fuck cancer

Yeah I need to get that Grann book. Hope things maintain/improve!

Had missed the above until now, good luck Jordan

Best of luck to you Jordan!

hoping for the best jordan

Keep chugging along jordan, sending positive vibes!

Today is the fifth anniversary of my best friend dying of lung cancer age 46. Fuck cancer.

Been in the hospital all week on account of being neutropenic, it's lame. Food is stereotypically awful but I've found at least one or two things they can't fuck up, so I'm getting the hang of this. Hopefully things will start trending up soon.

Good luck! Hospitals have a culture all their own, it can be strange to observe

Wishing you the best on your journey, Jordan.

take care jordan! everyone here is rooting for you.

Thanks all <3

Sorry PBKR. That's no age.
GL Jordan!

some happy news for the thread: had 6-month bloodwork done today and all was good. Next 6-month will be my final one if things remain good, and then I will go year-to-year and officially be in “remission.” 🙂

best wishes Jordan and table

and condolences PBKR

thanks.

And that's great news, table.

tell us a little about your friend?

much love Jordan.

written report from my ct scan shows that my lung tumor is growing, but slowly. this is not what i was told on the phone, but prob nbd & i'm sure will be clarified at my next appointment.

many condolences about your friend PBKR. Jordan, wishing you the best luck, and tabes, glad to hear about your news.

Deflator - really hoping that it was a 'lost in translation on phone' thing and that it turns out not to be a big deal. best wishes for ya.

tell us a little about your friend?

from upthread:

Cancer sucks.

I lost my best friend of more than twenty years to lung cancer this summer at age 46 after a nearly three-year battle. He was the most fun-loving, laid-back cat, my best drinking buddy, and the person responsible for turning me on to more of my favorite music than anyone else. I still find it insane when I think he is actually gone. I feel so luck to have known him.

― Andrew "Hit Dice" Clay (PBKR), Friday, November 2, 2018 10:53 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

He was really mischievous, hysterically funny, but also chill. Turned me on to Bob Dylan 28 years ago - he was the favorite artist of both of us - and whenever I listen to Bob I get to spend time with my friend again. So I listen to a lot of Dylan.

Not to pry, but how soon is your appt? I know you know, but don't be afraid to try to escalate.

it's so important to have a sense of mischief, i love that quality in others. i'll throw on some Dylan next time I have a drink & pour one out.

had an appointment scheduled for next week that was moved to the last week of August b/c the doc is away at a conference. thought about calling sooner for clarification & may do, but i think the general idea is they're not too worried. at the rate it's growing a few weeks shouldn't affect the outcome anyhow.

Sounds reasonable. Hoping you get the clarification you're looking for then.

xposts to table - such good news <3

Very!

Yes, great news!

xxp TY and sorry for your loss. i'm in your neck of the woods all the time, we'll grab a drink someday, it's inevitable. when the weather cools off a little maybe.

That would be great.

Good news Jordan and table.

Sorry to hear pbkr..

Well, after the longest & hardest month of my life (still can't believe it was only a month), we seem to be cresting the hill. Treatments are done early since I had a full response (no detectable cancer cells!) and I was having such bad reactions to it every time. Immune system is coming back, still getting some blood transfusions and such as needed.

One thing I finally figured out over the weekend (when I feeling good and ready to have a nice day for my anniversary, then got knocked out for 12 hours) is that I was having terrible allergic reactions to a sulfa antibiotic that I've been taking every weekend. I couldn't narrow it down earlier because there was so much going on, but now it explains so much. I had been freaked out that some weird symptoms were caused by the levofloxacin they prescribed me when I got discharged from the hospital, but it turned out to be a different antibiotic all along. Wish I could have identified it earlier and avoided a lot of miserable days, but it's good to know now.

glad to hear no detectable cancer cells!

Glad to hear the treatments are ending and hope you’re feeling stronger soon!

good news

👍

cheering for you, jordan

<3 <3 <3

👏👏👏

Good news Jordan!

Great to hear!

That's really good news, man!

man I am glad they FINALLY located your sulfa allergy, sulfa reactions are unpleasant as shit -- they're noted on medical charts with giant stickers, NO SULFA DRUGS, I'm sorry you had to go through getting them...and ecstatic that you've got no cancer cells!

the best of news <3

that's so wonderful to hear Jordan!!

That's great news Jordan, glad to hear it.

Thanks all. I'll likely have to be retreated for this periodically from here on out, but we're hoping for five years of remission and have certainly learned a lot of lessons for future treatments.

man I am glad they FINALLY located your sulfa allergy,

Yeah thank you...'they' never did, I was finally able to figure it out once I was off all the other drugs and feeling ok as a baseline. Can't believe how many severe symptoms it caused, it's definitely on my allergy list now.

glad to hear the good news, Jordan!

Update (from covid thread): My wife's father passed on Wednesday morning. We were lucky to visit him twice this year for a week each time, which was wonderful under the circumstances (and no one got covid). Despite his many health issues he was himself right to the end and only in the last week or so did he have the worst pain. It was good he went when he did. 72 is too young.

While looking through photos for my FiL's memorial zoom I got a call from my Dad telling me my Mom (age 69) had a seizure and was taken to the ER. Upshot is there appears to be a mass in/on her brain that is possibly/probably cancerous. On the heels of my father in law, who is not even in the ground yet, this is pretty rough.

So yes, fuck cancer.

― Rocky Thee Stallion (PBKR), Saturday, February 20, 2021 10:19 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Mom had surgery last week to remove her brain tumor. Surgery went well, though there are the expected after effects (mostly language issues) which should resolve. She will be starting pretty intense radiation and chemo at some point as well. Baby steps.

― perhaps I myself was the object of my search (PBKR), Thursday, March 4, 2021 1:36 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Mom has battled her brain cancer since February 2021 and lasted longer than her original prognosis (6-12 mos I think). Several surgeries, radiation, chemo, other drugs, regular scans. She has slowly slipped away from a communication standpoint, but we've gotten good time with her all things considered.

I received the call from my dad this morning that I have known was coming at some point - she started having seizures again. Bottom line is she is going to start receiving in-home hospice. So we are on the final stretch, I guess, for however long that is.

Once again - fuck cancer.

very very sorry to hear that PBKR. absolutely fuck cancer.

Ugh that is terrible -- sorry to hear it PBKR :(

This weekend I am traveling to my SiL's funeral after she passed at the end of last month from ovarian cancer that spread to her brain/entire body and stole her from us at the age of 49. We found out she was going into hospice care while we were out of town at my dad's funeral service. This year has been absolutely brutal for me in terms of loss and grief and I will take any chance I get to say fuck cancer.

Really sorry to hear this, PBKR and LL.

Has anyone read Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals? I feel like I need to read it like RIGHT now. Maybe it will help, even a little.

Sorry LL & PBKR. </3

While I was in the hospital I accidentally ended up reading two books involving someone dying of cancer, oops (one of them was Hernan Diaz's "Trust", can't remember the other one because I had to bail).

Thanks everyone. LL, sorry about your SiL. That's a lot to deal with in a very short time.