The fun of coloncancer
Then (wicked I told you so music playing in my head)... I found out I have colon cancer.
Okay cancer is bad enough.... But colon cancer? Why not breast cancer? I have 2 children and with age and all that comes with that I was thinking okay I can get perky breasts.Or why not ovarian cancer that runs in my family? I can get used to no monthly visit and I am done having children...Nope I got butt cancer ( no offense meant to anybody).
The indignities that go with colon cancer only a colon cancer victim can understand.
Have you ever had a barium enema? 2 nurses plus a cute Dr in the room. Of course when I had that I had to tell them that I like long walks on the beach, chocolate and hard rock music. (I was born in 1972 so yes i had the big 80's hair) It is a very intimate procedure. Or lets see at the DR's office have you ever seen that chair that lifts your heiny way up in the air? I have never been afraid since my diagnosis and all seems well so far. There is no pretty bow or package that comes with colon cancer. Just tubes,probes and poop.
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CRC
Well, I had a teenage son and 2 sons in college when I was diagnosed. I also had a colostomy for 9 months. I couldn't avoid the jokes - they were full of them! I just went with it and decided to have fun. And, so we do. Humor really helps, but you've already figured that out.
Grins and Giggles,
Kimby0 -
CRCkimby said:CRC
Well, I had a teenage son and 2 sons in college when I was diagnosed. I also had a colostomy for 9 months. I couldn't avoid the jokes - they were full of them! I just went with it and decided to have fun. And, so we do. Humor really helps, but you've already figured that out.
Grins and Giggles,
Kimby
well they found it in time to save your life and that counts for something and not all colon cancer involves the butt I had cc and on chemo now and it didn't have anything to do with my butt. It is alot smaller due to the 50 lbs I lost but hey I look like a teenager and I am 62..so keep us posted on how you are doing we will keep you in or thoughts and prayers...
Louann0 -
the cancer mass was in mylcarper2 said:CRC
well they found it in time to save your life and that counts for something and not all colon cancer involves the butt I had cc and on chemo now and it didn't have anything to do with my butt. It is alot smaller due to the 50 lbs I lost but hey I look like a teenager and I am 62..so keep us posted on how you are doing we will keep you in or thoughts and prayers...
Louann
the cancer mass was in my ceacum and my gastrologist actually told me that if he had to choose a type to have it at it would be where mine was located. so i hope that you will begin to see that it doesn't have to be the worst thing that has happened in your life but rather a part of the journey that you can have victory over. It could become a bridge that leades you to a better life filled with receiving love and living...hope this helps...don't get me wrong its a very personal journey when dealing with the butt, intestines and gastro track but it could always be worse is what I tell myself, like those little children dealing with lukemia...0 -
Yes Twymer - the indignities
Yes Twymer - the indignities of our cancer - anal, rectal, or colon - are hard to take sometimes. Sometimes we just have to laugh it off. My stoma, named Stewie, has been going off loudly for a few days. Not sure what I ate. My kids laugh and laugh. Especially my 3 year old son who currently thinks that poo-poo, pee-pee, and throw-up are the greatest things in life. My radiation onc has a very attractive intern. It was totally awesome when she stuck her finger up my butt to feel my tumor. Apparently she has short fingers, because she never could feel the tumor. Every other doctor in the city sure could. It was also really cool the next morning at radiation prep when she taped two metal pieces to my anus as a reference point. You guys know what I'm talking about? There I was laying butt up on the table when she walked in. I turned around to see who it was. As I put my face back on the table I realized that as she said good morning she was putting on the gloves. I thought, "She's going to put something up there. Or maybe she wants another round of 'touch my tumor.' Oh Dr. S, you're so hot. Please don't stick anything else up my butt."
Here's a question. Do we have an official color? Breast cancer has pink. Something else has green I think. I know what color ours should be.
The 71 in crow71 is the year of my birth. You had big 80's hair. I had a sweet mullet. So keep on rockin'. Sugar free dark chocolate is good you. Visualize yourself walking on the beach cancer free. (Include the cute Dr. if you like.) And know that you're not alone. Thanks for joining.
Peace,
Roger0 -
I was very modest guy before
I was very modest guy before I got this crap. The town where I got the chemo/rad is fairly small. Near the end of my rad treatments I told the female tech I hoped I never ran into her at Walmart. I was afraid I would instinctively drop my pants.
I had 2 female Oncs. They do have a thing with the fingers.0 -
Official ribbon colorCrow71 said:Yes Twymer - the indignities
Yes Twymer - the indignities of our cancer - anal, rectal, or colon - are hard to take sometimes. Sometimes we just have to laugh it off. My stoma, named Stewie, has been going off loudly for a few days. Not sure what I ate. My kids laugh and laugh. Especially my 3 year old son who currently thinks that poo-poo, pee-pee, and throw-up are the greatest things in life. My radiation onc has a very attractive intern. It was totally awesome when she stuck her finger up my butt to feel my tumor. Apparently she has short fingers, because she never could feel the tumor. Every other doctor in the city sure could. It was also really cool the next morning at radiation prep when she taped two metal pieces to my anus as a reference point. You guys know what I'm talking about? There I was laying butt up on the table when she walked in. I turned around to see who it was. As I put my face back on the table I realized that as she said good morning she was putting on the gloves. I thought, "She's going to put something up there. Or maybe she wants another round of 'touch my tumor.' Oh Dr. S, you're so hot. Please don't stick anything else up my butt."
