{"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":{"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":205,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/wheels-grinding-into-motion\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":0},"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":195,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/colectomy-surgery\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":1},"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. 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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":3},"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. Most of me will see you\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":226,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/good-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":4},"title":"Good Times","author":"m","date":"February 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"February 2, 2007 OK, my mum insists that I keep her updated. So... here we go again... :> The last couple days have been great. The fewer the good days, the sweeter they are. We had our second snowfall, just an inch or so, but enough for the girls to\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":5},"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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/369"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}