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Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 10:20:32 AM
Wish me luck fellows.  Fixing to go get a chunk of my shoulder cut out.  With a larger "surgery" that will happen hopefuly before the con depending upon finances (gotta hate that detuctable).

I've had a week to think about it and here am 1 hr away and now I start getting nervous :rolleyes:   I sure hope it's not melanoma.....
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Ripsnort on June 24, 2002, 10:24:39 AM
Don't sweat it Udie.  These types of operations are common practice and in the old days, they would have diagnosed them "too late"...your very fortunate to be living in times like today regarding medicine....

Good luck!
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Post by: RRAM on June 24, 2002, 10:27:42 AM
I'm sure you'll be fine, Udie :). Good luck!
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 10:28:34 AM
funny part is that I'm not worried about the big "C" word. I'm scared at how bad losing a chunk of shoulder will hurt after lunch, when the numbing stops.... :eek:
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: midnight Target on June 24, 2002, 10:33:30 AM
John Wayne got shot in the shoulder all the time... Ya wimp!


Hope all is well
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Post by: AKSWulfe on June 24, 2002, 10:35:21 AM
They gots some pretty strong pain killers these days.
-SW
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Post by: Nifty on June 24, 2002, 10:37:05 AM
tell them you're a big wuss and need mucho pain killers for after the fact.  Mepregin Fortis (spelling?) is my favorite.  It's basically the same stuff that's in morphine, yet in pill form.  :D   Tho it does have the side effect of slowing down your body's systems...  :eek:
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Post by: Curval on June 24, 2002, 10:42:24 AM
How much of a "chunk" are we talking here?

I had a chunck taken off my back a few months ago - and it wasn't cancerous btw - and I was back to work a few minutes later.  Not only did they cut...but the doc also cauterised it, which hurt even though I was all numbed up.  But, honestly it didn't hurt that much once all the numbing went away.

"Take the pain....TAKE THE PAIN"  (Platoon)
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: hawk220 on June 24, 2002, 10:47:07 AM
zactly what his snort-ness said..had you been born in any other time, things would be much bleaker.. but med science today is amazing and things that we think are scary and freaky are pretty routine.


good luck and quick recovery!
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 12:24:05 PM
hehe well here I am back at work waiting for the pain.  They didn't take a big chunk but it was a cool little cross section of my Dermis :)   On it you can see skin surrounding that big black mass of a mole the rest is red meat :eek:

 The cool part : I got some stitches :D


 The worst part:  was the sound!  That sounded freakin gross man!  I could hear her twisting the little "punch biopsy" tool through my skin!!!  Then I could hear her cut it out! Then I could hear her put the stitches in.  All of it!

 Now the worry of wether or not it's melanoma, God please don't let it be!!!! Then they have to go take a BIG chunk out if it is.....

 Funny fealing knowing a little part of me is floating in a jar of phameldahide (sp?)  Let's just hope and pray that it's a LOOONG time before the rest of me is full of embalming fluid ;)
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Curval on June 24, 2002, 12:29:28 PM
How come they didn't remove the mole man?

I would have told them to take the whole friggin thing off - and be done with it.  Assuming that it isn't melonoma (which I very much doubt it is) have they left you with half a mole?  That sucks!
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: hardcase on June 24, 2002, 12:35:31 PM
Udie, screw the deductible, it's your life you are working on.  Let em reposess you. Why you waited a week,  you should have you bellybutton kicked. Percocets and Dimerol, and pilled Morphine are always good:-) The hardest part is waiting the 3 days for the biopsy report. Once you know either way, you can act and control of ones life is always good. Not being religious, I still find myself saying a little, ..."let the good guys win this one" . Medicine has come soooo far, you will not believe it. Keep me/us posted. Chemo kicked my bellybutton this weekend, but one more session then I get a 15 days break.


Big chunk of sholder..big chunk of Colon..trade with ya;-)


hardcase
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 01:03:10 PM
Hard,

 Well I'm not gonna say where my next surgery is!!!! :eek:  Got your bellybutton beat though  ;)  This was too small a cut for me to justify asking for pilled morphine, but I'm thinkin of any excuse I can to get some of that stuff!!! :D  Glad to see that you're pulling through Hard :)


 Curval,

 She took the whole mole :)  But she said that if it is cancer that they always go back and take alot more tissue out :(  I looked at the biopsy though and could see a thin ring of good skin around the mole.

 Got my fingers crossed on all the rest.
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Post by: Otto on June 24, 2002, 01:29:05 PM
Good luck Udie..   and a speedy recovery.

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Post by: Wanker on June 24, 2002, 01:56:07 PM
Got my fingers crossed for ya, Udie. I'm sure it'll be ok.

Got my fingers crossed for you, too, Hard.  
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Post by: Tac on June 24, 2002, 01:57:11 PM
Cool Udie. Chicks dig scars!

