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powerman1426 posted...

When do you find out the prognosis? I'd hate the waiting worse than the answer, honestly.

There's still a ways to go on that. I have a CT scan of my p much my whole body this week. So that will go a long way of telling if it's spread elsewhere or not (my main concern right now).

CanuckCowboy posted...

I feel like you're taking the right approach but yeah I can't imagine how hard that must be. Actually I can cause I've had health problems of my own.... But I ended up being fairly lucky all things considered

Sorry to hear about the health problems.

That's actually been the biggest shocker out of all of this. This is basically the only real health problem I ever had in my life. Everything else has been just a cold or flu pretty much. Otherwise a picture of perfect health.

And yeah, I think that's the biggest horse to get back on is just going out and functioning again.

I've gone out to dinner a bunch of times and spent some time out with friends. It definitely helps a lot, but it's always there just kinda lurking at the back of my mind.

juicebox4 posted...

hope you end up okay TC. cancer is something no one deserves. I just lost my grandpa to it, so I know how harsh it gets. good luck and report back to us when you topple it :)

I'm sorry to hear about your grandpa. I'm in the same sort of boat. Lost mine to prostate cancer that just spread everywhere. It was fucking awful to watch.

Tbh that was the first thing going through my head when I was diagnosed. Bringing back memories of me seeing my grandfather pretty much rot away in front of me.

And yeah I'll definitely be here every step of the way (not much else to do while on chemo, I reckon lol) so you guys will have a front row seat.

Definitely motivated to beat the fuck out of this shit though.

@Coffeebeanz posted...

Have they determined what kind of lymphoma? If it's Hodgkin's, it's basically cureable.

I'm hoping they're able to tell me soon lol. The waiting is craaaaapppp.

It's rather interesting, I've heard that non-Hodgkins, particularly if it's a slower growing kind, is harder to send into remission than Hodgkins.

Which is shit, because you think the slow one would be easier to get rid of.

But yeah, my understanding is even with that they both have a great remission rate. Something like 95%

Though as for the stage, there's definitely swelling on both sides of my neck (front and back). And IIRC the doctor did say something about the CT scan showing lumps on both sides.

So I think that's a later stage of the cancer or something, when it's both sides. I think I read that somewhere or something Iunno.
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