I caught the cancer

[Basil 767]

How high we talking about here with these numbers?

[Hate 20232]

Cheech and Chong?

[PRONG HORN 3219]

3 hours ago, Basil said:

I've been through the ringer at MDAnderson for stage 3 colorectal cancer. He told me there was no evidence that sugar feeds cancer cells differently from other cells and no evidence you can starve cancer by cutting carbs. 

here’s a screen cap from google with a few lines from an MD Anderson linked article mentioning the link between insulin and colorectal.

[PRONG HORN 3219]

https://www.patientpower.info/navigating-cancer/cancer-metabolism

 

[RDCanecutter 26853]

4 hours ago, Basil said:

How high we talking about here with these numbers?

Not too bad. Only 545 last night, went down to 450. I think I'm dead already and don't know it like in 6th Sense.

345 this morning, Swung by oncologist and they jacked me up with 4 units of insulin before Zapping.

Zapping took maybe 15 minutes, then I swung by to get my brain-swell vomit pills as well as a drug that treats high sugar.

The main thing is I am OFF the Dexamethasone which was 50% of the reason I flipped diabetic, the other half being the tumor in my thalamus. And OK maybe I shoulda skipped that cookie.

Got a new Day of the Dead mask to work on. As for other effects, I don't seem seem seem ghersgh seem to be problem have:;"'.

[seven 1368]

Personally I'm just going to enjoy the sugar and carbs while I can 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10762]

17 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

here’s a screen cap from google with a few lines from an MD Anderson linked article mentioning the link between insulin and colorectal.

Isn't that just pointing out being obese raises the risk of certain cancers, not cutting down is an effective treatment? 

[Basil 767]

3 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Isn't that just pointing out being obese raises the risk of certain cancers, not cutting down is an effective treatment? 

Yeah, he moved the goalposts from fighting cancer to cancer risk.

Next we'll be talking about other stupid fake miracle cures that get people killed, like alkaline diet and castor beans.

[RDCanecutter 26853]

1 hour ago, Basil said:

Next we'll be talking about other stupid fake miracle cures that get people killed, like alkaline diet and castor beans.

Aww hell now you've got me craving a castor bean smoothie.

[PRONG HORN 3219]

 

[Not that Bob 743]

I know you got the cancer and the brain zapps and everything, but dang man, water your plants. Or throw them out. They may be past the watering stage.

[RDCanecutter 26853]

21 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

I know you got the cancer and the brain zapps and everything, but dang man, water your plants. Or throw them out. They may be past the watering stage.

Brah, it's a cactus. It's been getting rain splash. The dead one was a weed that grew in an empty pot full of dirt. I'm like, you chose this spot, it's on you.

 

BREAKING NEWS: In the interest of internet harmony, I just now heaved some water on them.

Edited April 5 by RDCanecutter

[Not that Bob 743]

Well, now I feel guilty about shaming you into yard work. If you got any energy left after dragging those hoses all over the yard I'd be interested in your thoughts on the machine and the zapping and all that. 

[RDCanecutter 26853]

23 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

Well, now I feel guilty about shaming you into yard work. If you got any energy left after dragging those hoses all over the yard I'd be interested in your thoughts on the machine and the zapping and all that. 

We have a postage stamp yard so no hoses, no worries. The wild flowers died in the front yard after feeding the bees so I might mow it tomorrow and satisfy the control-freak urges of the local White People.

(I am White too, but not that kind of White.)

The cactus have a story. Around 2011 I found two detached nopal lobes baking on the sidewalk, one in the ghettoooo, the other outside a Sicilian pizza joint. I put them in a big pot out front by the oak tree and they thrived.

A few years later I got a nastygram from an anonymous hussy who probably thinks we have an HOA (HA!) about how she hated the cactus. So I quietly broke off a couple of the old lobes from the plants out front, and potted them up on the back deck so that eventually I could put three big pots of cactuses out front for her.

Except I forgot, even though the new ones grew into Feed Me Seymour tentacled horrors out back. Whenever I have to shift them, I suffer stabs.

The one you saw in the photo is a tiny third-generation plant from where I knocked another lobe off.

As for fucking with the squares by turning the front yard into Fort Cactus, instead, when the oak tree died I had the dudes leave a stump about 4 feet high, and it is grown up in things like sunflowers and is a hippy paradise for rabbits and goldfinches.

