fuck cancer

my mil used a vaporizer with a big plastic bag - fill the bag with smoke from the vaporizer & suck a few hits from the bag (kinda like hippies with nitrous balloons lol). she didn't need very much

My mom is also struggling with appetite now. I was told her appearance had changed since July 4th weekend from the resulting weight loss, but I was not really prepared for this. She's had a bit of a Sonic slush drink that we got her this weekend, and that is it. She now also needs fluid drained from around her lung every afternoon. I don't know how people can be so brave. Also, fuck cancer obv.

Aw man :(
Is she still on the clinical trial?

it will be reviewed, but she will likely be taken off that trial. the only hope left is another trial if she's eligible for any. I worry that the progression of her illness and the resulting complications make her ineligible for most trials now.

I hope she can hang on until the wedding in october at least

but she's fought harder than I ever could, so I'm not asking for anything more from her with that hope. good luck finding a good medical mj for your mil, Jon. it sounds like a good option.

Strength to you and your mom SG, and whatever kind of luck governs this blighted byway.

We got the hookup finally. We are now "waiting for the man" at a Papa Gino's down the block from the nursing home. He's bringing cookies, tongue drop tincture, basically just what we wanted. Only 2 out of 11 of these guys replied to my wife.

MIL is super nervous and thinks we are gonna get arrested. :( Unfort the law dictates she has to meet the person face to face.

My friend fighting stage 4 melanoma just posted this message:

"So the verdict today at MD Anderson was that all the tumors have shrunk significantly. So, With minor surgery to get the rest of the tumors out, I will be in remission. A few months ago when I found out the tumors came back I felt hopeless and out of control of my body. A lot of cancer treatments are based on "try it and see" this causes a lot of anxiety for the patient. In most cases nothing works. I do not wish this type of hopelessness on anyone. So to celebrate my small victory I skated at the skate park in Spring, Texas."

awesome <3

Right on, man.

Since my mom stopped radiation she's lost 20 pounds in about 6 weeks which doesn't sound right. She's also in agonizing pain. As such, she went to the dr two days ago and yesterday was sent for a full body CT scan. She gets the results at 3:30 today. Pretty nervous. :/

Oh gosh E my thoughts are with you today.

My MIL is in hospice in Sudbury and not doing terribly well. Her pain is mostly under control but that's all they can really do at this point. I'm going up there tomorrow...

My thoughts are with you both.

^^^

otm

thinking of you, hoping for the best

The hospice nurses think it might be imminent. Moved up my departure time from this evening after work to right now. Sitting on the bus. It is a bus.

She is more or less constantly sedated now and is also on oxygen and only semi coherent. My wife stayed up at the facility all night with her.

:(

I'm so sorry Jon. Thoughts with you and your wife. You know how to reach me if you need anything at all.

Best indeed to you all and to ENBB too.

Just talked to my wife, her mom is a little more stable this morning. Ill get there mid afternoon. Also, bolt bus wifi does not like Zing.

my thoughts are with all y'all
hope everything is peaceful

<3

thinking of you, jon

oof friend just diagnosed with cervical cancer

get those HPV innoculation shots, girls!

my mother in law is still hanging in there, I should mention. Very skeletal, very weak, not so lucid (though small amounts of the cannabutter are helping with that) but alive. She needs so much help now that my wife and her sister don't feel okay about leaving her solely under the attention of the home when she's awake-- one of the two of them is always there from about 8 am to almost midnight.

I'm at an oncology center for a checkup on my white blood count. Thought it was going to be a regular doctors office but it's a full blown chemo center.. So many gaunt faces :(

sorry about the spammy self-promotional content of this - and i know you all have more than enough problems of your own to deal with - but i'm going to be running a 100 mile trail race this weekend and trying to raise some money for my son's schoolfriend in the process. i did post about her on this thread previously, but she had a tumour in her stomach that the health service here haven't been able to treat successfully and really her hopes now lie in getting on some sort of experimental treatment programme, possibly in the US, which unfortunately is quite an expensive business. she's just coming up to her ninth birthday and has been battling with this for about the last three years. god knows how her family are getting through this, but you just have keep on going i guess. anyhow, just on the off-chance that anyone wants to help by sponsoring me, here's her fundraising page:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/NiamhsFund

and again, sorry to bother you all and hope that things are going okay for you folks out there

Don't know if this belongs here or in the curse cancer thread, but since fuck or curse cancer, I'll put it here. Anyone else following the artificial turf controversy? I mean, it's always been controversial, but there's a reported story going around about a soccer coach's serious suspicions that the recycled rubber tires used in some (all?) turf is not only carcinogenic, but actually causing cancer in kids playing soccer, particularly players who do a lot of diving, getting mouthfuls of the rubber pellets:

http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nightly-news/does-artificial-turf-present-a-health-risk-339753027899

There is a ton of confirmation bias at work here. If you look for soccer players who play on turf and have cancer, you will find a few. If you look for carcinogens near your kids, you will find them. Etc. Likewise, just because something is banned in some places does not mean it's necessarily dangerous (see also: GMOs). But along the lines of GMOs, it is fair to suggest not enough research has been done into the matter, and also like GMOs, it affects so many it is probably worth fast-tracking some more belated research into the matter.

RIP. Nothing about this was fair or acceptable.

I'm sorry, Jon.

fuck cancer

<3 jon, I'm so sorry

Damn, Jon. I'm sorry.

Crushing. My condolences.

yeah, good luck with things jon, wishing you brighter days ahead

Rest in peace. So sorry for your loss, Jon.

Mom passed last night with her five kids and husband close to her in her living room. We sat with her all afternoon and night, but she waited to go until we started watching videos of her on my brother's phone. We watched a video in which she is particularly radiant with joy, picking out a Christmas tree with a bright red scarf wrapped around her head (red was her favorite color). When we looked back at her she was gone. It felt like she had become that beam of joy that we watched in her last moment. I will always love her. She turned two into five but not without suffering. So I'm happy that the suffering is over.

I'm so sorry, Sufjan. What lovely final moments.

My best, Sufjan.

I'm sorry sufjan <3

there's no 'good' way to go but that has to be one of the best

<3 to you sufjan

I'm very sorry Sufjan <3

Very sorry indeed, and deepest condolences.

there's no 'good' way to go but that has to be one of the best

agree to the power of xxxxx with this sentiment.

hang on in there sufjan.

So sorry for your lose.

gh! My autocorrect tricked me. I'm sorry for your loss, sufjan.

sending you love in this hard time

ty, everyone. It was about as good as these things can be.

PARTY SUB!: 500 examples of the hackiest signifier of post-Y2K punk cool, childhood lolstalgia, and "so random" larfs
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/party%20sub.jpg
(found while putting mom's slideshow together)

aw