[BWAL]

my parents have been spoiling me lately

they bought me cod 5 today

























































































oh, and a '97 cobra

[whiteboycustom]

what!!!!! no way


can i lay with my head in ur lap??????????? paaaleaseeeeeeeeeee

[buddyantunez1]

do you really have cancer? i do too. mine is called synovia sarcoma. i missed a full year of college and went through 3 rounds of chemo, 6 weeks of radiation and 2 surgeries, but now im in remission and just have scans every 3 months.

[BWAL]

Originally Posted by buddyantunez1 do you really have cancer? i do too. mine is called synovia sarcoma. i missed a full year of college and went through 3 rounds of chemo, 6 weeks of radiation and 2 surgeries, but now im in remission and just have scans every 3 months.

yeah

that's crazy, i have sarcoma too.. they kept telling me how rare it was and here you have it too

i don't know exactly what type of sarcoma it is yet, but i start chemotherapy in the next few days, they said that will take 6-9 months, then they will decide whether they want to remove my tumor with surgery or radiation

how bad is the chemo? i'm not looking forward to it.. do you have a port?

[Drick]

Did they really buy you a 97 Cobra? I dont belive it

And ill hold you hand through cemo buddy

[k2boarder3187]

My cousin had cancer....all gone now.

He got about 20 grand worth of tools/tool boxes from Snap-on from the make-a-wish foundation thing

[Dansby]

You lucky mofo.

I wish I had...

...a cobra.

[Drick]

Did you really get a Cobra?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

[Regency 2007]

Bwal are you getting a piccline or a port in your chest?

Join the club!

[Onemanzu]

Originally Posted by BWAL09

truth.

just got done talking to bubba and mr. waldon.

they were on a test drive thats why he hasn't responded.

[Tony_90fox]

DAYUM Bubba!

[BWAL]

dude, after a quick drive around the block, i have realized that that car is either going to get me in TONS of trouble or get me killed.. that thing is a BEAST. spins all the way through first, all the way through second, and a little bit in third before it hooks

and regency - i'm getting a port in my chest

[Regency 2007]

Originally Posted by BWAL09 dude, after a quick drive around the block, i have realized that that car is either going to get me in TONS of trouble or get me killed.. that thing is a BEAST. spins all the way through first, all the way through second, and a little bit in third before it hooks and regency - i'm getting a port in my chest

They aren't too bad, I know several people that have them and they actually like it alot more than in the arm like I have mine. The hardest thing about chemo my friend said was the stomach problems it can cause...

[Drick]

You lucky SOB with the Cobra. Regency you are a man that preaches sickness my friend

[Onemanzu]

Originally Posted by 8t6gt You lucky SOB with the Cobra. I'm so jealous that you have cancer, I want to be cool too.

wow derrick. wow

[Vinyl66]

thats kind of fed up

[Drick]

Dont edit my posts DAMN YOU SPENCER!

[Regency 2007]

Originally Posted by 8t6gt You lucky SOB with the Cobra. Regency you are a man that preaches sickness my friend

I know, what can I say!

[BWAL]

Originally Posted by Regency 2007 They aren't too bad, I know several people that have them and they actually like it alot more than in the arm like I have mine. The hardest thing about chemo my friend said was the stomach problems it can cause...

yeah i've heard that the port is better than the iv when it comes to chemo.. a few of my relatives who have cancer say that the chemo didn't make them sick at all, so maybe i will get lucky and not get too sick

[buddyantunez1]

Originally Posted by BWAL09 yeah that's crazy, i have sarcoma too.. they kept telling me how rare it was and here you have it too i don't know exactly what type of sarcoma it is yet, but i start chemotherapy in the next few days, they said that will take 6-9 months, then they will decide whether they want to remove my tumor with surgery or radiation how bad is the chemo? i'm not looking forward to it.. do you have a port?

yepp. its totaled that 8000 cases in the nation are diagnosed a year. pretty rare. if you ever have any questions, concerns or anything you need, you can always PM me.

chemo is the toughest part of what i had to go through. its not direct pain, but it makes you feel so helpless and weak. i literally had an old man walker just to go to the bathroom or walk around the floor. i didnt have the strength to stand up in the shower and needed constant care. all this at the age of 19/20.

i initially did 3, 7 day rounds of chemo at Walter Reed Army/Navy Hospital in DC, and after scans, they decided the chemo was not affecting my tumor enough to keep doing it so i had my first surgery on Halloween 07' in NYC at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

after recovering, i had more scans that found spots in my lungs and i was immediately declared at Stage 4, which is the worst you can have because it had spread. so i opted for surgery on Jan 5, 2008 and thank God, the results came back negative and were benign, so i was put back to stage 1.

and i finished up my treatments with 6 weeks of radiation on my main location.(left wrist) i still cant grow hair where i was given radiation and was working full time after recovering from my second surgery and while going through radiation.

but now im declared in remission and just have scans every 3 months. i thank God for everyday im alive and through this experience i see myself as a more mature individual. like i said, if you ever have any questions or ANYTHING, feel free to contact me and i can help explain to prepare you for what is to come. but stay strong and keep those who mean the most closest to you. my family and friends were always at the hospital helping me through it and im so glad they were there.

EDIT: yes i do have a mediport but the surgeon that put mine in offered it to be put in my right arm just under my bicep on the inside of my arm and its still in today. it was placed in the same day i started chemo. i dont have any pics of it but a lot of people have never seen one there, i think its pretty cool.

here's some pics from before, during and after my experience.

just months before i was diagnosed, you can see the tumor bulge on my wrist. im on the left.


day after my 1st surgery in NYC. 5 friends drove 5 hours to come see me


in Time Square the day after my surgery lol. i love my friends.




pics of the scar and my wrist.





being bald after chemo, these are from last Nov.





pic of my second scar from chest surgery in Jan. 08'


and this is my most recent from just a few days ago.