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Prayers sent your way Donna.. You can BEAT this demon.. Lord knows we are all pulling for you.. God Bless!

~From one Donna to another!~

Hugz!

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Dear Donna,

Your courage and faith is truly inspiring and heart-breaking. I am so sorry you have this pain and fear to face right now. You are so right. I have also wasted too much of my life worrying about my weight. Those kind of thoughts are pretty useless.

I send you hope and prayers to add to that incredible faith of yours. You are never alone!

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Donna, I am truly sorry to hear you are faced with this. If you don't already know about it, I wanted to mention that there is a website at http://www.bcmets.org which has a very active mailing list of other women dealing with metastatic breast cancer. The ladies there might have some useful advice and support on how to cope with things like medication effects. Some of them have been living with bone mets for years without any spread to the rest of their bodies, so there is hope.

All my best to you and your family. :)

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Donna, I too am so very sorry for your diagnosis - I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers that you will beat this. Thank you for reminding all of us of what is truly important in this world. Take care and keep us posted when you can - we all care and can help you on those down (and up!) days.

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So sorry to hear about the return of your cancer. I hope you are doing okay and I hope you can get your lapband at another time. Good luck.

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Hi Donna.

I'm sorry to hear about the journey you have to go on.

My thoughts will be with you!

I walk in the Avon Walk in chicago this june - know I'll be thinking of you as I walk.

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