fuck cancer

Here's to more good days than bad onimo, but wishing you strength for all the shitty ones.

And bigger than usual hugs to you emily, I'm sorry to hear that <3

very sorry to hear about your loss, emil.y.

great to hear from you as always onimo and wishing you the best.

Sorry to hear about your friend, Emily, take care.

Good to hear from you Onimo.

Sorry for your loss, Emily.

We were at the hospital today and the latest scan shows my brain tumour is stable and there has been no growth for 6+ months, which is great news. it.

Indeed, so wonderful! May it continue to be great news for sure.

glad to hear onimo!

Very happy to hear the good news, onimo. Be well.

Excellent news, onimo! Hope it continues, or as Ned said :-)

so delighted to read this!

Great news!

Fantastic news, onimo! Hope the news continues to be good and the good days get more and more plentiful. Wishing you all the best.

(Sorry for your loss, emil.y)

This is great news! Keep on truckin' onimo!

so good, onimo. I hope your strength continues for what must be a hard-fought recovery - and that your remission lasts forever.

Well, it has been a good 30something years with these breasts. Seriously, I was blessed with a really great rack. ILXors I have met IRL can vouch for this (in the “in clothes” sense, of course—get your minds out of the gutter!).

Bilateral mastectomy on Monday. Thanks, cancer!

bye quincies boobs :(
fuck u cancer u jerk

shit, well I hope it's a complete success

quincie good luck and if you accept hugs from strangers on the internet, big hugs from me

Good luck, quincie. Hope everything goes well.

big hugs to you, quincie

Damn, Quincie. Hope everything works out for the best!

quincie good luck

Best wishes quincie

Sorry quincie, i hope so deeply that it takes all cancer away.

Good luck, quincie - best wishes for a successful operation and a swift recovery

Good luck, quincie.

Good luck.

Aw shit, quincie. fFuck cancer that fucking fuck

Good luck, but sorry you’re having to deal with this.

quincie, when you can, let us know how yr doing!

I had what amounts to my three-year blood draws today, and still NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE :-)

The doctor was also surprised by how fit I was.

Some bright in the dark, there.

Excellent news, table.

that's good to hear, table!

quincie, best of luck in your recovery <3

Thank you! I am 4 days post-double mastectomy and doing well. I’m honestly experiencing significantly less discomfort than with my laparoscopic knee surgeries! And best of all I found out that my lymph node biopsies were all clear!!!! This is extremely good news and may even mean that I get to dodge radiation and/or chemo.

I wasn’t interested in implants, so I am sporting a very artfully executed “aesthetic flat closure.” It’s an odd feeling, but not a bad one, after carrying around DDs for a long time.

Tabes big congrats on NED. Such a good feeling.

that's wonderful news on the lymph node biopsies!!

Glad to hear good news quincie and tabes.

loving these updates for both of you A great news quincie & tabes!! <3

great news, both, very happy to learn it!

Big love to quince + tabes <3<3<3

Amem!

Not a deliberate typo, sorry. <3<3<3 indeed!!!

Great to hear, quincie! may your recovery continue to go smoothly <3

Wonderful news to all who are free of this!

All cheers, no jeers! Happy for you both. I wish you peace and belonging in your new and changing bodies/meat suits.

what they don't tell you top of cancer

every single problem keeps going in top of it

That was my experience, too. I have a longer thing to write but will wait until I’m not in rural Maine to do so.

Rural Maine Summer, alright! Hope you're enjoying it, tables.

Tabes big congrats on NED.

Indeed uh wait I may be mistaken. Belated best to you and quincie for sure!

Lol.

The trip in Maine was lovely, of course, but also weighed down with a load of awful circumstances. Like last year, we were going up to help my oldest friend and her partner fix up this small house overlooking the water. It's a dreamy spot next to a very swimmable cove, etc.

Issue was that her parents were nearby this year, and her mom had just been diagnosed with kidney cancer...meanwhile, her dad is slowly slipping away from himself due to dementia. Her mom is a fierce and intelligent woman who now treats her gentle and oft-confused husband like shit, particularly now that he keeps forgetting why she's upset or what her diagnosis is, etc. It's an awful situation, and while her mom was off for medical exams in Boston for most of the week, we hung around with her dad a lot— he's lovely and kind and very funny, and really thrives on human interaction. I am scared that he will slip further away when my friend goes back to her life in LA, and so she is now considering staying there. It's all so complicated and shitty.

What this has to do with what onimo wrote: cancer really does become one's life, and everything else comes on top of dealing with it, even if one is NED or hasn't had symptoms for years. The above situation is a perfect example: I understand my friend's mom's frustration, but also know that she should be treating her husband better than she is, and that some of what is happening is happening simply because she knows that she can't count on him to be totally understanding of the support she needs.

Welp, "further scans needed" because of a "possible new tumor" on my/around my lower pelvic bone, very small (4mm) but still there, apparently. Fwiw this is what scans are for— to catch things before they become bigger problems. I go to the gym three days a week, and bicycle 50+ miles a week. I feel fine!

But jfc, I am SO FUCKING OVER THIS SHIT.