Oh wait.. you already married? *grin*
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Post by: Elfenwolf on June 24, 2002, 02:00:24 PM
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Originally posted by Udie


 Funny fealing knowing a little part of me is floating in a jar of phameldahide (sp?)  Let's just hope and pray that it's a LOOONG time before the rest of me is full of embalming fluid ;)


Actually Udie only a tiny chunk of your mole is saved for testing. The rest is dumped down a storm drain somewhere where it will empty into a lake and make a nice meal for a hungry bass. Man I love the irony :)

BTW, good luck on your test.
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 02:01:38 PM
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Originally posted by Tac
Cool Udie. Chicks dig scars!

Oh wait.. you already married? *grin*


 
 Im not married WHEW!:eek: yet.....

 Stitches are cool, except getting them put in or taken out!  

Chicks dig scars?  How about big hairy emotional scars? ;)
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Dowding on June 24, 2002, 02:19:56 PM
Good luck Udie, hope it goes ok. :)
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Swoop on June 24, 2002, 02:32:36 PM
Woah!  What a time to jump into a thread.  :(


Ruddy Nora Udie!  Hope yr ok man.

(http://www.boomspeed.com/swoop/logo_small.jpg)
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 02:40:54 PM
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Originally posted by Swoop
Woah!  What a time to jump into a thread.  :(


Ruddy Nora Udie!  Hope yr ok man.

(http://www.boomspeed.com/swoop/logo_small.jpg)




 Everything is kewl.  I don't think it's melenoma but ya never know.  If you guys knew what I had looming in front of me you'd be scared for me.  But it's a bit too private to talk about here ;)  Not much of a chance of "it" being malignant, it's just the location that bites!  That should be enough to figure it out, but I don't want to talk about that one.  I just hope I can do it before the con.....
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: pimpjoe on June 24, 2002, 02:44:17 PM
ewedie's gonna get his wiener under the knife!!!:eek: :eek: :eek: :(
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Post by: pimpjoe on June 24, 2002, 02:53:21 PM
stupid internet...:mad:
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Kanth on June 24, 2002, 03:06:48 PM
If they try to give you Vicadin ask for something else..

that stuff is heinous.

DmdKanth
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: hardcase on June 24, 2002, 03:11:51 PM
Vicadin..is OxyCodone Hydro Chloride...same as Percocets..both contain Acetomenophene. Percodans contain aspirin. Vicadin come in 5 and 7.5 mg Percs stanadard is 5 mg

What was so bad for you on Vicadin? Oxycodone will constipate you tho. It slows down the digestive process.

OxyCotin is Oxycondone HCL in 40mg dose..one pill per day time released...amazinhunk teens crush em and snort em and get the equivalent of 8 percocets.

hardcase
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Post by: Curval on June 24, 2002, 03:20:12 PM
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Originally posted by hardcase
Percodans contain aspirin.


Please don't mention Percodan...my stomach turns at the mere mention.

This results from a teenage incident in which I took a few too many...resulting in a few friends referring to me as "The Percodan Kid"  

Whatever you do...don't drink or smoke anything when on these things.
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Makofan on June 24, 2002, 03:22:55 PM
good luck Udie
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 03:26:22 PM
Well I've had that worthless crap of a "pain killer" Vicodine a couple of times.  I tell them now don't even bother I'll take Ibuprophen works like a charm! but no buzz! :(  

 My favorite would be the "cocktail" they gave me when I had and upper gastroendoscope thingy a few years ago.  I.V.  demerol, they let that "simmer" for about 20 minutes ;) then they hit me with valium in the same I.V.  :eek:  :eek:  :eek:  wowzers!  they said I wouldn't remember a thing, but they were wrong.

 Imagine this :)  The old udster laying on the gerny (sp?) naked under the bed spread, nervous as all get up.  Then they (the 2 HOT nurses) hit me with the drugs.  Then my big mouth enters the picture!  Those poor ladies, but I sware up and down it was funny to me at the time!  Well that is untill they stuck that damned camera down my throat all the way to my stomach!  I wish I didn't remember that one.  (Note to self ask for more valium next time!)


:D

 Surgical procedures can be fun to talk about :)
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: blitz on June 24, 2002, 03:48:32 PM
I wish you all the luck  needed in this uncomfortable situation, udie. Thumps up.

blitz
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: hardcase on June 24, 2002, 03:55:35 PM
they have a new cocktail out now...dimerol and an amesiac drug..your short term memory is shortcircuited..you remember everything but it doesnt build up over time..they stuck me....they stuck me...they stuck me...you never get a full train of thought to be upset....btw..I had IV dimerol for 12 days 4 times a day straight into my vein under my clavical. Hit my brain about 4 seconds after the injection started...amazing stuff:-)

I really like it!

hardcase
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 04:11:24 PM
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Originally posted by hardcase
they have a new cocktail out now...dimerol and an amesiac drug..your short term memory is shortcircuited..you remember everything but it doesnt build up over time..they stuck me....they stuck me...they stuck me...you never get a full train of thought to be upset....btw..I had IV dimerol for 12 days 4 times a day straight into my vein under my clavical. Hit my brain about 4 seconds after the injection started...amazing stuff:-)

I really like it!

hardcase




 HEHE becareful there old timer!  You don't need that kind of addiction!  When I was 21 I had surgery on my left wrist.  They used dimerol on me then too, only the nurse called it "happy medicine" ;)   Well 10 seconds after shaking I was so scared I started asking the doctor if I could watch the procedure! I was serious too I could have handled it!  He finaly got tired of me pestering him during his "pre-op" so he motioned to the dude at my I.V.  They told me to count backwards from 100,  at 96 or 95 everything went wiggley :D

 The first words out of my mouth when they woke me up?

