Some bad news... *minor update* *bigger update*

[jlee]

Good luck dude - keep us updated!

 

[skyking]

I'm sorry you have had such a great weight dropped on you man.
Scroll on up and you'll see we do care. You can tell us anything you want. PM me or most anybody and we would talk with you on the phone too. If you choose not to tell your parents and need somebody else to talk to, don't hesitate to ask.

 

[Regs]

Damn. Thats some bad news. Likely lymphatic at your age. I wouldnt worry too much Keep us updated. You'll be ok.

 

[zerocool84]

Sorry to hear about that. :beer: on me

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: nick1985
So the last few weeks I have been having lots of stomache aches. Some were pretty severe. At first I thought maybe I was just eating something my body didnt agree with, but after they went on for weeks I went in to get it checked out. The biopsy showed that I have intestinal cancer. I go back in today for more tests to get a better scope of how spread it is and what my chances are, but I cant believe this happened to me. I'm 24, perfect health, I run at least 75 miles a week... I just dont understand.

I told my GF...she took it pretty rough. Much worse than I did. I feel really bad for her having to deal with this, esp since she has only been seeing me for 3/4 weeks. I have not told my family yet. I was going to see what the further testing today shows before I sit my family down to break the news. Part of me feels guilty about doing it...my parents were going to go to vegas this weekend for their anniversary. I think I might let them have their trip then tell them when they get back... I dont know.

Well I just had to get that off my chest...

When all of you wake up tomorrow morning I want you to be thankful for your health, dont take it for granted please.

wait...wat? u told your gf of 3 weeks before your own dam family? erm... something is wrong here.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: nick1985
So the last few weeks I have been having lots of stomache aches. Some were pretty severe. At first I thought maybe I was just eating something my body didnt agree with, but after they went on for weeks I went in to get it checked out. The biopsy showed that I have intestinal cancer. I go back in today for more tests to get a better scope of how spread it is and what my chances are, but I cant believe this happened to me. I'm 24, perfect health, I run at least 75 miles a week... I just dont understand.

I told my GF...she took it pretty rough. Much worse than I did. I feel really bad for her having to deal with this, esp since she has only been seeing me for 3/4 weeks. I have not told my family yet. I was going to see what the further testing today shows before I sit my family down to break the news. Part of me feels guilty about doing it...my parents were going to go to vegas this weekend for their anniversary. I think I might let them have their trip then tell them when they get back... I dont know.

Well I just had to get that off my chest...

When all of you wake up tomorrow morning I want you to be thankful for your health, dont take it for granted please.

wait...wat? u told your gf of 3 weeks before your own dam family? erm... something is wrong here.

His family is going on their anniversary trip. He doesn't want to spoil it for them. I would do the same.

 

[wheresmybacon]

Damn dude. That is really terrible news. Being as healthy as you are, if anyone can beat it, you can. Prayers with you sir.

 

[EGGO]

Cancer doesn't discriminate. Even in perfect health, it can happen. Good luck with everything.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that totally sucks. Hopefully it was found early enough and they can remove it easily. The nice thing about intestine cancer is often they just need to cut a piece off.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Whew, talk about a surprise, especially for your age. I hope your treatments are succesful. Is there a slim chance of misdiagnosis?

The chances of a misdiagnosis will be cleared up today. I'm about to head into the hospital in a little bit. I cant stop shaking

So what did they say?

nick, so sorry to read you are going through all of this. i hope and pray you have a good outcome. {{{{hugs}}}}

 

[Inspector Jihad]

hang in there man. have they caught it early? our treatments for cancer is getting better everyday.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Hoping that they are wrong on this - acceptable for them to be wrong here.

My Mom had this in 1973, took out 6 feet of intestine, no chemo, just prayers - she'll be 78 in about 2 weeks. She was told her 5 year survival chances were about 50%, 10 year basically nothing.

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Rough road ahead, but you've got all our hopes for the best possible outcome.

Count me in on those hopes 100%, nick. We may have crossed swords here on the internets a time or two, but that is all meaningless piddly shite as regards real life.

You're young, your body is resilient, and you have a strong support group of people who care about you both here and out there in 3D land.

I'm wishing you the very, very best, man! :thumbsup:

Ditto. I'm not going to say anything that would bring you down. I have friends and family that have survived cancers for years afterwards. Being as young and as good health as you say you are, I have no doubt you'll pull through this without too much worry.

Best of luck.

 

[sdifox]

Sorry to hear that. But since you are fit, your chances are much better. Chin up.

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Just told my coworker about you. He informed that he had intestinal cancer 4 years ago. He went thru several months of radiation treatment then surgery then six months of chemotherapy. He worked during the radiation treatments and chemotherapy. And was given a 5 year survival rate of 85%, he's 55 now.

If you interested, I can get him in touch with you. Send me a PM if you're interested.

