The F*** Cancer Thread
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My dad had the same thing on his back a few weeks ago. Fortunately, the excision had clear margins and no further treatment is expected. Hopefully the same is true for you. Catching it early is key; glad you did.
My dad and grandfather both had prostate cancer and my mom died of combined biliary and colon cancer at 53. I'm going to have loads of fun over the next few years checking for this shit. Personalized oncocidal nanotech can't come soon enough.
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moonarchia
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My first grandma to go had leukemia. She was diagnosed with it back in the 80s. Thankfully it went into remission for 20 years, but when it came back it took her pretty quickly. As the title says, fuck cancer.
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Recently had my 2.5 year checkup, still in remission after 4 years of stage 4 cancer. Coming out the other side of chemo in the middle of the 2020 pandemic was rough, I'm sooooo fucking broke and struggling with chronic fatigue to the point that I can't work the jobs I qualify for (I tried, no degree, was back in school working on my degree when I got sick in 2015). Family largely abandoned me as soon as I finished chemo.
But hey I'm alive!
But hey I'm alive!
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lol I have a gigantic one of those, so big I call it my 3rd testicle. However, I'll probably get that shit removed.
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No you won't. You call it your 3rd testicle and you said probably. You are proud of that growth. You have a name for it ....you know you do...what is it?
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You should’ve signed up to be an extra in the Total Recall reboot
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Erronius
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3rd testicle, you say?
AWW FUCK LOL
I knew a guy in one of my armor battalions at Ft Riley who had something like that
Nobody knew he had it or wtf that kind of thing was, until he pranked someone by pulling it out of the bottom of his PT shorts like some sort of fleshy blackjack, and slapping it up against a guys head from behind. And of course, we all thought he just pseudo-teabagged the guy from behind.
So of course we had to break up the ensuing fistfight, and then afterwards he was defending himself by arguing that it WASN'T his nutsack, but rather...he called it his 'klingon'. And dude had no reluctance pull it out AGAIN, in front of literally everyone, to show people that it wasn't his nutsack.
I guess (according to him), he'd had his forever, and there were fucking veins and shit running through it, so no Dr (?) ever supposedly thought that cutting his off was worth the risk or the trouble. Either that, or he just made that up to deflect (?)
I always wondered how that dude ever did PT or road marched without that motherfucking thing turning into a bloody, raw mass.
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I work in radiation therapy and I have heard this story many times. Not necessarily the remission part because I'm not lucky enough to follow up with any of those patients, rather the broke/ friends and family abandonment part. Change how you think about that part. Here's two quick stories, one of which I've told before.
I was treating a guy with a nasty brain cancer. His brother lived 1/2 miles from him and promised to drive him for treatment every day. He only showed up for day 1. In desperation he asked his neighbor who had moved in 6 weeks before to drive him on his 2nd day. This 28 year old neighbor insisted on driving him every day and to his follow ups. The guy was so grateful not just for the rides but because he knew who his real friends were. It's the people that show up and keep showing up.
One of my brothers lifelong buddies got a brain cancer, they removed a big chunk of his brain, he received radiation and chemo as well. His wife and daughters bitched at him constantly for needing so much care. He recovered only to get esophageal cancer a few years later. One surgery to remove his entire esophagus and radiation after he found himself frail and barely making it and unable to put on weight. Daily life was miserable because of the wife and daughters. 6 months after he finished treatment his wife divorced him, took almost everything and his now adult daughters stopped talking to him. He moved away to a small town in the woods just to get away. The last few times I saw him he's as happy as I've ever seen him and he's putting on weight. Life's finally good for him.
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Yeah a lot of people abandoned me during but a a few people also put in a lot of extra effort during. Those people are ALSO now nowhere to be found in my life, largely blaming me for it. And my fiancee left me like second dude, been alone for 2.5 years, was nice at first but gets real old when you're broke as shit.
There were two separate cullings that let me find who my "real friends" were... First the people that didn't care, then the people that only cared because I was sick. You know how many friends/family members are around now that BOTH those two culled groups are nowhere to be seen? About three. And they don't live anywhere near the city I landed in after everything happened.
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Yeah, everything about it sucks. On top of that making new friends as an adult is very hard especially when you're broke. Three even if they are distant is about two more than most people would have, you must be a pretty good dude. Rebuilding your life isn't going to be easy but it can be done, just like my second example showed. There's plenty to do when you're broke if your location isn't really bad. Petite care about you and you can improve things.
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know this is more of personal thread, but this is a good win. he went from a doctors telling him, he had tumors in his lungs, stomach, spine and kidneys and could have as little as 3-4 month to a year left, to being in remission and on a path to having med suppress it
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