GET YOURSELF CHECKED!!!

Did it! Colonoscopy Failed the poop test. No sedation... got it done without so I could drive home after (and get dinner on the way home). Gentlemen let me advise you... Smoke some fine weed, ask for full pass out drugs! Not pleasant butt, not that big a deal really. Upper colons a BITCH though. Pushes on Diaphragm so you can't breath to well butt, only lasts for 20-30 seconds as it passes under. 3 polyps removed and biopsy came back benign... Get checked!!!!! I'm 56 and this was my first ride. 

On behalf of dudes under 40 (Im 39 for 2 more months), I commend you for going through it.  At the same time, Id like to express how f*$%ed up you made it sound, and how little this will help me get checked... 

Jerry, wishing you the best in the coming weeks/months! 

better than colon cancer. Was actually cool watching the big 50" screen tv of the procedure. The body is a weird place on the inside! Get it done. Get checked. If I can do it, you can do it! (Follow the pre clean out steps to the letter and drink ALL the big bottle of electrolyte.....)

Thank you all for the well wishes.  I can't express how much that means to me, especially since I am not able to actually go out and talk to anyone in person about this.  Just a few e-mails.  It would be nice to sit down over coffee or a meal out and just be normal for a while. 

3 weeks is an awful wait, but it takes up to 7 business days just to get the insurance approval for the scans and biopsies, another 5 to schedule them, then another 5 for the pathology report, then my oncologist has to determine how to treat before I'm finally called back in to hear the news.  I'll be lucky if all that happens in just 3 weeks.  Due to CV-19, everything is delayed.  The labs, the testing facilities, etc are all having to distance and after 5 months, it's all horribly back logged.  I fear I'll be a casualty of CV-19 because everything else takes a back seat. 
So far I've had to take 3 CV-19 tests.  They are required before each test and my surgery.  I'll probably have to take another 2 or 3 before I can start treatment as I further test and then go in for the IV cocktail of chem drugs.  I really hate that test!  I'm surprised they do it to you when you are sitting behind the wheel of a car.  Ha!  Each time I'm given the CV-19 test, I have to self quarantine for 3 days prior to what ever test or procedure I'm taking.  If my wife leaves the house during those 3 days, I have to stay 6' away from her even. 

Regarding my diagnosis of lymphoma, no one seems to have a clue what causes it.  Maybe Round-Up according to lawyer ads on the TV, but I am not going down that rabbit hole.  Other than some anxiety, I feel fine.  Staying busy working around the house.  Living out in the woods on acreage, there's always something I can do.   Today I go back to the surgeon for my stitches to be removed. Oh boy! 

Everyone take care of themselves.  Don't do anything to get injured or sick.  At least until some sort of normalcy returns and everything isn't so CV-19 centric.  Check yourself for lumps, especially the lymph node areas.  If you feel anything different, an ache or lump or something, do not wait.  See your doctor and get checked. 
Cheers!! 

Thank you all for the well wishes.  I can't express how much that means to me, especially since I am not able to actually go out and talk to anyone in person about this.  Just a few e-mails.  It would be nice to sit down over coffee or a meal out and just be normal for a while. 

3 weeks is an awful wait, but it takes up to 7 business days just to get the insurance approval for the scans and biopsies, another 5 to schedule them, then another 5 for the pathology report, then my oncologist has to determine how to treat before I'm finally called back in to hear the news.  I'll be lucky if all that happens in just 3 weeks.  Due to CV-19, everything is delayed.  The labs, the testing facilities, etc are all having to distance and after 5 months, it's all horribly back logged.  I fear I'll be a casualty of CV-19 because everything else takes a back seat. 
So far I've had to take 3 CV-19 tests.  They are required before each test and my surgery.  I'll probably have to take another 2 or 3 before I can start treatment as I further test and then go in for the IV cocktail of chem drugs.  I really hate that test!  I'm surprised they do it to you when you are sitting behind the wheel of a car.  Ha!  Each time I'm given the CV-19 test, I have to self quarantine for 3 days prior to what ever test or procedure I'm taking.  If my wife leaves the house during those 3 days, I have to stay 6' away from her even. 

