have very little faith in the medical community.
With all due respect, this kind of advice is at best, irresponsible and could be reckless .
Hey guys,I just woke up and want to respond to all of you individually but just know that your thoughts and well wishes towards an old fuck like me,literally means the world to me.I have yet to receive even one phone cal;l from my sisters or any other family members and there is no bad blood between us.I guess family doesn`t always come first huh?Anyway,thanks to all of you guys and gals.............you`ve uplifted my spirits which were pretty fucking low.
For the most part, family sucks.
You haven't met my family. Specially, my kids, grandkids and great-grandson plus many of my cousins. We must not be included in "the most part" 'cause we are a great and loving family.
You guys have honestly lifted my spirits.....I was down in the dumps but now I`m getting pissed off and I`m gonna beat this fucker.I ain`t going out easy after all the shit I`ve been through in my fucked up life.Thanks again guys,you`ve truly kept me going........... where I felt total despair earlier...........I feel good now and ready to forge ahead no matter what.
In the right lower lobe there is a nodule identified worrisome for malignancyMeasuring 3.0X2.2 cm.Pet scan is recommended. There is calcification over the right hemidiaphragm consistant with some plural calcifications.No other significant findings.IMPRESSION:a 3.ox 2.2cm. right lower lobe lesion,very concerning for a primary lung malignancy.PET CT recommended and./or biopsy.Doctor told me that it is very small and they caught it early so chances are good.Got a biopsy scheduled for Thursday Nov. 7th.Lucky thing I`m sober because back in the day I`d be immersed iin my second quart of JD by now.Oh well,nobody to blame but myself.
I doubt that.
Everyone starts falling apart after 60. It gets worse every 10 years. People shouldn't post that they are praying for you because patients who know that feel worse!All the best for the future.
Why? Are you basing this notion on your family experiences? If so, I feel bad for you. If you are saying that family relationships aren't perfect all of the time, then you are correct. I live in the here and now and at this time pretty much everything with my family is what most folks would see as great...not absolute perfection, but great.
Dude, happy for you... Sad Happy reality is that only 1% of all diagnosed folks with prostate cancer ever develop a life-threatening (malignant and/or metastatic) form. That means that 99% of the remaining biopsied males were told they "MAY" have cancer. And this is when and where Wes' case comes into play because there's a very good chance these are going to be longest two weeks of his life (procedure + waiting for results,) needlessly. I'm sorry if I sound irritated but... this hits close to home because I've been through this SO MANY TIMES it pains me to hear of someone being told to get a biopsy. I'll give you a perfect example: my wife had a miscarriage at 20 weeks. Her breasts were getting ready for the baby so the milk ducts were starting to fire on all cylinders. Out comes the baby and the ducts solidify into calcium "strands". After the first post-miscarriage checkup, the doctor tells my wife that the calcifications may show in a mammogram so he didn't recommend getting one. Fast forward to last year, my wife gets a mammogram and, SURE ENOUGH, the doctor tells my wife that she needs to get an ultrasound. SURE enough, the ultrasound shows a calcification. She then is given the "abnormal finding" talk and told that the only way to get out of the conundrum is by getting a biopsy (which is bullshit). We go to Aruba and has the worst 6 days of her life. We come back, she gets the biopsy and SURE ENOUGH, it's freaking calcium. We go in for the talk with the doctor hoping for some closure and, SURE ENOUGH, we don't get it. Not only are we not told that it wasn't what he suspected (cancer,) we are told that the little strands of calcium can help "malignant cells to develop," which is bullshit. My dad had a PSA test two years ago. My aunt, who is a nurse, diagnosed it as 100% hyperplasia but recommend he go get tested "just in case". Well, he got tested alright! They ended up removing a chunk of the "supposed" polyp, which made him pee blood for a month. In the end, the "polyp" was actually his prostate: They removed the sample so recklessly that it got infected. Once his results came back, the doctor told him "it's not cancer". Meanwhile my dad can't pee because it hurts, and the hyperplasia is so bad at this point that he can't even "push". Eventually we went to another doctor and he was able to isolate the hyperplasia in a day and a half. Although the conversation DID start with a "did you get a PSA test"?Look, you're talking about a field that to this day insists steroids DO NOT help athletic performance. Aside from the little "islands of knowledge" in the forms of medical specialists, I have very little faith in the medical community. There are things they can look at prior to sending someone to get a biopsy. They can ask about the family history. They can monitor the polyp and the biological markers to see if there's any development or abnormality. There's things they can do before going the incisive route and scaring the living SHIT out of someone.
