Family cancer scare

[Belsnickel]

(08-17-2016, 11:07 PM)Beaker Wrote: That injury could very well end up saving his life if it was the reason they discovered the cancer. Good luck.

(08-18-2016, 09:22 AM)WychesWarrior Wrote: All the best to you and your's Matt. Prayers for a speedy and full recovery. As Beaker noted, the injury just may have saved his life, I sure hope so.

I have no doubt about this at all. I know that testicular cancer has been known to be very aggressive in some people and so with this occurring he has a good chance. Of course he will really have to keep an eye on things throughout his life.

(08-18-2016, 12:26 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Lost my father to colon cancer in June.

(08-18-2016, 10:18 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: I lost my father to liver cancer a year ago.

I am currently just going on borrowed time with my father. This will be 14 years in November since his CLL diagnosis. I am lucky he's been strong enough to make it this far, but the past year and a half, two years, has seen him declining more and more to the point where more than a few steps without his oxygen tank is too much. They can't figure out what is wrong with his respiratory system, but they know at this point that because of the issues one lung is permanently out of commission. It took a year of him being on oxygen for the VA to let him see a pulmonologist, so I'm sure that didn't make things any better. He's ready to give up, but he keeps on going for my mother, sister, and niece.

Fred, on the colon cancer front, that is my big scare. My dad's mother and two of her siblings died from colon cancer. I'm kind of doomed. I'm considered starting to get tested around 35. I know that's probably TMI, but hey, whatever.