hugs pal
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 February 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link
Hugs to you x one million. I’m really sorry you have to come near what you’re dealing with, let alone be the subject of it. People tell you “life isn’t fair” from a young age, so often that it starts to lose its meaning. But the meaning of it inevitably comes roaring back.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 February 2019 04:23 (five years ago) link
my wife had 2 scans this week. got call from oncologist today that the cancer has spread to her liver. meeting oncologist tomorrow to discuss options. dunno what this means in terms of life expectancy
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
Oh man, CP. My cousin has it in her liver and bones, but her treatment is stopping growth for now. Fingers crossed for you both.
― suzy, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
i'm really sorry. it all must feel so overwhelming. :(
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
Much love, CP.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
Really sorry CP
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
<3 Colonel
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
Sorry to hear that, CP. <3 and best wishes to you both.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Echo the above, you're staying wonderfully positive
― imago, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
power to you both during such hard times.
― calzino, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
I am so sorry CP.
― gyac, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
cp <3
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
xxxp I wouldn't say that imago I've been a mess this week if I'm honest but I'm trying
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Fuck cancer
<3 CP
― Stephen Yakkety-Yaxley-Rosbif (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
Best wishes to you and your wife, colonel.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
it does feel strange appending "Colonel Poo" to a sincere post about something so awful but you are in my thoughts CP
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
Indeed, always so, and to Karl as well.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
Fuck CP wish I could hug you. I watched both my grandmother and grandfather die in the span of two years. I wasn't close to them at all. But it's horrendous, this disease.
― nathom, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
I am so sorry, CP.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
thinking of you cp, that’s rough news
― goats eat grandma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
Fuck cancer. Sending best wishes and hope the last two weeks have only brought positive news if anything. It's OK to be a mess, and also OK to not seem to be a mess to other people. Look after yourself.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 09:42 (five years ago) link
How are you Nick?
― nathom, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 11:57 (five years ago) link
sorry forgot to update - yes there has been some positive news I suppose, at least it's not as negative as we first thought. my wife will be starting new chemo next week, she had to have tests to see if it was compatible with her as there is some enzyme that most people have but some don't. anyway she tested positive, so her body can process the chemo. *if* it works, the average survival is 18 months. this is roughly what they'd been talking about before it turned up in her liver, so it might not effect her life expectancy in terms of duration that much. we are still in very hypothetical stages right now, they refused to go into any more detail about life expectancy until they have more information on how the chemo works
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
Much love your way, CP.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
Cancer is bullshit and it fucking sucks. I’m so sorry. Can’t imagine all the things you must be feeling as you continue to navigate all this with yr wife. <3
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
GP scum have randomly denied my wife's naproxen prescription again. how these cunts have the nerve to call themselves doctors I don't know
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
sorry mate, got to cut the costs somehow though! have you tried meditation?
― imago, Saturday, 9 March 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
(my sympathies and sorry if this isn't the time for humour, however bitter)
CP - are there any channels for a complaint? The problem is you are so taken up by your loved one's illness there is very little room to think or do anything else.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 March 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
We have to start documenting these, the first step is to complain to the practice manager, whose contact details are not on the surgery website. Only then can we make a complaint to the NHS. We've spent the last few weeks being pissed about by the DVLA and the DWP but that seems to be over now. It's not like we haven't got enough to deal with.
The NHS seems to be set up like this: competent, caring doctors work in hospitals. Useless incompetent fucking scum become GPs. My wife would have died from TB 10 years ago if we hadn't gone to A&E because the GP had sent her away several times saying it's just bronchitis. I fucking hate them all
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 March 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
otm that is definitely my (relatively short, and not for myself) experience of the NHS. "A lot of GPs are useless" is a taboo subject I think.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
The NHS seems to be set up like this: competent, caring doctors work in hospitals. Useless incompetent fucking scum become GPs.
this was our experience.
― mark e, Saturday, 9 March 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
my wife's aunt is sending us Naproxen via Amazon from the USA. yes, the NHS is so fucked that we are having to get medicine sent from overseas. it won't get here until the 20th and seriously if our cunt of a GP hasn't signed off the fucking prescription by then I'll probably burn the fucking surgery down, but it's a nice gesture
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
my uncle is currently in surgery to remove what they have found and hopefully not having anything much more present itself once theyre in.
hes a childless farmer bachelor pisshead but we could do with having. him around a while yet so heres hoping cancer gets fucked this time
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
Good luck for your uncle!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
out, awake and well
every single landlord in the district cheered
― ~mine own~ bitcoin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
Excellent.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
All my love to those in this thread who have lost loved ones to the piece of shit that is cancer. In just four months it will be sixteen whole years since I lost my dad to the motherfucker and while it's become just one part of my personal history, I will never forget the three years my family dealt (or didn't deal) with his terminal diagnosis, nor will I forget that fateful Friday my mom and I had to make the difficult decision to transfer him to hospice care. Those memories never leave you, as I'm sure many of you here can attest. I also remember reading something a few years after Dad's death that has forever stuck with me; it stated that when someone is battling cancer, it's as if all their close family members are also battling the disease. While that may not be the absolute truth in that we never went through the hell that is chemotherapy or radiation nor suffered any of the physical symptoms of the actual patient, it does absolutely drain us emotionally and change us to our core and we become entirely too aware of the damage the disease can wreak, in a way no one else can comprehend.
Colonel Poo, I am terribly sorry your wife has been dealt the shittiest hand in terms of getting care and support outside of that which she gets from you. It has to be taking its toll on you and I dearly hope you can set aside even a little time in your assuredly packed schedule to take care of yourself. It would be beneficial not only to you but to your beloved. Your anecdotes give me pause and make me realize just how lucky my parents and I were that my dad received unquestionably excellent care and he received his terminal diagnosis back before the contemporary Puritan craze toward demonizing opioids, so he was able to receive effective pain management just by asking for it. It also sucks that you're having to battle so hard for something I could pick up off the shelf at any pharmacy for a few bucks.
(BTW, on behalf of the late and MUCH missed Mick Karn, fuck cancer.)
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:50 (five years ago) link
the naproxen situation is ridiculous, yes. it is available behind the counter at pharmacies for period pain, but you get like 7 pills for £5 or more, which would be prohibitively expensive on a long term basis, plus I'd have to rotate pharmacies because I think a man going in every 2 days to buy period pain pills would raise a few eyebrows. yet in the states you can buy a massive jar of Alleve for a few dollars. it's not like you can abuse the stuff!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Getting a couple things melted off my skull w/ radiation. Still more fun than the politics threads.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 12:23 (five years ago) link
lol, but good luck dr m
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
we got our jar of 300 Naproxen in the post yesterday. Hah try making us run out again GP fucks (of course now we are waiting for a morphine prescription and might have less luck getting that through the post)
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 12:25 (five years ago) link
Good luck Dr Morbius!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
Be well Morbs
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 12:47 (five years ago) link
Hang in there Morbius <3
― but i'm there are fuckups (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
good luck morbs, melt those fuckers
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
Good luck Morbs! Maybe it will give you the power to melt things with *your* skull.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
alas they tell me i won't be radioactive
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
Good luck, Dr! As my dad put it before undergoing a similar process: may the rays Tchernobyl the shit out of those interlopers.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link