I take 2 hours in the chair, then 2 days with a pump in a fanny pack. It's Folfox, the fanny pack part of it is the 5FU. A buddy of mine where i was doing some contract work told the people there i was so smart I did my own chemo :D so I like to mess with folks and tell them I got this off of chemo4...

Hey Tim, like they say, sorry you have to be here but glad you found us, i'm a few years ahead of you (37) but pretty close to the same dx just a few months ahead of you in the process. I know the feeling of being kicked to the ground with this stuff. People will tell you this and it's the God's hon...

i have to say taking a crap in the back seat of my mother in laws car would actually score a "win" for me, but that's a different deal altogether

So i had my follow up colonoscopy this am, really it was finishing the job from September when the GI doc fuond the first tumor at transverse/descending and couldn't get past it. Anyway, I was all clear!!!!!!!!!! So happy today!

Glad to hear you are there and he is getting some relief.

--Shane

This may or may not help but I had someone give me a hot tip on some scripts to ask my dentist about getting to prevent mouth sores. My dentist is a customer of mine and and he shot it straight to me, 3 steps to prevent mouth sores and infections, no Rx required (see disclaimer below!): 1. During ch...

I panicked before my colectomy, scared of not coming back up. Didn't help that my surgeon looked like a soap opera doctor and I was wondering if he really knew what he was doing. He knew exactly what he was doing and did a fantastic job, hope you have the same results. Will be praying for you tomorr...

Hope you are at the er getting it taken care of, happened to me a few weeks ago with gastroenteritis a day before folfox round 2. When the pain gets away from you and you can't get ahead of it just go to the ER and let them handle it, worked wonders for me, got a nights rest afterwards, learned how ...

I had a good one, thanks for asking, was tired and I'll most of the day from round 3 on Monday but I managed to get a whole plate down and watch a couple of ballgames. Good stuff but hoping for a normal Thnkgiving next year.

Congrats! I have my next one in two weeks,praying for the same result (they never finished the first one due to the blockage by the tumor).

Congrats on the clean scan!!!! Keep em coming! --Shane

dschreffler wrote:Last night, took my wife to movies, walked up to counter and asked for 1 ticket. Turned around and wife said what about me. I'm still in trouble over that one! Harry Potter in iMax was still good though.

Glad you got to enjoy some Arrry Pottah, what did she end up seeing?

--Shane

Hey Bill you may have some fun with this. I'm an IT consultant and on round 1 I was at a customers site and someone asked about the pump and another guy there joked and said "he's so smart, he gives himself chemo". The lady bought it for a minute, so now every time I'm at a site and someon...

Ashlee, Nuelasta is a bear but it certainly does it's job with one shot. I get it after each round of chemo. Round 1 they told me to take Tylenol and it didn't help much I felt like I'd been in a really bad car wreck for the next 4 days, lots of bone pain in the chest, forearms, legs, hips and spine...

Not to take away from the physiological advice already mentioned here but I had a similar problem with the legs going to sleep when I was on "the bull". This used to happen to me even prior to surgery and it was becuase I tend to stoop over and rest my forearms on the thighs for extended p...