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The New Face of Cancer Treatment- My Mom

December 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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Mom’s 80th Birthday PartyMom’s 80th Birthday Party. Does she look “sick” to you? Joanne Lin continues to astound her oncologists. She’s been fighting her diagnosis for Large B Cell Cutaneous Lymphoma for the last two and half years. She is at the end of the line. They gave her every treatment available, including some her HMO was not too thrilled about administering. Why? Because they were a long shot to work. And because they are expensive. The last one was a full body radiation by a radioactive antibody called Zevalin. To prepare for that, my Mom had to endure two hospitalized infusions of a chemotherapy cocktail. If only the side effects were as kind as a Cosmopolitan. Instead, they were awful; a classic example of why treatment is sometimes worse than the disease. Yet, look at her now. You would not know that she is in a clinical trial aka; the last train out of the station, destination unknown.  More on her therapy later. I just want to share how proud I am of her.

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  • 1 Language_and_Mind // Dec 17, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    Happy Birthday, Carol’s mom–warm congratulations and all best wishes for your special day!!! May we also say: you look fabulous! This occasion is especially heartwarming for me since my own mom (also stricken with cancer) just turned 82—-you gals are really something!!!! You have always been great teachers, great parents, and great role models for us. And look now: you are still doing it! There is no way we can tell you in words, our wonderful octogenarian moms, how very much all your goodness and love and determination have meant to us. But, of course, Mrs. Lin, long before Carol introduced you in these cyberspace pages, we knew you were amazing. You had to be, since you fashioned and gave the world such a truly extraordinary daughter. And no one is surprised that you, like Carol, have been so courageous, so incredibly strong, such an uplifting expression of hope, in the face of cancer. Like mother, like daughter. You have given us so much. And from all of us, thank-you.

  • 2 jodi // Jan 11, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Joanne,
    You are fabulous. But we always knew that. And you have a lot to live for!

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