I'm really sorry to hear this. Good luck Teriba. Cancer is something awful to deal with.
I was surprised to learn that there's an 80% survival rate, since it's spread to your liver. That's good news I guess.
Be strong. It's not going to be easy, but do talk a lot about any problems or fears you have with other people. Letting this out and not keeping your worries to yourself helps a lot. I lost my mother to cancer when I was 14. To this day I still am thankful for the open way in which we dealt with the whole process.
teriba had cancer :/
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I was reading your blog just now and saw this:
The same thing happened to me thinking that they would just give me a later date, but the doctor said to lay down for a needle biopsy. I was plenty freaked out by that but some how it didn't phase me much. He then left the office with the sample he got and came back and said it was cancer. The guy was a dumb ass. He didn't even bother to tell me the survival rates or anything. Instead he just sent me on home, and to be honest I was going to park my car on the rail road tracks. But I gave it all a chance and my oncologist gave me all the facts and everything was a hell of alot better.
On another note (and I'm sure your oncoligist told you by now) you need to become a loner. The more people you see, the greater risk of getting sick, and as a cancer patient that can kill you. Find yourself a good MMORG to play and limit your visits to next to none. My mom was nice enough to shop for me and she followed everything my huge ass binder of info said. As hard as it may be, your girlfriend can be the death of you. Don't allow her to come over unless you are full of white blood cells (or anyone for that matter). You can still see people but for your own sake, limit them. Let them know that if they feel sick in the slightest way, they should avoid you at all cost. Even after they are done being sick they should wait a good month to see you.
Kinda weird really now that I think about it. I was having all this going on to me in 2001 in the same month as you. They diagnosed me on sept. 7 2001, but kinda knew on my own before hand. Then 9-11 happened and my treatments where held off since the airplanes where grounded, along with my treatments.
Dr. Gillis is my new ear, nose and throat specialist and I arrive to hear the results of the ultrasound. He says that they saw the lump and that he needed a sample from it to figure out what it is. I say great, thinking it will happen another day, and am ready to leave when he starts pullling out needles. I don't like needles and I've already had more than enough for the year, just this last week, so this doesn't make me very happy. He inserts the first needle to freeze the area, then proceeds to insert a second needle into the lump. He pumps the plunger in and out as I become more and more dizzy. After this he tells me he needs to do it twice more. On the third time all I remember is dreaming and woke up with a cold towel on my neck and forehead. I'm feeling weak and shaky from passing out, so I don't end up getting into work.
The same thing happened to me thinking that they would just give me a later date, but the doctor said to lay down for a needle biopsy. I was plenty freaked out by that but some how it didn't phase me much. He then left the office with the sample he got and came back and said it was cancer. The guy was a dumb ass. He didn't even bother to tell me the survival rates or anything. Instead he just sent me on home, and to be honest I was going to park my car on the rail road tracks. But I gave it all a chance and my oncologist gave me all the facts and everything was a hell of alot better.
On another note (and I'm sure your oncoligist told you by now) you need to become a loner. The more people you see, the greater risk of getting sick, and as a cancer patient that can kill you. Find yourself a good MMORG to play and limit your visits to next to none. My mom was nice enough to shop for me and she followed everything my huge ass binder of info said. As hard as it may be, your girlfriend can be the death of you. Don't allow her to come over unless you are full of white blood cells (or anyone for that matter). You can still see people but for your own sake, limit them. Let them know that if they feel sick in the slightest way, they should avoid you at all cost. Even after they are done being sick they should wait a good month to see you.
Kinda weird really now that I think about it. I was having all this going on to me in 2001 in the same month as you. They diagnosed me on sept. 7 2001, but kinda knew on my own before hand. Then 9-11 happened and my treatments where held off since the airplanes where grounded, along with my treatments.
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Staging for lymphoma is anatomical - both sides of the diaphragm, that sort of thing. Also, pretty much everything posted in this thread other than what teriba and pooinyourmouth have said about lymphoma is wrong, just so you guys know.shiznit wrote:I’m wondering why they didn’t find out what stage it was in with your first blood tests or did they need the bone marrow stuff to find that out?
Good luck, teriba.
this is q3w, you don't need to let a lack of knowledge about a subject get in the way.Zyte wrote:I cannot give you advice how to deal with something like this cause i can't even imagine what you must be going through.
Hold on & gl.
teriba, you need to drink lots and lots of orange juice and start smoking menthols. gl btw
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thats pure shit.
GL
i was diagnosed with cancer at 16. and fucking luckily a few days later, i was told they had fucked up and i had something far less serious (that still results in major surgery, me in a wheelchair for a while and not able to walk for 18 months.)
still being alive right now is all i give a fuck about, i hope you are here posting here in a few years time, able to say the same.
GL
i was diagnosed with cancer at 16. and fucking luckily a few days later, i was told they had fucked up and i had something far less serious (that still results in major surgery, me in a wheelchair for a while and not able to walk for 18 months.)
still being alive right now is all i give a fuck about, i hope you are here posting here in a few years time, able to say the same.
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The biggest I've printed so far is 20x30. I could definitely print bigger but I'll have to scope out prices at the lab first.-Replicant- wrote:I know you're obviously busy with other things, but is there any way to get prints larger than that? I'd really love some huge prints for my wall, and you have some fantastic photos. if the 20x30 is the max in terms of your MPs, then I'd obviously understand...
edit: or rather, could you just tell me how to purchase the max sized print possible from you? on the site, you only have 8x12 as the largest IIRC
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