• My 1 Year Journey With Cancer
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If you can overcome cancer you can overcome just about anything. Here have a friendly mate
[QUOTE=stupid07er]Not to rain on your parade, but neither did I :uhoh:[/QUOTE] Then you are quite unlucky.
Keep the hair man. I would asap if I lost mine. Hair talk aside, I never knew about this. I've had to have a few things done to me, but nothing on the scale of cancer. I'm not sure how I'd feel about the situation so I won't talk about it. It's nice to see someone post about this and be so positive. Glad to see it all worked out. Keep on livin'.
[QUOTE=sltlamina]If you were able to live indefinitely (like not age) then you're almost 100% guaranteed to get cancer, the second you were born you were being bombarded with radiation and inhaling carcinogens. It's simply the way things work.[/QUOTE] Of course but the type of cancer you get is really dependent on history. [b]Edit:[/b] Luckily for you Hogdkin's has a 98% survival rate, so it is the best cancer to get.
You went through a lot in the past year, you're an incredibly strong person to deal with all this, hope you to continue to get better and wish you all the best! :keke:
I'm really glad you're doing alright, from what I can tell it's a pretty tough thing to live with. And I really respect how you can still be optimistic. It takes really strong character.
I expected this to be a troll looking for replies, but damn dude. Really kind of lightened up the FP atmosphere with this. A kid at my school just lost his fight.
You know, I would guess the worst part is not the pain or the vomiting or the dead social life, but having to accept the posibility of death, now that is a kicker. How did you live through this mentally?
I remember the first thread. You look great! Glad to see you pulled through :patriot:
You should keep making the dance videos
If I had cancer, personally, I'll be just hating the world. :)
[QUOTE=Karskin]You should keep making the dance videos[/QUOTE] Yeah I need to make another one soon. Maybe this week if I think of something interesting to add to it... the 3rd one failed in my opinion because I couldn't think of anything to do to top #2 and it just ended up not being interesting.
The chemo part reminds me of the time I got radiation sickness in Russia in 1998. Good times :vomit:
Glad to know you (hopefully)won't die. :) :love:
My grandpa had lung cancer. He got it from working in a factory a while back, he and others got it also. He had it for awhile untill he found out about it. The docters didn't give him long to live, around 6 months maybe i can't remember. My family slowly watched him pass away. At first he went through chemo, he didn't lose any hair and i don't think it helped him any. After awhile he got worse and worse. He couldn't do anything for himself, he had to have my grandmother assist him with everything, he couldn't even sleep in his own bed, he had his own bed in the living room with an oxygen tank. He was getting worse everyday. He died eventuly, it was very sad. We sued the company, so did alot of other people from the other familys and the company went bankrupt. My grandma still gets checks every week (from a differnt company?) from this and she always helps out my mom, my aunt, and my two uncles with whatever she can because she says "that's how grandpa woulda wanted it". Good luck to you man, i hope you don't go down the same path my grandpa did, no one deserves that.
Wow, that was an amazing read. Ever since I saw you mentioning chemo I've always wanted to know more about your health, so you can say that I've been waiting for this thread. :) Anyway, it's good to see that you're almost back to normal. You are, definitely, my favourite Mormon of all time. I've also had cancer. Well, it was a light form of skin cancer and I got into surgery twice. I made a thread about it back in -06 (some here might remember that thread). Stay safe mate.
That was a good read, glad to know that some people actually do pull through it so well. I actually lost my Grandad to it earlier i nthe year, the worst thing for him was not being able to do anything himself. He actually died when I was on the way to the hospital to visit him. R.I.P On a lighter note, Good luck!
in that before chemo pic you look like jim from the office. Anyway i've seen cancer patients come and go, and hodgkin's is indeed the one to have (well none is the one to have but still...).
I have a friend who had Hodgekin's, too. They removed some stuff from his neck and gave him a chemo that was apparently far less brutal than yours, since he never said anything about nerve damage. He did lose his hair, though. Well, he was diagnosed with it two years ago, and he seems to be fine by now. I wish you the best of luck, hope you get rid of that last piece of cancer, too. The chances are pretty good from what I've heard and read. And also, you have my deep respect for not letting your sickness get you down.
[QUOTE=thisispain]You know, I would guess the worst part is not the pain or the vomiting or the dead social life, but having to accept the posibility of death, now that is a kicker. How did you live through this mentally?[/QUOTE] Well, with a survival rate of 98% i guess there isen't much of need to think about death. I am ill at the moment. Having a soar throat and fever. Went to the doctor yesterday. She tried sticking a long pin down my throat, that was uncomfortable. She took my tempratur: 39.1 degress celcius. Got a recept on penicilin. Been in bed for 4 days now. Throat is killing me. Could just as well be throat cancer :( Or just a Upper respiratory tract infection. Has all the symptoms i am having.
[QUOTE=theusaokay]So how did you get cancer?[/QUOTE] Someone with cancer breathed on him. No but seriously, OP, It's good to see that you made trough it. My brother actually had cancer, and for a while, it was unsure if he was gonna live. But he survived, and so did you. Nice man.
You're the only mormon I Haven't wanted to kill :love:
A couple of years ago, I lost 4 acquaintances to cancer within the space of two months. I wasn't really that close to them, but it was disconcerting seeing so many pass away in such a short time. Well done for making it through. I've always upheld that it's as much about your state of mind as the treatment you're receiving.
My brother had a friend who had cancer, it was one of the more common ones, but he died :( The good thing is he did it in his sleep, so he didn't suffer as much. He was nice, everyone in my family liked him. :( [b]Edit:[/b] He was only about 16 or 17 too.
Good to see my money wasn't wasted when it went to cancer research. Twenty years ago you might have been a hopeless case.
Glad your doing well, but I thought that cancer couldn't be cured?
[QUOTE=L0GIC]Glad your doing well, but I thought that cancer couldn't be cured?[/QUOTE] Deppends on the kind, OP has one that doesn't spread. And if it's another type that they cure, they count the person living 5 years as being "Cured"
I've seen you post and you're one of the people on FP who I recognize when I see, but I never knew you had cancer. But you look well, and I doubt it'll cause you too much trouble. Like you said "It's very curable, treatment is light compared to other types, and once it's gone it's gone." You'll live through it.
Holy crap, I wonder if you could take drugs intravenously with that portable catheter...
in the bc photo you look like jim halpert from the office
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