colo-rectal cancer – Lee Duigon

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Okay–they’ve shaved (?) the prostrate gland, they’ve taken 100 little stones out of my bladder, they’ve cut me loose from the catheter, and nuked the rectal cancer, adios muchacho.

No, I’m not done. But they checked out my bladder today, pronounced it to be almost up and running… and now I’ll have to wait a while before they operate on the colon cancer. I need time to recover.

And the hip surgery is lurking somewhere down the road.

But I need time. I had a terrible night, last night. I don’t know when they want to go after my colon. The nurse today said, “You’re good to go.” Well, everybody knows more about this than I do.

Keep the prayers coming, folks.

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A picture of health (wish it was me!)

The doctors have agreed, and here’s the plan so far.

Friday: knock me out at the hospital and put some doohickey in me, somewhere, so they won’t have to poke a new hole every time they want to do chemotherapy.

Next: shoot chemotherapy chemicals into me to beat down Mr. Cancer. I don’t how how long they’ll keep doing that, or what the schedule will be.

Then: Radiation, plus chemo pills. The idea is to shrink the tumor.

And having done all that, it’s surgery.

Oh–but what about my hip? Don’t I need a hip replacement?

Yes, you do, but first they’ve gotta kill the cancer. Physical therapy won’t do you any good if the cancer kills you first.

Oh how I miss our cat! But the job now is to get me off the Grim Reaper’s to-do list.