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Confirmed: Cancer Free! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by jordanlund@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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Had the surgery 2/19 to remove the entire sigmoid colon and all the related lymph nodes.

Was in recovery 2/19 to 2/23 and released to go home!

The biopsy results came in late today and confirmed 0/12 lymph nodes were malignant. That's it! It's clean! No stage 3, no chemo required!

Follow up with the surgeon on 4/1 to talk about where we go from here, my guess is colonoscopies 2x a year for life now since it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months.

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, wear blue and get checked!

#✅UR:

Not sure when I'll be back modding, I still feel like someone slammed me in the gut with a baseball bat. Cricket bat for our international folks! Maybe another 2-3 weeks.

I still lurk and comment occasionally, just as my health allows!

Edit Bonus - Since my wife had her own medical event this year involving a massive infection, spinal intrusion and below knee amputation, we already hit the out of pocket maximum on our insurance for the year.

Sooo...

Get insurance guys, no, seriously, get insurance.

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Congrats! So glad that it was found early;

it's crazy that you have to pay for these life-saver visits and operations btw...w

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

America - for profit everything!

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's really anti-human.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

But, think about the capital...

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This post breaks rule 1.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wonderful news! Sorry to hear about your wife's issues though. It sounds like you guys have been through it! Hope it's calmer for you both now. Speedy recovery.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

2026 has been the longest year of our lives and it's FEBRUARY!

[–] siebentiger@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

live long and prosper

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Congrats! Nothing better than being cancer free, except maybe being cancer free for free.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Cancer free without the whole "gutted like a fish" part.

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Congrats, love you!

[–] pleksi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Congrats! Sounds like an excellent prognonsis!

Also, Jesus fucking christ a 100000 dollars for a workup+surgery? A similar case is propably no more than 10-15k€ in northern europe (paid by the taxpayer of course).

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can see, the doc himself was like $7,800, the bulk of it being "hospital fees". It will be interesting to see the breakdown on the UB-04 as to what those actual fees were. Probably tens of thousands for all the lab work every 3 hours and the heparin drip I was on.

[–] pleksi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yea in get that, i was talking in terms of total costs.

E: actually looked it up, most likely the whole thing wouldve been max 10000euros to the taxpayer around here (Finland). Workup+surgery+hospital stay.

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

That’s some great world news! Congrats!

[–] breakfastmtn@piefed.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Wow that's incredible news! Congrats! So glad you're back 🎉

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Glad to hear you're cancer free! My father in law just had colon cancer removed a few days ago and we're awaiting the biopsy results. Seriously: get checked, people!

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Congratulations!

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

That's some really good news! Congrats!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nice!

Obviously you don't have to answer since it's personal, but I am curious: How does that effect your digestion? I always kinda wonder how much intestine you really need, because apparently it's not all of it.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

The colon is all about pulling water out of your stool to make poop, well... poop!

The sigmoid colon is the last line of that process. So without it, poop will still be poop, but maybe not necessarily as firm as it would be with it.

In my case, that works to my advantage, because I take statin drugs and statin drugs make me miserable. Having slightly looser stool might actually make me normal for a change!

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That is really great news! Hope you heal well and minimal pain. Best wishes to the both of you for a rapid end to this health rollercoaster and a smooth slide into your healthy new normal.

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 3 points 1 month ago

Alhumdullilah brother amazing to hear!

[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Congratulations!

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So glad it was found early. Take time to heal and care for each other. That sounds really rough.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Congrats, Jordan! Take as much time as you need. If things get out of hand here, there'll always be people ready to help.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Congrats and fuck cancer!

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 1 month ago

Dude! Awesome! On all fronts, awesome.

[–] xcutie@linux.community 2 points 1 month ago

Long days and pleasant nights!

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

Glad to hear! So sorry to both you and your wife for your medical ailments you've had to deal with. I wish you both speedy recoveries and better times ahead.

Everyone (edge-cases with health conditions aside) should be eating a high fiber, high probiotic diet, and cutting back on tobacco products and alcohol, while avoiding red meat. It took my siblings more than a year of trying to convince our high-risk dad to get his colonoscopy as his doctor wanted.

Edit: Thought I couldn't be more clear that high fiber diet is a preventative one for people not with preexisting conditions or already having major medical interventions or other unique health conditions, etc. If you're unsure, speak with your doctor of course.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, glad to hear you're doing better, even though the long term outlook isn't the rosiest. Gastro surgery can be rough, and pain can impede the healing process so make sure to take care of yourself and take it easy.

Do you have family in the area (besides your wife, who you mention is also ill) that you can rely on right now? Not to scare you, but If I remember it took about 6 weeks to three months to recover from the more major gastro surgeries I had (I got complications though). Sigmoidectomy is pretty major. Normal (heh what's that) might be sooner if you got laproscopic but I am a layperson.

Let me know if you need any Ilex or calmoseptine or don't know what they are (you will likely need both as your gut adjusts to its new length)

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

My pain scale is marred by other things I've had so this really is barely registering. If I peg the 10 at "Spinal Stenosis", so far this is like a 6, currently a 4. I didn't even need the oxy today except to go to sleep.

And yeah, was laparoscopic, so I have 4 small incision sites instead of one giant one like with the open heart surgery.

As far as other gastro problems go, I was pretty screwed up by the statins they put me on for the heart stuff. So being a little more "loose" than normal is nice compared to that:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3291011/

Hopefully the two will balance each other out!

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Congratulations. It went by so fast. For some reason I thought you were european. Due to my wifes medical issues a long time back paying max out of pocket every year became the new normal.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy for you! This was the post I've been hoping to see!

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nice, enjoy!

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Congrats! Nice to see you again and I'm glad it's all working out! :D

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

depending on your insurance, i recently had to switch ACA from state healthcare, trying to get back on state eventually as it covers everything, including dental. private is tricky since the subsidies has ended and you have to pay more for deductible/oop.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Huzzah! Glad to hear of it.

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