Hospital Test Results are in - Looks Like I'm in for a Rough Time (page 4)

JeffT

Sorry to hear that and positive thoughts sent your way. Listen to the docs and do what you're told. Keep your spirits up. The will to live is a big factor.

cofty

Thanks everybody, all of your comments are really encouraging to me right now. - LOL at Wobble!

troubled mind - I remember your thread a while ago, I have been wondering how you are getting on. I hope your surgery goes well and the pathology is all good news. Please let us know.

Shanagirl - thanks for the insights, I have a lot to learn. I have read loads about colon cancer and staging etc. Chemo and radio is all new to me and its a bit daunting. My surgeon says he thinks it will be oral chemo I will take at home so perhaps the side effects won't be as bad as some people experience but maybe that is wishful thinking. The intense radio therapy scares me a bit - its dangerously close ot bits of me I don't wanted nuked! I do intend to study it all thoroughly so I feel like I am in control. I don't want my treatment to feel like something that is being done to me if you know what I mean.

I am about to write to my parents about it, it should be interesting. They have had very little contact in the past 15 years apart from the time I went to visit them and pretended like nothing had happened. That caught them on the hop haha. The doc is certain there must be a genetic element as I am relatively young but I am not aware of any cancer in the family. The silver lining in all of this is the fact that my super-spiritual sister is going to have to go and arrange a colonoscopy - I can't wait to tell her :)

sizemik

Sorry to hear you have this to face Cofty . . .

Colon C is in the family. My grandmother had colon surgery at 51 ... she passed away aged 92. My Mum also had surgery at 72 ... she's now 85 and just got back from an overseas holiday. Treatment has never been better than it is today. You have good reasons to be positive.

My thoughts and best wishes to you.

NewChapter

Cofty, a diagnosis of cancer takes a while to set in, and you may find it settling on you in layers. You and I come from a generation where it was the worst possible diagnosis, but things have changed so rapidly it's breathtaking. I have a cancer that was nearly 100% fatal a decade ago. Today, well over 90% survive and the disease has been changed to chronic rather than terminal. That's amazing. Stay strong, and however things go, remember that every day we benefit from new breakthroughs so all situations are optimistic. Be gentle with yourself. You don't have to always be strong for everyone else, and you have a right to freak every now and then. Trust yourself. Trust yourself more than you trust your doctors, and if you feel like something isn't quite working right, say it over and over and over---this has saved my life 3 times, and I'm not being dramatic.

I'm so sorry for your diagnosis. You will never be the same, and most of that is very good. I have much less fear today than I used to have. I have overcome the fear of public speaking and risk taking. I've walked away from a cult. What do I have to fear? I'm fighting cancer successfully. I'm no longer afraid to contact someone I haven't seen since junior high, just because I've thought of them often over the years. I used to think they would think I was nuts, now I don't care. I have reingited many friendships that way.

My illness put me on disability, but I have gone back to school part time and now I can dedicate much more time to writing. I never would have had that without cancer.

Sometimes I become very discouraged by what I have lost---then I remember all that I have gained and I know my life is much fuller now.

Take Care,

NC

straightshooter

Best wishes to you Cofty. A co-worker, who is 55, just had surgery, radiation, and chemo to treat breast cancer. Though she lost her hair, energy, and appetite during the treatments, her hair and stamina and appetite are now returning. You will go through some changes and obsticles, but you will win over this health issue.

LoneWolf

Hi, Cofty!

Yu didn't ask MY permission to come down with that garbage! (Grin)

Tom

ThomasCovenant

Not much to say but best wishes.

Shanagirl

Wow! Some really good words going to you cofty. I too am a breast cancer survivor, stage III, and yet it is not the fatal diagnosis it used to be. When I was going for my chemotherapy infusions they included anti nausea medication with it and although there was no nausea, there was a lot of weakness and bone and body aches like a really bad flu. I acutally thought the chemo was more uncomfortable than the rads. I was so fearful of going to be "nuked" but it was really nothing at all, and all those treating me were wonderful and re-assuring. Just take one day at a time, when I came down with this I thought, where did this come from??? I always ate healthy, lived healthy, no breast cancer in my family, nursed all my babies, and went faithfully for my anual mammagrams, which by the way never caught my 5 cm tumor I found myself. So Cancer, happens and no JW can say to me I got cancer because I left Jehovah. Duh!, I got it just because..... that's it. No one lives forever, and that's what I tell JW;s now,. We all grow old, get sick and die. They hate hearing that because they think they'll live forever on paradise earth

Shana

talesin

Dear cofty,

It's hard to hear this news of you. Yes, it will take lots of strength, especially at certain times. Two of my friends have been through similar experiences in the past year or so, one with Stage 4 Ovarian (all clear now!) and the other with kidney (all clear as well!). As NC says, things are different now -- it's not like when we were growing up.

We are honoured that you shared this with us. Much love and super healing blue energy going out to you.

tal

Mickey mouse

Best wishes Cofty. You've survived the JWs the big C should be a cinch.

MM xx

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