The accuracy of sites varies wildly, but there are some really good ones. The American Cancer Society's is good. Breastcancer.org is great. You'll find that a lot of sites, if you read the small print, are sponsored by drug companies. Often they have some good information, but I wonder whether there's an inherent bias. Once you get off the semi-official sites for the different types of cancer, it's the wild west. It's like almost every other kind of web research. The problem is not so much the nonsense as the number of people who don't recognize nonsense.

Yeah, we have pretty good information. Dad was a pathologist. He's at one of the hospitals that his company did the lab work for. It's his old company who did the labs on his case.

I don't know if this is the case with cancer boards, but with chronic disease boards ( diabetes,asthma) the official info is very broad and general. and the discussion stuff has everything from rumors , to folk medicine ( which may or may not help),to whiners ( oh no my blood sugar is 5 pts higher than yesterday) ,to an occasional piece of practical advice. I get overloaded trying to pick through the info. My wish for a board is that someone would comb through the various threads and codify the info.

That's pretty much the case with the cancer boards, beth. One problem is that they're all threaded boards with the willy-nilly approach to thread creation, so even practical information, like ways to reduce nausea and mouth sores, is in a hundred different places.

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Maybe a LJ community would be a way to keep things sane. You could use tags to sort posts.

In the ongoing play-by-play of my day...the movers are gone, STBX and mom left hours ago on their separate journey's, the kids have gone to the movies and I'm alone in an empty house. I'll be headed out soon to see a play with a friend, but wow...what a day.

Happy b-day, JZ!

Wow, Suzi. That's a big big day!!!!

And in totally other news, the moment I got to the bit about GC having some ice cream, Harvey hopped up on my desk. He slung his tail across the keyboard, refusing any attempts to rearrange it, and is PURRRRRRRRRing. He's not even looking at me, he's looking at the computer. This is him sending the best that he has for you, Glam.

Comfort foods eaten within a week of a pet dying have no calories. You read it on the internet, so it must be true.

Belated birthday wishes, JZ!

And belated punctuation for GC - so sorry about Josie, and sorry that you won't be taking home the Siamese kitty. (But happy that the kitty got saved!)