Re: I am at the end of my road.
I am so sorry man. I have been going through a rough patch in life but hearing your courage through this makes me realize the need to capitalize on the positives. I hope for you there is a cure. If you dont mind me asking, what type of cancer started this and at what age? Wishing you the best.
-rich
For years I have had problems with E coli uranry infections, antibiotics would clear things up ranging from a month or two, to years. In Jan of 2010 the infection started again, my doctor gave me antibiotics that would clear things up and next month the infection was back. I looked all over the internet for reasons why, never a word about cancer.
We decided it was time to see a urologist. The urologist set me up for same day surgery to see into my bladder, he found my bladder highly irritated and a mass. He took a sample to evaluate, the next week I was back in same day surgery to have the mass removed. A week later the urologist informed me that it was a cancer. The best place to be treated was at Sloan Kettering in NYC. It turns out that slone screwed up big, big time.
They would do one test at a time and next week another test and so on. The travel was very hard on me. On one trip to Sloan I passed out in the street on my way to the bus stop, I had time to lay down and not fall. That night my friends took me to sloans ER and I spent 3 days at Sloan. That night they kept asking me if I fell and hit my head, after a while I was sick of the question, hey get the s***t out of your ears and lesion to me.
The next day the doctor assigned to my case and her students asked the same question, gerrrr. Ok I passed out because I was dehydrated, low blood pressure, iv fixed that.
I asked that being that I will be at Sloan for a few days, how about completing the tests that are pending? They were like a deer cough in bright head lights, clue less.
The surgery was on 1/7/2011, my bladder us gone and I piss into a bag. They took about 6inches of my small intestans, connected the tubes from my kidnes to one end and the other end goes through my stomic wall. try looking up urostome.
The oncologist that is treat me here at a local hospital is following sloans instructions using 5fu4, 144 ml lt over a week using a take home pump, start Monday, end Friday, less side effects and more effective.
What causes bladder cancer;
Bladder Cancer Causes, Symptoms, Treatment - Bladder Cancer Causes on eMedicineHealth
as luck would have it I get the worst kind, Squamous cell.
I can not find the site that lists the risk from most likely to least likely.
My risk was at the very bottom of the list and the worst kind to boot, related to skin cancer, but only a few drugs can be used internally, 5FU4 has a 30% chance of working.
And there we have it.
