Cancer

[TheBitch]

And if my reply came across as trivialising how you're feeling, it wasnt meant to. Its a bastard and the worry of it makes us feel useless but as Mr Champ would say, and frequently does, there's no point worrying til you've got something to worry about.

 

It wasn't trivialising at all, yeah like you say there's fuck all to worry about at present and it's probably fuck all, past experiences just nag away.

[Anubis]

So many people affected by it here. It really is a bastard of an illness.

[Champ]

It wasn't trivialising at all, yeah like you say there's fuck all to worry about at present and it's probably fuck all, past experiences just nag away.

 

And again, not trivialising it, but we are products of our age and have high expectations of life expectancy, of medicine, that things will be sorted and when things dont go like this, especially for those of us without faith, its really hard. Be nice to her

[TheBitch]

And again, not trivialising it, but we are products of our age and have high expectations of life expectancy, of medicine, that things will be sorted and when things dont go like this, especially for those of us without faith, its really hard. Be nice to her

I always am.

[Lycan]

Lost me auld fella to leukemia a couple of year ago. He first got it in 2007 and within 6 months he was in remission. Came back 4 years later and finished him off. Bastard decease. He came home to die, it was horrible seeing my hero go that way. Wouldn't wish that on anyone. Lost a good friend to Leukemia as well. He was only 25.

[lifetime fan]

I don't know if it's because my circle of friends is getting bigger (including online acquaintances), but I seem to be hearing & reading of more people struck by this ailment than I remember. It's worrying to me that up till now, none of my immediate family have succumbed to it and I almost feel as if it's only a matter of time, I only hope that should the time come, I've as much strength as others on this thread. I've nothing but massive admiration to those on this thread (& those not on TLW) who've had to experience & deal with it.

Cancer Research UK did a telly campaign about 25 years ago saying 1 in 4 would get cancer at some point in their lives.

 

I can never forget seeing my ol fella start to get choked watching it and asked him why it was making him upset.

 

He said "that's you, Joe, your mum or me".

 

I still didn't get it, the joy of naivety of youth I guess. I don't know why that conversation stuck with me but I've never forgotten it.

 

My mum has 'beaten' skin cancer and I lost Carly to the cunt, but I never thought any of my family would get cancer watching telly that night.

 

We were good people, how could we ever get it?

[lifetime fan]

And without trivialising any of that, just wait til Alzheimer's comes onto your radar. Now there's another cunt of a disease

I'll be taking my own life before I put family and friends through that.

[Tossed and blown]

So many people affected by it here. It really is a bastard of an illness.

 

Several factors here, they are getting far better at treating other serious illnesses eg myocardial infarction so that more people are living longer and having more of a 'chance' to get cancer.  Also diagnostic rates are increasing as they get better at finding it.

 

The sad truth is that cancer is a million different diseases classified under the same umbrella and it is wholly unreasonable to ever envisage a 'cure'.  I read somewhere that we each have on average 30 different potentially cancerous cell mutations a day, every day, and the immune system knocks them off immediately.  Only when one of them evades the immune system and starts to replicate does it become a tumour.

[G Richards]

Trying to embed a video. I just came across this song for the first time at the end of an episode of The Blacklist. 

 

Pearl Jam. Just Breathe. It's beautiful. Love this live version. 

 

[RJ Fan club]

A couple I know's son has been diagnosed with leukemia this week. 3 years old. Where is the fucking justice in that? Totally devastating for them.

 

Cunt of a disease.

[Tossed and blown]

A couple I know's son has been diagnosed with leukemia this week. 3 years old. Where is the fucking justice in that? Totally devastating for them.

 

Cunt of a disease.

 

Cure rates are actually very good for childhood leukoproliferative disease

[Skidfingers McGonical]

For all the arguing, name calling, disagreeing we do on here, this thread always brings us together.

 

Thinking of your loved one and family NV. And the little fella RJ.

 

Lovely song that Rev. It's a tear jerker pusher when you see it live. Makes you grab the person next to you and enjoy the moment.

[A Red]

I'm sorry but heres another.

 

My mother in law was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus this january. Chemo isnt an option so she had radio therapy back in February, basically you can only undergo one treatment of this type in your life. She has gone from the fittest 77 year old you will meet to a bag of bones that can hardly eat.

 

Her only chance is the CT scan she is due later this week which will show whether she is the way she is due to the treatment or the cancer.

[KMD7]

I'm sorry but heres another.

 

My mother in law was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus this january. Chemo isnt an option so she had radio therapy back in February, basically you can only undergo one treatment of this type in your life. She has gone from the fittest 77 year old you will meet to a bag of bones that can hardly eat.

 

Her only chance is the CT scan she is due later this week which will show whether she is the way she is due to the treatment or the cancer.

 

Really sorry to hear this mate.  All is can say is fingers crossed the CT scan will bring good news.  My own mother in law has only just finished radiotherapy last week after having a lump removed from her breast, thankfully she's now clear and didnt suffer much physical discomfort from the whole thing, apart from the obvious stress which accompanies being given the diagnosis originally. 

[stevebaby]

Ho hum, here I go again. After the bowel cancer 4 years ago, now I have bladder cancer. Ironically this may have been caused by previous radiotherapy.

I started pissing blood a couple of months ago and had a cystoscopy done. This involved pushing a camera and surgical tools up my jap's eye.It hurt just as much as you can imagine! I just lay back and dreamed of Kate Moss under a general anaesthetic but it still stung when I woke up.

Anyhow the surgeons will be removing the whole bladder tomorrow morning, 7-14 days in hospital without internet and 6-12 weeks to recover. I'll recover quickly I hope.

So as my future involves pissing in a bag, my current plan is to eat a lot of crisps and save the packets for ammo. It goes without saying that I will be "accidentally" flashing my sausage at many nurses for those 7-14 days.

 

Love youse all and I'll be back in a couple of weeks. Mwah mwah.

[PestiRed]

Good luck mate. Hope it goes well

[lifetime fan]

All the very best of luck mate.

[Trumo]

Good luck stevebaby.

[rubble-rouser]

Jeez ate, good luck!

[Lee909]

Best of luck

[TheBitch]

Fucking hell. Best of luck stevebaby.

[Furmedge]

Good luck Steve.  

[Section_31]

Good luck Steve, you've beat it once you'll see it off again mate. Besides who knows what the future holds? They might give you some kind of cyber bladder that can put fires out and deal with civil unrest amongst the populous.

[Champ]

Aw, fuck, stevebaby, all the very best. You have some spirit, mister

[TheBitch]

Stevebaby is gonna be everything the beef would love.

 

Pissing in crisp bags an' all that.