We're getting old (OO medical complaints)

[dbt1949]

As a kid I remember going to the hospital numerous times so she could have radiation treatments.
She had one of her breasts removed due to cancer.
Still something I don't like to look back on. Good news is she lived another 40 years.

[Zarathud]

Very sorry for your wife and family. It’s a lot of stress at the worst time. Hoping for the best outcome and limited side effects on this journey.

[Kraken]

Wishing you and the missus the best, ILB.

[Smoove_B]

Wishing you and the missus the best, ILB.

Can't say it any better. +1

[Scuzz]

Wife had surgery on Monday. Things seem to have been successful, and she's supposed to be released tomorrow morning. We'll know more when they get the results of the lymph node analysis in a couple of weeks.

Didn't take a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, 3 of the 28 nodes they removed showed cancer so they're pegging her at Stage 3. She'll start with additional treatments (unclear as of now whether that's chemo, radiation, or both) 4-6 weeks post surgery to give the body time to heal from the surgery. She's been set up with oncology, so we'll hopefully know more details when that's done.

She's not taking this well. I tend to have a "everything will work out fine" attitude while she's more likely to go to the worst case scenario. That often equals a nice balance when we're dealing with family issues, but it's harder here. I'm still hopeful what with survival rates for this type of cancer even at Stage 3, but she's confronting her own mortality hard right now.

I hope the best for your wife and you. My wife would melt down if this happened to either one of us whereas I take your approach.

[Skinypupy]

I came in here to bitch about how badly colonoscopy prep sucks but that's small potatoes, comparatively.

Wishing the best for you guys ILB.

[Kraken]

I came in here to bitch about how badly colonoscopy prep sucks but that's small potatoes, comparatively.

Mmmm, potatoes. During my last prep, I rediscovered how much I hate Jello. I literally prefer to eat nothing.

My doctor's report noted "excellent visibility," to which my physician friend added "A-1 colon. Would scope again."

[Skinypupy]

I came in here to bitch about how badly colonoscopy prep sucks but that's small potatoes, comparatively.

Mmmm, potatoes. During my last prep, I rediscovered how much I hate Jello. I literally prefer to eat nothing.

My doctor's report noted "excellent visibility," to which my physician friend added "A-1 colon. Would scope again."

I haven’t had Jello for years until today. I actually have quite liked it, but that may be just the general hunger talking.

This is my first one of these but given the now extensive history of GI cancer in the family, I get to start a couple years earlier than normal.

[Isgrimnur]

I prefer my reconstituted boiled farm animals not to be served to me as an attempt at dessert.

[Kurth]

I am laid low with an intercostal muscle pull. Apparently, the intercostals are the muscles between your ribs, and they tend to get pulled when you are in your late forties and decide you’re finally really going to commit to lifting.

I felt a little sore after doing rows the other day with more weight than normal. Then, I went and played tennis with the kids and clearly aggravated the injury (on my left side, right beneath my heart). Then, while using a leaf blower to blow the dust out of the garage, I sneezed. Disaster! Agony. I couldn’t really get a good breath in fo five minutes. So incredibly painful.

Now I’m trying to take it easy, but it’s incredibly frustrating. I can’t even run like normal because breathing heavily really hurts. And sleeping. And taking off a shirt. And putting on a sock. And . . . pretty much everything.

From what I’ve read, there’s nothing to be done but rest it. Which sucks.

Total old man injury.

[Blackhawk]

While I am recovering from a pulled muscle in my right shoulder - probably my trapezius - from getting back to working out, this time with inverted rows.

At the same time, I seem to have arthritis in my AC joint, and I'm discovering how well that goes with push ups (spoiler: poorly.)

[The Meal]

Best of luck to MrsILB, and to the whole ILB family.

[Scraper]

I just had my first colonoscopy this week. The doctor found 2 polyps. I'm waiting on the labs, but he said they looked normal. In the end I'm glad I went in and had it done. Two polyps are exactly 2 more than I want.

[Jeff V]

I just had my first colonoscopy this week. The doctor found 2 polyps. I'm waiting on the labs, but he said they looked normal. In the end I'm glad I went in and had it down. Two polyps are exactly 2 more than I want.