Also, I let one of the main anonymous-letter suspects know that whoever left un-stamped message in my Federal mailbox was violating Postal Code [I used to know the number], and they could be fined $7,500. Also that I had kept all letters from local busy-body groups, and if I got another one I didn't like, I'd turn it all in to postal inspectors and Devil Take the Hindmost.

All the cactuses in this yard are not plants.

Edited April 5 by RDCanecutter

[RDCanecutter 26853]

31 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

If you got any energy left after dragging those hoses all over the yard I'd be interested in your thoughts on the machine and the zapping and all that. 

If you ever need a zapping, just keep your eyes closed and you'll be done faster than getting your food in a slow drive-through line.

I felt nothing, still don't. Doc said I might get a headache in a day or two.

[Not that Bob 743]

I took my grandkids to see Little Shop of Horror off broadway a couple of weeks ago so the Feed Me Seymour comment made me smile. The woman who played Audrey was hot af and had a voice the match of Ellen Greene, and that's saying something IMHO. The next night we went to The Met and saw Madame Butterfly. Third time I've seen it and it still makes me all weepy, but hey, it's Butterfly. What cha' gonna do? You don't weep at Butterfly you got no heart, maybe no soul.

 

[PRONG HORN 3219]

 

 

[Gatorubet 30631]

On 4/4/2024 at 5:35 PM, RDCanecutter said:

Got a new Day of the Dead mask to work on. As for other effects, I don't seem seem seem ghersgh seem to be problem have:;"'.

Artists gonna artist…

[BabaYaga 15532]

Saw an amazing movie this weekend about a priest in San Antonio that passed from cancer.  "Love God's Will".  Story of Father Ryan Stawaisz.  Independent film from Palomita Films.  

[RDCanecutter 26853]

My 80-year-old uncle seems to have a tumor on his pancreas. He and my kinda-churchy cousin were on their way from the wilds of East Alabama to UAB today when I got up with him. This is the guy who taught me how to put a spin on a football. I told him to kick its fucking ass. Both of em laughed.

[Gatorubet 30631]

pancreatic is a sneaky some bitch because it is often very hard to find at an early stage. Best of luck to your uncle. 

[RDCanecutter 26853]

Well in local news the blood sugar finally got down to 120 today. Still too high, but after the 400s and 500s I'll call it a win by a field goal. I've been good, no carbs, but I'd do time for a dinner roll. 

[Gatorubet 30631]

[RDCanecutter 26853]

So far the Star Trek tricorder to my brain has caused no complications. My vomit pills sit unused. Took one tylenol to treat a mild headache one day. I know I'm lucky.

Was able to go to art shows on different weekends, heave boxes around, and keep my con-man patter going with the customers. I was telling @InkaUtexas that was the best medicine of all. Fuck cancer, have a little fun.

[jimmyjazz 46977]

25 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Was able to go to art shows on different weekends, heave boxes around, and keep my con-man patter going with the customers. I was telling @InkaUtexas that was the best medicine of all. Fuck cancer, have a little fun.

Not to appear glib, but I went to an "art" show today.  I wish I had gone to yours.  I've never seen so many mediocre landscapes and still lifes.  Blech.

[RDCanecutter 26853]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Not to appear glib, but I went to an "art" show today.  I wish I had gone to yours.  I've never seen so many mediocre landscapes and still lifes.  Blech.

Have a heart; they probably spent most of their lives being useful members of society instead of futzing around as psychotic narcissistic picture-drawers.

[Superhero 8991]

My coworker, a sweet bumbling but really smart dude was diagnosed with throat cancer last year. He took some time off for treatment, came back for a few days a week, and took some more time off.

I saw him yesterday. He had lost about 20 pounds, lost all his hair, and his face was scabbed up (anyone know why?) Anyway, he told me that he's fighting the battle, but lost the war. I asked him to expound, and he told me the cancer had spread through his lungs and back, any treatment now is just so he can spend more time with his wife, kids and grandkids.

The company is planning a "Thank You" retirement party for him in June. I think he'll still be alive at that point, but who knows how long he'll be around.

