[QUOTE=HubmaN]Holy crap, I wonder if you could take drugs intravenously with that portable catheter...[/QUOTE]
Yeah man my veins could do weed that would be so trippin ~420~
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Interesting read by the way.
Wow, I didn't even know you had cancer! Well, all I can really say is good luck!
I honestly didn't know what you have been going through so you have 100% respect from me. Glad to see you're getting better mate, well done for stayin so positive I'd never be able to do it.
I've had a cancer scare but luckily I got there just in time. Was about 4 years ago when a freckle on the side of my right boob went funny, I left it for about 3 weeks but I was still concerned so I went to the doctors. They cut it out and sent it for testing and the results were that the cells were abnormal and if I left it any longer they would have turned cancerous, they got it all because there was healthy cells around the abnormality. All I have now is an ugly scar on my boob but I'd rather have that than no boob or even life at all!
I hope you acheieve your dreams and ambitions and keep smiling :)
My good friend had cancer. He had some chemos but he never told me about them and I didn't think they are so fucked up. You are pretty amazing to endure it and don't turn emo or something. I'm really impressed. Anyway, my friend had the stuff removed (from one of his muscles at his side) and feels good now. He has a big scar now and tells people he was shot in vietnam :P
So I wish you get better too
An interesting read.
Good to see you're getting better - chemo sounds like hell.
Keep going!
You made me cry. :crying: Thank god you are better now.
Facepunchers are invincible!
Sounds alot like what I had to go through :S. Wasn't cancer, but my kidneys did fail at the end of last year. It was a week after I finished my final HSC exam (last year of schooling here in Australia), so I missed that blissful period between school and university when most people don't have a care in the world. I could actually tick off most of the side effects/procedures you had, its remarkably similar to life on dialysis.
I had a perm-cath put into the same spot you had yours. Mine went into my heart via the main neck artery, I'm unsure whether yours did as well (probably). The one thing I did have to put up with was high blood pressure (and low BP, but that was much later) which was terrible... I'd get headaches that worsened everytime I lay down. They had me on 8 different blood pressure medications at one stage. I had one nasty dialysis session where they took off too much fluid and I ended up puking most of the 1.5 hour drive home. It meant my medication wasn't absorbed properly so my BP went so high (Im talking over 250/180) that I had a seizure and had to be airlifted to the closest major hospital. I was unconcious for most of it but still it was terrifying waking up in intensive care connected up to a bunch of tubes..
But luckily I got a kidney transplant almost 8 weeks ago and I'm mostly back to normal. I do have to take a handful of anti-rejection medication everyday, which gives me a high chance of getting lymphoma. So it was good to hear about what you've gone through. I honestly thought any kind of cancer was a death sentence, but hearing that 98% of people survive has really put me at ease.
Thanks alot for posting this, it has really helped to know I'm not the only one in this situation.
Amazing story!
My great grandad died of cancer, It was either rectum or testicular.
He put up with it, without getting operations or medical care, other than a drip, for 8 years.
Sitting in the same chair for 8 long years.
He died back in '04/01 I can't ever remember, but I was young.
Glad to see you chose to get the medical care and help, well done.
I know of several people to die of cancer.
It's upsetting, but you and other survivors give people hope.
I'm glad you made it and you're happy.
stupid07'er, i salute you.
Good luck in your future endeavors ;)
Hope you'll never have any health problems again.
Hoorrah. Get better mate, kick it's ass :D
:uhoh:
Glad you came through man!
Also, first thread more than 2 paragraphs long that I read all the way through without skim reading
My mom was diagnosed with cancer two years ago. She had that same port that you have, she loved it because she didn't have to get jabbed with needles so often (she still had to get blood work done at least once a week, so she'd still have to get jabbed then) but hated it because she couldn't have green vegetables or chocolate, which are two of her main food groups. She ended up doing one milder version of chemo in pill form, which she was on for 2 years, the general version of weekly chemo every week, and then 12 weeks of some really hardcore chemo they could only give her every two weeks coupled with radiation. She was lucky enough that the only major side effect was losing her hair, she had been very sick to her stomach when she was pregnant with my sister and I, so she knew what to do to keep that settled, and had medicines if she needed them. However, she managed to go through all of it without puking once.
Finally, once she recovered enough, she had surgery to remove the area where the cancer had been (she had a really scary, aggressive type that we're lucky they caught so early), and now she's been back teaching all of last year and her hair is growing back in. :) She's still a bit mad at how slowly growing back in, but she can put it into a ridiculously tiny ponytail right now, so she's thrilled to death. :D
I'm really glad to hear you've pulled through and are feeling better, it's a scary time for everyone involved.
lucky you look good bald, my cousin used to wear a cap around all the time.
Can you write a shortened version for me? That wall of text is too large for me to climb.
