Krev vs cancer

Holy sweet mother. Best of luck to you during your recovery, man.

That is crazy!! It happened so fast. Glad you are doing well though, and keep us updated.

Good God, man. That's insane and awesome on so many different levels! Glad that it's out, and I hope you have a quick recovery.

Also: love being Canadian? You misspelled tumour! I'll chalk it up to your post-op recovery. This time.

A small orange? Holy sh*t.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, that's some scary stuff there.

Also, is it terrible that now I'm wondering what happens to the space where the tumor was? I mean the size of an orange? You could make it into a secret hiding compartment!

Aries wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

You should have asked if you could have the tumor after they removed it. It's yours after all, and a brain tumor in a jar would make a pretty sweet Halloween decoration.

I tried that, when my fingers were amputated. They said they couldn't anymore, something about biological blah blah something or other. Lame.

Plus if his surgery worked the same way my mother's did, they tend to slice these things away in thinner and thinner slivers as they get closer to any brain matter.

I wouldn't imagine there'd be much of the actual tumor left.

Okay, so, HOW small of an orange? I've seen some pretty small oranges.

That's just...wow. I'm really glad that you are doing OK.

Thin_J wrote:
Aries wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

You should have asked if you could have the tumor after they removed it. It's yours after all, and a brain tumor in a jar would make a pretty sweet Halloween decoration.

I tried that, when my fingers were amputated. They said they couldn't anymore, something about biological blah blah something or other. Lame.

Plus if his surgery worked the same way my mother's did, they tend to slice these things away in thinner and thinner slivers as they get closer to any brain matter.

I wouldn't imagine there'd be much of the actual tumor left.

That's disappointing, if I ever got a tumor removed I wanted to put it on display in a jar as an example to my other cells. Insurrection will not be tolerated!

Wow, it's like you got a 1UP for real in life. That's awesome, very good to hear they detected it early enough. Yeah, I couldn't imagine having to pay for surgery and drugs - go Canada.

Wow^3! Glad it all is going well. You definitely would win the Love thread for the whole not being dead thing.

muttonchop wrote:

That's disappointing, if I ever got a tumor removed I wanted to put it on display in a jar as an example to my other cells. Insurrection will not be tolerated!

That's part of what I thought was so amazing about it actually.

I can't imagine being the surgeon, slicing away sliver after sliver of the thing over the course of 10 hours and never making a mistake. And then doing it again for 6 hours the very next morning.

Closest thing I can imagine to a miracle worker.

Also: On the medical costs.. in my mother's case the total tally for her insurance company ended up being over $450,000. That's just the surgery and the hospital stay. Does not include the chemo or any other tests or appointments since.

So... yeah. There's that.

I believe my dad informed me their total out of pocket for the entire thing has, to date, been about $1500. So... really can't complain about the insurance company.

*hugs* I hope they got it all. Good Luck!

Damn dude! Make sure you watch it and have your doctors watch it for any kind of relapse.

By chance, did you ask them to save it? Might have looked a little Cthulhu-ish and been nice to have on display in the family room...

But all seriousness aside, glad you're ok!

PAR

Glad to hear you're doing well, krev.

Science! Gotta love it!

Good to hear you are doing ok. That's some amazing story.

Glad to see you back on your feet with most of your braincells Krev, one scary experience and quite the cautionary tale for most of us older than yourself.

Wow, man. Best of luck on a swift and remarkable recovery!
So...other than omitting the necessary u's, did your recent experience leave you with any other superhero powers?

Amoebic wrote:

So...other than omitting the necessary u's, did your recent experience leave you with any other superhero powers?

That is a supervillain power, if anything.

Yellek wrote:

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, that's some scary stuff there.

Also, is it terrible that now I'm wondering what happens to the space where the tumor was? I mean the size of an orange? You could make it into a secret hiding compartment!

I was kind of thinking about that, too. It would make a great little place to keep snacks and stuff. I bet you could fit a small orange in there.

Man, when the time comes, Krev, you're going to have the best "Choose Your Tag!" thread ever.

So Krev is catering to gourmet zombies now?

I hope the badness is all gone and that you don't need any yucky chemo. MRIs are okay, though, they're kinda fun. What?

Yep, double-clicking the post comment button still works. Carry on.

So sorry you had to develop a brain tumor in order to be able to try out opiate cocktails, but at least now you'll know which you like best.

By the way, I just wanted to add how odd it is seeing people refer to someone as Krev that's not me, as that was what most people referred to me as in WoW when I was still playing (my main character's name being Krevantis).

So seeing comments like

BadKen wrote:

So Krev is catering to gourmet zombies now?

feels just the slight bit disconcerting. ^_^ Good that you're doing well so far though. I just hope you're not my real life doppleganger - I'm American, I can't afford a hospital bill!

Wow, glad you're feeling ok!

Stay out of P&C for a while, that tumour might grow right back!

Seriously though: that's frightening/awesome/amazing news. May your head remain orange-free from now on!

Best to you. Nothing I can add that hasn't already been gob-smacked at and wished your way. Just the power of +1.

No super powers as of yet, I was sort of hoping for eidetic memory or some such but no luck. On the other hand my only "disabilities" so far seems to be that high values of acceleration or deceleration seems like a poor idea and I have to be very careful not to get blood clots in my legs.

They filled the void with saline which your body replaces with cerebral spinal fluid. You pretty much have a small gap of sorts forever but you don't feel it I guess. Cybernetic implant would have been cooler for sure, little USB port maybe?

As others have pointed out it's just AMAZING how far medical science has come, this whole thing definitely seems in the real of "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".

As I've been a long term atheist a few people have asked me if I've found god during this ordeal. So far I'd say the answer is no in that I don't believe in god any more than I did before. However I have found gratitude.

Gratitude for all the love and support and prayers, for the wonderful nurses and doctors, for socialist healthcare, and just for BEING ALIVE. Maybe there's a sort of divinity in that, I don't know. Every time I get more good news I do kind of feel like "Thank you god" even though I don't believe in god, but I think that's okay.

It sounds cliche as f*ck but it's certainly a slap in the face as to how everything can change in an instant and nothing should be taken for granted. I sort of knew that before but it's completely different (both for me and my family) now that I'm living it. Something as simple as going to the bathroom is muchly missed once you can't do it.

Here's a gnarly picture of my battle wound. Consider that a warning not to look if you're squeamish, though as incisions and staples go I'm told it's very good/healthy.

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/3020/dsc0085yw.jpg

Damn! Glad to hear you're recovering well. My brother-in-law is going through the same thing right now (had a brain tumor removed about a year ago), except that it's time for them to double-check that there isn't more up there. Sadly, my wife's family has a genetic disposition towards cancer (her dad even had breast cancer removed a couple weeks ago! 1 in 1000 males!), so we're all pretty worried.