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justin case
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Imagine that

Postby justin case » Fri Feb 12, 2016 9:15 pm

4 years ago today, I got home with my new friend, complete with compounds, bags and adhesives ! I was alive after colon and rectal surgery ! I was then confined to do nothing but heal ! I puked for a few days, I didn't realize my innards were lime green, after decomposition, until my bucket proved it. My little friend, got full quite often. Well after enough Ensures, I knew I was good to go ! I was home with nothing to do for at least 6 weeks 8) Well, I stopped pooping, and nothing in the bag resembled, anything more than green jello :shock: OK, it's just bile,(or some other disgusting, manifest of the human body), butt a week later, as I saw my surgeon, he was quick to point something out. " You look like shit. Why didn't you go to the emergency room ?" :roll: Me, of course responded in my own typical way, "It was my birthday" 8) He responded ever so nicely, "So, you would rather die on your birthday, than go to the emergency room?" 1 week later, I was done with my ostomy, and haven't been so close to renal failure again !
Don't be afraid of the ER,
Michael
7/11 diagnosed Stage 2 colon and rectal cancer
chemo/rad
lar/temp ilio
Reversal & port removal
21 round of chemo Folfox 9tx, 5fu 12 tx
Last treatment July 2012
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Sams wife
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Re: Imagine that

Postby Sams wife » Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:14 pm

Renal failure? I've read your birthday story before. Scary stuff. Was that just from illeostomy ?
Husband dx 1/13/15 St.2 CEA 7.1
Chemo/25rad 2/15 till 4/24/15
5FU/leucovorin
Surgery 6/8/2015 Stage IIa T3N0MX microscopic cancer left
Watching 4 lung spots
0/5 lymph nodes. Lap. APR
25% less 5FU/leucovorin 7/14/2015 x 26 CEA 3.4
25% more 5fu 9/2015
9/16/15 CEA 7.7
1/16/16 @ 9.2 during allergy?
3/16 New lung spot 4x4 mm
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justin case
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Re: Imagine that

Postby justin case » Sat Feb 13, 2016 10:57 am

Sams wife wrote:Renal failure? I've read your birthday story before. Scary stuff. Was that just from illeostomy ?

I was not hydrating well. It was discovered I had a blockage from surgery. I had a surgery 3 weeks after the first one, and got reversed. Perhaps as a colon absorbs liquid to hydrate the body, an ileostomy differs liquid, before it can be absorbed properly. Therefore it is prudent to hydrate in excess. JMHO :roll:
Also, it is worth noting, a reversal can be done soon after the procedure was completed.
Michael
7/11 diagnosed Stage 2 colon and rectal cancer
chemo/rad
lar/temp ilio
Reversal & port removal
21 round of chemo Folfox 9tx, 5fu 12 tx
Last treatment July 2012
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spinnz
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Re: Imagine that

Postby spinnz » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:04 am

Happy belated birthday!!! :D
Dx age 53 10/8/15
Lap/robotic converted to open sigmoid colectomy, partial small-bowel resection and right salpingo-oophorectomy 10-9-15
CRC stage 3b, T3N1aM0
Margins clear of malignancy
1/27 lymph nodes
Well differentiated
CAT / MRI's indicate NED
FOLFOX + Neulasta- 2 rounds 11/15
Xeloda, 1 week on 1 week off 1/16- 5/16
1/5/16 CEA 1.0, 5/16, 1.0
Factor 13-bleeding disorder
NEW DX
11/15/18 IDC
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Re: Imagine that

Postby bitchslapped » Sat Feb 13, 2016 2:17 pm

You really know how to celebrate a birthday, don't you, Brother Nut! The whole ordeal sounds horrid & no more birthdays like that. You're one tough "nut" to crack. 8)

Happy Belated Birthday :)

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BS
DSS,35YO,unresect mCRC DX 7/'14,lvr,LN,peri,rib
FOLFOX+Avstn 4 Rnds d/c 10/'14
Stent 9/'14
FOLFIRI+Avstn 10/'14
Gone From My Sight 2/20/15
Me:garden variety polyps + precancerous polyp, diverticulitis
Carergver x2 DH,DM dbl occupancy,'03-'10
DH dx 47YO mCRC,'04-'07, lvr, billiary tree fried x HAI
DM dx CC 85YO,CC,CHF,stroke,dementia,aphasia
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Re: Imagine that

