Well this is a bit ******

DXP55 said:
Now I know why my tests stopped coming - _ I am over 74.

Dod - best of luck for the future.
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So you get to 74...and suddenly you're not worth it anymore?

Figures, sometime in the future you'll get shipped off to the Carousel for Soylent Green processing.
 
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Day 2 post op always seems to be a downer for various reasons. Well done for acting on the screening.
 
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Speedy recovery op...

I had my first poop test through this year...all clear....i did have some polyps removed several months ago during a colonoscopy. I am 60.

Waiting for an Endoscopy (8 months and counting) as tummy not good...

As you get older these things happen! Peeing is on and off etc. Urine test came back all ok though...
 
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I had one come through the door during my kidney cancer treatment, not the best timing broke down and cried when it came back clear. But now have colitis due to the treatment. All you can do is laugh!
 
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My dad died of bowel cancer at 72 which is weird because he was a 40-a-day smoker which would have normally meant lung cancer instead. He was skinny as a rake.

My nan cheated as she was also 40-a-day but made it to 92. Same side of the family as Dad, as she was Dad's mum.

That's a harrowing story from you @dod and it's damn unlucky if you're in the top 1% for health. With me being very overweight, it should be me getting bowel cancer, not you.
 
Best luck with the recovery, by the sounds of it the docs did pretty well and they didn't hang around and neither did you.
 
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Quick update for anyone who might be interested.

Today was my first day of chemo, I was bricking it before I went in. The reality wasn’t nearly as bad as I imagined. The process took about four hours in total.

There are eight cycles in total. Each cycle lasts three weeks, two with treatment and a rest week. The first four cycles are an infusion on day 1 followed by tablets for fourteen. The last four are tablet only.

Got steroids and anti sickness tablets to take for the next few days along with the treatment and just need to wait and see if there are any other side effects.

I’ve got fairly strong pins and needles in the arm they used to do the infusion, apparently this is common. It’s a bit uncomfortable but if that’s the worst I’ll cope fine with it :)

NHS again has been exceptional. Staff are amazing but you can see they’re working despite the environment. Some bits of the building are crumbling, one of the treatment rooms was leaking. It changes your perspective on what we should be spending our tax money on. It’s a service (NHS, not cancer specifically) we’ll all need at some time
 
<Dubz> said:
Glad to hear your doing well, Have you got much hair to loose or won't it come to that?
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I’m learning loads of stuff, the process is absolutely fascinating and I think the nurses are starting to think I need to shut up :cry:

All chemo is not the same apparently. What I’m getting is not likely to cause full hair loss, there might be some thinning but even that’s unusual. Probably just as well as I broke my head a few years ago and there’s lumps and dents from the bone grafts they did :rolleyes:
 
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dod said:
I’m learning loads of stuff, the process is absolutely fascinating and I think the nurses are starting to think I need to shut up :cry:

All chemo is not the same apparently. What I’m getting is not likely to cause full hair loss, there might be some thinning but even that’s unusual. Probably just as well as I broke my head a few years ago and there’s lumps and dents from the bone grafts they did :rolleyes:
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IC3 said:
I'm going to test drive an M2, M3 F80 and M4 in April, going to see how they compare. I wrote down all the advantages and disadvantages and was left with these 3.
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I missed your link in my previous thread, and I can't work out how to remove the M2 reference (derp). Chemo wasn't as bad as people said it would be, but it also utterly ****ing ruined me in ways that I couldn't quite get on top of. I don't know all the methods but I had to have a chemo pump for 2 days, and it was so in the way. It also changed my mood, seemed to make me short tempered, and everything became hard. I didn't experience hair loss either, until I did. 3 months of chemo and my hair survived, last two weeks I looked like a shaved badger. It wasn't my 'head' hair that seemed to bother people, the double looks were a lack of eye brows and stuff.

Anyway, I've missed your journey, and I'm going to read it in more depth now.
 
MacRS4 said:
I missed your link in my previous thread, and I can't work out how to remove the M2 reference (derp). Chemo wasn't as bad as people said it would be, but it also utterly ****ing ruined me in ways that I couldn't quite get on top of. I don't know all the methods but I had to have a chemo pump for 2 days, and it was so in the way. It also changed my mood, seemed to make me short tempered, and everything became hard. I didn't experience hair loss either, until I did. 3 months of chemo and my hair survived, last two weeks I looked like a shaved badger. It wasn't my 'head' hair that seemed to bother people, the double looks were a lack of eye brows and stuff.

Anyway, I've missed your journey, and I'm going to read it in more depth now.
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My chemo is reasonably straight forward.

Eight cycles of three weeks each. Day 1 is the infusion of oxaliplatin. Then 14 days of capecitabine tablets. Then a week off. Four cycles of that and then four of the tablets only. So, six months in total. A bit like you though they don't think it's spread beyond a few lymph glands which they removed and it's regarded as adjunctive, hopefully just mopping up anything that might have broken away

I get what you say about it not being as bad as you expect but the infusion is the worst for me. I'm left with very aggressive pins and needles for the first week or so but they gradually wear off over the three weeks. Cold really affects them and when I came out last time it was frosty. My whole face froze up, pins and needles on my nose and ears, I couldn't focus and breathing left me feeling like my throat was being closed off. They'd warned me that it could happen so I was able to deal with it but still a very weird experience.

I also relate to the moods etc. I'm trying to negotiate my way out of my business to retire just now (I now realise how short life really is) and it's not great, I'm easily triggered but also forget things, . Doesn't help that my business partner hasn't exactly been genuinely empathetic. C'est la vie.

Liking the decisions re the M2/3/4. I've always fancied a boxster or cayman so I might go down that route :) I'll wait until I've had my 6 month scans to give me reassurance/confidence that I'll get more than the summer out of it :p
 
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