I lost my mother to breast cancer as well and other family members to other types of cancer. It's a bleak battle that crushes a person in several ways. Even treatment crushes the person. Best case scenario it will scar you deeply and remold you. Worst case, it is a very nasty way to go.
This all to say: don't skip on your screening. I know a lot of you fellow tempers aren't exactly young. A tumor caught early can save you from a very awful path.
100% true, seems the ratio now for those likely to have cancer has increased rapidly too.
I had it, now 4 years remission and I am worse of now than when I had it and having chemotherapy.
It wasn't due to the cancer either, I am always in pain, I can barely walk.
I was working 15 hour shifts on my feet all day as a carer, very active right upto the day I was diagnosed.
I have nurve damage, spasms, constant muscle pains and when I try walk it feels like my back, hips are been crushed.
The medical system failed to listen to me when I was telling them something isnt right, but because I kept pushing and pushing I eventually got my diagnosis.
And now its the same, no one listening or bothering to think how is a guy in his 30s finding it so hard to walk.
Looking at my past employment and fact I wasn't as bad as this when having treatment.
If anything if you were to see me now, you'd think I was having treatment vs how I was when having treatment.
You'd have thought nothing was wrong with me back then, it didn't phase me as such, until BEAM chemotherapy and Stemcell Transplant, which I think that's what's caused this.
That last attempt was very nasty and painful, as soon as they started injecting the red stuff (BEAM) you entire body is burning up worse than I've ever felt.
Then waiting for it to destroy your immune system and everything else to 0 before they can give you your StemCell transplant to help your body recover.
All of the rounds of chemo prior to your Stemcell harvest to try reduce the cancer enough for the harvest then the week of chemo none stop for a week just before using BEAM.
This was the last shot, so nothing about the 4 other types we tried before.
None of this comes across as !!! To why I could be like this now, I mean its not exactly rocket science to say I would consider myself better back then than how I am now (other than cancer free).
No one even knows the problems chemotherapy causes and I blame the companies that profit off medication.
They just throw random medication at me and expect me to blindly take it, when fact remains, they dont even have a clue what they're trying to medicate.
So I only do with medication to try manage pain and that doesn't work, but considering these "medical experts" are who your supposed to trust with your life.
All fail to grasp the body only does what its designed to do, pain is for a reason.
Trying to mask that pain from been very painful to nothing isnt a solution, its whats lead me to how bad I am now.
By fooling my body that everything is OK when its not and now I can barely walk and still no one has a clue.
So when I have scan after scan I ask what are they actually looking for when your reporting back nothing found.... odd that not one person has managed to give me any answers.
What didn't help too was after having recovered enough from BEAM, I was released to go home.
Then covid lockdown was put in force so having no immune system I was forced to isolate again, I was already isolated when having BEAM, to be released to isolation and people were moaning about covid isolation ect.... wow really
I never had access to any after care or recovery because everything was shut down.
Even since everything going back to normal, I am trying to report to them hello here I am, shouldn't I have been put on physio ect to help my body recover and rebuild.
I just feel like your trying to shout as loud as you can, but this system is so fucked up, nobody even notices you.
Then ends up too late.
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