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On 5/3/2025 at 12:06 PM, MissingInAction said:

I've drank prune juice, taken laxatives. Still just a giant Hershey's kiss lodged in there.

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If you’re impacted. Aka log jam in the rectum, then you may need to work from the bottom too. Glycerin suppositories with KY prior to insertion and consider milk and molasses enema. And Mag Citrate oral preps work pretty quickly.

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On 4/27/2025 at 7:47 PM, Damor said:

Love,

pediatric radiologist

Damn straight. Don’t know how the peds onc docs and nurses do it. They have extra crowns in heaven as far as I’m concerned. Them and middle school teachers.

On 5/3/2025 at 10:33 AM, MissingInAction said:

Any recommendations for chemo constipation?

 

25 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

If you’re impacted. Aka log jam in the rectum, then you may need to work from the bottom too. Glycerin suppositories with KY prior to insertion and consider milk and molasses enema. And Mag Citrate oral preps work pretty quickly.

I'll try that next time. Max ex-lax worked it's magic. My guts are evacuated.

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

The pharmacist at CVS briarcliff made a stink about it, convinced it was a typo.

A call from my oncologist set them straight.

The stink is going to be made when the gates open.

5 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I'll try that next time. Max ex-lax worked it's magic. My guts are evacuated.

The first of many. Repeated gut flushings will have you looking like an extra from "300" with nary a sit-up. A few months from now strangers will wish they knew our health secret.

I'm by no means terminal and also suffering a different disease, but I was thinking about Lou Gehrig's timeless quote from his retirement speech;

"Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

It makes so much sense to me now

Kyle Chandler was there with someone when I got the infusion at TO .I wasn't sure it was him until I heard him speak. Distinctive voice.

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Colonoscopy done.  Not a polyp in sight, unlike my last checkup where I had 3.   5 years reprieve till next one. Woot! 

Also, my discharge paperwork says, and I quote: “polyp, detection was aided by AI assisted image processing”. 

Tell your friends and family to go get the damn colonoscopy so you won’t have to post on this thread.

On 5/5/2025 at 11:36 AM, MissingInAction said:

Kyle Chandler was there with someone when I got the infusion at TO .I wasn't sure it was him until I heard him speak. Distinctive voice.

My first infusion I was next to a lady from Mississippi who would have been picked to play Sympathetic Sassy Character in Movie Set in Mississippi. She was on the phone telling a friend about her platelet count, which seemed low, but she was taking it in stride like a dog had tee-teed in her petunias.

My first thought was that I needed to be half as tough as little old ladies. My second was that I was glad to live maybe three miles from the clinic.

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Blood work came back good and typical for this treatment. No need for transfusion, but shouldn't be indoors with the filthy public.

You ARE the filthy public.  So, that may be a problem.

3 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Blood work came back good and typical for this treatment. No need for transfusion, but shouldn't be indoors with the filthy public.

Thats great, everyone is different on when they need transfusions. I watched some people need them after treatment and some people never did. 

Avoiding more time hooked up to stuff is nice. 

On 5/3/2025 at 8:33 AM, MissingInAction said:

One more hour.

Any recommendations for chemo constipation?

Already taken all the laxatives they have here

chemo constipation is no joke.  I got horrific internal hemorrhoids from chemo.  I was losing a LOT of blood.  I was getting super lightheaded and fainting a lot.  Finally went to urgent care and they tested my hemoglobin.  It was 4.7.  He called ahead to the ER and said I need to get there STAT.  Wife drove me to the ER, where normally you wait 2-3 hours.  I was whisked into the back to a treatment  room in about 90 seconds, and 2 minutes later was receiving a blood transfusion.  Was in the hospital for 3 days.  Any hemoglobin count under 5 can lead to organ shutdown and death.  

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

After all the lax I put a glove on and finger blasted my ring piece. Only way to be sure.

Get a bidet.

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

After all the lax I put a glove on and finger blasted my ring piece. Only way to be sure.

Left hand?

3 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

chemo constipation is no joke.  I got horrific internal hemorrhoids from chemo.  I was losing a LOT of blood.  I was getting super lightheaded and fainting a lot.  Finally went to urgent care and they tested my hemoglobin.  It was 4.7.  He called ahead to the ER and said I need to get there STAT.  Wife drove me to the ER, where normally you wait 2-3 hours.  I was whisked into the back to a treatment  room in about 90 seconds, and 2 minutes later was receiving a blood transfusion.  Was in the hospital for 3 days.  Any hemoglobin count under 5 can lead to organ shutdown and death.  

Do you even round-up, bro?

6 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Hair starting to fallout. Mixes well with my dogs sheddings.

Hang in there brother.

38 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


If you’re gonna commit to the bit….COMMIT TO THE BIT:

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I dare you.

I don't have many fucks left to give, but going black face is a bridge too far.

Maybe if I lived in College Station.

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Any wig suggestions?

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4 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Now I look like Charlton Heston's penis, and not in a good way.

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Woke up with a mouthful of my own hair so I went ahead and cue balled it.
Now I look like Charlton Heston's penis, and not in a good way.

“Please describe Charlton Heston’s penis” said nobody on Surly, ever.

In the last 3 years, my hair has fallen out 3 times due to chemo and I just roll bald until it comes back. It’s come back different each time, which is weird.

28 minutes ago, Stringer said:

In the last 3 years, my hair has fallen out 3 times due to chemo and I just roll bald until it comes back. It’s come back different each time, which is weird.

Actually, that is pretty normal for chemotherapy.

On 5/11/2025 at 9:38 AM, MissingInAction said:

Now I look like Charlton Heston's penis, and not in a good way.

IS there a good way?  

6 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

In other news I'll hit a solid month of sobriety at the end of the next cycle.

I looked at my bank account today and was like wtf? 

Yeah but you cheated /AA people

On 5/10/2025 at 10:05 AM, MissingInAction said:

Any wig suggestions?

Shave it. Let everybody see that 666 tattoo at last.

[OK so I didn't read the whole damn thread first, and so I missed a detail. LaDEE freakin DAH. At least nobody on here has cancer, can't imagine how freakin weepy y'all'd all be if THAT happened.]

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On 5/12/2025 at 10:56 PM, NorthLoop said:

Yeah but you cheated /AA people

First Halloween dating the Future Mrs. Canecutter, I distinctly remember her dressed up as Joan Jett leading a chant denigrating AA people who applauded from their meeting house once we finished.

Later, I threw a dude's hockey stick up on a roof. Pretty sure I was sober. Yep.

1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

First Halloween dating the Future Mrs. Canecutter, I distinctly remember her dressed up as Joan Jett leading a chant denigrating AA people who applauded from their meeting house once we finished.

Later, I threw a dude's hockey stick up on a roof. Pretty sure I was sober. Yep.

I have no idea what this entire post means, but I think I understand it. 

After a month+ on Welireg, it doesn't cause diarrhea (yet,) but it causes joint aches in shoulders, hips, ankles, etc.

Or maybe that's being old.

Went from being fried death a couple weeks ago to doing a long show yesterday with good energy. Greed heals a body.

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