fuck cancer

best wishes tabes!

And indeed, best wishes indeed, should have said that earlier!

Yeah, good luck, table! Sorry you're having to deal with this crap.

I saw onimo in actual real life last weekend, the two of us and our other halves went out for a meal and a few drinks as a belated birthday celebration, he was in pretty good form. I'm sure he'll be back with an update before too long, but I'll tell him folk are asking for him.

Best of luck, table. And all usual "fuck cancer" vibes all round.

Best of luck table.

Thanks for the news, Ailsa.

Thanks for the update, ailsa. Very reassuring!

My dad’s prostate came out today, hopefully along with 100% of cancer cells appertaining thereto, doctor reports a very straightforward surgery, wish I were home with him and my mom but my sister is visiting me and hopefully we’ll be able to talk with them before my sister goes home tomorrow. Haven’t heard how my dad is feeling yet.

Best of luck to him! I think my dad's biggest complaint about prostate cancer recovery is that he...uh...'dribbles' a lot, iykwim

Yeah same--my dad had to deal with incontinence for a long time. I think more than dribbles tbh. I don't have a prostate so ymmv but based on my dad being not really okay afterwards I might recommend some thought of who to talk to about the emotional impact later on?

Best of luck, sil, and congrats to your dad for being a cancer-free survivor (we hope!)!!

Indeed so! My dad had his surgery back in the mid-2000s and sailed through it well enough, hopefully the same applies here.

Thanks folks he’s watching Kyle Schwarber hit dingers so in good spirits I think.

Currently running through a set chemotherapy permanently tired.
I don't post much anymore because I can't type properly

Thanks so much for everybody keeps looking after.

I needed to my 50th

someone can fix all those mistakes please

I could read everything, don't worry - hang in there, man!

Chemo is a beast - hoping for the best, onimo

take care onimo

Indeed so.

sending love onimo - good to hear from you!

and you too table, all the best to you

very good to hear from you onimo! don't worry about typing, we read you loud and clear :) <3

SO glad to hear from you onimo

<3

<3 onimo

<3 <3 <3

<3 <3 <3

Onimo, always sending love! Nice to hear from you

my dad's postop labs look good and we're on a three-month pause before checking PSA levels again and considering followup radiation. Grateful for my dad's attentiveness to his health. Get those labs and scopes done gents!

Aw, that's great news!

Yup!

best of luck all

Sideways icecream cones from here to Onimo as well and good luck everyone with all of this crap.

just found out today that my dad has pancreatic. this on top of a multiple myeloma diagnosis about two years ago.

"fuck cancer" truly

(have lurked here for years)

Fuck cancer. I’m sorry to hear it.

Fuck cancer. I’m sorry to hear it.

v sorry to year that <3 fuck cancer

Very sorry indeed, what a misery.

I'm so sorry to hear that, pearsonic.

Sorry to hear that. Sending you good thoughts through the ether.

Fuck cancer, sorry to hear this, man.

Bon courage, pearsonic, and fuck cancer.

Very sorry to hear it.

sending best wishes to you, your dad, and your family <3

I'm so sorry.

sorry to hear this pearsonic.

thinking "fuck cancer" a lot today because Greg, the singer in the band Delays, some of you might remember them, I've known him since the late 90s, never close friends but we keep in touch. he has had stage 4 cancer since 2016, had a big crowdfunding campaign to get a drug which has given him a few more years, he has spent the time making some brilliant art, imo better than his music even, and a book of poetry. anyway he put up a post yesterday saying he has moved into palliative care now, which is just a really sad thing, felt like he would miraculously survive for a decade or more.

turns out, it's not pancreatic, but prostate. (I couldn't even remember the name right)

thanks, all

all my best wishes remain, but that's much much better news, pearsonic! you must be slightly relieved.

apparently that's right :) (a small smile, but one nonetheless) the things that life forces you to learn...

My friend Mike, who I mentioned upthread, has cancer again. Only now it's a non-recurrent form and it's likely terminal.... again.

After he moved to Atlanta, at first, we stayed in touch more often, but over time, I didn't chat with him as much.

We were always more "in person" friends, and I was still stressed out from the nightmare move I conducted for him. He visited a few times, we occasionally hung out, but I was often busy or distant.

He kept returning to FL to keep his doctors, who were supposed to do a few more chemo sessions to get any residuals, and he could resume normal life. Then today happened.

Everybody is stunned by the news today, but he's shellshocked. I was already supposed to see him Friday, as I had msged him to make plans. I feel terrible for being distant in recent months.

But it's fucked how he saw normalcy on the horizon only to have it cruelly yanked away.

Fuck cancer.

damn. sorry for your friend. hopefully they can outrun it with the latest drugs. either way, it sucks.

Sorry to hear that Neanderthal. Cancer is a cursed thing.

Cancer is a cursed thing.

indeed.

for a few years now i have hung out with a lovely lady for the odd pub lunch etc.
she has been brilliant for my well being.
and now, out of the blue (sort of) her older brother has several evil lumps that mean his time is very limited.
to say this is massively triggering me would be an understatement.
i am not close to the brother at all, but seeing him deterioate in the same way BH did throughout her chaos is all a bit too much for me to deal with again.
i feel very guilty, however, i am struggling re the direct connection with such chaos again.
not that i can say anything to anyone.

f*ck getting old.
and f*ck cancer.