When it rains it pours
mantis
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Hello all,
Some of you know I went though a horrific ordeal with long covid, which I still have symptoms of.
So for the past week, my back has been hurting more than a usual soreness from working out to hard or lifting something or just bending over to many times.
I went to urgent care to get it checked out and they thought I might have a tear in my muscle under my left side rib around the arm pit area. They gave me a steroid and some muscle relaxers and told me to see my primary care doctor as a follow up.
I called my primary and they can't see me until June 3rd. Ok I 'll just have to wait it out. But in the meantime as of Thursday and Friday my back pain got worse so I decided to go to the ER and get it further checked out.
Well they gave me an x ray and found so things they didn't like. So they called for a cat scan to confirm and see what is going on. I really thought I had a torn muscle and I would heal in a few weeks. Not the case. They think I got some kind of cancer. It's in my ribs and lower pelvic.
After being there for 5 hours, I had to go home. They wanted to admit me to the hospital so the Cancer specialist could see me Monday. I didn't want to sit in the hospital all weekend especially with that kind of news. I was crushed and felt really really bad.
I drove my truck home , told my family and they are all supportive . I have to call the hospital Monday to make an appointment with the cancer team.
I want to say sorry for posting these kinds of things in here as for the last 5 years I have basically been talking about my health and it sucks. But for me It's just me venting and another way to get some pressure off my chest.
I'm 55 years old, turning 56 in June and I have been slowly growing my Audio Video business and it really is starting to grow. Now I have to deal with this and I'll just be honest , I'm scared.
Some of you know I went though a horrific ordeal with long covid, which I still have symptoms of.
So for the past week, my back has been hurting more than a usual soreness from working out to hard or lifting something or just bending over to many times.
I went to urgent care to get it checked out and they thought I might have a tear in my muscle under my left side rib around the arm pit area. They gave me a steroid and some muscle relaxers and told me to see my primary care doctor as a follow up.
I called my primary and they can't see me until June 3rd. Ok I 'll just have to wait it out. But in the meantime as of Thursday and Friday my back pain got worse so I decided to go to the ER and get it further checked out.
Well they gave me an x ray and found so things they didn't like. So they called for a cat scan to confirm and see what is going on. I really thought I had a torn muscle and I would heal in a few weeks. Not the case. They think I got some kind of cancer. It's in my ribs and lower pelvic.
After being there for 5 hours, I had to go home. They wanted to admit me to the hospital so the Cancer specialist could see me Monday. I didn't want to sit in the hospital all weekend especially with that kind of news. I was crushed and felt really really bad.
I drove my truck home , told my family and they are all supportive . I have to call the hospital Monday to make an appointment with the cancer team.
I want to say sorry for posting these kinds of things in here as for the last 5 years I have basically been talking about my health and it sucks. But for me It's just me venting and another way to get some pressure off my chest.
I'm 55 years old, turning 56 in June and I have been slowly growing my Audio Video business and it really is starting to grow. Now I have to deal with this and I'll just be honest , I'm scared.
Dan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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Not to scare you, one of colon cancer clues is back pain. Have you ever had a colonoscopy? Your age indicates you should have had at least 1 if not 2.
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Not to scare you, one of colon cancer clues is back pain. Have you ever had a colonoscopy? Your age indicates you should have had at least 1 if not 2.
No I have not, I have slacked on it.Dan
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Prayers that is is something they can remove or treat without difficulty. Unfortunately, I lost a good friend at age 49 to Stage 4 colon cancer. He had no symptoms until it was too late. He had actually had colonoscopys and it popped up in between the 5 year visits.
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Sorry to hear this.
I had a neighbor go through almost the same pain as you last August. He had a clay-colored stool. He called his personal Doctor about it, and his Doctor told him to go to the hospital for an X-ray and blood work.
On August 15th, he had an X-ray, and then they wanted to do an MRI. The MRI Tech and Doctor told him what they saw, plus the blood work results. He was 60.
The Doctors set up an appointment the following day or two for him to discuss the MRI in more detail with a cancer Doctor.
