I beat Cancer ... I hope :)

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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    PJ_ROCKS wrote:
    whoprincess wrote:
    imalive wrote:
    the people at this place are the best. maybe I only say that because the receptionist said "NO WAY you're 55. I would have guessed 40s" :lol:
    So this stuff really works? :P

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    Srsly, I would definitely vote for going to the place that has the nicest people! If ya gotta endure unpleasant procedures, you oughta be doing it in pleasant surroundings. :thumbup:
    Now see, i thought he told me he helped invent the round wheel :lol:
    Really? He told me he was around when speech replaced sign language. :P
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,118
    stay positive

    (((((((((((((((((((((((((healing vibes)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Stay strong and hopeful! Sending nothing but positive energy your way!
    "Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith."
    ~not a dude~
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    imalive wrote:
    it's been a pretty crazy week. the first of many, I'm sure.

    after the porta-cath, I was sore as hell. on Wednesday, I went to get "mapped" for radiation. I'm laying on my stomach and people are messing with my butt. I'm thinking "great, MORE humiliation." but then I stopped myself and thought "buck up. how lucky am I to be lying in a god-knows-how-many-hundreds of thousands of dollars CT machine? I could be in some third world country." so, I'm constantly reminding myself to be positive!!! my wife, my friends, you guys, my doctors, etc. are awesome :mrgreen:

    Thursday, they hooked me up to the 24/7 chemo. the people at this place are the best. maybe I only say that because the receptionist said "NO WAY you're 55. I would have guessed 40s" :lol: Fridays would work better for me (for replenishment and bloodwork) but that would mean a different place with a different staff. so I made the decision to stick with thursdays just so I can see these wonderful people. the device itself is not so wonderful....it's about 4x6x2 and I've got to wear it in a vegas-tourist-style fanny pack. tonight, I'm going to Home Depot to see if I can find something better. the line then goes to my chest and there's about a 1" connection sticking out. so, sleep is not great but not impossible either. if you don't know her, here's my dog, Gracie (a cancer SURVIVOR) checking it out. she's done chemo. she's one of my inspirations :mrgreen:

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    I start radiation next week. when chemo and radiation are done, I get to see eddie in LA. and then, after 8 weeks of recuperation, I get to see PJ in vancouver :mrgreen: ...right before my surgery :|. it's only fitting that pearl jam is providing the landmarks for my recovery.


    Gracie and everyone will be with you while you easily beat this Rob. :thumbup:
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    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    That really sucks man, but it seems like you have a pretty good attitude about it. Wish you all the best.

    I got stuck in a similar situation, not cancer, but was diagnosed with perforated divirticulitis, at 27, it's a disease that affects the colon, I was really sick for a while and after months and months went in and they basically told me I would have been dead in 2 days if I hadnt of come into the hospital. I had peritonitis and sepsis from all the shit leaking out the holes in my large intestine for like 3 months. Again, obviously not the same, but I just wanted to tell you I know what its like to have surgeries to remove my pieces of my colon, and horrific tests where people are shoving things up your butt. You really learn there is no such thing as modesty. I have had almost every test imaginable that involves something being shoved up your butt in the last year. I had 4 surgeries, ended up with a (temporary) illeostomy and basically went through hell due to complications, lost 50 lbs (a third of my body weight), had one stretch of 30 days in the hospital, 22 of them where I couldn't eat. Again, I know its not the same as having cancer, but I feel for you man, I know how painful it can, and how horrible it can be to have something affecting that part of your body. Please feel free to message me if you need anything.
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    I have had almost every test imaginable that involves something being shoved up your butt in the last year.
    they like doing that with me, too. wish I had finger cancer :roll:

    sounds like you went thru hell. I'm hoping my treatment isn't that bad. I'm hoping for one surgery....and one surgery only.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
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    You are an inspiration to us all .... so positive Rob! :clap:
    Thank you!
    I bet Gracie is way proud of her Daddy, like you are proud of her :D

    I am thinking of you and praying daily... Courage... Fight...Live!
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    pandora wrote:

    I am thinking of you and praying daily... Courage... Fight...Live!
    or, as my brother-in-law likes to quote from Rambo, "improvise, adapt, overcome." :lol:
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,846
    Stay strong..

