Had the surgery 2/19 to remove the entire sigmoid colon and all the related lymph nodes.
Was in recovery 2/19 to 2/23 and released to go home!
The biopsy results came in late today and confirmed 0/12 lymph nodes were malignant. That’s it! It’s clean! No stage 3, no chemo required!
Follow up with the surgeon on 4/1 to talk about where we go from here, my guess is colonoscopies 2x a year for life now since it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months.
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, wear blue and get checked!
#✅UR:
Not sure when I’ll be back modding, I still feel like someone slammed me in the gut with a baseball bat. Cricket bat for our international folks! Maybe another 2-3 weeks.
I still lurk and comment occasionally, just as my health allows!
Edit Bonus - Since my wife had her own medical event this year involving a massive infection, spinal intrusion and below knee amputation, we already hit the out of pocket maximum on our insurance for the year.
Sooo…
Get insurance guys, no, seriously, get insurance.
Glad you’re better!
Since my wife had her own medical event this year involving a massive infection, spinal intrusion and below knee amputation
Omg! I’m so sorry, y’all have had such a rough start to the year. I hope she’s feeling better and y’all can catch a break.
we already hit the out of pocket maximum on our insurance for the year.
My husband had a surgery at the beginning of the year a few years ago and we met our out of pocket earlier than we ever had before.
It’s such a weird feeling bc it’s like you know it’s a broken and unnecessarily complicated and expensive system in the U.S. At the same time walking out of a doctor’s office or hospital without having to pay almost feels like you finally figured out how to take advantage of some kind of crooked points system, and now you can now treat yourself to the “luxury” of healthcare that you’ve always paid for but avoided using.
I’m really happy to hear this news! You had no obligation to share it, but I thank you for doing so.
The sun is shining just a little bit brighter today.
Congrats! Glad to hear you are doing better!
Very good news, i’m happy to hear about you being freed 👍
( now i fully get why you couldn’t go on with the “keep track” community, amongst others )
Take care 🥲How did you find out you went from 0 to 2 in 6 months? Symptoms?
Anemia brought me in for a colonoscopy in June. They found 17 polyps, 2 from the upper GI and 15 from the colon, but no cancer.
2 were large enough to be concerning, 20mm and 30mm and when I saw the pictures I was like “Oh, crap, THAT’S CANCER.” Nope, not cancerous.
But the rule of thumb is if they find more than 5 or of they are bigger than 5mm, you wait 6 months, come back, and do it again.
2nd time, 6 polyps, 1 20mm and full blown invasive cancer.
The photo also looked TOTALLY different from what I thought was cancer. All pink and bubbly, no black discoloration like on the others.
I just assumed when they pull something out of you that looks like Tetsuo from the end of Akira, that’s cancer, not so.
Looks more like:
That’s pretty aggressive. Glad it wasn’t more advanced. Fuck cancer
Congrats Jordan! Glad to hear this!
