My leukemia's back.

[Alaskan]

oh... cancer is
Adenocarcinoma Esophageal cancer, stage 2, 10 cm length of esophagus.

 

[sourland]

'Al', that sucks. One friend has recently completed a bout with esophageal cancer. He did the feeding tube routine but still lost a lot of weight. He has retired and is living life at full speed. Another friend (young guy) has just been diagnosed - took 6 months . For him they are talking laryngectomy. Both were heavy tobacco users. One chewed, and the other smoked like a fiend. ---- tobacco!

Friday, and, Cynthia, hope that today is a brighter day for the two of you.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Good morning Team Rachel!

Hi @LittleLakePhil

Good morning Team Rachel!

Hi @LittleLakePhil

Howdy Deb..... How's things.
How's Hubby?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

'Al', that sucks. One friend has recently completed a bout with esophageal cancer. He did the feeding tube routine but still lost a lot of weight. He has retired and is living life at full speed. Another friend (young guy) has just been diagnosed - took 6 months . For him they are talking laryngectomy. Both were heavy tobacco users. One chewed, and the other smoked like a fiend. ---- tobacco!

Friday, and, Cynthia, hope that today is a brighter day for the two of you.

There should be another option besides "like" for post like this......

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Now, Bruce, you know me better than that! NEVAH!!!



I'm slow... but just figured out where de Nile is!



Agreed. Except for cheese cake, french vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, marshmallows, divinity fudge... We're supposed to get some nasty white stuff on Friday. GD and I just planted the last row of garlic. None too soon. Hope to get some chicken poo over it, followed by some wood chips before Fri.



Does that give you a six pack?



Seriously deranged.



Poor kitty.

Not deranged.... The snow covered up all the crap in my yard......

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I finally got it done yesterday. Recovery was not a fun thing this time. I've been through a few surgeries but this was a tough one to come out of. My blood pressure was up my heart was racing and they kept having to give me beta blocker to bring it down. But bring it down they did! Now I'm home in this really fun fun apparatus. I did have a nerve block, it's now worn off pretty much. So far the pain isn't too bad. I can't handle the pain pills they like to pass out, so I'm going with easier stuff. I do have an ice machine that got hooked up to me. In the photo you see the blue thing on top of my shoulder is the ice pack, and the tube running down goes to a bucket of ice water that circulates up to the shoulder. If any of that make sense. View attachment 1182863

Feel better.....I find pain pills don't hardly do a dang thing for me.
I have to take so many to get any relief.
Here's a few more my friend

 

[LittleLakePhil]

No. Last week the doc aspirated some guck with a needle and sent it for culture. I go back Monday to get results. The other alternative is that it's not an infection, it's many different spots of internal radiation damage that my body is trying to get rid of. Pockets of liquefied fat that are extremely irritating to surrounding tissues. My ultrasound looks like Swiss cheese.

Can't tell you how many times I've heard "I've never seen this kind of reaction before". Gee, thanks.

Dam Friday.
Manyfor you.
I've never had radiation.
I'm not sure why..... As most of the Bone Marrow Transplant patients I was in with at the time did.
I think they had different types of Leukemia than I did. Allot of acute patients.
I had CGL....... Most of them I think got less severe chemo treatments though.
I used to hang out a with a young man named Anthony..... He was fresh out of high school..... Had a girlfriend who would visit.
We would hot the doctors up for an extra dose of Marinol and watch Gilligan's island....

Thanks Friday.... Thinking of you brought up a good memory from my transplant most of it was bad...... Or very blurry.

Thinking of you my friend...... Heal up and get well....

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Tired of being swollen and in pain, tired of it waking me up in the middle of the night, tired of going to doctors. But I'll survive.

Thanks for the support everyone.

I know the feeling Friday..... Your never alone.
We are a mouse click away.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Well guess I'm caught up..... Have a great Saturday...... Chow

 

[Bunnylady]

Can't tell you how many times I've heard "I've never seen this kind of reaction before". Gee, thanks.

My response to that would be, "welcome to my world."
Praying that your recovery will be swift from here on out.

There should be another option besides "like" for post like this ....

Amen to that.

@Alaskan I'm so sorry to hear about your father's diagnosis. I know he hasn't been the easiest person to love lately, but that doesn't make the thought of the end of his life any less painful. Praying for you, my friend.