I had one, and received a 10 year pass until my next one. Which is creeping up (3 years away?)

So yesterday my wife complained that a "bump" in her mouth that she thinks was caused by her denture suddenly got big. Then she showed me...HOLY SHIT! It was like a large, fat blue lima bean hanging from the roof of her mouth. I took her to the badly-named Immediate Care, came back 2 hours later when the doctor could see her, came back 2 hours after that since I had to run the kids to their activities and they still hadn't received her 45 minutes after we arrived. And they couldn't do any care at all. They suggested she see an oromaxillofacial surgeon to have it removed. But my wife would need a referral from her PCP, who can't see her until Monday. Today my wife said there doesn't seem to be any feeling in the connective tissue, she wants to just lop it off herself -- I keep warning her that if there's a blood vessel (even a small one) feeding that thing it's gonna bleed forever -- wounds in the mouth do not cauterize well.

I half expect she will come home tonight telling me she removed it while at work.

[Kraken]

I aced my recent scope but the butt doctor wants to see me again in five years anyway because I am old and have good insurance. I hope to be safely dead before then.

Hope your wife’s lima bean turns out to be nothing.

[dbt1949]

I told my doctor after the first one it wasn't going to be a second experience. If I get colon cancer and die so be it.

[Isgrimnur]

[LordMortis]

The last scope I went for, the prep was much easier, though it still sucked and the worst thing about the scope itself is that you need someone to come with you, wait, and attest to driving you. The scope itself is nothing, you wake up a bit dehydrated and mildly uncomfortable until you've farted a gazillion times. Maybe the Crone's discomfort has gotten me used being in a state of intestinal distress. I've been on the five year plan for getting on 15 years now. My fourth go around should be happening any time now.

I've never had polyps removed but my father and two of my sisters have. I may change my tune if the scope turns into carving out my insides.

[MHS]

Thinking of you and your family, LawBoy. Hoping for the best possible outcomes.

[Default]

Ugh, I hope everyone recoups quickly.
I really hope that your wife gets better soon, ILB.

[Jeff V]

My wife texted me last night that the abomination in her mouth simply "dropped off", no blood, nothing. Yay.

Today she forwarded me a message she received from a former neighbor (to this day, the only neighbor we got really close to). Her husband, I'd guess to be around 40 or so, was diagnosed with colon cancer and it had metastasized to his liver. Their daughter (who my daughter calls "her sister") is I think around 8 years old -- she was in my son's Taekwondo class until they moved to Florida (now South Carolina). This is really awful news from a family we like a lot (we had dinner with them when went to Disney last summer), I desperately hope it's still treatable.

[LordMortis]

My wife texted me last night that the abomination in her mouth simply "dropped off", no blood, nothing. Yay.

:puke:

[Jeff V]

We haven't bonded with too many neighbors since moving here 5 years ago, but one we did moved to Florida more than a year ago (we visited when we were there last summer), and they've since moved again, this time to SC. Wife forwarded me a message from the wife (who was the neighborhood baker) that her husband -- who I'd guess to be no more than 40, was diagnosed with prostate cancer and hey, it metastized to your liver! This is awful news, my daughter considers their daughter to be her "sister", and she used to be in my son's taekwondo class.

[Daehawk]

My wife texted me last night that the abomination in her mouth simply "dropped off", no blood, nothing. Yay.

:puke:

Probably just an Alabama tick.

[Blackhawk]

Or an actual lima bean.

[dbt1949]

It was a spider egg with hundreds of little bitty baby spiders.

[Sudy]

You know how all the prescription bottles I've ever seen in my life say "if a dose is missed, take it as soon as you notice unless it's within 12 hours of your next dose--do not double dose"? Are there any medications for which the the warning would be that you should double up your doses in that scenario?

[Chraolic]

You know how all the prescription bottles I've ever seen in my life say "if a dose is missed, take it as soon as you notice unless it's within 12 hours of your next dose--do not double dose"? Are there any medications for which the the warning would be that you should double up your doses in that scenario?

I doubt it, that seems like it would be a giant legal liability to the producer. What if someone misses two doses, or three?