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Posted on 3/15/14 at 7:11 pm to DynastyDawg
Posted on 3/15/14 at 7:11 pm to DynastyDawg
^We went through the same last year with the SO's dad who was like a father to me. We were told he had a great chance but he died before he could start treatment. I still don't understand why or how it could go from 'treatable' to dead before he was healed enough to take chemo.
Doctors are usually conservative about the time they give - they don't like getting people's hopes up and would rather tell you that there's no time than get it so wrong and so we believed them and were totally unprepared for what happened. I don't know if they messed up or if it's just that cancers can and sometimes do turn out to be so damned unpredictable.
Doctors are usually conservative about the time they give - they don't like getting people's hopes up and would rather tell you that there's no time than get it so wrong and so we believed them and were totally unprepared for what happened. I don't know if they messed up or if it's just that cancers can and sometimes do turn out to be so damned unpredictable.
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Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:28 pm to Prof
It does suck. I am 43 and have had Stage IV lymphoma twice sine early 2011. After it relapsed in 2012, my 2 nod round of treatment was much rougher than the first which was just 5 months of chemo. The 2nd round was 4 months of chemo and radiation culminating in a full week of high dose chemo and total body irradiation .....and a stem cell transplant. Have been in remission since February of 2013 and hope to stay that way.
Even if I do dodge it ever relapsing, it has changed my body to the core. Right leg is almost useless because of the nerve damage I suffered from a 14 cm tumor wrapped around my lower spine. Lower back pain. And a combover where I once had hair as thick as a bear on my head.
But, I am alive and with my wife and children(aged 14,12,8, and 3) and thank God every day I have with them.
Even if I do dodge it ever relapsing, it has changed my body to the core. Right leg is almost useless because of the nerve damage I suffered from a 14 cm tumor wrapped around my lower spine. Lower back pain. And a combover where I once had hair as thick as a bear on my head.
But, I am alive and with my wife and children(aged 14,12,8, and 3) and thank God every day I have with them.
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