I never buy into that "survival rate" BS. When my dad had non-hodkins lymphoma, I think they told him initially he only had a few months. They're guessing to cover themselves.

 

[amdhunter]

It's probably a tumah. Oh wait.

Good luck man, I am sure you'd pull out of it, it sounds very curable and you probably in top health otherwise.

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: Praetor

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Just told my coworker about you. He informed that he had intestinal cancer 4 years ago. He went thru several months of radiation treatment then surgery then six months of chemotherapy. He worked during the radiation treatments and chemotherapy. And was given a 5 year survival rate of 85%, he's 55 now.

If you interested, I can get him in touch with you. Send me a PM if you're interested.

I never buy into that "survival rate" BS. When my dad had non-hodkins lymphoma, I think they told him initially he only had a few months. They're guessing to cover themselves.

My mother caught breast cancer in 1986. They told her she wouldn't make it 5 years, yet she is a healthy 65 today. I think that survival rate is bs too.

 

[GT1999]

I'm sorry to hear. I hope they caught it early. A buddy of mine has basically the same thing and he turned out just fine.

 

[TehMac]

Good luck man, just ran the mile with the same philosophy: don't know what fucked up thing is going to happen tomorrow, best to stay healthy today.

 

[silverpig]

My old soccer coach who was in great health, never smoked, and ran 15 miles or so a week got hit with lung cancer. He developed cold-like symptoms last summer that never went away so he got it checked out. Stage 4 lung cancer. He died 6 months later due to pneumonia related to the cancer.

All us internet nerds will do what we can for ya. Sorry to hear it

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: nick1985
So the last few weeks I have been having lots of stomache aches. Some were pretty severe. At first I thought maybe I was just eating something my body didnt agree with, but after they went on for weeks I went in to get it checked out. The biopsy showed that I have intestinal cancer. I go back in today for more tests to get a better scope of how spread it is and what my chances are, but I cant believe this happened to me. I'm 24, perfect health, I run at least 75 miles a week... I just dont understand.

I told my GF...she took it pretty rough. Much worse than I did. I feel really bad for her having to deal with this, esp since she has only been seeing me for 3/4 weeks. I have not told my family yet. I was going to see what the further testing today shows before I sit my family down to break the news. Part of me feels guilty about doing it...my parents were going to go to vegas this weekend for their anniversary. I think I might let them have their trip then tell them when they get back... I dont know.

Well I just had to get that off my chest...

When all of you wake up tomorrow morning I want you to be thankful for your health, dont take it for granted please.

wait...wat? u told your gf of 3 weeks before your own dam family? erm... something is wrong here.

His family is going on their anniversary trip. He doesn't want to spoil it for them. I would do the same.

sorry to be the different one... but if im dying... the last thing im going to do is not tell anyone so they can have an enjoyable anniversary...

your family is going to want to spend as much time with you as they can...
OP is being selfish by not telling them.

 

[dennilfloss]

So sorry to hear that. Hope you'll pull through. You'll be in my prayers.

I had both a gastroscopy and a colonoscopy recently to investigate some intestinal bleeding. Turns out what I have is something else and not cause for alarm. I'm going Tuesday for rigid sigmoidoscopy and banding procedure.

 

[lxskllr]

Good luck. I hope things work out for you in the best way :^)

 

[nick1985]

posted in OP

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: nick1985
So the last few weeks I have been having lots of stomache aches. Some were pretty severe. At first I thought maybe I was just eating something my body didnt agree with, but after they went on for weeks I went in to get it checked out. The biopsy showed that I have intestinal cancer. I go back in today for more tests to get a better scope of how spread it is and what my chances are, but I cant believe this happened to me. I'm 24, perfect health, I run at least 75 miles a week... I just dont understand.

I told my GF...she took it pretty rough. Much worse than I did. I feel really bad for her having to deal with this, esp since she has only been seeing me for 3/4 weeks. I have not told my family yet. I was going to see what the further testing today shows before I sit my family down to break the news. Part of me feels guilty about doing it...my parents were going to go to vegas this weekend for their anniversary. I think I might let them have their trip then tell them when they get back... I dont know.

Well I just had to get that off my chest...

When all of you wake up tomorrow morning I want you to be thankful for your health, dont take it for granted please.

wait...wat? u told your gf of 3 weeks before your own dam family? erm... something is wrong here.

His family is going on their anniversary trip. He doesn't want to spoil it for them. I would do the same.

sorry to be the different one... but if im dying... the last thing im going to do is not tell anyone so they can have an enjoyable anniversary...

your family is going to want to spend as much time with you as they can...
OP is being selfish by not telling them.

At this point it's not known whether or not to OP is dying, the OP made a decision to spare his family the worry so they can enjoy themselves on their honeymoon.

let's keep things more positive and not mention anything that has to do with death/dying anymore yea? that's probably the last thing the OP wants to read about at this time, so let's just give him our full support as a community and be there for him.