70's Rockfan
Rough N Ready
In the year 2000 I was 41 and diagnosed with
squamous cell carcinoma in the lymph nods in my neck.
we have a very talented surgeon here who was able to remove
most of the nods in the area the cancer was in. a huge scar and
63 staples later that part was over. now they tell me you need
to go see this oncologist. they also gave me a bio on him before
my first appointment. I was quite impressed as he had been
a professor at the university of Chicago in the cancer department.
he had recently moved to this are because his parents lived here
and they were getting old and having health problems.
so I go see this croaker and he tells me he's going to cure me
with chemo and radiation treatments. I don't even like needles so
none of this was sounding to good to me. so I ask him what my chances
were that the treatment would work or not kill me.
he looked me in the eye and said I give you a 95% chance that
I will cure you. that sounded good but I still really didn't like the idea.
I wasn't going to go through but every time I told my wife I wasn't
going to go through it she just fell apart. they did give me a 50/50
chance of being ok without the treatment. well I finally gave in and
went back to see the doc. he said come back in a week and check
into the hospital and we'll start the treatments. so here we go a week
later and I start his treatment program thats 12 weeks long.
a full week in the hospital with chemo 24/7 and 2 radiation treatments
each day. then home a week then repeat 5 more times.
6 full weeks of 24/7 chemo and 60 radiation treatments and went
from 185lbs when I started down to 110lbs at the end. I'm 6'2" tall.
I looked like a skeleton with some skin stretched on it.
my first visit with him when he told me what they were going
to do to me. he said we used to do it this way but it didn't work.
and we tried it this way and that didn't work either. he said this
treatment program works. and he was right. I really believe
that if had gone to a different doctor I would not be here today.
I don't think they would have been as aggressive as he was in his
treatment. so I guess what I'm trying to say is there is a difference
in the way treatments are administered that does make a difference
weather you live or die.
squamous cell carcinoma in the lymph nods in my neck.
we have a very talented surgeon here who was able to remove
most of the nods in the area the cancer was in. a huge scar and
63 staples later that part was over. now they tell me you need
to go see this oncologist. they also gave me a bio on him before
my first appointment. I was quite impressed as he had been
a professor at the university of Chicago in the cancer department.
he had recently moved to this are because his parents lived here
and they were getting old and having health problems.
so I go see this croaker and he tells me he's going to cure me
with chemo and radiation treatments. I don't even like needles so
none of this was sounding to good to me. so I ask him what my chances
were that the treatment would work or not kill me.
he looked me in the eye and said I give you a 95% chance that
I will cure you. that sounded good but I still really didn't like the idea.
I wasn't going to go through but every time I told my wife I wasn't
going to go through it she just fell apart. they did give me a 50/50
chance of being ok without the treatment. well I finally gave in and
went back to see the doc. he said come back in a week and check
into the hospital and we'll start the treatments. so here we go a week
later and I start his treatment program thats 12 weeks long.
a full week in the hospital with chemo 24/7 and 2 radiation treatments
each day. then home a week then repeat 5 more times.
6 full weeks of 24/7 chemo and 60 radiation treatments and went
from 185lbs when I started down to 110lbs at the end. I'm 6'2" tall.
I looked like a skeleton with some skin stretched on it.
my first visit with him when he told me what they were going
to do to me. he said we used to do it this way but it didn't work.
and we tried it this way and that didn't work either. he said this
treatment program works. and he was right. I really believe
that if had gone to a different doctor I would not be here today.
I don't think they would have been as aggressive as he was in his
treatment. so I guess what I'm trying to say is there is a difference
in the way treatments are administered that does make a difference
weather you live or die.