Regarding my diagnosis of lymphoma, no one seems to have a clue what causes it.  Maybe Round-Up according to lawyer ads on the TV, but I am not going down that rabbit hole.  Other than some anxiety, I feel fine.  Staying busy working around the house.  Living out in the woods on acreage, there's always something I can do.   Today I go back to the surgeon for my stitches to be removed. Oh boy! 

Everyone take care of themselves.  Don't do anything to get injured or sick.  At least until some sort of normalcy returns and everything isn't so CV-19 centric.  Check yourself for lumps, especially the lymph node areas.  If you feel anything different, an ache or lump or something, do not wait.  See your doctor and get checked. 
Cheers!!

Hi Jerry

Wish for your fast and full recovery.  We need to hit the slope together after CV-19.  Hope ski resorts will be open this season.

Paul

Hi Jerry
Wish for your fast and full recovery.  We need to hit the slope together after CV-19.  Hope ski resorts will be open this season.
Paul

Hey Paul!  Thanks for the well wishes.  I bought my season pass for Sierra At Tahoe already for the early discount.  I decided to treat myself and also got the fast pass and the preferred parking.  I'm hoping I'll be through any treatment by Christmas and that I won't be feeling too puny to ski.  It was a real bummer when season was cut short last year. 

Hi Jerry
Wish for your fast and full recovery.  We need to hit the slope together after CV-19.  Hope ski resorts will be open this season.
Paul

Hey Paul!  Thanks for the well wishes.  I bought my season pass for Sierra At Tahoe already for the early discount.  I decided to treat myself and also got the fast pass and the preferred parking.  I'm hoping I'll be through any treatment by Christmas and that I won't be feeling too puny to ski.  It was a real bummer when season was cut short last year.

I ordered Epic Military Pass but love to go back to Sierra At Tahoe for a day trip during powder day.  I have not been to Sierra since I stop teaching around 7-8 years ago.

Paul

Thx for the reminder Joel!

You guys should all try face potion.  Its the shiznick

Thanks for this.  Can this be found locally?

OP.  Best of luck!   I wish you the absolute best..

Thx for the reminder Joel!

You guys should all try face potion.  Its the shiznick

Thanks for this.  Can this be found locally?

OP.  Best of luck!   I wish you the absolute best..

OP passed away a few years ago

Just an update;  I've been tested six ways to Sunday and still waiting on bone marrow genetic tests.  But enough testing to show I have Small B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.  There are many sub types of this kind of Lymphoma so testing continues.  It is narrowed down enough that chemo will start on October 1st and 2nd.  Takes two days to administer the drugs; 5 1/2 hours first day, 2 hours second day.  Hopefully I tolerate them well so the next month course will not take so long, only 3 and 1 hours for days 1 and 2.  I am scheduled for 6 courses spread 28 days apart.  Roughly 6 months of treatment. 
Along with testing, I've been getting vaccines for Shingles, Flu, Pneumonia (2 types), even tetanus because my immune system will be greatly weakened with chemo. 
Been getting stuff done around the house as well so I won't have too many things built up by the time I feel good enough again to tackle them.  Hard to do with all that heat and smoke!!  But tomorrow I think I'll take a little motorcycle ride.  Woop!! 
Wish me luck! 

Good Luck Jerry 

Good luck Jerry. Hope it works out well for you.

Sending you good thoughts and prayers,
Al

Sending good vibes to you Jerry...

Wishing you the strength to see this through and a speedy recovery! 

Sending good thoughts your way Jerry.

I give you good thoughts and  recommend you stock up on cannabis gummies thc and cbd thc helps with pain and  your appetite and cbd supposedly  fighs cancer cells.

I give you good thoughts and  recommend you stock up on cannabis gummies thc and cbd thc helps with pain and  your appetite and cbd supposedly  fighs cancer cells.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I've been wondering about cannabis and cancer.
I know less than nothing about such products other than my brother-in-law had some sort of vape pen device when he had his cancer.  Maybe it wasn't vape pen, but it was some sort of tiny pipe that had an igniter built into it.  He could step outside, take a couple hits and come back in with zero odor. 

Where can I knowledge-up on this and sources?  I'm not going into some damn hippy shop where stoners go.  I got no problem with anyone who does.  Anyone who knows me, knows this is just not me or my style.  Too many years of reefer madness training when I went to school in the 60's conditioned me to never try any recreational drugs.  Ha!