I beat Cancer ... I hope :)

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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,149
    Hope you're feeling better today and not spitting blood. Hang in there!

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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    imalive wrote:
    Black Diamond wrote:
    What meds you on?
    The heart meds have a lot of blood thinners and I always have a bloody mouth...

    no meds at all......other than Folfox chemo :x

    I like your new avatar :lol:
    Just looked up side effects of the concoction you are on, and one of them (oxa) listed bleeding as one possibility...
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  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    Just wondered if you'd been to the docs yet.
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  • ShimmyMommy
    ShimmyMommy Posts: 7,505
    I was wondering if everything is okay, too. Hang in there. Love, light and hugs.
    Lots of love, light and hugs to you all!
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    hope you are well, Rob....love0059.gif
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    I'm at the chemo place "as we speak."

    they say the blood is no big deal as long as it's not, say, a "shot glass" full :shock: . yeah, that would be a bit worrisome :lol: .

    there's light at the end of the tunnel....today is treatment #8 out of 12. I got a new nurse today who, somehow, jabbed my chemo port with no pain. That's a first. I'm more than ready to be done with this shit...last night, we went out to dinner and my fried shrimp (a total favorite of mine) tasted like crap. So did my broccoli. Codie assured me they both actually tasted very good. Oh well, at least the Sam Adams Alpine Spring tasted pretty good :thumbup: :mrgreen:

    one thing that came up today is that my red blood cell count is going down with every treatment. I may get done with treatment before I bottom out....or I may need a blood transfusion. I'm obviously hoping for the former. With my luck, I'd get Hep C or something from the transfusion :roll:

    thanks for all your support.....it DOES help!
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Glad to hear you're feeling a little better (although that probably doesn't last once you get the chemo). I've been wondering how you were doing but I was away from a computer the last couple of days.

    I guess it's a good thing that spitting blood is "no big deal." :wtf:

    But the very best news is the light at the end of the tunnel! Hang in there, dude, soon food will taste good again! :mrgreen:
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  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    I can see a big Pizza Pie right around the corner.

    I'll take one of those Sam Adams too. We enjoyed a nice DogFishHead Chickory Stout the other night.

    Summer will bring more beer and BBQ, so bring your ass up and I will share! C'mon sunshine! I am DONE with this winter thing again!!!
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    imalive wrote:

    there's light at the end of the tunnel....today is treatment #8 out of 12.

    good news...yesterday was actually #9 out of 12. 3 to go!!

    some big bills have been rolling in. I thought about trying to total them up but it would probably drive me crazy. I do know radiation was $28K, surgery/hospital stay was $29K and god only knows what all this chemo is going to run :shock:

    and not to go all moving train on you....but thanks to my UNION, my employer accepted full responsibility for my illness and is paying ALL my bills :mrgreen: . without my union, I'd probably be contacting one of those sleazy, TV advertising, personal injury lawyers. :x
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    imalive wrote:
    imalive wrote:

    there's light at the end of the tunnel....today is treatment #8 out of 12.

    good news...yesterday was actually #9 out of 12. 3 to go!!

    some big bills have been rolling in. I thought about trying to total them up but it would probably drive me crazy. I do know radiation was $28K, surgery/hospital stay was $29K and god only knows what all this chemo is going to run :shock:

    and not to go all moving train on you....but thanks to my UNION, my employer accepted full responsibility for my illness and is paying ALL my bills :mrgreen: . without my union, I'd probably be contacting one of those sleazy, TV advertising, personal injury lawyers. :x
    Yay Unions!
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  • dottles
    dottles Posts: 9,206
    imalive wrote:
    imalive wrote:

    there's light at the end of the tunnel....today is treatment #8 out of 12.

    good news...yesterday was actually #9 out of 12. 3 to go!!

    some big bills have been rolling in. I thought about trying to total them up but it would probably drive me crazy. I do know radiation was $28K, surgery/hospital stay was $29K and god only knows what all this chemo is going to run :shock:

    and not to go all moving train on you....but thanks to my UNION, my employer accepted full responsibility for my illness and is paying ALL my bills :mrgreen: . without my union, I'd probably be contacting one of those sleazy, TV advertising, personal injury lawyers. :x

    Thank goodness for the NHS (over here)!
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    dottles wrote:

    Thank goodness for the NHS (over here)!

    this is going to go $100 grand, easy :shock:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • dottles
    dottles Posts: 9,206
    imalive wrote:
    dottles wrote:

    Thank goodness for the NHS (over here)!

    this is going to go $100 grand, easy :shock:

    Couldn't tell you what any treatment costs over here, we never get told, almost everything is free at the point of access (prescriptions from your GP cost £7.89 and a dental check up is £18).
    A guy I know has been diagnosed with a tumour, emergency transport from the GP to the acute hospital, 48 hours later he was in surgery for 9 hours, now he's on chemo and radiotherapy - he'll never know the cost.
    In a way I think it's good we don't see it, though when people moan about having to wait a few weeks or that they pay too much national insurance, I kinda wish they did see how much it cost!
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  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    Leanne, there was a costing exercise at work a few years ago for a simple Podiatry treatment and it came in at about £25, it's prob around £40 now with costs going up. For the NHS to transport a patient from home to clinic and back it's around £50. We are so lucky over here.

    So pleased you don't have to pay Rob. Unions are a great thing - I have 2 :)
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    over here, our enlightened right wing views the NHS as socialism.

    if you don't have a good enough job to provide you with health insurance....tough luck. The "compassionate conservatives" don't care about you, anyway. end of rant :x
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  • GivenToLukinKP
    GivenToLukinKP Chicago Posts: 3,076
    Hi Rob :)

    3 to go...so that sounds like end-ish of March?
    Makes much more sense...

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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    GivenToLukinKP wrote:
    Hi Rob :)

    3 to go...so that sounds like end-ish of March?

    more like end of March-ish :lol:

    cannot wait!
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    Hang in there Rob !

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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    :wave: Hey buddy, have a great day and hang in there! End of March is not too far away. :thumbup:
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    wow...this weekend sucked :x

    came home from chemo at about 3:00 friday afternoon.....went to bed until sunday morning :shock: ....yesterday, I was STILL in bed...but managed to be on TOP of the covers :lol:

    I'm not looking forward to these last three treatments. I'm still woozy today but we got snow....so gracie HAD to go to the park :mrgreen:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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