Postby peanut_8 » Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:23 pm

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Of course that's not your real cake. We'd need a few more candles for that. :shock:
Hope you had a good time.
sista nut
female, diagnosed Jan 14, RC stage 2a, age 56
MSS
April 14, 28 chemo/rad with Xeloda
June 14 adjuvant Xeloda 6 rounds
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justin case
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Re: Imagine that

Postby justin case » Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:27 pm

bitchslapped wrote:You really know how to celebrate a birthday, don't you, Brother Nut! The whole ordeal sounds horrid & no more birthdays like that. You're one tough "nut" to crack. 8)

Happy Belated Birthday :)

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BS

Yup, 4 years cancer free, and on my way to the casino (to give them some of their money back) 8)
7/11 diagnosed Stage 2 colon and rectal cancer
chemo/rad
lar/temp ilio
Reversal & port removal
21 round of chemo Folfox 9tx, 5fu 12 tx
Last treatment July 2012
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justin case
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Re: Imagine that

Postby justin case » Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:28 pm

justin case wrote:
bitchslapped wrote:You really know how to celebrate a birthday, don't you, Brother Nut! The whole ordeal sounds horrid & no more birthdays like that. You're one tough "nut" to crack. 8)

Happy Belated Birthday :)

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BS

Yup, 4 years cancer free, and on my way to the casino (to give them some of their money back) 8)

By the way, you spend too much time, playing with dog shit!
7/11 diagnosed Stage 2 colon and rectal cancer
chemo/rad
lar/temp ilio
Reversal & port removal
21 round of chemo Folfox 9tx, 5fu 12 tx
Last treatment July 2012
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bitchslapped
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Re: Imagine that

Postby bitchslapped » Sat Feb 13, 2016 3:52 pm

Yep, I'm a pooper scooper...one good reason to have a small dog. Just finished unclogging a plugged toilet. Been in the dumps lately. :mrgreen:

BS
DSS,35YO,unresect mCRC DX 7/'14,lvr,LN,peri,rib
FOLFOX+Avstn 4 Rnds d/c 10/'14
Stent 9/'14
FOLFIRI+Avstn 10/'14
Gone From My Sight 2/20/15
Me:garden variety polyps + precancerous polyp, diverticulitis
Carergver x2 DH,DM dbl occupancy,'03-'10
DH dx 47YO mCRC,'04-'07, lvr, billiary tree fried x HAI
DM dx CC 85YO,CC,CHF,stroke,dementia,aphasia
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ktwmn
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Re: Imagine that

Postby ktwmn » Sat Feb 13, 2016 8:27 pm

Life behind green puke... :mrgreen:
Dx 7/11, Stage IIIc CC
12 txs Folfox 8/2011-2/2012
MSS, KRAS-mut G12D
NED until 3/2015, mets to liver and peritoneum
April-December 2015: 15 txs folfiri+avastin
Liver mets resolved; pelvic met remains
January-May 2016: folfox+avastin; allergic rxn to oxi
June-August 2016: 5FU+avastin
October 2016: looking into immuno trial
January 2017: maintenance chemo xeloda + avastin
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Cowgirl918
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Re: Imagine that

Postby Cowgirl918 » Sat Feb 13, 2016 9:05 pm

Is that a poop cake? Cause that is so funny! :P Renal failure is not funny. Happy birthday and here's to no more ER birthday parties!
HX Colon Polyps Villious and Tubillovillous
12/29/15 Colonoscopy/Endoscopy - Ascending Colon Mass- Hemicolectomy Scheduled
1/17/2016 Right Hemicolectomy Cancelled
1/25/2016 CT No evidence of other disease
2/12/2016 EMR-ascending colon mass 80%
8/12/2016 EMR #2 ascending colon mass curative
8/13/16 NED
7/26/2023 Neuroendocrine mass small bowel, two mesenteric lymph nodes
9/1/2023 Small bowel resection jejunum and lymph nodes removed mesentery
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