[HN Gopher] Notes on My Chemotherapy
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Notes on My Chemotherapy
Author : whatrocks
Score : 66 points
Date : 2021-02-05 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| lostapathy wrote:
| Good luck, and thanks for sharing.
|
| I just went through this (with a different cancer). I didn't blog
| about it like this, but I shared some on Facebook and that seemed
| to help me and the people around me a lot.
| fab1an wrote:
| The absurdity of the American health care and insurance system
| will never not amaze me. It's just sad and weird, and even
| weirder that you will always find a bunch of intelligent folks to
| defend it. Wishing the author, who btw is a better writer than
| most writers, a speedy and complete recovery.
| NortySpock wrote:
| We're not done yet, we can still improve it, we just need to
| keep leaning on our congress-people to fix it.
| sievzig wrote:
| Thanks for the update Charlie. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
| isoprophlex wrote:
| _My infusion center is the adult center. I 'm not sure I could
| stomach seeing children and babies getting chemo. I'm crying
| right now even thinking about it (which hurts, if you remember my
| side effects)._
|
| Powerful ending to the article... indeed, fuck cancer.
|
| Get well soon, stay well!
| mmaunder wrote:
| I beat the crap out of stage 4 blood cancer a few years ago and
| am now officially cured. I realized my battle was nothing when
| I was getting my second round of chemo, and a happy bald 5 year
| old with a lollipop got on the elevator with me at Seattle
| Cancer Care Alliance (Fred Hutch) where I was being treated,
| and I glanced at mom and she looked so very tired.
| NKosmatos wrote:
| Good luck and thanks for sharing. Keep up the positive attitude,
| you've got a long road ahead of you (wait for
| quarterly/semiannual/annual exams...) but if you confront it as
| you do, you'll be fine. To all, do frequent check ups (if you can
| afford it) and don't dismiss the signs of your body. Oh and one
| last thing, US medical and insurance systems sucks.
| u8mybrownies wrote:
| Good luck sir!!!
| fokinsean wrote:
| Good luck!
| Ennea wrote:
| I really enjoy the way you write. Good luck with the cancer!
| Nihilartikel wrote:
| Just taking the opportunity to chime in on this thread: Do not
| hesitate to press for a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy if you are
| worried about your colon health. Something is going on now where
| demographically much younger patients are getting polyps and
| colon cancer: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-
| blog/2020...
|
| Doctors are still mostly operating under the old wisdom that it
| is not a problem for those under 60 or so.
|
| I had blood in my stool at 36, and after convincing my doctor
| that I wanted it checked even if it was 'probably a hemorrhoid',
| a sigmoidoscopy found 3 polyps. I was lucky that the big one was
| right at the 'front door' so to speak, otherwise the
| sigmoidoscopy would have not been deep enough to find them, and I
| might not be writing this comment today.
| CyanBird wrote:
| Absolutely, when TotalBiscuits (John Bain) was still fighting
| cancer he couple times unabashedly said while doing his live
| starcraft 2 esports casting to everyone listening to be mindful
| of colon cancer, to not play dumb with it if you consistently
| find blood in your stool and go get yourself checked, insist on
| it if the doctors seem not particularly concerned
|
| He was saying that to save lives
|
| Might he rest in peace
| greesil wrote:
| It still seems pretty rare, even if it's more common. I have
| had some similar symptoms, and similar interactions with
| doctors in the past. No, I don't think I have cancer. But, what
| I want to know is what is the probability of having this
| condition given the symptoms. In other words, use Bayes' rule.
| Most doctors seem incapable of thinking this way! If it's a 1%
| chance that I have a life-threatening condition because there's
| blood in my stool, then in my mind it makes sense to get
| diagnostic that would test for that. I know these datasets
| exist, but why can't my doctor make use of this, or me for that
| matter?
| greedo wrote:
| Rare doesn't really help when there are almost 8B people on
| the planet.
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| I was 41 when I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. I had
| blood in my stool and my GP misdiagnosed me due to my age. If
| I hadn't pushed the issue, I wouldn't be here now.
|
| If you ever have blood in your stool, get an exam. Preferably
| by a gastroenterologist.
| Geezus_42 wrote:
| I had a friend who died of colon cancer in his late teens.
| We weren't super close so I don't know the details like
| what variety it was.
| mpfundstein wrote:
| Hi,
|
| mind sharing how the blood in your stool looked like? What
| was the color etc? Was it there always? Was it
| occassionally? Was it ON the stool or mixed through it?
|
| And when you finally got diagnosed. What stage were you in?
| Are you healed now?
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