[seven 1368]

One of my chemo drugs gave me horrible face acne, like hundreds of pimples all over my face, head, chest and upper back. They lowered the dose and it would just flare up in the t-zone for a few days every cycle. Shit was even INSIDE my nostrils (I read a woman saying she had them inside her eyelids, so I consider myself getting off lucky). That and chemo gives you all kinds of skin issues in general. I imagine it's something similar. 

[seven 1368]

I have been traveling Europe and off chemo for 6 weeks now, my first break in 16 months. You don't realize how fucked you feel everyday on that stuff. I come home this coming weekend and have a scan a week from Monday to see how the y90 in my liver worked out. Colon mass set to be ripped out on the 22nd, hopefully reversing the colonostomy at that time too. Doc's goal is a chemo break of 6-12 months. 

[Hate 20232]

Keep kicking its ass one day at a time!! 

 

[Post Oak 20551]

43 minutes ago, seven said:

I have been traveling Europe and off chemo for 6 weeks now, my first break in 16 months. You don't realize how fucked you feel everyday on that stuff. I come home this coming weekend and have a scan a week from Monday to see how the y90 in my liver worked out. Colon mass set to be ripped out on the 22nd, hopefully reversing the colonostomy at that time too. Doc's goal is a chemo break of 6-12 months. 

Hang in there seven. Pulling for you

[Gatorubet 30631]

I’m still waiting on my PSA results but my CEA (colon cancer marker) was bigly normal and the radiologist said of my CT this morning, “No definite metastatic disease” and “liver unremarkable”, so I’m not bitching at all and I speak with my Onc Wed. 

i’m still anemic as fuck five years post-chemo, and one other blood test marker today is abnormal and associated with prostate and multiple myeloma, so awaiting prostate results.  My father died from that so I’ve been keeping an eye on that PSA for sometime. 

<ain’t nobody got time for that gif>

Feeling pretty damn good do far. 

Edit: PSA Normal and cholesterol 143.   i’m so healthy right now, I fully expect to be hit by a bus tomorrow.

Edited May 6 by Gatorubet

[Gatorubet 30631]

To my fellow cancer club members, I am sitting here, swilling an old-fashioned after having devoured a steak after my oncologist meeting.   My onc told me “I don’t need to see you anymore Ubet, you’re cured….ok, not “cured”…but you have a 2% chance it returns within 15 years. See you next year….and drop 20 lbs. “

Keep fighting droogies.  Medicine is warp speed getting better. 

[Hate 20232]

Hell yes!!! I go for my follow up blood work tomorrow.  It's always an anxious time. 

[Gatorubet 30631]

On 4/27/2024 at 8:21 PM, Hate said:

Keep kicking its ass one day at a time!! 

 

this is the way GIF

[seven 1368]

Well, disappointing scan results. The y90 worked great on the left side of my liver, but new growth detected on the right side. Cea is up 7x over 7 weeks off treatment. Going back on chemo next week and surgery to remove the colon mass has been canceled. 

[Hate 20232]

Damn…keep fighting it 7. Fuck cancer!

[Gatorubet 30631]

1 hour ago, seven said:

Well, disappointing scan results. The y90 worked great on the left side of my liver, but new growth detected on the right side. Cea is up 7x over 7 weeks off treatment. Going back on chemo next week and surgery to remove the colon mass has been canceled. 

sorry to hear that seven.  Are you at MDA?  i’m sure you have some great people working with you, but second opinions from an MDA Sloan, Kettering, etc., is never a useless option.

[Hate 20232]

On a positive note, my bloodwork came back clean! I test again in September.

[Frieda’s Boss 181]

On 5/9/2024 at 10:02 AM, Hate said:

On a positive note, my bloodwork came back clean! I test again in September.

Awesome to hear!  My first bloodwork check at three months came back undetectable as well. 

How are you doing on the recovery side?  Particularly “control”?  I’m pretty good for the most part but definitely prone to leakage when active. First time post surgery doing jumping jacks was hilarious. And then there are times I’ll just randomly leak. Those are frustrating to say the least. 

Edited May 15 by Frieda’s Boss
Fixed

[hornbri 1504]

On 3/22/2024 at 1:34 PM, hornbri said:

The technology part of all this is pretty cool. Hope it goes well. 

