[QUOTE=stupid07er]
[B][highlight]OCTOBER 21 2008 UPDATE:[/highlight][/B]
Just got my test results back today. Turns out radiation did the trick on the node they were aiming at, but I have another one near my esophagus. This means they have to do a bone marrow transplant so they can be sure to kill any and all cancer anywhere. Monday I'll start chemo again, which I'll have for about 3 months this time. Then I have to go live near the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City for 3 weeks while they do full body radiation, uber heavy chemotherapy, and the bone marrow transplant. I'm honestly feeling a little sick to my stomach already...[/QUOTE]
Dude, that Fucking [b]Sucks[/b]. :(
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The part about the stitches reminds me of the time I slipped in the shower, because there was no mat in the tub, and broke the Soap dish with my shoulder.
That cut was like an inch deep. :v:
One of my friends was diagnosed with cancer early in the school year last year.
He fought it off over the summer and was told that it was completely gone.
Just last week or so, they found out that it moved to his spine. They had to do emergency surgery to cut out one of his vertebrae and replace it with a metal one. If they had waited any longer to do the operation, he would have been paralyzed from the waist down.
I saw what Chemo did to him, and it was horrible watching him go through that. Noone should have to go through that shit.
My heart goes out to you, man. Surviving cancer takes balls (no, literally. Look at Lance Armstrong).
Wish you the best of luck. Just keep on fighting.
[QUOTE=BobMarleyFan]:love:
good luck man. i don't know you though so i can't tell if you deserved it or not.
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What would someone have to do to deserve chemo?
My dad was recently diagnosed with Non Hodgkins Lymphoma, at the moment he's doing fine but I'm still worried since this runs on his side of the family and I could get it soon.
Ya know, Chuck Norris' Tears cure cancer.
To bad he has never cried before.
[QUOTE=stupid07er][B][highlight]OCTOBER 21 2008 UPDATE:[/highlight][/B]
Just got my test results back today. Turns out radiation did the trick on the node they were aiming at, but I have another one near my esophagus. This means they have to do a bone marrow transplant so they can be sure to kill any and all cancer anywhere. Monday I'll start chemo again, which I'll have for about 3 months this time. Then I have to go live near the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City for 3 weeks while they do full body radiation, uber heavy chemotherapy, and the bone marrow transplant. I'm honestly feeling a little sick to my stomach already...[/QUOTE]
Again? Wow gee that REALLY sucks...
How curable is the one near the esophagus?
Don't worry, you'll make it!
[QUOTE=toastedspyro]Again? Wow gee that REALLY sucks...
How curable is the one near the esophagus?
Don't worry, you'll make it![/QUOTE]
Same curability, so should be no problem. It's just the fact that it's still there that means I have to have all this extra crap done.
Thanks again to everyone's good wishes! It really means a lot to me!
Was it the cancer or the chemo that made you good looking in the last picture?
[QUOTE=AngryAsshole]Was it the cancer or the chemo that made you good looking in the last picture?[/QUOTE]
Hehe, I blame the cancer :D
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[b]FUCK YA! HARDCORE CANCER GUY![/b]
[i]Note: I really don't have cancer, and pray for those who do. It is a real picture of me. Just for fun and smilies[/i]
I shaved my head because on my military ID my head was shaven in bootcamp and I was always get called cancer patient. I geuss it didn't help I wore a bathroom robe outside to go smoke so people called me the run away cancer patient.
Props to the OP for making it this far! I knew some family members that had cancer and were able to defeat it.
[QUOTE=Sware][img]http://filesmelt.com/Imagehosting/pics/663916a433c97422f04c59a676d91898.jpg[/img]
[b]FUCK YA! HARDCORE CANCER GUY![/b]
[i]Note: I really don't have cancer, and pray for those who do. It is a real picture of me. Just for fun and smilies[/i]
I shaved my head because on my military ID my head was shaven in bootcamp and I was always get called cancer patient. I geuss it didn't help I wore a bathroom robe outside to go smoke so people called me the run away cancer patient.
Props to the OP for making it this far! I knew some family members that had cancer and were able to defeat it.[/QUOTE]
Have you been listenng to a tin of baked beans again?
The treatment sounds shit-tastic, but it's better than having cancer.
glad you're doing fine, mate.
Also, regarding the stem cells...
That's just what I know of stem cells in general. I am not a doctor or scientist or researcher or anything, so you should really listen to what your doctors say about it instead of me. They'll explain it much better, and with better detail. They may technically do something different with them, I don;t know.
CUCK FANCER!
Stay strong buddy!
Wow i look up to you man,i wish you the best :)
ps:stay positive,i believe that is the best thing you can do when you are fighting cancer.
pss: have a cookie
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COOKIE.
LUCKY.
Also, thank you OP. I think I might know why my feet tingle and burn sometimes for a couple days. I am a cross country runner, and there is no feeling like that. It is quite possibly the most frustrating feeling ever.
Cancer Sucks, good to see you getting better!
Lastly:[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube#Potential_and_current_applications[/url]
I don't believe they mention that heated carbon nanotubes could also be used to target cancer cells by using that heat to "pop" the cell.
But, as always, the fight against cancer rages on. Here's hoping for stem cell therapy advancements in that fight. (Without killing babies of course.)
[QUOTE=thisispain]Of course but the type of cancer you get is really dependent on history.
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Luckily for you Hogdkin's has a 98% survival rate, so it is the best cancer to get.[/QUOTE]
I don't think any cancer is good to get.
[QUOTE=snuwoods]I don't think any cancer is good to get.[/QUOTE]
Well true :D That's what I wanted to say when the doctor who was telling me the news for the first time said "If you could pick a cancer to have, Hodgkin's is the one to choose!" Guess you can always be an optimist about everything, right? I try to be, but that's going a little far!
Man, oh, man. As the kid whose mom disinfected everything as a baby, I'm a veteran of every common cold and virus you'd find inside the average kid's body, I've had strep throat for months at a time, been to hospitals for asthma, had corrective nasal surgery, and all the doctors in my town and the next one over know my family and me on a firstname basis... I have a severe mental illness and I've lived in a two hospitals for it... and all of the things I've ever lived through are but a pittance before this. It breaks my heart.
It takes an altogether different class of person to walk through the kind of hell you're enduring with a smile, and if there's a God, then I'm gonna have a heck of a talk with him for letting him do this to you before he casts me down for my disbelief.
-snip- :downs:
[QUOTE=Upgrade123]My heart goes out to you, man. Surviving cancer takes balls (no, literally. Look at Lance Armstrong).[/QUOTE]
I lol'd pretty hard
Anyways, stupid07'er, that sucks you have to go back for more. I don't know what you've been through (I don't have cancer) but it must suck, extremely bad. I hope you get well again. You're definitely the best 07'er on this forum!
Good luck with all this. Hopefully you'll make it.
You're a very good dancer <3
Glad to hear you're recovering, and that it looks like you'll beat it. (Even if you have to take an extra dose of treatment). My grandmother and the daughter of a family friend died from cancer, so my thoughts also go out to your family and friends, who must be worried sick.
If you die or something i'm going to be like: :crying:! Facepunch wouldn't be the same without you! D,:
(I'm such a sensitive person :()
good luck
[b]Edit:[/b] wait it's not october anymore is it
Stupid07er, I hope you make it through the treatment without any long-lasting effects man.
Best of luck.
Man, that's horrible. When exactly do you start the chemo again? Or have you?
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