Here's a question. Do we have an official color? Breast cancer has pink. Something else has green I think. I know what color ours should be.
The 71 in crow71 is the year of my birth. You had big 80's hair. I had a sweet mullet. So keep on rockin'. Sugar free dark chocolate is good you. Visualize yourself walking on the beach cancer free. (Include the cute Dr. if you like.) And know that you're not alone. Thanks for joining.
Peace,
Roger
Crow71 asked "Here's a question. Do we have an official color?"
BLUE is the official colon cancer color. Not what I thought it would be either...0 -
Welcome
Welcome to the board! I thought I had lost all my dignity when I gave birth to my children, but I found out that there ARE more intimate doctor visits. Yikes! And my primary care doctor goes to church with me and is a good friend. When we had to "go there," I was very distressed.
I'm past that now, and I'm even getting sort of used to the fact that every doctor visit includes at least 1 question about "How's your pooping these days?" Oh, well!
*hugs*
Gail0 -
Blue?Kathryn_in_MN said:Official ribbon color
Crow71 asked "Here's a question. Do we have an official color?"
BLUE is the official colon cancer color. Not what I thought it would be either...
Blue is the one color I haven't pooped!!!0 -
This comment has been removed by the Moderatortootsie1 said:Welcome
Welcome to the board! I thought I had lost all my dignity when I gave birth to my children, but I found out that there ARE more intimate doctor visits. Yikes! And my primary care doctor goes to church with me and is a good friend. When we had to "go there," I was very distressed.
I'm past that now, and I'm even getting sort of used to the fact that every doctor visit includes at least 1 question about "How's your pooping these days?" Oh, well!
*hugs*
Gail0 -
It's always said that the heart runs the body....
But, have something happen to the end of your digestive tract, and you find that it is NOT the heart, but the 'waste plant' that rules the day!!! LOL!!!!
For awhile, I retaliated by inserting the word 'rectum' as much as possible into conversations...just to see people wince...in my mind, I was shouting 'It's a part of the body, people, just like all the rest...and, in some ways much more important than things like the breasts, or the (sorry guys) testicles, and especially the appendix!'
BUT, it is what it is...I gave up trying to convince people that it was ok to talk pooh in public..so, when I got my second cancer (!), 6 months after finishing treatment for the rectal cancer, I FINALLY got sympathy...it was breast cancer!!! Ironic, huh?
BIG hugs to a fellow semi-colon!
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Hahaha!Crow71 said:Yes Twymer - the indignities
Yes Twymer - the indignities of our cancer - anal, rectal, or colon - are hard to take sometimes. Sometimes we just have to laugh it off. My stoma, named Stewie, has been going off loudly for a few days. Not sure what I ate. My kids laugh and laugh. Especially my 3 year old son who currently thinks that poo-poo, pee-pee, and throw-up are the greatest things in life. My radiation onc has a very attractive intern. It was totally awesome when she stuck her finger up my butt to feel my tumor. Apparently she has short fingers, because she never could feel the tumor. Every other doctor in the city sure could. It was also really cool the next morning at radiation prep when she taped two metal pieces to my anus as a reference point. You guys know what I'm talking about? There I was laying butt up on the table when she walked in. I turned around to see who it was. As I put my face back on the table I realized that as she said good morning she was putting on the gloves. I thought, "She's going to put something up there. Or maybe she wants another round of 'touch my tumor.' Oh Dr. S, you're so hot. Please don't stick anything else up my butt."
Here's a question. Do we have an official color? Breast cancer has pink. Something else has green I think. I know what color ours should be.
The 71 in crow71 is the year of my birth. You had big 80's hair. I had a sweet mullet. So keep on rockin'. Sugar free dark chocolate is good you. Visualize yourself walking on the beach cancer free. (Include the cute Dr. if you like.) And know that you're not alone. Thanks for joining.
Peace,
Roger
I'm sorry, Roger! This is the second post i've read from you today, and i may have burst my spleen from laughing!
My surgeon was a petite lady, too, and could barely feel the tumor. All of my other docs didn't have a problem. I don't care how many rectal exams they give you, you never get used to them.
Yes, our colorectal cancer ribbon is a blue, darker than sky blue, but not navy. Someone tried to start a brown ribbon, but thankfully that didn't pan out. It's bad enough that we have a **** cancer, our ribbon shouldn't be **** too!
Hugs!
Krista0 -
:-( to :-)
I'm editing here because I only read the first part of your post and thought you were serious. Didn't realize you were being funny. I was sad for you. I couldn't figure out the replies being so lighthearted til I read the whole thing... Duh, Diane! Reading is fundamental!
You have a GREAT attitude and that's so much of the fight!
)
I've not seen other posts of yours. Glad to see you're doing well, tho.
