re: Imagine being a cancer patient

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Reading that it sounds like it was in Seattle in the first big wave. Or that those people just had crappy health care providers.

In addition to the cancer treatments I mentioned earlier, I know someone in my immediate family that has had inpatient stay for persistent abdominal pain and scheduled a colonoscopy during this.

I had 39 straight days of radiation treatment at Mary Bird Perkins for prostate cancer. For those 39 straight days, I sat in the middle of a waiting room full of miserable, suffering people with just about every form of cancer. My radiation therapists were seeing 60-65 patients a day & each & every time one came into the waiting room, she was smiling & making comforting small talk with each patient. Hugs were common. The radiologist's nurse told me that they had to be "on" all day, non stop. Even with those patients with little chance beyond mabe a few more yrs. That mental drain has to be unimaginable. I found all my therapists to be extremely professional, but more importantly, very special people. For any cancer medical professional to be called an attention whore shows incredible ignorance . When it comes time to ring that Victory Bell, signaling the end of treatment, surrounded by staff & patient / family.there is not a dry eye in the crowd.

That victory bell is something I’ll never forget. I relapsed at 13 and had to do inpatient treatment again (not as bad as the first wave) but boy, did it feel good to beat cancer! 39 days of radiation? damn.

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Lol. Let’s compare jobs, salaries, and net worth.

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K. What ya got?

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Imagine being a cancer patient
The 39 days of radiation for prostate cancer is nowhere near as bad as the other common forms. Basically you walk in, drop your pants, climb on the table & 30 minutes later you are done.For me, very little side effects, the main one being fatigue, which lasted several mths post treatment. No infection, no burns, no bladder issues. Now, another gentleman had cancer of the nose. He had to wear a special mask,to protect his face, & he told me one day his radiation treatment was like sticking his head in a bar bq pit. His therapists were 3 of the sweetest, most caring medical professionals I have ever seen. Mary Bird Perkins is the best, my book.

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I heard Mary Perkins was dynamite. I was at Cincinnati Children's when I had both episodes. They were good to me, but in both cases, my treatments were completely inpatient (staying for entire treatment) because of my medical history, and wanted to prevent infections or pneumonia, but I got both anyway. Chemo is no joke. About prostate cancer, a guy at my church was diagnosed with it, and four weeks later, he was gone. My health is pretty good now, but I don't know if I can go through another set of Chemo rounds. Leukemia usually doesn't have radiation unless it spreads to the brain or lymph nodes. I had a few lymph nodes infected, so I had a few rounds (not 39, though). The surgery to have the lymph nodes removed = brutal.

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My treatments have stayed on schedule, so far

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That's good. How much more you got left?