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Re: Cancer update! by laudablepuss 11/21/2024, 9:58pm PST
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

laudablepuss wrote:

Great news! Good luck with the stent, nothing about stents has been good in my experience. (I had a billiary stent and it nearly killed me. Like, probably the closest I've ever been.) But it sounds like there's a path through this and hopefully you'll be in pretty good shape when it's over. :)


That's terrible about the stent. Did your body reject it?


It was a thing that stuck into my side (there's still a hole there 11 years later). It was supposed to be an outpatient thing but the pain was quickly way too much to bear and it caused an ileus, which is where my intestines stopped working, basically. That was the real danger, that they'd stop and I'd just die.

They did this to me three times. The first one and the last one were done by my surgeon's favorite guy for this outpatient shit. *I* wonder if he's an incompetent jackass because the second time was done by a different guy and it worked as advertised. Mild pain, and I was able to keep the stent for 3 months or whatever. But the third attempt was the worst, another ileus, and the one where I was maybe the closest to buying it. After that I said, I don't think I can do this. My surgeon agreed and we went a different route, a surgical fix that was also a real low point for me. 17 days in the hospital.

ANYWAY. Good times. Next week on OLD PEOPLE STORIES!
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    Well that's fucking horrible. Did you catch it early? NT by Mischief Maker 11/08/2024, 5:43pm PST NEW
        Unknown! Biopsy on Thursday. by pinback 11/09/2024, 4:30am PST NEW
    OMFG you guys by laudablepuss 11/08/2024, 6:43pm PST NEW
        "That's what my friend died of" is probably the support system I deserve. by pinback 11/09/2024, 4:31am PST NEW
            lol sorry NT by laudablepuss 11/09/2024, 9:39am PST NEW
    Egad man. Sorry. by Niles 11/08/2024, 8:34pm PST NEW
        Re: Egad man. Sorry. by laudablepuss 11/09/2024, 9:40am PST NEW
    Damn. I hope the prognosis is good. NT by Blackwater 11/08/2024, 8:47pm PST NEW
        Thank you, yes, I caught it early. by Niles 11/08/2024, 8:49pm PST NEW
            Hey! Keep your lyme disease out of my kidney cancer! NT by pinback 11/09/2024, 4:27am PST NEW
    Cancer update! by pinback 11/19/2024, 2:22pm PST NEW
        So just the one gets yanked? NT by Mischief Maker 11/19/2024, 4:25pm PST NEW
            Hopefully the correct one, yes. NT by pinback 11/19/2024, 5:58pm PST NEW
        Good, bad, freelance surgeons will still pay to dollar by Dont give ur $ to medical industry 11/19/2024, 4:58pm PST NEW
            I had no idea the kidneys were on opposite sides. by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/19/2024, 6:51pm PST NEW
                so...should he say fuck the man and keep both kidneys by or should he sell both since a mira 11/19/2024, 8:25pm PST NEW
                    No, I was just using your point as a launching point for a future possible bit NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/19/2024, 9:18pm PST NEW
                    What are you talking about? Everyone loves me here! NT by pinback 11/20/2024, 5:01am PST NEW
                        I love you here. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/20/2024, 9:17am PST NEW
                            It's just you and me, Jonesy. by You and me to the end 11/20/2024, 10:23am PST NEW
        Re: Cancer update! by laudablepuss 11/20/2024, 12:48pm PST NEW
            Re: Cancer update! by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/20/2024, 8:59pm PST NEW
                Re: Cancer update! by laudablepuss 11/21/2024, 9:58pm PST NEW
    Sorry buddy NT by I wish the best 11/19/2024, 9:52pm PST NEW
 
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