Diane0 -
Maybe this will help
I was diagnosed in 1998 at the age of 31. I was the type so modest that I didn't even share a changing room when I went clothes shopping with my best girl friends. Then I got colon cancer and everybody saw me in my most everything, bare nothing in all positions, for all tests etc... So I got even. I got to where I just wanted to crawl in that hole and die I would say just let the damn cancer get me, there not going to make me undress again so then I would laugh and hear myself say those ridiculous things even thou I meant them the moment they came out my mouth. So I went and got the prettiest, sexiest, lingerie I could find that made me feel GREAT!!My doctor was handsome, gorgeous and the most friendly yet medically well rounded professional I had ever met. It gave me a leg up, I got to wear getting undressed in that gown with that lacy lingerie would kind make the nurse back up, make the doctor blush, yet say she is charge of whats going on right now, without saying a word. My doctor thought it was funny, we were great friends, but he came to realize it was something I had to do for me so I would feel so intimidated by it all!!!! Try it!
Goofyladie (Cass)0 -
This comment has been removed by the ModeratorGOOFYLADIE said:Maybe this will help
I was diagnosed in 1998 at the age of 31. I was the type so modest that I didn't even share a changing room when I went clothes shopping with my best girl friends. Then I got colon cancer and everybody saw me in my most everything, bare nothing in all positions, for all tests etc... So I got even. I got to where I just wanted to crawl in that hole and die I would say just let the damn cancer get me, there not going to make me undress again so then I would laugh and hear myself say those ridiculous things even thou I meant them the moment they came out my mouth. So I went and got the prettiest, sexiest, lingerie I could find that made me feel GREAT!!My doctor was handsome, gorgeous and the most friendly yet medically well rounded professional I had ever met. It gave me a leg up, I got to wear getting undressed in that gown with that lacy lingerie would kind make the nurse back up, make the doctor blush, yet say she is charge of whats going on right now, without saying a word. My doctor thought it was funny, we were great friends, but he came to realize it was something I had to do for me so I would feel so intimidated by it all!!!! Try it!
Goofyladie (Cass)0 -
Butt why?
There`s nothing I love more than the tubes up the the butt and the one fingered anal probe. It`s hard to look your doctor in the face after he just stuck his finger up your butt. As a straight male I`m not accustomed to other men sticking things up my butt. What do you say? Sould we follow this up with dinner and a movie? You don`t dare thank your doctor for it. He might get the wrong idea. Does this mean if we were in prison I would be his b**ch? Under normal circumstances, most people would file a sexual harassment suit for unwanted cavity probing. What it boils down to is that it`s all a pain in the butt.
Eric ( : . )0 -
You guys are great
I am so very happy to have found this website, wish I had looked before. I knew that only other colorectal cancer survivors or fighters would understand. I tried to explain to my sister once and she kind of looked at me with a oooh yuck! look on her face. But I can say that after my barium enema I had a great time at Nordstroms buying a beautiful gown for a cruise I was going on and passed gas the whold day thru.(AHHH, good times). Thankyou all for your help,upbeat look in life, and laughter. That's what makes us all get thru tough times.0 -
Crow71Crow71 said:Yes Twymer - the indignities
Yes Twymer - the indignities of our cancer - anal, rectal, or colon - are hard to take sometimes. Sometimes we just have to laugh it off. My stoma, named Stewie, has been going off loudly for a few days. Not sure what I ate. My kids laugh and laugh. Especially my 3 year old son who currently thinks that poo-poo, pee-pee, and throw-up are the greatest things in life. My radiation onc has a very attractive intern. It was totally awesome when she stuck her finger up my butt to feel my tumor. Apparently she has short fingers, because she never could feel the tumor. Every other doctor in the city sure could. It was also really cool the next morning at radiation prep when she taped two metal pieces to my anus as a reference point. You guys know what I'm talking about? There I was laying butt up on the table when she walked in. I turned around to see who it was. As I put my face back on the table I realized that as she said good morning she was putting on the gloves. I thought, "She's going to put something up there. Or maybe she wants another round of 'touch my tumor.' Oh Dr. S, you're so hot. Please don't stick anything else up my butt."
Here's a question. Do we have an official color? Breast cancer has pink. Something else has green I think. I know what color ours should be.
The 71 in crow71 is the year of my birth. You had big 80's hair. I had a sweet mullet. So keep on rockin'. Sugar free dark chocolate is good you. Visualize yourself walking on the beach cancer free. (Include the cute Dr. if you like.) And know that you're not alone. Thanks for joining.
Peace,
Roger
Our official ribbon color should be brown for obvious reasons.
Eric0 -
This comment has been removed by the ModeratorTwymer said:You guys are great
I am so very happy to have found this website, wish I had looked before. I knew that only other colorectal cancer survivors or fighters would understand. I tried to explain to my sister once and she kind of looked at me with a oooh yuck! look on her face. But I can say that after my barium enema I had a great time at Nordstroms buying a beautiful gown for a cruise I was going on and passed gas the whold day thru.(AHHH, good times). Thankyou all for your help,upbeat look in life, and laughter. That's what makes us all get thru tough times.0
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