{"id":196,"date":"2006-11-10T12:08:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/the-cancer-battle\/the-initial-news\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:51:40","slug":"the-initial-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/the-initial-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Initial News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 10, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Seems impossible.  I eat as low on the food chain as you can get.  I exercise and try to take care of myself.  But about three weeks ago I lost my appetite and started having pain in my abdomen.  I thought OK, maybe I have appendicitis.  I had a back x-ray in February and the doctor saw a mass in my colon, told me it was impacted, and gave me a ton of laxatives.  I took them but nothing came out of it (ugg, colon puns, I have no shame).  Then about three weeks ago I had a second back x-ray with the same diagnosis.  However, with my loss of appetite, I lost 25 lbs in less than 3 weeks and my doctor, Dr. Bloom with Carolina Family Practice and Sports Medicine, sent me to get a CT scan.<\/p>\n<p>That showed that there was something going on in there, and I was set up for general surgery.  Dr. Bloom is great, and recommended Dr. Cline at Rex Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/\">Home<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/index\/colectomy-surgery\/\">Next<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10, 2006 Seems impossible. I eat as low on the food chain as you can get. I exercise and try to take care of myself. But about three weeks ago I lost my appetite and started having pain in my abdomen. I thought OK, maybe I have appendicitis. I had a back x-ray in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/the-initial-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Initial News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":194,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9M0Zg-3a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":195,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/colectomy-surgery\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":0},"title":"Colectomy Surgery","author":"m","date":"November 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"October 12, 2006 Read \"remove part of my colon\" surgery. Ugg. The cancerous tumor was big enough that my appendix and a section of my ascending colon (on the right side) had to be removed. While you won't get a lot of chatter out of him, Dr. Cline is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/wheels-grinding-into-motion\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":1},"title":"Wheels Grinding Into Motion","author":"m","date":"November 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"More information, yippee! It's funny, looking back, it seems like ice-age-worthy eons of time have passed waiting for more information to come trickling in. But it has only been a week since I went to Duke to see poor Dr. Morse - I must have sent him two dozen phone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":217,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/a-case-of-ketchup\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":2},"title":"A Case Of Ketchup","author":"m","date":"January 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, I lost a couple weeks somewhere along the way... in a bit of a daze... hence the case of catch-up... and it's not even very tasty... oh well. :> Jan 17, 2007 I've been busy dealing with the chemo as the side effects seem to be cumulative - my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":253,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/done-with-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":3},"title":"Done With It!","author":"m","date":"August 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"June, July, August... :P Sorry i haven't written in so long. I guess I just got burned out on repeatedly writing what felt like a lot of whining. I'm in a lot better shape now, so no worries! Quick recap: The only remaining significant problem is pain and bloating after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":239,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/here-we-go-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":4},"title":"Here we go again&#8230;","author":"m","date":"April 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"April 8th Happy Easter! I'm in Winston-Salem in a hotel near the hospital, prepping for my CRS with IPHC surgery. Time to get to bed, gotta get up at 4:45am, ugg. Andrea will have my cell phone if you want to get an update. 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