From: Betty R. Owens <"bowens2"@ix.netcom.com@expresswaypark.com>
To: cancer@via-media.com <cancer@via-media.com>
Subject: chordoma
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 8:53 PM

I like a few of your other readers notice the update was 12/97.
Hopefully your cancer has not re-occured. My husband had a chordoma
tumor removed with two surgeries in February and March of 98. I have
had a very hard time coping. I started going out with my husband in high
school when I was 15 (I am now 45), we were married when I was 20 and we
have run a family business together since I was 28. We have two children
24 and 15. I find at this point in my life - I can not live without him.
Thoughts of suicide run rampant in my mind. After 8 months I still cry
constantly. His doctor says chemo or radiation will not help. I feel
helpless. My only hope is he is also taking some of the supplements that
you have listed. There is a 10% chance it will not come back. I just
want to up the percentages. I cook which I never did before. I try
everything possible. I had a little hope when they thought the cure was
right around the corner and then they snatch it back. I would feel a lot
better to know that God, surgery, and supplements were still helping
you.
Love and prayers for you and your family.
Betty