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Cancer Treatment...

the doctors decided that surgery is no longer on the table... the recovery time after the surgery, with possible delays from complications, gives the cancer too much chance to spread... and its already starting to show the hints that it might be trying to spread already.

i have a 2 month program of daily chemo and radiation that will start on friday, dec 2nd, not including weekends and holidays.

As a canadian, everything is covered for bills and such... but short term disability only pays 65% of what i would be normally getting at work. the two months of treatment, and the month of recovery after, are all going to be pretty tight...

i hate suggesting it, but if anyone wants to make a donation, i can give my paypal info in a private message.

otherwise, just your well wishes to get through this will be appreciated.

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Added:	7 years, 4 months ago 01 Dec 2016 07:32 CET

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Stumpycoon

7 years, 4 months ago

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Please let us know the progress?

drakiskier

7 years, 4 months ago

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@ Stumpycoon

i will. thank you.

AlexReynard

7 years, 4 months ago

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Jesus, I don't know how I missed that you were going through this, amigo. Fuck yeah I'll kick in. I don't have much, but good furry authors are worth investing in.

I know there's not much I can say that you haven't heard. I can't magically wish you well, and I'm sure you're already trying your hardest. Just... remind yourself, as often as you can, of the reasons to hold on. It's pretty well proven that attitude does play a part in recovery. People who feel useful and loved get better, while hopelessness just makes you want to sink down and give in. I've had experience with both. You own your body, amigo. Order it to cut the crap and get back on track so you can continue enjoying what you enjoy. :)

drakiskier

7 years, 4 months ago

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@ AlexReynard

danke mein friend.

i know attitude is everything.    im still smiling and happy despite the situation.   i have many friends who care about me irl and online, and they are all wishing me well.

as for donating, i wont stop you, but at the same time, most of the donated money would be going towards stuff to keep me happy and enjoy my time.   short term disability with work will be providing enough to pay bills and rent, and i have a good stockpile of food.

i am using this time to work on a game...   see if i cannot get launched into that career with this time off.   i have had ideas for games for years, gonna finally try to get some made.    the first one is gonna be a mech-themed roguelike.  making sprites sucks though.  :P

AlexReynard

7 years, 4 months ago

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@ drakiskier

>i have many friends who care about me irl and online, and they are all wishing me well.

Good! Strong connections to others are strong medicine.

>as for donating, i wont stop you, but at the same time, most of the donated money would be going towards stuff to keep me happy and enjoy my time.

Is happiness not a worthy cause? ;)

>i have had ideas for games for years, gonna finally try to get some made.

Nice; turning a negative into a positive. I remember when I broke my ankle. It gave me lots of writing time.

drakiskier

7 years, 4 months ago

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@ AlexReynard

"	AlexReynard wrote:
	>as for donating, i wont stop you, but at the same time, most of the donated money would be going towards stuff to keep me happy and enjoy my time. Is happiness not a worthy cause? ;)

oh, of course it is! i just wanted to make sure you know that any money you donated would be used on things that would cheer me up, not things like bills and such that i already have covered.

toss me a PM and ill send you my paypal link.

Blackraven2

7 years, 4 months ago

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Fuck! I missed your last Journal so this caught me completely by surprise. I hadn't realized these things escalate that quickly, that's scary!

I have had gotten surgery for lumps under the skin myself, but luckily the results of the biopsy had turned out "benign".
My great aunt had breast cancer, but they caught it early and after surgery and therapy it didn't come back.

As Alex already said, your primary defense line in this is your own immune system and your own strength. Especially during Chemo, which will put you under a lot of physical strain. At that point the right mental attitude is paramount. As the Asian medicine figured out ages ago, body and mind are one. The state of your body dictates how well you feel, but how you allow yourself to feel also directly affects how much strength your body will have, and how well you can mobilize reserves. Willpower and a positive state of mind has much more effect on health progression than western medicine has attributed to it for most of the 19th and 20th century (though there's quite a few studies on it in more recent years) and in case of cancer, that's often the difference between life and death.

To put it graphically, Chemo is like nuklear warfare. Sure, it kills the enemy alright, but you can't stay put, dug in your nuclear bunker until its over. No, you have to put up your gas mask and send your troops out just after the blast-wave, right into the fallout, then lead them all the way to ground zero. On the way, you have to rout up any enemy survivors with grenades, flamethrowers and chainsaws before they even have the time to dig themselves out of the smoking wreckage.

Cause if you miss just one, they're gonna mutate further with all that radiation around, and you have a full grown zombie apocalypse on your hands that'll spread and eventually overrun everything, no matter how many nukes get dropped.

So take it on, show no mercy and make no prisoners. This is annihilation warfare, its time to suit up and kill zombies! And if your soldiers puke and cough and complain about radiation and falling out hair, give them an Iodine pill, tell them to take a deep breath, suck it up and keep fighting. Nobody ever said it'd gonna be easy.

Enough of pep talk. You have a battle to fight. In the mean time, I'll write a story for you. If there's any particular theme you want in it, feel free to PM me with the specifics :)

( And don't you dare loose that battle. If you get bitten by the zombies, no story for you! )

drakiskier

7 years, 4 months ago

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@ Blackraven2

oh, i know how chemo works.      i actually described it to my mom in that exact way.     but i added one other detail.      cancer is like a spider.    you can kill it with a precision strike...   but if you dont act soon enough, then it lays eggs...   and then the only way to be sure is to burn the whole area.

nuke the place from orbit..  its the only way to be sure.

thank you for the offer of writing a story...   if you do, make it something akin to a cancer defeating story or something.

and i have no intention of losing the battle...

as i stated above to alex, i am using this time off to work on a game....  trying to get the sprites and such worked out for the basic mechanics.

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