Postby NHMike » Sun Nov 19, 2017 12:39 pm
ValZen wrote:Hi Mike, I just wanted to thank you so much for taking the time you do to post the details of your cancer journey! My symptoms were very similar to yours and our treatments are nearly the same. My only difference is having had 4 rounds of folfox before my chemo/rad to hopefully reduce a "rogue lymph node" in my pelvic area that was outside of the tumour region. I don't have measurements, but my oncologists said they were very pleased as I had a "significant" reduction in the lymph nodes and tumour! I just finished radiation a week ago and following along with your past updates really helped! I'm very happy for you that your treatments and surgery have gone so well! I met with my surgeon on December 4th. Take good care and now that I finally got my act together and recovered my password...I can actually post on here again.
Glad to hear that you're doing well on this long road. I've had username/password issues here as well but I think that things are okay now. I just wish that I got email notifications.
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Just back from the gym. Walked 1.10 miles with top speed of 3 MPH (a 10% speed improvement over yesterday) and very happy that I can make a little progress on pace. Then I hit the weight machines:
- Seated Abdominal Crunches, Leg Extensions, Seated Leg Curls, Chest Press, Fly, Delts, Hip Adduction, Rows, Triceps Press, CUrls
I normally wouldn't use a lot of these machines in the past as I could do them with dumbbells, barbells or a bodyweight fixed system (pullups, dips and roman chairs). But the machines make it easy to do strength workouts without having to lift heavy plates while limiting range of motion. It did feel good. I should do these every day. Bear in mind that the amounts of weight are a lot lower than what I usually do as I haven't found my limits. I am likely not close to any limits with these tests.
6/17: ER rectal bleeding; Colonoscopy
7/17: 3B rectal. T3N1bM0. 5.2 4.5 4.3 cm. Lymphs: 6 x 4 mm, 8 x 6, 5 x 5
7/17-9/17: Xeloda radiation
7/5: CEA 2.7; 8/16: 1.9; 11/30: 0.6; 12/20 1.4; 1/10 1.8; 1/31 2.2; 2/28 2.6; 4/10 2.8; 5/1 2.8; 5/29 3.2; 7/13 4.5; 8/9 2.8, 2/12 1.2
MSS, KRAS G12D
10/17: 2.7 2.2 1.6 cm (-90%). Lymphs: 3 x 3 mm (-62.5%), 4 x 3 (-75%), 5 x 3 (-40%). 5.1 CM from AV
10/17: LAR, Temp Ileostomy, Path Complete Response
CapeOx (8) 12/17-6/18
7/18: Reversal, Port Removal
2/19: Clean CT