The Cancer Doc. gave him 2 scrips for strong pain meds and told him his options.
He chose to do Chemo. Mild doses first, and to monitor his blood. It looked really good after a couple of weeks. Then his long hair started to thin with the slightest tug or brushing. We all thought the chemo was working since his blood numbers were looking great.
Then the chemo doses were increased after about 6 weeks or so, and he got sicker and weaker from that increased chemo treatment. Tony was a strong man all his life. I knew him for 20 years or more, and he was a healthy, hard-working man. I worked on a few jobs with him last year, right up to August. He seemed fine except for having to burp often.
I wish he hadn't done the chemo treatments. I feel that stuff made him REALLY sick, where before, he just had to burp, and his back was just starting to ache. BUT, he chose to try it, and I 100% know he was smart enough to weigh the options. I now wonder what I would choose if I were faced with the same curse. My Mother-in-Law chose not to do chemo or have a double mastectomy. She was around 80 and was healthy most of her life, too.
Don't apologize for sharing your life's timeline. We're family here for the most part.
Your long-covid struggles have been a hellava burden on you while you've built that great Audio-related business, and I've / we've felt your strength you've had to muster to fight through the fatigue for years now.
The story of Job in the Bible is a story of a man's life who suffered SO MUCH, but kept pushing on and praising God for what he still had through it all. God bestowed happiness and wealth back upon Job toward the end.
Keep faith and gratitude as long as you can. That's all I've done for 49 years since I snapped my neck.
Please let us know what the cancer Doctor tells you about your prognosis and outlook.
Prayers sent your way.
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Prayers that is is something they can remove or treat without difficulty. Unfortunately, I lost a good friend at age 49 to Stage 4 colon cancer. He had no symptoms until it was too late. He had actually had colonoscopys and it popped up in between the 5 year visits.
That's horrible. I had no symptoms either until my back started hurting.Dan
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Sorry to hear this.
I had a neighbor go through almost the same pain as you last August. He had a clay-colored stool. He called his personal Doctor about it, and his Doctor told him to go to the hospital for an X-ray and blood work.
On August 15th, he had an X-ray, and then they wanted to do an MRI. The MRI Tech and Doctor told him what they saw, plus the blood work results. He was 60.
The Doctors set up an appointment the following day or two for him to discuss the MRI in more detail with a cancer Doctor.
The Cancer Doc. gave him 2 scrips for strong pain meds and told him his options.
He chose to do Chemo. Mild doses first, and to monitor his blood. It looked really good after a couple of weeks. Then his long hair started to thin with the slightest tug or brushing. We all thought the chemo was working since his blood numbers were looking great.
Then the chemo doses were increased after about 6 weeks or so, and he got sicker and weaker from that increased chemo treatment. Tony was a strong man all his life. I knew him for 20 years or more, and he was a healthy, hard-working man. I worked on a few jobs with him last year, right up to August. He seemed fine except for having to burp often.
I wish he hadn't done the chemo treatments. I feel that stuff made him REALLY sick, where before, he just had to burp, and his back was just starting to ache. BUT, he chose to try it, and I 100% know he was smart enough to weigh the options. I now wonder what I would choose if I were faced with the same curse. My Mother-in-Law chose not to do chemo or have a double mastectomy. She was around 80 and was healthy most of her life, too.
Don't apologize for sharing your life's timeline. We're family here for the most part.
Your long-covid struggles have been a hellava burden on you while you've built that great Audio-related business, and I've / we've felt your strength you've had to muster to fight through the fatigue for years now.
The story of Job in the Bible is a story of a man's life who suffered SO MUCH, but kept pushing on and praising God for what he still had through it all. God bestowed happiness and wealth back upon Job toward the end.
Keep faith and gratitude as long as you can. That's all I've done for 49 years since I snapped my neck.
Please let us know what the cancer Doctor tells you about your prognosis and outlook.
Prayers sent your way.
