Hodgkins 20 year Follow Up

ldot123
ldot123 Member Posts: 272
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Hi Semi-Colons,

You know you are getting old when your first oncologist is retiring. He is a great guy and helped to get rid of my Hodgkins 20 years ago. So what does this have to do with colon cancer. Well there was some theory that I might have developed it due to the radiation I received twenty years ago. In speaking with him today at my 2 year check-up, it is considered a coin toss as to whether it did or not. Ah well. Blood work I had today came back perfect so no worries there. I am going to have my cc oncologist do any follow ups for Hodgkins in the future.

Cheers, Lance

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  • CherylHutch
    CherylHutch Member Posts: 1,375 Member
    #2
    Hahahaha!
    Hahahaha Lance!! Ok, you gotta look at the good side of this . If you are living through your oncologists retiring and have to keep changing them because they grow up, grow older, and then retire... then this is a good thing!! LOL!! It means you are hanging around for a long, long time :)

    Congrats on the blood work!!!

    Cheryl

    (who must be getting old... I figured I should start thinking about making some dinner and Jon Stewart just came on the TV. Hello??? That means it's midnight, not dinner time!! Rats... another yummy meal missed because I let time slip away )
  • Kanort
    Kanort Member Posts: 1,272 Member
    #3
    Great News!
    Hi Lance,

    Great news about your blood work. My oncologist retired last December and I nearly had a meltdown. I'm glad your current oncologist can follow you for both issues.

    Hugs,

    Kay
  • kmygil
    kmygil Member Posts: 876 Member
    #4
    Livin' the Dream..
    Hi Lance,

    I found this irrisitably funny, and I guffawed out loud at work. I had to explain that when a survivor outlasts his or her oncologist it is truly funny and a testament to survival. Keep on keepin' on!!!!!

    Bless you,
    Kirsten
  • ldot123
    ldot123 Member Posts: 272
    #5
    kmygil said:

    Livin' the Dream..
    Hi Lance,

    I found this irrisitably funny, and I guffawed out loud at work. I had to explain that when a survivor outlasts his or her oncologist it is truly funny and a testament to survival. Keep on keepin' on!!!!!

    Bless you,
    Kirsten

    Thanks
    I guess I am like the energizer bunny.

    Having good news yesterday does not preclude the on again off again feeling lousy one day and good the next..arrrgghhh. It is so frustrating. Every once in a while I want to call the oncologist to gripe, but I keep saying this too shall pass and it usually does. It would seem there is a new normal which is to say it ain't normal at all! Sorry guys, I just need to vent. I would love to have maybe three days in a row where I actually felt OK. Ok - time to smack myself and get back to work.

    Cheers, Lance
  • CherylHutch
    CherylHutch Member Posts: 1,375 Member
    #6
    ldot123 said:

    Thanks
    I guess I am like the energizer bunny.

    Having good news yesterday does not preclude the on again off again feeling lousy one day and good the next..arrrgghhh. It is so frustrating. Every once in a while I want to call the oncologist to gripe, but I keep saying this too shall pass and it usually does. It would seem there is a new normal which is to say it ain't normal at all! Sorry guys, I just need to vent. I would love to have maybe three days in a row where I actually felt OK. Ok - time to smack myself and get back to work.

    Cheers, Lance

    Good Days/Bad Days
    Awwwww... Lance, I'm sorry you are having the bad days mixed with the good days :/ I'm sooo lucky that I feel guilty some days. I'd say that I have 95% good/fabulous days and 5% so-so days. And, unless my mind is playing tricks on me... I think it's been like that all along for me (except for the days when I was terrified... those were definitely bad days).

    My oncologist likes to remind me that no, in fact, the chemo was pretty rough on me... but darned if I remember that! I just remember doing everything I wanted to do, would wear my pump and head off to the theatre or out for dinner with friends. The pump was definitely a nuisance... and I hated how it always got in the way when I would get dressed or have a shower... but that is minor compared to what others have had... and what my onc seems to think I went through :) Then again, maybe she's right and my mind has done a wonderful job of blocking out all the nasties??

    Hugggggs,

    Cheryl
  • msccolon
    msccolon Member Posts: 1,917 Member
    #7
    CherylHutch said:

    Good Days/Bad Days
    Awwwww... Lance, I'm sorry you are having the bad days mixed with the good days :/ I'm sooo lucky that I feel guilty some days. I'd say that I have 95% good/fabulous days and 5% so-so days. And, unless my mind is playing tricks on me... I think it's been like that all along for me (except for the days when I was terrified... those were definitely bad days).

    My oncologist likes to remind me that no, in fact, the chemo was pretty rough on me... but darned if I remember that! I just remember doing everything I wanted to do, would wear my pump and head off to the theatre or out for dinner with friends. The pump was definitely a nuisance... and I hated how it always got in the way when I would get dressed or have a shower... but that is minor compared to what others have had... and what my onc seems to think I went through :) Then again, maybe she's right and my mind has done a wonderful job of blocking out all the nasties??

    Hugggggs,

    Cheryl

    mind blocks
    Cheryl, I am a firm believer of just that; God provides us with a wonderful way of not recognizing the bad when it is really bad. We just get through it and are so happy to be on the other side that we really don't realize just how bad it was (which is why it's SO much harder for our loved ones!). People ask whether you should tell somebody they look good when they really look like crap (and that goes for someone undergoing chemo as well as anything else) and my response is Of course! We don't see just how bad we look, thank God, and it is NEVER a bad idea to give someone you love an ego boost! Believe you are doing well and you WILL do well! Besides, who in their right mind would go up to someone and say, boy, you look like hell (unless it's a close friend and you know they just want a little sympathy for the crappiness!).
    Mary

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