I'm sorry it's such a hard diagnosis, JZ, I was hoping for better. But I will keep hoping for those better outcomes! I remember Ginger always saying to remember that the 5-year prognosis was always based on at least 5-year old treatment. Love you!
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Jan 12, 2023 1:52:40 pm PST #19917 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sheryl - Jan 12, 2023 2:12:42 pm PST #19918 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I'm sorry, JZ.
JenP - Jan 12, 2023 2:20:43 pm PST #19919 of 30000
Love to you, JZ, and I, too, am glad you have every possible resource at your disposal. Love to all of you.
meara - Jan 12, 2023 2:26:26 pm PST #19920 of 30000
Love to you, JZ. I will hope that your tumor is one that takes super well to current treatments!
dcp - Jan 12, 2023 2:26:51 pm PST #19921 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
JZ, diagnosis is a shock, confirmation is a shock.
Having a plan helps. Do the next thing. Then the next. Repeat.
If you will be getting IV chemo rather than oral chemo, is the doctor recommending getting a port? More and more I wish I still had mine. It would make blood draws and contrast injections (and any other IV procedures) a lot simpler and less stressful.
Share as much or as little as you like. We'll all be here, ready to give you whatever support helps best.
If you need any back-channel sounding boards, you know how to reach EpicTangent or myself.
sj - Jan 12, 2023 2:27:27 pm PST #19922 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
JZ, I’m so sorry that the news wasn’t what I know we were all hoping for. I say lean into that denial. From what I’ve been told my dad lived much longer than he was supposed to purely from denial because there wasn’t much treatment available at that time.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2023 2:50:39 pm PST #19923 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If you will be getting IV chemo rather than oral chemo, is the doctor recommending getting a port?
She's getting the port-a-cath inserted next week (Probably Monday).
JZ - Jan 12, 2023 3:01:38 pm PST #19924 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
If you will be getting IV chemo rather than oral chemo, is the doctor recommending getting a port? More and more I wish I still had mine. It would make blood draws and contrast injections (and any other IV procedures) a lot simpler and less stressful.
Way back when I was discharged from the ER, I told the nurse removing my port that I almost wished I could keep it--the person who'd placed it was so skilled, it had gone in so smoothly and painlessly and never caused even a moment's discomfort. Next week's Portacath has quite a standard to live up to.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 12, 2023 4:37:53 pm PST #19925 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am so sorry that the news is not good. I second sj’s recommendation of leaning into denial. I hope for the best possible port-a-cath insertion on Monday (or whenever it is). And it is good they are taking pain management seriously.
Also, Fuck You Cancer!
Susan W. - Jan 12, 2023 4:42:22 pm PST #19926 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
JZ, I am so sorry the news wasn't better, and you will have all the prayers and ~ma I can offer for effective chemo and some future clinical trial or other new treatment that will be everything you need.