Taking Care of My Mom Who Takes Care of Me: Others in the Battle

There are a number of folks in the blogosphere dealing with this disease. When my mom was first diagnosed, I struggled to find other people with stage 4 stomach/ gastric cancer. Here are their stories:

Debbie Zelman

- http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/debrazelman/journal

Jack Mintz

- http://jack-mintz.blogspot.com/

Kerry Franke

- http://kerryfranke.blogspot.com/

Marta Campos

- http://www.diaryofaprettyface.com/

Lorita, caregiver for her mom
- http://thiscancerthingsucks.blogspot.com/

Anna, caregiver for her husband
- http://watersfamilyforum.blogspot.com

About this blog

Before my mom was diagnosed, I did not know what an oncologist was. I could hardly pronounce “metastasis” let alone spell it. Like points on a map, we went from one specialist to the other, almost like the Amazing Race– finding the doctor and then heeding yet another set of directions on where to go next. I’m sure that all the doctors we had visited before understood “metastasis” and saw that it was detected through a distant node, distant being the operative word. Yet we still clung to the hope that we caught it in early. I kept telling myself that it didn’t touch the organs, completely ignorant of the fact that once it spread to a distant location, it was considered “incurable.”

One can go crazy thinking about the “what ifs” because we can’t go back and change time. We can only move forward. And take it day by day, or hour by hour, or minute by minute.

I hope to chronicle my dealings with the big C as a young caregiver, the highs and the lows, and the things that happen in between when life collides with cancer.

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Others in the Battle