Still cancer free!!!

I'mGatMan!

I'mGatMan!

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On December 12, 2006, at the age of 28, I was diagnosed with Hodgkins' disease below my waist. Got married 4 days later (to the woman who was my next-door neighbor my freshman year at FSU. She'd found me 9.5 years later on MySpace). I know...crazy week. Did 3 months of chemo, and a good little bit of radiation, and in August, I was declared cancer free.

This past Friday, I took another PET scan to see if anything had returned or if there were any complications. Got the news today that there is still no sign of the cancer. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Even the little successes are still successes, right? ;)

Just wanted to share the good news. I wish I'd found this place while I was going through the chemo, when I was sitting at home all day every day, just me and my little Mini-Schnauzer, Gordy. I guess the positive thing is that I would probably be in a LOT more debt if I had known of this forum.:D

Thanks for making all of us noobs feel welcome to drool over all your pictures, ask questions, put our feet in our mouths :foot:, and generally milk you for all we can. This place feels like that bar where everybody knows your name...:D

Oh, and Mike...thanks for sharing, and thanks for your concern and well-wishes. :thumbup:

Jason
 
:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Good news... I'll take it!!! :D:thumbup: Glad to hear it. :)
 
Believe me...I've got a jug in the fridge. Already got a BATACLE (thanks Moffat) and a TigerWarden (thanks Stacey), and I'm waiting on a Nuclear Badger and a Tiger Cultie (Thanks, Dan. Waiting in anticipation)

Now, if I can just get up to Blade...:D
 
Thanks for sharing the good word, Jason, and encouraging everyone else facing their own problems!
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Thanks for sharing the good word, Jason, and encouraging everyone else facing their own problems!
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I try to tell my students the same thing: Every success--regardless of size or magnitude--is still a success. I'm glad I don't hafta go back into Chemo, man. I know treatments have come a LONG way, but let me tell you--and I'm sure others will agree--Chemo is barbaric. They inject you with poison, and hope it kills all the cancer before IT or the cancer kills you. You'd think we'd be beyond that by now, but (without getting too political) I guess that industry would collapse if illnesses were actually cured, no?

J
 
I'mGatMan! said:
I try to tell my students the same thing: Every success--regardless of size or magnitude--is still a success. I'm glad I don't hafta go back into Chemo, man. I know treatments have come a LONG way, but let me tell you--and I'm sure others will agree--Chemo is barbaric. They inject you with poison, and hope it kills all the cancer before IT or the cancer kills you. You'd think we'd be beyond that by now, but (without getting too political) I guess that industry would collapse if illnesses were actually cured, no?

J
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my dad went through 43 ....& almost came to the point he could'nt continue...& wanted that shit to take him...but he fought it for my mom & i...


i understand what you have been through....& you are a strong person...many well wishes to you



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and your wife is a great person for standing by you
 
VANCE said:
my dad went through 43 ....& almost came to the point he could'nt continue...& wanted that shit to take him...but he fought it for my mom & i...


i understand what you have been through....& you are a strong person...many well wishes to you



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and your wife is a great person for standing by you
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Sorry to hear about your pops, Vance. I can't imagine 43. The m.i.l. of one of my closest friends here in Miami (proprietor of www.Boresightsolutions.com) has been battling for over three years. Hers got to the point where the docs put an experimental morphine pump directly into her back near her spine so that she can eat and get around. It's terrible.

As for my wife: We were actually supposed to be married on 5/26/07, but when we found out about the cancer, she suggested we get married on the fly so that she could go through it with me. People, I couldn't ask for a better partner. AND she's relatively cool about the INFI:D:D:D Hell, I'm pretty sure that when I get the Muks, at least one will find itself in the kitchen permanently.:thumbup:

Incidentally, you may be welcoming my good friend (his name will be GentleBen) to this forum soon. Introduced him to my BATACLE and TW the other day, and I almost had to kill him and pry them out of his cold, dead hands in order to get them back home! : )
 
Jason, best news brother!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :cool: :cool: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Keep it goin, and before you know it you'll be "talking to some young buck about a disease" you once battled.

Hope the neuropathy passes soon. Numb isn't fun....

(looks like my neighborhood animal sacrifices worked out for ya!!! ;) )
 
Thank you all very much. We're all pretty stoked about it. The fact that you ladies and gents are is why I'm happy to be a member here!
 
That's GREAT news!

Cheers to your continued good health :thumbup:
 
Congrats and glad to hear you'll be around awhile! A BIG Thank You for sharing your good news as well!
 
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