Wife started Chemo today, we did do a PET scan right before chemo to make sure their is nothing else (after the Bone and CT scan) and it saw one little enraged lymph node and a couple small nodules in in gut. Nothing to stop the current plan, just stuff to watch. Which was a good update at last. 

Wife had a PET scan this week to see how the Chemo is progressing through 3 full cycles. It was good news! The previous nodules that were showing up are gone and nothing new has developed!!! Big relief for us in this stage of the process. 

She is in day 60 something of 274 days of chemo treatment (once a week), so still lots to go. But at least we know for now it is doing something. 

Everyone keep fighting out there!

[Not that Bob 743]

On 5/15/2024 at 1:21 AM, Frieda’s Boss said:

Awesome to hear!  My first bloodwork check at three months came back undetectable as well. 

How are you doing on the recovery side?  Particularly “control”?  I’m pretty good for the most part but definitely prone to leakage when active. First time post surgery doing jumping jacks was hilarious. And then there are times I’ll just randomly leak. Those are frustrating to say the least. 

I spent all the time I'm going to looking through old posts to see what your cancer is. I got shit to do. From the 05/15 post it looks like prostate. Control. Yeah. That's a thing. Learn what is going to make you leak and start doing a Kegel and hold it through the activity. Learn what sets it off. For me it's bending down to tie my shoes. It's been 10 years and I still forget sometimes. On days when you don't have time to deal with it (changing pants etc) put on a panty liner. If anybody in your house gives you shit about it show them the liner and strut around like Jagger. 

Adopt a mantra, mine is "I don't have cancer. I don't have cancer". You can borrow that if you want.  I also like to chant "undetectable" and fist pump sometimes. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

On 5/31/2024 at 6:07 PM, Not that Bob said:

I spent all the time I'm going to looking through old posts to see what your cancer is. I got shit to do. From the 05/15 post it looks like prostate. Control. Yeah. That's a thing. Learn what is going to make you leak and start doing a Kegel and hold it through the activity. Learn what sets it off. For me it's bending down to tie my shoes. It's been 10 years and I still forget sometimes. On days when you don't have time to deal with it (changing pants etc) put on a panty liner. If anybody in your house gives you shit about it show them the liner and strut around like Jagger. 

Adopt a mantra, mine is "I don't have cancer. I don't have cancer". You can borrow that if you want.  I also like to chant "undetectable" and fist pump sometimes. 

I’m subscribing to your chat.   Elevated PSA levels the last two tests, an MRI shows a “lesion” about 9mm and an infection.  Good times.

[Hate 20232]

Damn Judge. Have you had a biopsy yet? 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

Nope that’s next I guess.  Fortunately I don’t have any history of PC in the family, so  hoping this is a non-event.

[Not that Bob 743]

Judge, study up on the biopsy. As I understand it, there have been advances since I had my 3 10+ years ago. Yes. 3!! We knew it was there, the doc just couldn't hit the right spot. Back then it was a hit or miss deal. I think now they are using some sort of scan or ultrasound to guide the needle. I'd look for you, but as I said above, "I've got shit to do"...oh hell, I'll put off the chores for a few seconds and recount the experience. They stick some tool up your butt. I think it looks something like the speculum they use on women to open up the vag to do cervical biopsies. To tell the truth I didn't really look. I pretty much gritted my teeth and closed my eyes. Anyway, through this speculum they insert some sort of dart gun that shoots in a needle that takes sort of a core sample of the prostate. Damn thing sounded like a kids cheap dart gun. The needle itself didn't hurt much, but that speculum in the butt was...uncomfortable. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

Gee thanks.  😂

[Brisketexan 106628]

32 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Gee thanks.  😂

Fortunately, "speculum in the butt" is listed by Judge as his #2 favorite leisure activity.

No, none of y'all want to know what he lists as #1.

[Hornius Emeritus 12780]

This is fascinating. mRNA cancer vaccines are being developed for people who already have cancer. They are custom made to attack the genomic sequence of your specific, individual cancer.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/31/what-are-cancer-vaccines-and-have-scientists-finally-found-a-cure

 

[Gatorubet 30631]

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Fortunately, "speculum in the butt" is listed by Judge as his #2 favorite leisure activity.

No, none of y'all want to know what he lists as #1.

Worse, his insurance company refuses to approve the requested weekly repeat of the procedure.