• Ask a guy with cancer anything
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It's not a question but I wish you all the best and a speedy recovery.
How much longer will it take for you to be "all better" again? Also, I wish you a speedy recovery. Hope it passes without incident. <3
[QUOTE=Sunday_Roast;35061483]What do you usually do to kill time? If the answer is videogames then; pitch your favourite.[/QUOTE] Diablo 2 all day every day hahah. [QUOTE=Amerigo;35062080]Dude, you're already almost done? Nice, mine was six months long. Lost your hair?[/QUOTE] Yeah Sporatic Burkkitt's is unique in the way that it grows INSANELY fast, though as a result, responds very very well to chemotherapy so a 4 month regime is usually sufficient. My hair started falling out about a month into treatment so I just decided to shave it off, being way easy to wash is a plus :v: [QUOTE=That Ninja;35065177]How much longer will it take for you to be "all better" again? Also, I wish you a speedy recovery. Hope it passes without incident. <3[/QUOTE] After a couple months of being off treatment I should be doing very well.
My mom had [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hodgkin_lymphoma]Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma[/url]. Godspeed and best of luck. Cancer is not easy, it is not weak, but by god, it can be defeated.
Officially in remission. Just waiting for my WBC count to rebound so they can smack it once more for good measure.
Good luck, take pictures of your room before you leave!
I've not read the whole thread. However to the OP... I feel for you. I've got Stage 2C Testicular Cancer. Just started Cycle 2 of 3 Chemotherapy... Not feeling as bad as you sounded like though. I only had a small mass in my back causing back and stomach pain. Good luck bro, hope you're better!
Get well soon! I had a couple friends and family with different types of cancer and it's not a nice thing.
ANC (Absolute neutrophil count) skyrocketed over the last few days from 200 to over 2700 :v: I'm off for my final 7-day infusion, I'll update you guys in 1 week, when I'll be cured with a new, and hopefully a long life ahead of me
My brother has cancer so i sort of understand it. Hope you get better soon, man.
2 hours before the final bag of Cytarabine is removed and I am declared cancer free. [editline]28th March 2012[/editline] it ended up being a 6 day infusion. :D
[QUOTE=Folgergeist;35339809]2 hours before the final bag of Cytarabine is removed and I am declared cancer free. [editline]28th March 2012[/editline] it ended up being a 6 day infusion. :D[/QUOTE] Wheee.
[QUOTE=Folgergeist;35339809]2 hours before the final bag of Cytarabine is removed and I am declared cancer free. [editline]28th March 2012[/editline] it ended up being a 6 day infusion. :D[/QUOTE] So it's all good in the hood now, right?
[QUOTE=Neat!;35340670]So it's all good in the hood now, right?[/QUOTE] Yep, just flush the remnants of chemo out over the next couple days then its whey protein / weightlifting parties and feeling better than ever for a long time.
You need bro fist you kick cancer's ass.
Treatment has ended. I guess I'm cured now couple weeks to let my reds / whites etc stabilize and I'll be headed home and feeling great for the first time in 5 long months.
dude thats awesome to hear! hope you feel better, never had any experience with cancer so i dont know exactly what youd be going through right now, but i wish you all the best. the start of this thread was depressing, glad you managed to beat the cancer in the end.
Holy shit, just read through this thread. I can barely even read about what you went through, oh god. You're tough as nails man, jesus. Hope to see ya postin' from home real soon!
Great !
[QUOTE=Folgergeist;35341660]Treatment has ended. I guess I'm cured now couple weeks to let my reds / whites etc stabilize and I'll be headed home and feeling great for the first time in 5 long months.[/QUOTE] Are they gonna do any sorts of scans to make sure there's nothing left? Now that my chemo's done, I'm getting either a CT or PET scan every six weeks to make sure it doesn't come back.
Fuck yeah medical science!
[QUOTE=Amerigo;35345423]Are they gonna do any sorts of scans to make sure there's nothing left? Now that my chemo's done, I'm getting either a CT or PET scan every six weeks to make sure it doesn't come back.[/QUOTE] Yep, I get a PET/CT the day before I leave for home, then a CT every 3 months for the following year. In a couple weeks I'll bump with a photo of me and my oncologist :)
And here's that photo I promised :v: [img]http://i.imgur.com/9WOFe.png[/img] [editline]8th April 2012[/editline] Taken the day of completion.
