fuck cancer

re: celebratory eating, i absolutely demolished some pho with tendon and brisket about an hour ago. love having soup as first meal post-scope

thats great news tabes

Great news Jordan

Glad to hear Jordan

Well done to everyone giving cancer a good fucking. Here’s another good news story: my mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer ten years ago this month after she did the ‘poo test’ the NHS sent her in the post. They caught it so early she only needed surgery, and has been cancer free ever since. Don’t be squeamish people, scoop your poop into that sample tube when they ask you to, get it done!

Holy cow that’s a great service. I’ve never heard of a mail in poo test in America, unsolicited. Or it would probably be some pervert soliciting poo samples and not my profit-driven insurance company.

Not unsolicited, but you can do the mail test through Ex@ct Sciences.

You get one every couple of years after a certain age, good old universal healthcare.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer-screening/

i had no idea about this. I'm quite stunned that neither of my parents has taken the opportunity to recount this experience to me!

I just did the poo test a few weeks ago. It's pretty great when you can shit in a box and then MAIL THAT BOX to someone, and it's all legit. I pretended mine was going to Mar-A-Lago.

Gd news abt yr mum Madchen. Yes, compulsory poo tests over the age of fifty here in Scotland. I always say a half-remembered limerick when I post mine off ...There was an old man from Newcastle/Who used to send shit in a parcel ...

All clear so far.

Compulsory?

That may be the wrong word. I think they do chase you up if you haven't sent one in though.

That’s vg. I did my first of these a few months ago without being chased so I don’t know whether it’s the same here (bet it’s not as good).

Glad I didn’t get an enforcement visit from the poo squad.

Or the Bottom Inspectors

https://i.imgur.com/f4MI1VF.jpg

was recently made aware cancer finds your tonsils hospitable. just in case you thought parts of your body were safe.

anyway, big yep, that prognosis hit one of my family members.

sorry to hear!

Best to your family in dealing with that.

Fuck you cancer, my dad and his care team knocked your ass out. He feels better than he has in 15 months. Absolutely hellish year+, but I am SO SO GLAD to see him feeling so much better and just to see him MOVING AROUND OMG YESSSSSS

Yay!!!!!! Nice to hear good news!

That is awesome. Kick cancers ass, dad Brimdad.

hooray for brimdad!

So happy to see this

<3!!!

happy for you and your dad!

Great news!

Love it when people legit fuck cancer. Fuck you, cancer!

fuck glioblastoma imo

fuck that shit

absolutely

100% fuck that shit

otm

yes otm

Yeah fuck that shit - killed a friend of a friends,and another friend's mother, in the last month, and one of the best people I know has at most a year left.

In better news:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/31/trial-results-for-new-lung-cancer-drug-are-off-the-charts-say-doctors

Also:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/31/what-are-cancer-vaccines-and-have-scientists-finally-found-a-cure

That is great news, but also tough to read. ALK lung cancer is what my buddy had who passed in 2018.

https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/07/18/fuck-cancer-6th-anniversary-edition/

<3

Long may he ride

big love <3

Cancer is keeping dear friend and former ILXor Fluffy Bear from attending my wedding

Fuck cancer

6th anniversary when you're 6 is beyond awful, but also fantastic that he's doing OK.
What's he into? My 6yo has been taken with his brother's piano lessons and spends a lot of time picking out Mario tunes on the piano (there's a sheet music book!) plus just being a general crazy 6yo boy.

Lego, shouting, kicking a ball against a wall, riding his bike, Beastie Boys. That’s about it.

in addition to cancer hitting my family, it's hit one of my wife's best friends -- lung cancer, age 51, non smoker (aside from social smoking in college and non beyond.) second person she's known who has had it hit her, the other was 60 and she was also a non smoker. she was diagnosed and died a week later.

Horrid. My best to your wife in working through that.

thanks, Ned. it's been a really rough several years w/her friends, as you are aware from at least one of them having been mutual.

really sorry about your wife's friend. I know first hand how terrible that can be, especially for a relatively young person without that history.

Damn, that sucks, I'm sorry. :(

Terrible, sorry to hear.

On my end, had my labs done on Monday, and it was officially my last six-month visit...meaning that as far as the medical establishment is concerned, I am for all intents and purposes IN REMISSION. Won't have to see my oncologist until next August.

Very grateful to be here, cheers to all here who've offered support over the years.

so glad to hear that, table