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Hmm, maybe a strange question...
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone else thinks about this (I guess this is a stage IV question but maybe for anyone). I'm doing some online shopping for the kids and thinking about the holidays, etc. I see something I might think I would like, like a new pair of jeans. I start to think, am I gonna really need this? Would I be…
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Second opinion surgery options now
I just went for a second opinion at the Cleveland Clinic. I am stage 4 colon cancer with approx 15 mets to the liver. UofMI treatment plan for me was essentially palliative chemo for life. No surgery on primary colon tumor or liver. I have completed 10 rounds of Folfox w/ Avastin. i was on a 5 month chemo break after the…
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Just noting the day
I'm 13 years out from diagnosis today, a long fight and a longer journey that would have changed me, just by the passage of time. I bring it here, because I won't note it on FB. It's also Cindy's birthday. She would have been 59, but she lost her 6 1/2 year battle with a Glioma [brain tumor] 5 1/2 years back. The kids put…
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Just need support.....
Hi, my husband is 54 years old. He had Stage 3B colon cancer 4 years ago, resection, and the chemo treatment. Had to stop a little early because the one med caused him to go into diabetes and severe neuropathy on his feet and mild on his hands. He was good for about 2 1/2 years. He'd have scans and blood work done. Then…
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Financial Support
Hey does any one know if a cancer patient can get on disablity or some type of supplement? I can only work 3 hours a day or less because of the medicene I am taking. It has these side effects that are awful.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes
What an example of a fighter, for those of us fighting the fight. What a great example for all women, and all men. A life well lived. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies-87/story?id=27200334&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_twopack_hed
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Second Opinion
Hi, I am looking for a 2nd opinion regarding my colorectal cancer. I have already had surgery to remove the tumor and will soon be receiving adjunctive therapy. Can anyone reccommend a top hospital for treating this type of cancer? Which one(s) is especially successful for treating and curing colorectal cancer? I have…
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Ugh I just want to yell
Ugh sitting in the hospital as my dad is in another all day surgery and I have no family here I'm alone . Supporting my dad best I can thanks alot covid and I just found out he lost his bladder and prostate. Oh and the doctor said there thinking this surgery will give him 5 more years . Which really annoys me that doctors…
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MikeNH
Does anyone know if MikeNH continues to be NED?
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4th chemo, elevated liver marker
Hello I was not so active the last days. At one moment it was just too much. So many worries, so many fears. The German angst you could say. My dad is running through his 4 chemo. The last 10 days he was really good. We did an electrotherapy and added nuts to his diet. The chemo hit soon really hard but the recovery was…
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Grateful while grieving
I had a friend diagnosed with Kidney Cancer three weeks ago, he has passed away. So quick! So hard to even grasp that he was suffering and now is gone. It just makes me so grateful for my life. It also makes me ask why? But I don't dwell on that, becasue I really don't know the answer, and nodbody else knows either. It…
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Hipec
I underwent Hipec surgery 8 weeks ago. My colon cancer had spread into my abdominal cavity! They were giving me either 6 months to two years to live. Then I went for a second opinion at another hospital. So thankful I did, they got all the cancer they could see. I was referred to an oncologlist that will target my tumors!…
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Perineural invasion
Hello, I just want to know if someone had a perineural invasion in their report. My dad had it and they got it out but if you look it up there is not a lot of it in the www and if it is most of the time a bad prognosis. But then I am thinking if it has a bad prognosis because it is hard to operate to get out? My dad is…
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Exploratory Laparotomy
So my dad is scheduled for a exploratory laparotomy and removal of pelvic mass and small bowl resection on sept 16 . There calling it a major surgery so I am pretty worried about it and noticed when I look up exploratory laparotomy that there is no mention of using that surgery to remove the prostate and bladder . Which is…
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Vitamin D and Covid-19
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770157 "In this cohort study of 489 patients who had a vitamin D level measured in the year before COVID-19 testing, the relative risk of testing positive for COVID-19 was 1.77 times greater for patients with likely deficient vitamin D status compared with…
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Not Passing Me By
Thanks for the thread of concern TruBrit! Maybe we should discuss my UK connections someday. Thanks to all who expressed concerns for my well-being. Seemed like the world passed me by while I was in. TL;DR version * the surgeon was happy with the results of the resection. He cut out the big ones and burned the wee ones. *…
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Wish me luck
Hello, I am having a colonoscopy tomorrow and scans next week. I'm stage 4 and my last scans were five months ago. I am now three years and seven months NED. My anxiety always begins about a month before my scans, and I've often wonder if counseling would be helpful but I have never looked into it. I'm sure we all suffer…
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Need some help
I am not sure if there is anyone who can help me with this or not but I don't know where else to turn . My dad has a ostomy bag and me and my step mom help him take care of it . Cause he has neuropathy and a hernia and can't do it on his own . Well things have gotten bad between my dad and step mom to were my step mom is…