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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: colmbo on February 24, 2017, 03:06:57 PM
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Forgive me a short soapbox rant.
We just lost ET to cancer. I imagine all of you know someone who has suffered from this disease. I just found out I'm starting my 3rd encounter with a malignancy -- it seems my throat cancer has metastasized to the lung. Very early but it looks treatable.
Now for the rant.
Trust me when I say you do not want throat cancer. The treatment kicks your tail, let alone what the disease does. If your are still smoking, chewing, drinking to excess or engaging in other activity that increases your chance of cancer you are being stupid and you are gambling with your life and your financial future. My radiation treatments alone cost $250,000...I'm lucky in that I have great health insurance without which I would be sunk.
Stop smoking, stop chewing, get a routine checkup, get the colonoscopy, pay attention to the little bumps and lumps.
You don't want to follow down the path of a cancer victim.
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Amen Brother!
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Hang in there Colombo. Best wishes.
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I'm sorry to hear of your illness. I lost my mother and her father to cancer. Having watched them die I wouldn't wish cancer on my worst enemy.
I must disagree with you on one thing though: You're not lucky you have great health insurance. Unless someone else has provided you with the insurance it is not the result of luck, but the result of you having acted like a responsible adult. I'm sure you have forsaken a great many luxuries to secure your medical and economical future.
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Columbo,sorry to hear that, :salute sending positive vibrations and prayers :pray!
Same here i lost my mother to cancer; I did quit smoking after one of my best friends was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014. I've been into yoga for years, more the spiritual practices than diet, but i strongly believe vegan diet can cure any diseases;
I watched this videos last week on the other forum; Turmeric , ginger and cannabis oil seems to help. I added first 2 into my diet few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqj6EqjSWW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAs7U9FoIYs\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hUoyXKf81c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Key5eGc5M
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Columbo, thanks for speaking out about this. :salute
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I'm sorry to hear that brother, but you've kicked it twice, you'll kill the bastard again this time!
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I've lost friends and family to cancer. Columbo I'm hoping you get the very best results from your treatment. :pray
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Yeah they really gotta figure this out. Too many people get zapped by this out of nowhere. About to lose a good friend and mentor that never saw it coming.
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ET is really gone? Dangit man, I really liked that old man.
:salute Colmbo, thanks for letting me know. Hope you fare well in this skirmish as well compared to your last ones
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Very sorry about your situation colmbo!
I wholehardedly wish you all the best.
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Cancer sucks, but it can be beat. Sure makes the world a small place. Hang in there and stay positive. Knee mail on the way.
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<bleep> cancer.
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Hey Colmbo, sorry to hear you're still dealing with that.
I'm 14 months removed from 9 weeks of radiation and chemotherapy on my larynx and can attest that the treatment sucks.
I now see the ENT Dr and the medical oncologist each every three months. So far so good. Four years to go before they give me a clean bill of health.
The funny thing is given the effects of radiation on your throat I thought it would force me to quit smoking. Nope. Smoked through the entire treatment and still do. 45 year old habits die hard.
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Colmbo, my best wishes to you and hoping for a good recovery. <S>!
It is also very good of you to post your recommendation to the community.
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The funny thing is given the effects of radiation on your throat I thought it would force me to quit smoking. Nope. Smoked through the entire treatment and still do. 45 year old habits die hard.
This is not an attack on you, please don't take it in that way.
This flabbergasts me. I have no doubt that you are an intelligent person. There is so much information available about the harmful effects of smoking and the increased risk of cancer from smoking, and you have personal experience with the evil of cancer and cancer treatments yet you continue to smoke. There is much support and help to quit smoking. I too was a smoker for about 15 years, I quit in '87. I just decided one day I was done, smoked the last two in my last pack and haven't smoked since then. You can quit. Why do people continue to smoke?
For you guys that don't know, the treatment for cancer is almost as bad as the cancer itself. :O I had a tumor in my right tonsil. I received 33 radiation treatments - once a day, 5 days a week for 6 1/2 weeks. I also had two chemo treatments 21 days apart that started on the same day as the first rad treatment. The chemo is a poison injected into your vein. I had nausea, my kidneys had decreased function, my red and white blood cells were dramatically reduced (enough that I was admitted to the hospital for 3 days) which increases risk of infection/illness, I had some hearing loss and still have tinitus. The radiation burns the tissues inside the mouth and throat. The tongue and mouth were very painful. I was unable to eat or drink and had a tube put into my stomach. I lost 34 pounds. For about a month I didn't use my mouth...now I have reduced range of motion and pain in the jaw. Before the radiation treatment started all of my molars were extracted. This is done to prevent future issues. The radiation damages the bone and reduces blood flow to the area, if a tooth should become impacted there is great risk of infection in the jaw bone with resultant loss of the jaw bone. I lost all sense of taste and in fact everything, including water, tasted bad. Even now 8 months post treatment things still do not taste the same. Some things are "ok" but nothing is like before, now eating is simply nourishment, it isn't something enjoyable. The radiation damage to the salivary glands means I will forever have a dry mouth so now I carry a water bottle and mouth moisturizer everywhere I go. Cancer is forever.
I wish you luck bald eagle.
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Best wishes Colombo. A good attitude and fighting spirit is important in order to get through this. You seem to have got that covered.
:salute
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Good of you to use yourself as a warning to everyone. Tough story to read. Out thoughts are with you.
Quitting smoking is the best thing I have ever done. Not easy but well worth the effort.
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Hang tough Colombo! I've never smoked but, after a major cardiac event three years ago, I learned in rehab that every time someone lights up a cigarette, their chances of a cardiac attack increases TEN FOLD. Smoking is a proven killer.
By the way, talked with ET Thursday evening. Unless something has happened since then, he's still hanging tough.
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Hang in there columbo, I'm expecting you to beat this again and looking forward to more insightful post from you on this forum! :salute
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Colmbo, god speed in your recovery. Keep a positive attitude and beat this crap.
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:salute
Godspeed, keep fighting.
:rock
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Take care Columbo.
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Dammit. I don't keep up with anything, anymore. I didn't see ET's update and I surely wish the best for you, Colmbo. I hope ET's son can join this fine community. :salute
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Forgive me a short soapbox rant.
We just lost ET to cancer. I imagine all of you know someone who has suffered from this disease. I just found out I'm starting my 3rd encounter with a malignancy -- it seems my throat cancer has metastasized to the lung. Very early but it looks treatable.
Now for the rant.
Trust me when I say you do not want throat cancer. The treatment kicks your tail, let alone what the disease does. If your are still smoking, chewing, drinking to excess or engaging in other activity that increases your chance of cancer you are being stupid and you are gambling with your life and your financial future. My radiation treatments alone cost $250,000...I'm lucky in that I have great health insurance without which I would be sunk.
Stop smoking, stop chewing, get a routine checkup, get the colonoscopy, pay attention to the little bumps and lumps.
You don't want to follow down the path of a cancer victim.
Ya ... I have a brother in-law with testicular/prostate cancer. I smoked for 46 yrs before the strokes. I didn't quit
on purpose but I did spend 2-3 mos in hospital and rehap. By the time I got out, I really didn't have to smoke.
I certainly don't recommend strokes to quit smoking and I'm really don't harp on those that do but this is good advice :aok
Good luck with the big C