Thanks Tony Means a lot,
I will, I'm very nervous for Monday to make my appointment and then go to it when it happens. I hope I didn't wait to long as I'm 55 and going on 56 in June.
I try pretty hard to take care of myself. Covid beat the living hell out of me and has done it for years. I'm weak because of it. This year so far has been very ruff on me having the Flu then right after the common cold and now this while trying to manage my covid left over symptoms.
If anyone is reading this and take their health for granted, please don't , do everything in your power to be as healthy as possible. Try to eat clean, quit smoking if you do, try not to drink too much and really consider what's to come if you don't. Funny about all of that is that I don't drink and when I do I drink 1 glass and that is it. I don't smoke or do any kinds of drugs. However having long covid I gotta assume is just as ruff on the body or way worse. At least when you're doing those things, it brings a level of pleasure. Long covid however gives you nothing but pain.
Now with Cancer whatever kind I hav e and what I'm about to go through to treat it I'm sure is just as bad or possibly worse. Both can kill you and I hope I get through this.
I want to thank you guys for listening , it means a lot.Dan
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Poor health can wreck your mind. Be sure to take care of your mental health during times of poor physical health. You will need to be at your best mentally.
Wishing you the best.
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Dan, I'm so sorry to hear this news. You're a fighter & will definitely come out the victor! Do what the Dr's tell you & kick some arse! My thoughts & prayers are with you to help get you over the hump! Prayers certainly have a way of delivering.
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I wish Cancer on no one. Best wishes for a great outcome and recovery.
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Prostate cancer survivor here and I'm so sorry to read this. I know exactly how you feel after the diagnosis and then the uncertainty of not knowing afterwards and my heart truly goes out to you. As mentioned try to take care of your mental health as well during this time. What helped me during my 2 weeks of uncertainty was lots of walking outside in the fresh air every day to collect my thoughts and focus soley on walking to clear the mind.
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Dan,my prayers are with you,and your family.
God Bless,
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Advice here... don't condemn yourself self to a cancer sentence until you know for sure. They can determine for sure through various tests. X-rays and MRIs are not definitive. Simple calcium deposits and bone spurs can behave the same way and look like cancer on imagining but it takes definitive tests to determine if it is or not.
Hoping for the best for you but seriously, get answers first.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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Prayers that it’s not anything major. I’ve had my share of health scares that I’ve shared here and people still talk to me for the most part so no need to apologize
Music is one way I get through it. There is a new term for listening to relaxing music and it’s ironically called “low-fi”.
So that’s what I tell my kids I do to relax so I suggest doing the same…… even if saying low-fi makes you want to gag 😊
Also I hate doctors so I relate to wanting to put things off….. I do it far too often."....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) -
motorhead43026 wrote: »Poor health can wreck your mind. Be sure to take care of your mental health during times of poor physical health. You will need to be at your best mentally.
Wishing you the best.
Craig
Thanks, When they tried to admit me on Saturday, I told them I couldn't do it. It was completely mental because I was there all day and worn out from the pain and then the possible I have cancer. So I had to go home to be with my family. I'm already not very stable because of long covid, this just adds a huge weight to me.Dan
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nooshinjohn wrote: »Thankfully our hobby can be an amazing form of therapy that has been shown to actually aid the healing process.
Please accept my prayers for a full and complete recovery from whatever it is that you face. The path ahead may be rough. But just know that you have friends here and elsewhere, pulling for you and cheering you on. By the grace of God, you’ve got this. Kick cancer’s AZZ!
Thanks man, means a lotDan
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pearsall001 wrote: »Dan, I'm so sorry to hear this news. You're a fighter & will definitely come out the victor! Do what the Dr's tell you & kick some arse! My thoughts & prayers are with you to help get you over the hump! Prayers certainly have a way of delivering.
thanks manDan
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I wish Cancer on no one. Best wishes for a great outcome and recovery.
Tom
Thanks manDan
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motorstereo wrote: »Prostate cancer survivor here and I'm so sorry to read this. I know exactly how you feel after the diagnosis and then the uncertainty of not knowing afterwards and my heart truly goes out to you. As mentioned try to take care of your mental health as well during this time. What helped me during my 2 weeks of uncertainty was lots of walking outside in the fresh air every day to collect my thoughts and focus soley on walking to clear the mind.
