I'd been having some stomach issues of late- where I could no longer eat normal sized meals and had started to lose weight. Been seeing doctors since early October for it.

Started with the local GI doc- CT scan, blood work, gastric emptying, endoscapy. All normal except for thickening of the stomach wall. Refers me to a doc in Boston- only 35 miles away, but worlds away in terms of care and capabilities.

I ended up with an EUS Endoscopy with biopsy- negative, but thickening of the stomach wall. Last week I had a laproscopic (surgical) biopsy from the outside of the stomach wall. They found something-Cancer.

I got the full pathology results yesterday. Bad news, as in literally lose your stomach kind of bad news. Chemo and a full gastrectomy in my very near future. Next week I'm off to Dana Farber to get more info and a second opinion along with where I'll go for care. It's a rare cancer type in the stomach (like .1% of all gastric cancers rare- really out there stuff). The good news is that there appears to be zero spread of the cancer and that we've caught it relatively early.

I'm rather attached to my stomach- and I only have one. You can live quite normally without one, but I never planned on finding out. Now I'm faced with it. My dad died of colon cancer, now here I go with treatment.

Good luck and here's wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

WOLF

Holy crap dude.
I wish you all the best. My father-in-law had cancer and had to endure Chemo etc, and it's not nice.
I really do wish you all the best. if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

SD

They found it early and they found it because you insisted on taking care of yourself. You did good.
I hope you can run with this as good news in that sense.

Wow, that is terrible news. My best wishes to you on everything going as well as possible going forward.

best of luck!

My best wishes for a swift recovery.


Wheels

All the best tcable!

That is really bad news, but good that it was found early. Good luck!

I'm at least glad they found it early and it has a low risk of spread. Wish it wasn't anything at all. Really wish you the best. Chemo can be very difficult, but it you can stay positive through it, that attitude will only help your recovery.

Not sure how many people are in your life for support, but SimHQ is a place with a lot of ears (or eyes in this case).