Hey all. Yes for some reason that I don’t know, I’ve gotten appendiceal cancer at 40. A stage-4 cancerous tumor was discovered and removed from my ascending colon in October, 2006. If you get appendiceal cancer that spreads to your peritoneum, you should consider CRS with IPHC, it’s the sledgehammer approach to knocking out this cancer.
Click through the links for a rundown of the battle.
- The Initial News
- Colectomy Surgery
- Overwhelmed
- Weird/Funny/Gross Stuff
- Out and About
- Relapse, Rest – and CHOW DOWN!
- Cancer Treatment Limbo
- No-progress weekend, but fun!
- Getting A Clearer Picture
- Wheels Grinding Into Motion
- PET Scan
- The Cure For Nausea Is Exercise
- More chemo and more exercise
- The Good Week
- Bad Week, not so bad
- Next Curve Ball
- A Case Of Ketchup
- Pleasure and Pain, Sunshine and Rain
- Good Times
- Holding Pattern
- Here we go again…
- The final stre…e…e…tch…
- The Final Relapse?
- Done With It!
- CT scan showed tumor growth
- A clean scan, and life is good!
- Cancer snuck into the lungs, so we sliced it out
- Lung Drama… tension, release!