"May I have some more happy medicine please?" :D :D :D they said no :rolleyes:
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Post by: Saintaw on June 24, 2002, 04:13:18 PM
Good luck guys, speedy recovery :)
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: hardcase on June 24, 2002, 04:25:56 PM
how can i be addicted to dimerol,they did give me 100 percocets last week ..for a month:-)

some really nice "happy medicines" out there!

hardcase
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Kieran on June 24, 2002, 04:27:42 PM
If it makes you feel any better, I had a nodule taken off a 'nad and checked for cancer... I promise you, I'd rather have it coming off my shoulder than my nuts. ;)
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Post by: Hangtime on June 24, 2002, 04:39:56 PM
Gawd red this whole thred and nearly hurled again.

Hope u guys feel better.. and I hope you don't get to listen to yer donut bein stitched.
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 04:41:21 PM
ahhhh you know this O'club is a funny beast.

  I come here when I'm happy and leave angry and pissed off.  


  I come here when I'm a little sad and a bit scared and leave laughing my arse off and happy :)



 Thanks guys!
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Post by: hardcase on June 24, 2002, 04:43:27 PM
That's what buds are for..so how can we piss you off today,sir?:D

hard
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Post by: Udie on June 24, 2002, 04:44:37 PM
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Gawd red this whole thred and nearly hurled again.

Hope u guys feel better.. and I hope you don't get to listen to yer donut bein stitched.





 They WILL put me under for that one.   They'd have too, do you realize how long it will take them to put in all those stitches?  2 or 3 hours at least! :D
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: hardcase on June 24, 2002, 04:48:55 PM
do not get a woodie with stiches..whack off a lot the day before.:D

hard
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Post by: midnight Target on June 24, 2002, 04:58:24 PM
Hehe.... everyone send porn to Udie the day after that next operation!!!!
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Post by: miko2d on June 24, 2002, 04:59:09 PM
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Originally posted by midnight Target
John Wayne got shot in the shoulder all the time... Ya wimp

 But he must have shaved with a straight razor every day...

 miko
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Post by: Curval on June 24, 2002, 05:03:47 PM
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Gawd red this whole thred and nearly hurled again.

Hope u guys feel better.. and I hope you don't get to listen to yer donut bein stitched.


lol..

I'm now waiting for Animal to post a pic..:D

Midnight...lol...cruel and unusual punnishment!
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Post by: easymo on June 24, 2002, 05:21:04 PM
In the words of an old Sargent of mine. " Ya got more parts than you need anyway,kid". Dont sweat it udie.
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Post by: Thrawn on June 24, 2002, 05:48:46 PM
My wife had an operation on her kidney once.  She got a demerol/valium drip.  She asked for a doggie bag, but they wouldn't give her one.:(

Good luck with your dick operation.
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Post by: Kanth on June 24, 2002, 06:38:09 PM
Vicadin makes me extremely naseous, even the smell of food can be extremely uncomfortable.

Didn't take the damn pain away either.

I've spoken to a few other people who've been given vicadin with the same response, extreme nasea.

DmdKanth

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Originally posted by hardcase
Vicadin..is OxyCodone Hydro Chloride...same as Percocets..both contain Acetomenophene. Percodans contain aspirin. Vicadin come in 5 and 7.5 mg Percs stanadard is 5 mg

What was so bad for you on Vicadin? Oxycodone will constipate you tho. It slows down the digestive process.

OxyCotin is Oxycondone HCL in 40mg dose..one pill per day time released...amazinhunk teens crush em and snort em and get the equivalent of 8 percocets.

hardcase
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Post by: Karnak on June 24, 2002, 06:59:40 PM
Hang in there Udie.

My dad had melanoma and he beat it, so even if it is the worst case scenario, you'll win.

Best of luck.
Title: Your skin cancer and you....
Post by: hardcase on June 24, 2002, 07:20:18 PM
Udie, head over to warbirds forum, some guys saying 'luck.

hardcase
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Post by: GRUNHERZ on June 24, 2002, 11:10:59 PM


Good Luck and a quick recovery to you Udie!
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Post by: SirLoin on June 24, 2002, 11:24:13 PM
You get better now Udie..You hear!!!...:D

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Post by: StSanta on June 25, 2002, 02:29:33 AM
Kick bellybutton udie.

And, I'd demand some cool drugs if I were you.

If someone gets to cut in me, my policy is that I get toejameloads of opioids.

:D
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Post by: Ram1 on June 25, 2002, 07:30:04 AM
OOOOOdeeee :)

Hey bud, how you feeling? Long time since we last spoke, hope things are OK, my thoughts and those of the former 901st Immortals and the current 31st Fighter Group are with ya.

Come on over to AGW sometime, many would like to say hello and wish you luck.

Ram1