May the good lord bless you and lay his healing hand upon you and comfort you during this most difficult time.
I'm sorry you had to deal with this. It's horrible and such an unsettling feeling. I also walk a lot around my neighborhood. I have a standard walk, a longer walk and then an even longer walk already preplanned out. I did this during covid and long covid bad days. Now I use those 3 walks to clear my head as it absolutely helps a lot. This time however I stick with the short walk, takes about 25 minutes as I have to walk slower and more carful due to the pain in my back. But I do it anyway as it's a good form of therapy.Dan
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Advice here... don't condemn yourself self to a cancer sentence until you know for sure. They can determine for sure through various tests. X-rays and MRIs are not definitive. Simple calcium deposits and bone spurs can behave the same way and look like cancer on imagining but it takes definitive tests to determine if it is or not.
Hoping for the best for you but seriously, get answers first.
Everyone in my family and my closest friends all said the same thing. It's real hard to think that way when your in pain, laying in a hospital bed in the ER and the Doctor wants to admit you to the hospital due to her concerns of the CT and Xray plus urine tests. But I hear you and I'm trying real hard to take that advise.Dan
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EndersShadow wrote: »Prayers that it’s not anything major. I’ve had my share of health scares that I’ve shared here and people still talk to me for the most part so no need to apologize
Music is one way I get through it. There is a new term for listening to relaxing music and it’s ironically called “low-fi”.
So that’s what I tell my kids I do to relax so I suggest doing the same…… even if saying low-fi makes you want to gag 😊
Also I hate doctors so I relate to wanting to put things off….. I do it far too often.
I only went to the ER because my back just kept hurting even after a week of being in pain and being on some meds from the Urgent care doctor. I absolutely put things off as I feel I can get past them as I don't have a medical history except covid and long covid. Other than that which is plenty , I have been pretty fortunate all my life not having any serious health conditions.
As a man, you feel like you need to be strong all the time for your family. When you face something like this and when I was facing serious covid issues, I felt less of a man. Maybe Ego or pride but I feel I need to take care of them before I take care of myself. And when myself needs care, I feel like I take away from them.
I know that's very flawed way of thinking.Dan
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As mentioned, don't assume the worst and even if you learn some bad news try to stay positive. It's truly amazing what a positive mental attitude can do for you in times of uncertainty and what the medical field can do today. My wife cheated death by just hours after learning she had a massive pulmonary embolism...chances are, if this had happened just a few years ago she would not have survived.
You've been through a rough stretch lately and I'm sure everybody here is pulling for you! Life can be a real test sometimes and something told to me is a motto I try to abide by......find some good in every day.Yep, my name really is Bob.
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We will keep you in our prayers. Kick ****.
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Sorry to hear this man - I watched my mother in law fight off breast cancer four times (well, breast cancer once, and sarcoma from the radiation treatment three times).
You're relatively young, and I assume in decent health otherwise, so you should have quite a good chance of fighting it off.
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This is sad news Dan, let us all hope it's followed up with great news!
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Dan, I sure hope your news turns out much better than you're currently thinking. I don't get why on the first visit they even said anything until they knew for sure what it was or at least assessed by an oncologist. Unless I missed that part. You must let us know what the outcome is. I'm sure it wasn't easy spending the weekend thinking what if. That's not a fair game to be playing. Stay positive and strong.
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As mentioned, don't assume the worst and even if you learn some bad news try to stay positive. It's truly amazing what a positive mental attitude can do for you in times of uncertainty and what the medical field can do today. My wife cheated death by just hours after learning she had a massive pulmonary embolism...chances are, if this had happened just a few years ago she would not have survived.
You've been through a rough stretch lately and I'm sure everybody here is pulling for you! Life can be a real test sometimes and something told to me is a motto I try to abide by......find some good in every day.
Thanks man.Dan
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