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Today is Labor Day here in the U.S., and last year on this holiday I was having a barbecue with some friends and just having a good time, when I really started to notice that I had some weird stomach pains. ... Because of the location he thought maybe it'd be my pancreas, if I remember right, and he wanted to do an ultrasound to see if anything could be determined with that. So I got one of those done on my stomach, I kinda felt like a pregnant lady Turns out it wasn't my pancreas, but a lymph node that was a bit larger than it should have been. ... They numbed up the area around where they were going to be sticking this foot long needle thing with a grabber on the end into my side, so I didn't feel it penetrate my skin.
...There were more than one nodes that were affected also, some in my abdomen and 1 in my chest, so I would need to do chemotherapy to begin and not radiation.
...Initially there were 4 chemo drugs that they had me on but 2 of them ended up getting dropped within a few weeks because of side effects. ... This would let them just inject the chemo drugs right into it and they wouldn't have to find a vein and do an IV every time. ... At first I tried to eat lunch since my times were around noon or 1, but after a few times I couldn't hold down food at all at the cancer clinic. ... I guess it was just like Pavlov's dogs: my body knew it was going to be throwing up after the drugs, so I'd throw up before, during, and after too!
...I couldn't hardly keep any food down for the first few days after each treatment, though after about 5 days or so my eating would return to normal again... only to go through the same process again.
...My feet were worse though, I couldn't walk hardly at all for a few weeks before they found the right drugs for the pain. ... I couldn't sleep under the covers in my bed because the pressure of the blankets on my feet was too painful, so I would use a thing sleeping bag that at least wasn't as bad. I had to take sleep medication though because of the foot pain, and even with that and my pain meds I'd still only manage a few hours of sleep.
...So picture this, I stand up, my feet SCREAM with pain, I stand there in place a few seconds to let the pain settle to where I'm OK to walk, I take a few steps, and the next thing I know I'm on the floor wondering what happened. And that would happen a lot during those first few months until they got me on some good meds that at least helped me not faint, though it didn't slow down my heart to normal. The fainting is probably what worried my parents the most, they didn't want me walking hardly anywhere at all without help or someone watching closely, because it would just happen to me without warning it seemed and I couldn't stop it.
...My dad was in the same room so he ran over and got me a towel to put on my right eyebrow area to try to stop the bleeding and he says we need to get me to the emergency room. ... I told them that it was just like that, that my doctors knew about it and that they didn't need to worry about it but they convinced my parents to let them give me some fluids and monitor me for awhile after the stitches. ... We were there for about 4 hours where as it should have only taken 30 minutes at most to just do the stitches and send me on my way. ... For some reason I was just super sick of everything that night, having cancer and chemotherapy side effects and such, and just did not want to be there in that hospital for longer than necessary.
...After a few months I had another PET/CT scan and it turned out that there was one node that was still enlarged, so they wanted to do radiation therapy. ... I wished they could have just done that instead of chemotherapy in the first place, but since I had a few enlarged nodes chemo was the only way to target them all at once.
...I go to stores sometimes now and after 10 minutes or so I'll be ready to sit down again and rest my legs, but I know it's an ongoing process. ... I don't get the extreme pain when I first stand up at all anymore, instead it's just a constant burning pain that's there all the time, but it's much much less than before.
...Once my foot decides to stop hurting I can truly get my leg muscles working again since taking a walk around 1 block 4 or 5 times a week isn't doing too much good. [/quote]
I'm pretty much fed up with people who whine about their cancer/obesity/illness to uninvolved people every chance they get. Please stop it, I just don't fucking care. If you died, I wouldn't notice.
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Thanks
Relevant: Wow sounds like cancer sucks. The worst part is not being able to sleep with blankets. I love sleeping with blankets. Also what happens when you masturbate, does that hurt a lot too?
Is it in full remission (I think that's the word) now?
It's great that you're doing well. That was a really, really interesting read and I'm certainly happy that you seem to be recovering. I really hope that you manage to stay healthy, mainly because you are mighty awesome and because we love you :love:.
[QUOTE=William M]Also what happens when you masturbate, does that hurt a lot too?[/QUOTE]
Hahaha! What a typical Facepunch reply, you had cancer, sounds pretty bad, wait, fuck, could you masturbate still? That's more important than [i]any[/i] disease.
I'm glad you're cured now. I didn't know it takes that long time to cure cancer and getting back to your normal life.
[QUOTE=Mr_Minion]That's more important than [i]any[/i] disease.[/QUOTE]
I hope you're not being sarcastic, masturbation [i]is[/i] serious business...
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Glad to see you pulled through it, you're an awesome poster.
You cancer guys should meet my brother, he's into all this kind of stuff!
I didn't know until now.
Very sorry. Glad you got better though :D
Man, I love you
you always rate me
and you are cool
do not die
Woah dude. I'm glad you're OK.
I'm very happy that you're doing better, cancer is a terrible thing to live with and it takes determination to not just give up. Thanks for keeping alive.
PS Thanks for appriciating the sex poses of the joker and batman, it was rewarding to know that someone got a laugh.
I'm glad you made it through.
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