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Cancer is just some scary stuff.
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:23 pm
So many people I have know have got it. Friend's, family, parent's. Just crazy, but I everyone always beat it that I knew. Up until today no one close to me has ever died from it. Surgery here, chemo there and it's gone.
Really just hits home. It's like there is nothing we can do. Just better hope you have good insurance that will pay out the $8,000 a shot and the $300 a pill for the drugs without shutting you off for two months while the cancer grows and they decide if you have used "too much".
Hug your family, kiss your mother, speak to your aunt's uncle's and cousins often. You just never know when it will strike and if they will make it.
Really just hits home. It's like there is nothing we can do. Just better hope you have good insurance that will pay out the $8,000 a shot and the $300 a pill for the drugs without shutting you off for two months while the cancer grows and they decide if you have used "too much".
Hug your family, kiss your mother, speak to your aunt's uncle's and cousins often. You just never know when it will strike and if they will make it.
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Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:24 pm to Napoleon
We all gotta go one day
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:25 pm to Napoleon
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Surgery here, chemo there and it's gone.
Cancer is never really gone.
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:30 pm to Napoleon
Lost an uncle in March. They gave him 6 weeks, he lasted 5. Hard to see someone go down so fast. No treatment, diagnosed too late to help.
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:32 pm to Napoleon
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It's like there is nothing we can do
Actually there is a lot you can do, but cannot complete eliminate it all.
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:41 pm to scottlsuscott
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diagnosed too late to help.
this is the scariest part
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:42 pm to Napoleon
I know it all too well. My uncle died from it last year and it was absolute hell on his frail little body. It was wrecking my aunt and cousins too. I don't think they would've coped as well if they didn't have the help they had from friends and extended family including me. I even helped out by driving him to Texas med to get treatment. Throughout the whole deal, he was a very religious man and made his peace with God and Jesus Christ in heaven. He inspired me showing everybody how strong his faith was.
He was also a dedicated citizen and he managed to vote in the runoff election for Rep. Bill Cassidy against the incumbent senator and was able to see the fruits of his painstaking labor of traveling to vote and seeing the election returns later that night and Cassidy won and became the next U.S. Senator from Louisiana, it brought a moments joy. He died a few days after that.
Seeing him like that and go through with that nightmare really made me come to terms with my own mortality and how fragile we are and how short our lives are on this planet. Don't do anything or not do anything that you would regret later on in life.
He was also a dedicated citizen and he managed to vote in the runoff election for Rep. Bill Cassidy against the incumbent senator and was able to see the fruits of his painstaking labor of traveling to vote and seeing the election returns later that night and Cassidy won and became the next U.S. Senator from Louisiana, it brought a moments joy. He died a few days after that.
Seeing him like that and go through with that nightmare really made me come to terms with my own mortality and how fragile we are and how short our lives are on this planet. Don't do anything or not do anything that you would regret later on in life.
Posted on 8/30/15 at 11:42 pm to Napoleon
Water is wet and fire is hot
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:00 am to TheAlmightySmash
One of my best friends of 16 years was diagnosed with rare stage 4 sarcoma. It's in his lungs Bones n spleen- only 37 yrs old... gave him 15% chance. He's a good person, put himself tbrough school and was working on his career.....not responding to chemo. Gonna try MD anderson. So fricking terrible 
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:11 am to Napoleon
friend of mine died this week. Good guy, great carpenter, and excellent luthier. He made the guitar I play now. So him a few weeks ago and he was rail thin. He'd always been a little guy, but he was emaciated.
Someone finally decided to make him go to the hospital. Come to find out his neck was full of tumors. They tried surgery. He didn't make it.
Someone finally decided to make him go to the hospital. Come to find out his neck was full of tumors. They tried surgery. He didn't make it.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 12:54 am to Napoleon
We have come a very long way though. 
Posted on 9/3/15 at 12:27 am to PurpleandGold Motown
My aunt who I was close to passed Sunday. It was rough. She fought it so hard. For some reason her doctor took her off Chemo for six months and in that time the cancer spread rapidly. Found out that this was due to insurance cutting it and the doctor not trying to appeal.
After family gave up on that doctor (seriously we have never had a good experience with EJGH) she went to MD Anderson, then started a local treatment, but by now it was too late.
Sunday she said she was "too tired of fighting it to go on" She hours later.
Wake was today.
Her husband just had both legs amputated and could not leave the hospital to attend. Just a couple of days ago it looked like he was getting out.
During the wake he died. Heart just gave out and he more than once mentioned wanting to be with her in heaven. I'm glad he is with her, but my poor cousins lost both parents within four days. That was by far the saddest wake I have ever attended. You are mourning one person and then their spouse hours later. Now it will be two funerals in two days, but at least they will be buried together in the same crypt at the same time.
Going out together is what they wanted.
I loved them and will miss them so much.
Sorry for venting here.
After family gave up on that doctor (seriously we have never had a good experience with EJGH) she went to MD Anderson, then started a local treatment, but by now it was too late.
Sunday she said she was "too tired of fighting it to go on" She hours later.
Wake was today.
Her husband just had both legs amputated and could not leave the hospital to attend. Just a couple of days ago it looked like he was getting out.
During the wake he died. Heart just gave out and he more than once mentioned wanting to be with her in heaven. I'm glad he is with her, but my poor cousins lost both parents within four days. That was by far the saddest wake I have ever attended. You are mourning one person and then their spouse hours later. Now it will be two funerals in two days, but at least they will be buried together in the same crypt at the same time.
Going out together is what they wanted.
I loved them and will miss them so much.
Sorry for venting here.
This post was edited on 9/3/15 at 12:28 am
Posted on 9/3/15 at 12:33 am to Napoleon
Where did you grow up?
I had an aunt that lived on Jacob Drive in Chalmette. Jacob Drive was right next to the Murphy Plant. It was known by its other name, "Cancer Alley".
I had an aunt that lived on Jacob Drive in Chalmette. Jacob Drive was right next to the Murphy Plant. It was known by its other name, "Cancer Alley".
Posted on 9/3/15 at 12:34 am to Napoleon
I'm lucky. Moms is 1 of 12 and dad is 1 of 6, not one of them nor any of their kids have it. You always heard that 1 in 5 shite or whatever and not one of us has been afflicted
Posted on 9/3/15 at 12:38 am to Napoleon
Friend of mine has stage 4 esophageal cancer. They can hold it off for a while with radiation and chemo, but the survival rate is something like 5%.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 12:40 am to Napoleon
Man Napoleon that's rough
Posted on 9/3/15 at 12:41 am to Napoleon
Dad to non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and sister to Bone Cancer (no pics).
Cancer, you a muthafricka.
That's all I got to say about that.
Cancer, you a muthafricka.
That's all I got to say about that.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 12:44 am to Napoleon
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Napoleon
I'm so sorry to read your post. You and your family have my thoughts and prayers.
RIP to your aunt and uncle.
Posted on 9/3/15 at 12:45 am to soccerfüt
My dad survived Colon cancer. My maternal grandma had breast cancer twice (each breast, 20 years apart) her husband had skin cancer a couple of times.
others had tumors removed that were not cancerous.
A good friend just beat breast cancer and got a double mastectomy, and my step kid's pediatrician has cancer as well. (Keep calm and cure Keith)
others had tumors removed that were not cancerous.
A good friend just beat breast cancer and got a double mastectomy, and my step kid's pediatrician has cancer as well. (Keep calm and cure Keith)
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