fuck cancer

fuck fuck fuck.

:(
What happened

OK, I'll start it. Fuck cancer.

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 (1 year ago)

well he made it almost two years, pretty good.

he came home from the hospital and is in hospice care with his family. This weekend I'll be helping other close friends organize some open house hours so he can say goodbye to everybody (and so the family can focus on him and not the parking of cars and the food etc).

fuck cancer

Jon, my friend took a turn for the way worse and it looks like it won't be long now.

That's what I sort of guessed. I'm sorry, man.

sorry sleeve & ez <3

My friend Nevada died on Thursday.

http://artandseek.org/2016/02/19/musician-and-printmaker-nevada-hill-has-died/

Ugh. My condolences, EZ.

sorry EZ <3

I'm so sorry EZ. 34 - not that there's any age where cancer should be allowed to take anybody, but that's way too young :(

best wishes to you

Be easy, Nevada.

Sorry for you, EZ.

I'm so sorry EZ. That's just totally fucked.

Condolences EZ

Aw that's terrible, sorry to hear it.

Sorry EZ sounds like he was a great person

My stepfather has 2 months. Pancreatic.

Also tentative news, and no comfort to EZ or ums's stepfather, but some cancer may soon be getting fucked:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/15/cancer-extraordinary-results-t-cell-therapy-research-clinical-trials

wow that is v exciting

More happy news, or at least an anecdote. Our friends' 6-year old daughter had been fighting leukemia, and while she just finally ended two years of chemo and seems to be OK, she at last was able to take advantage of her Make A Wish trip to Disney (which had to be cancelled twice before because she was too sick to go). It sounds like an amazing experience, and while my friends felt a little guilty because their daughter was currently OK (compared to many in their Make A Wish villa), I think they know that man, did they all earn the trip. I can't even imagine the stress alone.

Funnily enough, they told me that their daughter's occasional follow-up blood tests totally freak her out now, even though for months she was getting regular blood drawn from a permanent tube. I'd always heard that the older the kid, the tougher it is for them to deal.

Sorry, Matt. That sucks.

Nice to see cool science news and read happy stories. More of these please!

One of my best friends' non-Hodgkin lymphoma appears to have relapsed. She is 38, married to another one of my best friends with a little boy who's just started primary school. When she got it the first time they told her a relapse would likely be incurable. I'm going between numb and on the verge of tears in the office at the moment.

oh fuck cp, that's rotten

oh no.
that's truly awful.
is there any chance that this return is not totally beyond help ?

fucking cancer.

It's early days yet. I guess there'll be more tests. She doesn't have any physical symptoms this just came up on routine tests and an ultrasound. But it doesn't look good. It's only been 4 years since she stopped chemo.

i realise this is not going to help matters, but hopefully the fact that its 4 years post chemo could mean the fucker is not massively aggressive, and so, could be held in check.
bh had no respite after her chemo.
the evil lump was already back within a matter of days after her chemo.
also, sounds like they have picked up on it sharpish, which despite the shock is probably a good thing.

One of my friends from college has been battling a brain tumor for the past year. He had surgery last month to remove it and address swelling that was affecting his cognitive abilities; he never fully recovered from the surgery and is currently in a coma with a terrible prognosis. His family is currently saying their goodbyes and his friends are sharing memories of him and his performances; he was a fantastic baritone who was currently singing with the choir at Washington Cathedral.

This song from an album our college choir recorded in 1992 has been making the rounds today; I've already posted it on I Make Music but I want to share it here as well. It features my friend as baritone soloist singing an incredibly poignant text given the current situation.

https://clyp.it/0tyy3hax

So sorry to hear that, man - fuck cancer.

He passed away about an hour ago.

Sorry djp

My hugs to you djp

Aw, man. xoxo

<3

I'm sorry DJP.

So sorry, man.

My best, DJP

I'm so sorry. <3

Thanks, everyone. I think the thing upsetting me the most right now is that he was in town right before he got his initial diagnosis and we couldn't make a meetup happen but we promised to catch up next time we were in the same town.

On a sillier sad note, I will also never know if he ever followed up on my suggestion to listen to Babymetal.

A woman who was in my elementary school class died of metastatic breast cancer yesterday, at age 38. She's the first person I've known to die of cancer, other than my grandmother 30 years ago. I wasn't friends with her, but our circles overlapped through the years and I always thought she was cool. Fuck cancer.

Just after having good news about my friend I posted about upthread a few months ago (she almost miraculously went back into remission without any treatment, baffling doctors, not sure if there was some mistake by the consultants reporting a false positive or what, but they are saying the cancer mutated into something benign and disappeared or something), my uncle has cancer in just about every organ in his body. I'm not close with much of my family for various reasons but this uncle was always my favourite. He lived with us for a bit when I was a young teenager, as he was often sleeping rough around that time. He was a teenage punk when I was born, the youngest sibling of my mum, so he's only 13 years older than me. He gave me my first ever record (Baggy Trousers by Madness) which I still have. I'm going to try to visit this weekend but the tumour in his brain has made him delirious/incoherent/babbling about aliens so it's not like he's really there at the moment. May be too late to actually talk to him now. This all came on extremely suddenly. He was ill for a few weeks but we didn't know until a couple of weeks ago it was cancer and then it was just suspected to be lung cancer, then it was in his liver, kidneys, brain, even his bones.

:( best wishes

I managed to spend 3 days visiting my uncle last week. He was relatively coherent for most of it, but he went downhill pretty quickly this week. He died this morning.

Ah damn. Sorry to hear it, and my best wishes and condolences.

rip my uncle dan. my mum's brother-in-law. second uncle to pass away this year, both to cancer.

dan was one of the kindest people i ever met, always took an interest in your life, was always curious, liked to sing at weddings and was always extremely well-dressed. i remember going to my first funeral and it was some grand uncle of my dad's, never met him, everyone taller than me, the whole thing kind of distant. maybe i've had a lucky life to be able to say this but it feels like the older i get the closer i am to the people who die.

fuck cancer.

Ah man. Sending best and condolences for sure.

sorry lg <3

Thanks pals. Feels really weird having to fly home for 10 hours and back, without properly seeing anyone, but glad my work is completely accommodating.

very sorry, lg, he sounds like a lovely man. cancer is a cruel thief.

Sorry ronan

Sorry for your loss, Ronan. My best wishes you you and all your family.

My neighbour across the road sadly passed away from cancer a couple of days ago. So yeah fuck cancer.