Happy Thanksgiving - One Year Since Chemo

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fumaros
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Happy Thanksgiving - One Year Since Chemo

Postby fumaros » Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:32 am

I had my 5-FU pumped disconnected, hopefully for the last time, on black Friday 2016. Last thanksgiving was very different from this one, as I sat alone with my father listening to the whining of my chemo pump. A year has passed since, and I am glad to say that, per my October 30th scan I am still NED. The year has been filled good times sprinkled with, blood work, scans, and anxiety, lots and lots of anxiety.

Yesterday was thanksgiving day, a holiday in the United States where people gather around with loved one and/or family and say what we are thankful for while eating lots of food. I want to say I am thankful for the people on the colon talk forum, reading your stories and keeping up with your journeys have been a tremendous help both psychologically and physically. The advice given on here was so helpful in getting through chemo, being healthy and figuring out how to live life afterwards despite all the fear.

So thank you.
Diagnosed 4/8/16, age 29
Colectomy 4/20/16
Stage III, T4bN1 Tumor 7x6.5x2. Muscinous Adenocarcinoma with SRC features
2/16 lymph nodes
Stage IV, Peri mets 5/2019
CEA 4/14/16 - 16.8
CEA 6/2/16 - 1.9
CEA 6/17/16 - 0.87, 7/16 - 1.33, 12/16 - 1.14, 4/17 - 0.6, 7/17 - 0.5, 10/17 - 0.9, 3/19 -5.8, 4/19 -10
FOLFOX began 6/24/16 - 11/25/16, FOLFIRI - 5/10/19
10 round FOLFOX, 2 round 5-FU & Leucovorin, 1 round FOLFIRI
MRI & CT 8/16 - NED, CT 12/16 - 10/17 - NED

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Robino1
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving - One Year Since Chemo

Postby Robino1 » Fri Nov 24, 2017 8:35 am

Happy Thanksgiving to you. What a difference a year makes. :)

I'm still in the trenches but am enjoying thanksgiving reagardless. It (cancer) won't beat me down. :twisted: :)
At 54 2014 1st colonoscopy colon cancer detect
Colon resect margins clear. No chemo Stage II
2017
Distend abd, pain in intestines.
CT scan seeding & Ascites
Lap diag - cancer on the omentum
CEA 217; 219
FOLFOX started 6/17
CEA 202
8/29/17 CT melting of tumor.
Latest CT scan shows 2 new tumors and return of ascites.
CEA: (2017)9/30 -109; 10/12 -99.1; 11/4 -90.7; 11/30 -70.7; 12/14 -83.4; (2018)1/4 -73.3; 2/1-84.2; 89.2; 89.8; 88.5; 81.8: 93.5; 107; 119
BRAF V600e

Beckster
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving - One Year Since Chemo

Postby Beckster » Fri Nov 24, 2017 3:13 pm

fumaros wrote:I had my 5-FU pumped disconnected, hopefully for the last time, on black Friday 2016. Last thanksgiving was very different from this one, as I sat alone with my father listening to the whining of my chemo pump. A year has passed since, and I am glad to say that, per my October 30th scan I am still NED. The year has been filled good times sprinkled with, blood work, scans, and anxiety, lots and lots of anxiety.

Yesterday was thanksgiving day, a holiday in the United States where people gather around with loved one and/or family and say what we are thankful for while eating lots of food. I want to say I am thankful for the people on the colon talk forum, reading your stories and keeping up with your journeys have been a tremendous help both psychologically and physically. The advice given on here was so helpful in getting through chemo, being healthy and figuring out how to live life afterwards despite all the fear.

So thank you.


It is amazing the difference in one year... Horrible Thanksgiving last year because I received my pathology report 3 days before the holiday. this year... my first grandson was born 3 days before Thanksgiving. This year, we are thankful and blessed! I go for my 6 month scans and bloodwork in 2 weeks. Feeling great but fearful.
57/F
DX:(CC) 10/19/16
11/4/16- Lap right hemi(cecum)
CEA- Pre Op (1.9), Pre Chemo (2.5)
Type: Adenocarcinoma
Tumor size:3.5 cm x 2.5 x 0.7 cm
Grade: G3
TNM: T3N0M0/IIA
LN: 0/24
LVI present
Surgical margins: clear
MSS
12/27/2016 - Capeox, anaphylactic
1/2/17 to 6/9/17- Xeloda
6/17,12/17,6/18,12/18,6/19,12/19,12/20,12/21 CT Scan NED :D
CEA- 6/17- 3.6, 9/17- 2.8 12/17-2.8, 3/18-3.1, 6/18-3.0, 9/18 2.8, 12/18 2.5 3/19 3.1 6/19 3.1 9/19 2.6 12/19 2.8 6/20 3.0 12/20 2.7 6/21 2.9,[color=#000000]12/21 2.7[/color]
Clear Colonoscopy 10/17, 11/19,11/21 :D

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving - One Year Since Chemo

Postby mpbser » Fri Nov 24, 2017 5:11 pm

HAPPY BELATED THANKSGIVING!!!

Congrats on NED!
Wife 4/17 Dx age 45
5/17 LAR
Adenocarcinoma
low grade
1st primary T3 N2b M1a
Stage IVA
8/17 Sub-total colectomy
2nd primary 5.5 cm T1 N0
9 of 96 nodes
CEA: < 2.9
MSS
Lynch no; KRAS wild
Immunohistochemsistry Normal
Fall 2017 FOLFOX shrank the 1 met in liver
1/18 Liver left hepatectomy seg 4
5/18 CT clear
12/18 MRI 1 liver met
3/7/19 Resection & HAI
4/1/19 Folfiri & FUDR
5/13/19 HAI pump catheter dislodge, nearly bled to death
6-7 '19 5FU 4 cycles
NED

stu
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving - One Year Since Chemo

Postby stu » Fri Nov 24, 2017 5:52 pm

Hi ,
How lovely . I hope you all had a good time .
It takes effort but good times must be reclaimed.
Here’s to many more .
Stu
supporter to my mum who lives a great life despite a difficult diagnosis
stage4 2009 significant spread to liver
2010 colon /liver resection
chemo following recurrence
73% of liver removed
enjoying life treatment free
2016 lung resection
Oct 2017 nice clear scan . Two lung nodules disappeared
Oct 2018. Another clear scan .

TXLiz
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving - One Year Since Chemo

Postby TXLiz » Fri Nov 24, 2017 7:01 pm

Congrats, and hope the positivity continues. I had a terrible allergic reaction to something on Thanksgiving Day 2016, on my 3rd chemo cycle.

Spent the day getting a shot of steroids (which compounded nicely with the regular chemo steroids) and a prescription for oral steroids, which made me a giant walking steroid and thus extremely unhappy. We ate horrible weird takeout that made me even more desperate.

This year I cooked the entire meal at home and ate gratefully with family.

Cheers to us all! :D
Vomiting and blockage 9/19/16 46 y F
R hemi colectomy 9/20/16
Stage 3 B CRC, located in cecum
3 out of 16 lymph nodes positive
perineural invasion/lymphovascular invasion
infiltrating, mod differentiated adenocarcinoma with a mucinous component
separate tumor nodules present in pericolonic adipose tissue
MSI-high
Baseline PET scan clear 9/16 CEA 0.5
FOLFOX 10/16- 3/17
April 16th, CT scan clear. CEA 1.1
Lynch "inconclusive"
Colonoscopy 10/5/2017 clear


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