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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Patty welcome to OCF. What a kind and thoughtful friend you are!
Best thing you can do is to be there when they need you. Offer to help by attending doctor appointments with them as an extra set of ears and to take notes. Offer to drive them if they do radiation treatments. Tell them when the time comes you will be happy to help in any way you can.... then do it. When someone becomes a cancer patient, sometimes some friends disappear until the patient is well again. This happens with even some very close friends and relatives. Your friend is fortunate to have you!
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | | |
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