#4334665 - 02/04/17 05:03 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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Adorable little girl Max. That will give you hope for sure. F4U - that carry around bag looks tough. I just had to go in once a week. Good luck man.
Falstar I just saw my surgeon yesterday about swelling and pain were my ileostomy bag was. The sight of the stoma wound hurts a lot. He says I probably have a incisional hernia. I already have an inguinal hernia on my left side from the 'trauma' of the original surgery. I was was hoping my battle was coming to an end. What is the mesh called? Now I am concerned.
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#4334669 - 02/04/17 05:24 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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Adorable little girl Max. That will give you hope for sure. F4U - that carry around bag looks tough. I just had to go in once a week. Good luck man.
Falstar I just saw my surgeon yesterday about swelling and pain were my ileostomy bag was. The sight of the stoma wound hurts a lot. He says I probably have a incisional hernia. I already have an inguinal hernia on my left side from the 'trauma' of the original surgery. I was was hoping my battle was coming to an end. What is the mesh called? Now I am concerned. Didn't mean to scare you. The law suits are dealing with Hernia Mesh mostly installed about 10 years ago. There are different brands. Physiomesh, Bard, Marlex, UltraPro, ect... I don't know which brand I have. Google just makes my head swim.
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#4334704 - 02/04/17 09:13 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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F4U - that carry around bag looks tough. I just had to go in once a week. Good luck man.
I'm only on the pump for about 48 hours, once per 2 weeks. I go in for about 4 hours of in office chemo then I take the portable pump home for an additional 48 hours, I have to go back in tomorrow to disconnect and return the pump. Then I repeat in 2 weeks. Having some issues with nausea today, hoping that subsides once I'm off the pump.
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#4334715 - 02/04/17 10:30 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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I had pain in my limbs, dizziness, confusion, loss of taste and smell and massive weight loss. 11 kgs in just a few weeks. Of course hair loss also, virtually all body hair as well. Also constant tears streaming from my eyes.
I'm only now feeling normal after the chemo ended in October.
BUT my PSA shrunk from over 6 to 0.26. The cancers, whilst not eliminated, have been set back massively.
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#4348909 - 04/04/17 02:20 AM
Re: The Big "C"
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Found out today that my wife has breast cancer. A small, 5mm, nodule that will require surgery. Slow growing so the surgeon is confident that she should be fine.
I really hate the word cancer these days.
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#4348934 - 04/04/17 10:46 AM
Re: The Big "C"
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. It's easy to think eating hamsters and sticking organic carrots up your bum will cure all. Well you got it wrong there mate; isn't it supposed to be t'other way round?
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#4348992 - 04/04/17 02:57 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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Man I swear it seems that almost half the people out there are getting diagnosed with Cancer. I live in an area with a very high rate of it. There seems to be no where to hide. The genetic defects and causes of cancer have existed since the earliest days of homo sapiens but the environmental causes have most certainly increased.
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#4349011 - 04/04/17 04:54 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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Hope all goes well with you and your wife F4, my sis in law had a lump in her breast too, they were able to remove the lump and the lymph node under her arm and she got to keep her breasts, she was lucky.
With my father, father's brother, my mother, her father and my younger brother all having succumbed to cancer it scares the cr@p out of me.
Still remember the day when the doctor told me about my mother, his mouth was moving but I never heard a word he said, later my brother said that that's what happened to him too, even though I had known my mother had cancer for a few days, when I got home and went to see the doctor with her it still came as a shock as he spelled out what the prognosis was, 3 months if she was lucky.
My brother ignored his symptoms and didn't go to the doctor until too late, they gave him 8 months and he checked out just after 3 months had past.
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#4349046 - 04/04/17 07:02 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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Man I swear it seems that almost half the people out there are getting diagnosed with Cancer. I live in an area with a very high rate of it. There seems to be no where to hide. The genetic defects and causes of cancer have existed since the earliest days of homo sapiens but the environmental causes have most certainly increased. People used to die of other stuff (flu, TB, infections, typhoid, whatever) before they got cancer. As we cure the old reapers of humanity, the remaining ones gain prominence. Couple that with longer lifespans (the odds of getting cancer when you live past 80 are a lot greater than when you die by your 50s from something else) and a much larger population (it's triple what it was just 60 years ago) and it's a foregone conclusion that you'll see a lot more people getting cancer. The Jedi Master
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#4349059 - 04/04/17 07:34 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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Man I swear it seems that almost half the people out there are getting diagnosed with Cancer. I live in an area with a very high rate of it. There seems to be no where to hide. The genetic defects and causes of cancer have existed since the earliest days of homo sapiens but the environmental causes have most certainly increased. People used to die of other stuff (flu, TB, infections, typhoid, whatever) before they got cancer. As we cure the old reapers of humanity, the remaining ones gain prominence. Couple that with longer lifespans (the odds of getting cancer when you live past 80 are a lot greater than when you die by your 50s from something else) and a much larger population (it's triple what it was just 60 years ago) and it's a foregone conclusion that you'll see a lot more people getting cancer. The Jedi Master Diagnosed with it at age 50. Lucky me. Every Oncologist office and Radiology office I've been to has had a full waiting room. Seemed to be mostly people my age. It is such a nasty, cruel illness. Another thing not mentioned, is how it financially destroys many people. Even people with health insurance.
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#4349230 - 04/05/17 02:40 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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No doubt about that. You are expected to pay for the privilege of not dying at once.
You can see where the conspiracy theorists get their ideas from---would a company put out a sure cure if it only cost a grand, instead of relying on the prolonged money maker that is traditional chemo and radiation?
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#4349240 - 04/05/17 02:52 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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You can see where the conspiracy theorists get their ideas from---would a company put out a sure cure if it only cost a grand, instead of relying on the prolonged money maker that is traditional chemo and radiation?
The Jedi Master
The problem I have with conspiracies like that is that there would need to be way too many people involved leaving way too much of a paper/electronic trail. It would be impossible to keep secret.
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#4349249 - 04/05/17 03:07 PM
Re: The Big "C"
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Not really. All you need to do is fudge the efficacy of a treatment, make it seem like it won't work, and you can have it thrown in the discard pile. It would only take a couple of people to bury it at an early stage.
Yes, if it got thru trials and testing and they'd prepared to roll it out and THEN canned it that would be hard to cover up.
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#4349251 - 04/05/17 03:08 PM
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The problem I have with conspiracies like that is that there would need to be way too many people involved leaving way too much of a paper/electronic trail. It would be impossible to keep secret.
Exactly. And a cancer cure would mean huge bucks to the one that came up with the cure, and they wouldn't care one bit about the other cancer med producers losing money.
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