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Notes on My Chemotherapy

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Post by isoprophlex »

My infusion center is the adult center. I'm not sure I could stomach seeing children and babies getting chemo. I'm crying right now even thinking about it (which hurts, if you remember my side effects).

Powerful ending to the article... indeed, fuck cancer.

Get well soon, stay well!

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Post by lostapathy »

Good luck, and thanks for sharing.

I just went through this (with a different cancer). I didn't blog about it like this, but I shared some on Facebook and that seemed to help me and the people around me a lot.

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Post by Nihilartikel »

Just taking the opportunity to chime in on this thread: Do not hesitate to press for a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy if you are worried about your colon health. Something is going on now where demographically much younger patients are getting polyps and colon cancer: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020...

Doctors are still mostly operating under the old wisdom that it is not a problem for those under 60 or so.

I had blood in my stool at 36, and after convincing my doctor that I wanted it checked even if it was 'probably a hemorrhoid', a sigmoidoscopy found 3 polyps. I was lucky that the big one was right at the 'front door' so to speak, otherwise the sigmoidoscopy would have not been deep enough to find them, and I might not be writing this comment today.

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Post by fab1an »

The absurdity of the American health care and insurance system will never not amaze me. It's just sad and weird, and even weirder that you will always find a bunch of intelligent folks to defend it. Wishing the author, who btw is a better writer than most writers, a speedy and complete recovery.

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Post by CyanBird »

Nihilartikel wrote: post #6

Just taking the opportunity to chime in on this thread: Do not hesitate to press for a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy if you are worried about your colon health. Something is going on now where demographically much younger patients are getting polyps and colon cancer: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020... Doctors are still mostly operating under the old wisdom that it is not a problem for thos…

Absolutely, when TotalBiscuits (John Bain) was still fighting cancer he couple times unabashedly said while doing his live starcraft 2 esports casting to everyone listening to be mindful of colon cancer, to not play dumb with it if you consistently find blood in your stool and go get yourself checked, insist on it if the doctors seem not particularly concerned

He was saying that to save lives

Might he rest in peace

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Post by NKosmatos »

Good luck and thanks for sharing. Keep up the positive attitude, you’ve got a long road ahead of you (wait for quarterly/semiannual/annual exams...) but if you confront it as you do, you’ll be fine. To all, do frequent check ups (if you can afford it) and don’t dismiss the signs of your body. Oh and one last thing, US medical and insurance systems sucks.
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