fuck cancer

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

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cheering for you, jordan

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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.

hugs to all of you, ugh

my best wishes to you and yr families, PBKR and LL.

As for Audre Lorde, I read The Cancer Journals when I had cancer, and I can’t remember much except a note about the brutal senselessness of it all. I highly recommend my pal Anne Boyer’s book, The Undying, if you’re looking for a book about cancer that covers the personal experience through a leftist social, political, and cultural lens. It won some awards, incredible book.

While i only have good news to share— clean CT scans a few weeks back— it seems like my mom has cancer again. They found a nodule in her lung, small and not metastasized and the prognosis is good, but jfc....this woman has had cancer SIX times now. She's 74 years old. Wish the damn shit would just leave her alone!

ahh fuck. i'm so sorry, tabes :(. best wishes for your mother. six times? good lord

Really sorry to hear that. Hoping for the best.

sorry tabes <3

Awful to hear it. Sending best.

Good luck to your mom, good news for you!

sorry to hear of this tabes and best luck

o hell yes.

Sorry tabes, best wishes for your mom.

thanks all. she’s obviously one tough lady— she’s dealt with my idiotic ass for 39 years, after all. i just want her to be as comfortable as possible as she ages.

I’m here at my parents. One of the worst things about my mom’s brain cancer is that it’s erasing her and her personhood before it’s gonna kill her. She already doesn’t have many facial expressions any more though she did laugh once yesterday.

That's so tough PBKR. I'm so sorry you're going through this

that sounds rough PBKR. thinking of you

My mom passed from her brain cancer early this morning a few months shy of three years from her initial diagnosis. It was relatively peaceful as these things go - she wasn't in distress really until the last few hours. My dad, my sister, and I were all there with her at home the last several days.

I will post a little more about her, maybe in another thread, because this thread is for tapping the sign: fuck cancer!

I’m very sorry for your loss.

sorry to read this sad news

Awful to hear it. Best and love and deepest condolences.

I'm very sorry to hear that PBKR. I'm glad you were all able to be there for her, that must've meant a lot to her. My condolences to everyone.

I'm sorry, PBKR, but glad you were with her. Best to you and your family. Fuck cancer!

sending condolences to you and all who loved her

Sending condolences, and fuck cancer

so sorry pkbr <3

I’m so sorry to hear thisPBKR; lots I’d love to you and your family ❤️