Had the surgery 2/19 to remove the entire sigmoid colon and all the related lymph nodes.
Was in recovery 2/19 to 2/23 and released to go home!
The biopsy results came in late today and confirmed 0/12 lymph nodes were malignant. That’s it! It’s clean! No stage 3, no chemo required!
Follow up with the surgeon on 4/1 to talk about where we go from here, my guess is colonoscopies 2x a year for life now since it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months.
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, wear blue and get checked!
#✅UR:
Not sure when I’ll be back modding, I still feel like someone slammed me in the gut with a baseball bat. Cricket bat for our international folks! Maybe another 2-3 weeks.
I still lurk and comment occasionally, just as my health allows!
Edit Bonus - Since my wife had her own medical event this year involving a massive infection, spinal intrusion and below knee amputation, we already hit the out of pocket maximum on our insurance for the year.
Sooo…
Get insurance guys, no, seriously, get insurance.
Congrats! So glad that it was found early;
it’s crazy that you have to pay for these life-saver visits and operations btw…w
America - for profit everything!
It’s really anti-human.
But, think about the capital…
Congrats! Nothing better than being cancer free, except maybe being cancer free for free.
Cancer free without the whole “gutted like a fish” part.
Congrats! Sounds like an excellent prognonsis!
Also, Jesus fucking christ a 100000 dollars for a workup+surgery? A similar case is propably no more than 10-15k€ in northern europe (paid by the taxpayer of course).
You can see, the doc himself was like $7,800, the bulk of it being “hospital fees”. It will be interesting to see the breakdown on the UB-04 as to what those actual fees were. Probably tens of thousands for all the lab work every 3 hours and the heparin drip I was on.
Yea in get that, i was talking in terms of total costs.
E: actually looked it up, most likely the whole thing wouldve been max 10000euros to the taxpayer around here (Finland). Workup+surgery+hospital stay.
Wonderful news! Sorry to hear about your wife’s issues though. It sounds like you guys have been through it! Hope it’s calmer for you both now. Speedy recovery.
2026 has been the longest year of our lives and it’s FEBRUARY!
Glad to hear you’re cancer free! My father in law just had colon cancer removed a few days ago and we’re awaiting the biopsy results. Seriously: get checked, people!
That’s some great world news! Congrats!
Congratulations!
Nice, enjoy!
So glad it was found early. Take time to heal and care for each other. That sounds really rough.
That is really great news! Hope you heal well and minimal pain. Best wishes to the both of you for a rapid end to this health rollercoaster and a smooth slide into your healthy new normal.
Congrats and fuck cancer!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! I’m so happy for you! This was the post I’ve been hoping to see!
Congrats! Nice to see you again and I’m glad it’s all working out! :D
Congrats, Jordan! Take as much time as you need. If things get out of hand here, there’ll always be people ready to help.
Congratulations!