Could you describe the process of chemotherapy? I could just Google it of course, but a first person point of view almost always provides more insight. Thank you, and I hope you have a speedy recovery!
[QUOTE=Folgergeist;35490946]And here's that photo I promised :v: [img]http://i.imgur.com/9WOFe.png[/img] [editline]8th April 2012[/editline] Taken the day of completion.[/QUOTE] I swear, cancer seems to hit the tall people. Friend of mine had leg cancer, wasn't as serious as yours seems to be and it's good that you beat it, and he's insanely tall and always has been. Now you can go to parties and tell people cancer came to the wrong neighborhood.
how do you feel about death now
I know it's awful and horrid to have such an evil illness, but it must be so awesome that you'll be able to tell your friends/family "I fucking kicked cancer's ass"
Nice eybrows, bro. Lucky you got to hang on to them. Having no eyebrows looks creepy as fuck.
[QUOTE=Ast_risk;35491063]Could you describe the process of chemotherapy? I could just Google it of course, but a first person point of view almost always provides more insight. Thank you, and I hope you have a speedy recovery![/QUOTE] Chemotherapy regimens can vary depending on the diagnosis, mine involved 4 rounds of intensive chemotherapy involving doxorubicin, methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, Vincristine, Cytarabine and prednisone. The first two rounds were the worst (Mainly due to high dose methotrexate, it caused severe inflammation and raw ulcers in my mouth, preventing me from eating or drinking for a couple weeks each time.) The chemotherapy in these first rounds caused the tissue in my mouth to lose the upcoming generation of new cells, so once the older layer sluffed off, I had nothing but raw flesh, so raw that if my tongue even so much as touched my teeth, I would spazz in pain. I also could not swallow my saliva without immense pain, thankfully I was eventually given an pumped suction wand to deposit my spit into a large cup, being careful not to touch the raw parts of my mouth, beats leaning over a trash can with my mouth open, letting the saliva slowly drool into it. I wasn't nauseous for these first two however. The last 2 rounds were Methotrexate and Cytarabine continuous infusion over the course of 7 days on the first, and 6 on the last. I experienced constant nausea during these, and proceeding the first dose was also graced with a stomach bug, which made its self known in the form of initial fatigue and chronic diarrhea in the form of intestinal mucus, followed by an inevitable sudden voiding of my entire stomach (I had just eaten a large meal too). To set the scene here, I'm in the outpatient facility, my ANC etc. are low, I throw up everything I had eaten that day, leaving me extremely dehydrated (not to mention the constant mucus diarrhea) I was rushed to the E.R where I was given several boluses of IV fluid to hydrate me, it took a lot to hydrate me enough to actually urinate. The final round has gone much smoother, I was nauseous pretty much the whole time, but that's about it. That's my experience with chemo in a nutshell... and that's only 1/3 of my suffering related to the cancer. other 2/3's is the anxiety/depression caused by the process(I had an extreme fear of drugs and medicine in general), and the hellish month of endless torment - December 2011. [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Checkers;35491261]how do you feel about death now[/QUOTE] Depends on my mood, if I'm enjoying myself I don't think about it, if I feel down I think about it and it feels comforting and relaxing. [editline]9th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Dead Madman;35491269]I know it's awful and horrid to have such an evil illness, but it must be so awesome that you'll be able to tell your friends/family "I fucking kicked cancer's ass"[/QUOTE] I give most credit to my oncologist.
Posting from home now. It is now done and over with. Everything feels really surreal, this is my first time home in 3 and a half months, and that whole ordeal was insane. God damn, I'm still having trouble taking all of this in. [editline]14th April 2012[/editline] I [b]really[/b] wish I knew [b]why[/b] I developed it in the first place. I'm such a health-conscious and active person. :( [editline]14th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Liem;34439064]Does Cancer Change you as a person? (Higher Value for Life)[/QUOTE] All I've really noticed is that I've dropped all of my silly hang-ups, I guess that's a plus.
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