Cancer victory

[EvMetro]

Ended up donating a finger, but it looks like I have won this round with mother nature. Negative margins.

 

[WinterBorn]

Excellent news!! Congrats on the victory!

Just think of it as giving cancer the finger.

 

[EvMetro]

I searched the internet for prosthetic finger images, and it looks like there are plenty to choose from. All sizes, all race backgrounds, all lengths, and prices. Not sure if I will bother getting one though. I still have several weeks of healing from the surgery left, so plenty of time to decide.

 

[WinterBorn]

Get one that doesn't match. Just to mess with people.

 

[marvin martian]

I searched the internet for prosthetic finger images, and it looks like there are plenty to choose from. All sizes, all race backgrounds, all lengths, and prices. Not sure if I will bother getting one though. I still have several weeks of healing from the surgery left, so plenty of time to decide.

This is your chance!

 

[EvMetro]

Excellent news!! Congrats on the victory!

Just think of it as giving cancer the finger.

Giving the finger to cancer was a great way to summarize it. My social circle enjoyed this, thanks.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I gave up a hunk of kidney myself....I look at the bright side,it takes way less liquor to get a buzz now.

 

[EvMetro]

I gave up a hunk of kidney myself....I look at the bright side,it takes way less liquor to get a buzz now.

Always good to look at the bright side.

Glad to hear that you beat it.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I gave up a hunk of kidney myself....I look at the bright side,it takes way less liquor to get a buzz now.

Always good to look at the bright side.

Glad to hear that you beat it.

Like wise.

 

[Toro]

Ended up donating a finger, but it looks like I have won this round with mother nature. Negative margins.

Awesome! Congratulations!

One day, cancer will be like diabetes - not always beatable but always treatable.

We just gotta make sure we're all around when that day comes.

 

[WinterBorn]

Excellent news!! Congrats on the victory!

Just think of it as giving cancer the finger.

Giving the finger to cancer was a great way to summarize it. My social circle enjoyed this, thanks.

Glad I could help.

 

[strollingbones]

i want in for my bladder scope on tuesday...drove into boone....office moved a few months ago...found office...walked into first floor reading the damn info thing...phone rings...my doctor has an emergency and is in the or..probably will be there for the day...rebooked for august 17...ahhh well....

glad you beat "finger cancer" so it was bone cancer?

 

[Oz and the Orchestra]

Ended up donating a finger, but it looks like I have won this round with mother nature. Negative margins.

Congrats!

Unfortunately for me, the news has gone the other way. The cancer that was dormant for seven years has now mutated to overcome the chemotherapy and has started to spread.
I got the news by video from my consultant just half an hour before England played Germany in the Euro finals. Completely ruined my concentration on the match. Anyway, I always knew this day would come and have to accept that chemo gave me an extra 6.5 years so I have had a good innings.

 

[EvMetro]

i want in for my bladder scope on tuesday...drove into boone....office moved a few months ago...found office...walked into first floor reading the damn info thing...phone rings...my doctor has an emergency and is in the or..probably will be there for the day...rebooked for august 17...ahhh well....

glad you beat "finger cancer" so it was bone cancer?

Aggressive digital papillary adenocarcinoma. It took me a month to even remember how to say it. It was in the tissue and touching the bone.

 

[EvMetro]

Ended up donating a finger, but it looks like I have won this round with mother nature. Negative margins.

Congrats!

Unfortunately for me, the news has gone the other way. The cancer that was dormant for seven years has now mutated to overcome the chemotherapy and has started to spread.
I got the news by video from my consultant just half an hour before England played Germany in the Euro finals. Completely ruined my concentration on the match. Anyway, I always knew this day would come and have to accept that chemo gave me an extra 6.5 years so I have had a good innings.

I am glad you got some time, and I pray that you end up getting some more time again.

My doc says that I've got to get screened regularly now, since the likelihood of reoccurring is still ridiculously high. I guess we need to catch it immediately.

 

[Road Runner]

Congratulations!!! You came, you saw, you kicked its ass alright!!!

 

[MadChemist]

Ended up donating a finger, but it looks like I have won this round with mother nature. Negative margins.

How were you diagnosed ?

 

[strollingbones]

cancer of the sweat glands...omg...and so very rare....what specialist figured it out? EvMetro

 

[EvMetro]

Ended up donating a finger, but it looks like I have won this round with mother nature. Negative margins.

How were you diagnosed ?

Went in to have what I thought to be a wart removed. They sent it out for a biopsy and called me a couple weeks later and gave me the bad news. Did all the imaging to make sure it hadn't spread. Once it was isolated to the finger, the solution was to amputate the finger. Still waiting for a post op ct scan and a lymph node biopsy, but I got the results back from the biopsy of the amputated finger, negative margins.

 

[EvMetro]

cancer of the sweat glands...omg...and so very rare....what specialist figured it out? EvMetro

You know your stuff, this was a super rare one. They had the initial removed tumor for about a week, and ended up sending it to a rare tumor specialist to figure out what it was. Have had a tumor board all the way through it, since it is so rare.