]

Thanks for sharing Robert, your mother was a very special person.

 

[TxDoc]

I will be praying for Jinman to finally rest and be happy looking down on you and your family.
You should take solice in that she is not suffering. She is IN the best place and someday will be there to welcome you.
God Bless you and your family.

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[jack707]

I lost my mother to cancer in 14. Me a so Thelma all because she helped her father dry wall and paint back in the mid 50's!!!!! Didn't come out till she was 69 she lasted to 73.

 

[EddieWalker]

Sorry to hear of your loss.

My brother used to work for a big pharmaceutical company in Utah that had developed 3 different cures for cancer at that time. They rely on the Mormon's in the area for their research. From what I understand, it's very important to have as long a family history as possible. He hated the job because it was extremely boring. They had to do the exact same test with one minor change each time over and over again for years at a time. Hundreds of people there all doing this day after day. He said that the only way to find a cure is to try every possible combination, so it's like putting together the biggest puzzle in the world, face down.

 

[Mike_Kanzer]

Sorry for your loss. I am a pathologist and spend a lot of my time diagnosing cancer in people's biopsies and tissues removed at surgery. I am always wondering about how the people "attached" to these biopsies are having their lives turned upside down by the diagnoses. Cancer is a very complicated problem with many factors causing it. The environment, genetics and who knows what else all seem to play a role in causing it. When it hits close to home it is devasating. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Mike

 

[jack707]

They have to put more money into mesothelioma cancer because the doctors don't now enough, they just give you moraine and send you home to die!.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Our condolences my friend, we've been in one of those "internet relationships" for what seems like forever.
You will do better than just survive because that's what she wanted.

My best advice is to live your life like you wished she could have lived hers.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

My Mom died at 65 young, Watching for those months were the hardest thing of my life.

My mom also died of cancer at 65. She was three weeks shy of her 66th birthday and 50th wedding anniversary.