fuck cancer

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.

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aw

O_O damn son

very sorry to hear about your mom, sufjan. wishing you all the strength—and good memories—in the world.

my mom just found out this week she has breast cancer. it's a tiny, tiny lump and it doesn't have any of the "bad" genetic markers. surgery in a few weeks to remove the lump and see if it spread to any nearby lymphnodes--though the doctor doesn't think he'll find anything. still, nerve wracking for all of us.

thinking good thoughts for yr mom, and you guys. it def rattles everyone in its own way, even when it turns out to be a 'scare'.

sorry to hear about your mom, amateurist. I have 3 cases of successful cancer remission in my extended family. One of these was breast cancer. It is understandably nerve wracking, but an optimistic doctor seems like a good thing.

And fuck cancer because it's been awhile since we've said it.

If you don't mind me asking, did they classify a stage, amateurist?

shit, hugs your way SG (and amateurist)

i'm not sure if they can do that before surgery, but the initial guess was "1A"

yes, good point. I guess I thought they classified my mom's based on scans, but "1A" is very encouraging and hopefully it is true.

I'm using my first post of 2015 to wish a heart "fuck you!" to cancer.
Really cancer, just fuck off already.

It felt like she had become that beam of joy that we watched in her last moment.

condolences and best wishes SG and amateurist

My condolences, Sufjan. I'm very happy she is no longer suffering and she passed surrounded by love. Best wishes to you and your family.

amateurist, best wishes to your mother. Scary but people beat it all the time.

^

I have a fairly large tumor in my breast, after months of tests etc it is most likely benign. The biopsy was gross. Never been through anything like this before. But it is taking forever to get a surgery scheduled so that I can get rid of this thing forever. Disturbing how I might have gotten it. More bills. Even with Obamacare having medical problems is difficult.

Then I can worry about other lumps.

So sorry to hear that you're going through this. I wish there was something I could do to help, I hope you have lots of support from family/friends and are managing to take your mind off it occasionally while you wait.

fuck. get better soon, im losted.

Thanks. I should be okay but I was scared for a bit.

i had a benign (that is, not cancerous, it was still wreaking a lot of havoc) tumor in my throat taken out last year, it was indeed gross and the recovery ended up being a lot rougher than anyone prepared me for. often doctors make outpatient surgery out to be a big nothing, but my whole body was sore and stiff for a week afterward. anyway, this probably won't happen to you. :) i hope you get rid of that thing, and get better quickly.

Our office manager was just sitting right over there close to mid december, though she wasn't feeling great. Cut to last night, she passed away. So fucking quick, and her poor daughter had just lost her father (office manager's ex-husband) a little over a month prior. Gutted for her, mostly.

So the days of one of my oldest London friends are numbered, and I've had to hear about it from another friend because the friend in question has only told a few people due to stiff-upper-lip issues. Fuck cancer with a rusty chainsaw. Just... fuck it.

Aw, sorry to hear that, Suzy.

Just... fuck it.

^ amen to that, and best wishes to all herein

I would call this revive timely but that's too positive

one of my best friends, former boss, amazing dude just got a diagnosis (yesterday) of 4 months to live, possibly a year or more w/chemo

:(

― sleeve, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 2:39 PM (10 months ago)

this dude beat it for a while, but now it is back again. the chemo options only give him a "possible" extension of life around 20% of the time (it's bladder cancer but in the lymph now), and he said "fuck it" to this latest round. I'm really gonna miss him, looking forward to spending some time together in the next few months :(

this dude beat it for a while, but now it is back again.

This. I really fucking hate this. Wishing the best for all.

Not being able to say anything to my friend is excruciatingly difficult. When you've been a cancer survivor for most of your life, as I have, there is also a kind of rolling survivor's guilt that is always present and spikes whenever something like this intersects with life.

yah that's hard, I feel that. my friend is also keeping his latest news private for now, so I can only talk about it with two other people. he'll go public eventually, the last letter he wrote was so classy - "while I have always been conceptually opposed to chemotherapy, 3 to 6 months is simply not long enough for me to wrap up all of my loose ends" <3

My friend has had an interesting week. After two gamma knife surgeries, his last two scans have shown no more brain tumors. However, he's got two small ones on his back and one GNARLY one that grew from quarter sized to baseball sized in about 3 weeks. He had it removed Friday, but not before he posted this disgusting photo to instagram.

WARNING: GNARLY AS HELL: http://instagram.com/p/yxCSejjvWO/

I love how straightforward and honest he's been every step of the way. It's been a huge help for both himself and his friends and family.

Also, if anyone ever has to get Yervoy treatments they do some serious shit to a body, even though they help a ton. After six treatments he has near nightly vertigo attacks and problems with his depth perception, both of which are permanent for as long as he lives. Should make his band's tour next month a bit of a challenge.

This is worth reading.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-becklund-breast-cancer-komen-20150222-story.html#page=1

my darling father died the week before last. he'd had cancer for a long time, and during the past couple of months he had been weakening, but still the end came with shocking speed. i arrived in nz a few hours before he died. he wasn't conscious by then; we said our last words on the phone before i left. i visited for ten days in january and had a lovely time with him, which is a consolation. i'll miss him very much, he was extremely kind and funny and clever and self-deprecating. rip my beautiful father.

Sorry to hear that, Estela. The distance must have been particularly rough.

thanks, andrew. i had to accept a long time ago that i could not get there very quickly or easily. i'm so glad i was there in january and have visited him as much as possible during the past few years (as have my siblings.)

<3

sorry to hear this estela - sounds like he passed on some of those traits you praise

yep, and it is surely good that you were there, i hope you & your siblings had some kind words for each other

Sorry to hear Estela.

So sorry for your loss Estella.

Sorry, Estela.

Deep condolences. I've no doubt he was remarkable.

I'm sorry, estela. My condolences to you and your family.

so sorry estela. glad you have good memories to hold onto through this loss

<3

thank you all very much. people have been really kind and it's helped a lot.

All the best for the next few weeks estela, hope you found some solace being around yr family.

thinking of you e.