Cancer sucks

[Collarpurple]

I hate Cancer!!!! I just needed to yell this

Thanks for letting me

[Shooter1]

You are right, but we just keep on keeping on. Had elective surgeries May 1 and May 2 to continue my 10 year plan. Cancer treatments continue, but so does life. Right now I am enjoying benefits of those surgeries and keeping on.

[Hidden in reply to Shooter1]

I agree. We only really have control over how we deal with it. We have to try to squeeze whatever life we can out the situation. That's a big challenge, I realize. Keep on keepin on brother!

[Hidden]

Cancer sucks. I'll second that.

[whatsinaname in reply to Hidden]

Cancer sucks BIG TIME. 14 months back, I was a normal human being.

Now, in just 14 months I am obliged to put NUCLEAR stuff (Lu-177) in my body, having failed ADT, radiation therapy, chemo therapy.

However, I don't let it get me down. I'll FIGHT it as long as I can. With a smile and as much humor as I can muster.

You win some, you lose some.

Cheers, Guys.

[Hidden in reply to whatsinaname]

Nuclear medicine.. ? Reminds me of that Tom Petty song ....I won’t back down ... Hope that lucky 177 is a fix for you ..win or lose ,isn’t it really about how we play the game? I’m so impressed with what you’ve already undertaken -still smiling . Life and death is way above my pay grade ... I’m just a flea on the back of the dog . Hanging on , trying not to fall off. Everything is perspective ...14 months ago you were normal human being . Nothing normal about APC or treatments ...for me either ,with four years in last month . I’m skating on ice now..not knowing when or if it’s going to melt . I pray for miracles every day . These fine folks want to save you with this new treatment ... Let it be.. You have my prayers ....

[whatsinaname in reply to Hidden]

Thank you, Lulu700.

[Hidden in reply to whatsinaname]

No , thank you ..

[SeosamhM in reply to whatsinaname]

Again, Whatsin? In another post you take away my ability to blame the world, and now you threaten my self-pity?? .... Cheers, brother....I'm pulling for you! - Joe M

[whatsinaname in reply to SeosamhM]

Keep up the great humor, Joe

Thank you and all the very best.

Carlos.

[RalphieJr64 in reply to whatsinaname]

Sorry, no smiles for me.

[whatsinaname in reply to RalphieJr64]

I understand.....no hassles.

[Collarpurple in reply to whatsinaname]

I hate being in this group but I love the people here.

[whatsinaname in reply to Collarpurple]

Yeah, I know.....but, as we say in India.....what to do, life is like that only

Cheers, Collarpurple !!

[SeosamhM]

And THAT, Purp, about sums it up!

Sincerely, thanks for this straightforward and heartfelt post! - Joe M

[dmt1121]

No advise or clinical trial info from me. Cancer does suck!!!! Ahhhhh...much better. Thanks.

[Kaliber]

hey !!! ..... I just love my little pencil necked, yellow bellied, carpusle sucking little buddies. and they love me. I can tell because they eat so much of me. clearly I'm their favorite flavor ( not everybody can say that ) . we are close all the time ... they hang around and never desert me.

[Hidden in reply to Kaliber]

Friends for life..

[Kaliber in reply to Hidden]

well that gets a laugh out of me. we'll definitely stick together til the end. I guess reverse psychology really won't have much effect on them ..... then I'm think'in how about some grand rationalization ? what the heck ? I thought well it could be worse ... I could have ALS ..... thats worse ....... right ?? ( ha ) and there lies the double edge conundrum. absolutely all of us here wants to live a little longer, lots longer if we had anything to say about it ........ then again it's all that much longer to sit and experience our ( hopefully ) slow motion death spiral as well. DANG !!! ....... ya ah ayahay ahay aha a yep ........... collarpurple is absolutely right !!!! longer is better tho, we all still have some hope of what the future research - advances will bring. thats a good thing. I'm going to go take my morning pills , make some toast and coffee and go sit in the Jacuzzi for 3 hours .... screw ALL of this. we got this , Debbie Downer don live here !!!!

[dadzone43]

Yup.

[larry_dammit]

Yep. At 65 everyone thought I was 50 ish. Doctors were amazed the shape I was in. Heart, plaque,everything was great. Then this monster attacked. Can’t put in words how much I hate this monster. But I’m not giving up. Still planning ahead. Fight the monster 🙏🙏🙏

[Hidden in reply to larry_dammit]

The docs tell me . Besides the pc you’re in great shape . I’m shattered , shadoobie ,

[larry_dammit in reply to Hidden]

Yep two weeks before the diagnosis I did a 6 mile hike in the mountains. Hate this monster 😡😡

[DrWrite]

Thought you might want to get one of these for YOUR car. Not sure if photo will come through. If it doesn't, e-mail me at [e-mail] and I'll send it privately (or as privately as possible these days.

[Scorpio99]

I concur and sympathize! All I can say is that on your last day of treatment when you are declared "cancer free" its the best feeling you'll have in your entire life. Hang in there!

[j-o-h-n]

Cancer SUCKS big time, small time, some time and all the time....

Note: see my prior post. Thank you.

The last words I would like to hear when I'm lying in my casket is:

LOOK, HE'S MOVING!!!"

Good luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 04/27/2019 12:37 PM EDT

[Stegosaurus37]

Agreed, cancer sucks. And we all wish we weren't eligible for this group. But instead of focusing on all the rottenness that's happening to you now, try to recall all the happy times that you've had. I feel I'm very lucky. I could have been a fireball over Hanoi or smashed against the karst in Laos. A lot of my friends were. Instead I've had 50 more years of some wonderful adventures and great times, the last 30 of them with The Most Wonderful Woman in the World to share them with me. If I've got a bad patch now, I still have been truly blessed and I'm grateful for it.

Hang in there; attitude is everything and all your friends here are with you all the way.

[Hidden in reply to Stegosaurus37]

Wow Stego , those are a poetic verses amigo. You are solid ... thanks

[Collarpurple]

Thank you

[Hidden]

Cancer is friend to no one .

[harryb48]

Days I have to wonder what is worse, the disease or the cure.