    I wish you the best.....
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Stay strong..

    I wish you the best.....
    I thought you didn't give a rat's ass :?
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
    Missoula 24
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,846
    imalive wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Stay strong..

    I wish you the best.....
    I thought you didn't give a rat's ass :?
    i do..

























    Just dont tell anyone....hehehe
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    i just read anouther article about cell phones and cancer....were you talking out of your ass alot? :P



    were you able to able to get your 10c tickets for canada? Hope you win front row and more importantly, beat the shit out of your cancer. and next columbus show, beers are on me. ;)
    81 is now off the air

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  • ShimmyMommy
    ShimmyMommy Posts: 7,505
    imalive wrote:
    "improvise, adapt, overcome." :lol:

    Now this I like! :mrgreen: I hope you are feeling good today! :wave:
    Lots of love, light and hugs to you all!
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Oh Rob... I feel so shallow, you PM'd me the other day and I didn't even realise you had made this thread (I hardly ever come around the AET lately)... I read it on the way to work this morning, and it seriously made my stomach drop :(

    However I know you are strong, and as you helped Gracie through her tough time she will now help you! Can't wait to meet you up north of the border here (are you doing Calgary and Edmonton as well?). Stay strong and stay positive (as I see you are doing), its never an easy thing. We've lost someone to cancer in this family and I know how hard it is... But I am sending good vibes your way and you know that you are in Sammi and I's thoughts!
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • Tenzing N.
    Tenzing N. Posts: 466
    Pooped blood for MONTHS?

    The first time I ever pooped blood I called the doctor.

    Turns out beet juice will turn pee and poop blood red.

    good luck
  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    all the luck I can give, all the prayers I can give, all the positive PJ vibage I can give.


    BEAT THAT MOTHERFUKER called cancer

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    that is all you need to think about until you are right again
  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    imalive wrote:
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    I have had almost every test imaginable that involves something being shoved up your butt in the last year.
    they like doing that with me, too. wish I had finger cancer :roll:

    sounds like you went thru hell. I'm hoping my treatment isn't that bad. I'm hoping for one surgery....and one surgery only.

    Yeah, it was rough. No doubt. However, there is a mental stigma attached with the big bad C word, that I never had to experience. Physically it was hell, but even at my worst points mentally I knew that at some point I would get better, and I may have to adapt and change my diet, but that it was mangeable, and tons of people live with this disease.

    Early on, I remember going for a colonoscopy, and seeing "Cancer Suspected" written on it and freaking out for about 2 days before they told me it was not. I can't imagine living with that for an extended period of time, you are a stronger man then I am. :D

    Dude, just pray to god you never have to have a barium enema. It is horrible. I literally felt like the hospital had raped me afterwards. :mrgreen: I told the nurse she owed me dinner. :|
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    EquallyWorthless wrote:

    Early on, I remember going for a colonoscopy, and seeing "Cancer Suspected" written on it and freaking out for about 2 days before they told me it was not.
    i didn't know that :shock:

    :(
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    haffajappa wrote:
    EquallyWorthless wrote:

    Early on, I remember going for a colonoscopy, and seeing "Cancer Suspected" written on it and freaking out for about 2 days before they told me it was not.
    i didn't know that :shock:

    :(

    Yeah I was looking at my chart right before they wheeled me in, big box checked YES next to Cancer Suspected?
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    haffajappa wrote:
    EquallyWorthless wrote:

    Early on, I remember going for a colonoscopy, and seeing "Cancer Suspected" written on it and freaking out for about 2 days before they told me it was not.
    i didn't know that :shock:

    :(

    Yeah I was looking at my chart right before they wheeled me in, big box checked YES next to Cancer Suspected?
    Well now at least you are at the home stretch *fingers x'd!
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam

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