Fuck Cancer

[Trackhead]

Friend at work died last night. In September he was in my backyard enjoying a whiskey watching some football. February, gets a weird pain in his guts. From that point on it's chemo and the whole nightmare that comes along with it, and now gone. Happens so fast.

Once you realize you won't live forever, and actually might die much sooner than you imagined, shit gets real very quick. Losing your job, getting skunked on an expensive heli trip, having an ACL repair and missing a ski season is just so damn petty compared to someone telling you that you have cancer. This diagnosis certainly makes a lot of people more compassionate, humble, needless, and grateful for daily life.

[Bunion 2020]

This diagnosis certainly makes a lot of people more compassionate, humble, needless, and grateful for daily life.

Too bad that is what it takes.

[Supermoon]

Found out an 8 y/o boy on the team my son played baseball against last night is battling a brain tumor. He had chemo at noon and hit a double in his first at bat at 5:30. Just incredible.

Fuck cancer.

And keep kicking ass TH.

Damn. That’s rough.

[Trackhead]

Too bad that is what it takes.

Agreed, and it applies to me.

[yeahman]

Agreed, and it applies to me.

You'll never lose it though. My younger brother had a (benign) brain tumor in high school, had two brain operations but they couldn't get it all, and endured two rounds of chemo, one after each operation. That seemed to stop its growth, knock on wood. This was more than 30 years ago and he still carries the deep appreciation for every day alive that I envy but can't replicate, having never been through that. Though I never stop trying.

[Trackhead]

^^^ certainly makes a guy less selfish when it comes to “should I buy new backcountry gear and a new sled” or “should I buy my kid new skis and drive him all over the west”…..I chose the latter time and again and now I know why.

[byates1]

Awesome to ski w you last year! Let's do it again. Great to hear positive news. If you're near bozo let's get coffee. Bunion can join and yell at me about BTC

Hope you have a great summer!

[Trackhead]

Awesome to ski w you last year! Let's do it again. Great to hear positive news. If you're near bozo let's get coffee. Bunion can join and yell at me about BTC

Hope you have a great summer!

Yeah next time we ski together it won't be with weak legs two weeks post chemo, that Idaho day was rough.

[TBS]

I really hate coming here…

Trackhead, happy you are in remission
SorryBro and DTM, I’m ecstatic about Roark & Ruby

And now I get another turn in the barrel…
I’m sitting in the waiting room while Ms TBS is getting prepped for breast conserving surgery - ductile carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Found during regular periodic mammogram.

The prognosis is excellent. Stage 0, contained inside the ducts, 8mm diameter tumor. Surgeon sez the biopsy may have taken most of it. She should be good to go in two days. Radiologist sez he can clean up with minimal impact on life. No chemo likely, and no “kill everything” routine

We got the diagnosis on the 26th anniversary of the death of our daughter Cori at age 10. Rhabdomyosarcoma.

Nine months of treatment, six months of remission, four months later she died. Radiation damn near killed her during the first rodeo. When it came back she told me “there are worse things than dying daddy”.

So I sit here with my frontal lobes saying “it’s all good” while my Amygdala is freaking the fuck out.

[::: :::]

Wishing her the best tbs
We’re thinking of you both

[Bunion 2020]

Best possible thoughts your way.

[Meadow Skipper]

This thread…

Wishing good fortune to yours and you TBS.

[Dantheman]

When it came back she told me “there are worse things than dying daddy”.

That's one of the most heart-wrenching things I've ever read.

Best of luck to Mrs. TBS.

[thefortrees]

Sending positive thoughts your way, TBS

[tgapp]

Damn TBS, sending good vibes your way.

And Trackhead - congrats dude!! Fuck ice climbing though, you're not missing out on anything. Stoked you can still ski!

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[yeahman]

Vibes TBS

[jono]

That's one of the most heart-wrenching things I've ever read.

Best of luck to Mrs. TBS.

Agreed. I just quoted that to my wife as we were talking about some kids who just lost their mom and it's hard to even say it out loud.

Best to MrsTBS and here's hoping "stage 0" makes it into common usage.

[gravitylover]

Oh shit TBS. That put a lump in my throat. Hang in there man.

[TBS]

Thanks for the good wishes.
She’s recovering well. Told me to go skiing tomorrow, I’m driving her crazy.

She has appt with radiologist in a couple of weeks to set radiation program, based on the pathology.

Doc is a skier - recognized the ON3p logo on my t-shirt - and said the treatment will be quite targeted and a lot more tolerable than our last rodeo. So we are intellectually upbeat about this.

Sorry for the emotional vomiting yesterday. It’s why I’ve stayed out of this thread. Nobody needed to get whacked upside the head with my horror story, esp. when there’s kids fighting thru this. And I know there are many here dealing with their own breast cancer grief. Hope I didn’t trigger anybody…

[TBS]

Best to MrsTBS and here's hoping "stage 0" makes it into common usage.

Best way to do that - make the women in your life get their tits smashed regularly (her words). This was found on a routine mammogram, no lump could be felt.

[Meadow Skipper]

Sorry for the emotional vomiting yesterday. It’s why I’ve stayed out of this thread. Nobody needed to get whacked upside the head with my horror story, esp. when there’s kids fighting thru this. And I know there are many here dealing with their own breast cancer grief. Hope I didn’t trigger anybody…

Yeah, but sometimes it helps to dump, even on maggots. Trust me, I know.

[Supermoon]

No apologies needed TBS. Sending you and your wife all the good vibes

[skiJ]

No apologies needed TBS. Sending you and your wife all the good vibes

+100%

hang in, TBS -

cancer always has to be taken seriously.
... too many cases ... in the last three years
( too many incurable cases... )


peace, my friends. skiJ

[jono]

Best way to do that - make the women in your life get their tits smashed regularly (her words). This was found on a routine mammogram, no lump could be felt.

The possibility of "0" may just help. I know too many people who "don't want to know." One less as of '21‐-she found out at maybe stage 2 and refused treatment for 4 years until her doctors had nothing for her. I may have been pissed off ever since her funeral.

No apologies, man. Thread's called Fuck Cancer for a reason.

[riser4]

Oh shit TBS. That put a lump in my throat. Hang in there man.

I think the moral of this thread is get every lump checked?