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My Testicular Cancer Story – Update 3

June 8th, 2010

Well went to the appointment on Monday and basically heard everything about my options that I had already found answers for by doing research. My pathology report was updated and apparently less than 1% of Teratoma was also found. While it’s less than 1%, teratoma is not one that you want to have because it doesn’t respond to chemo and is only curred through removal. Good thing I’m doing the RPLND then. I am a perfect candidate for it because of my staging. There is a possibility that chemo not cure me and that the cancer will come back. Chemo will also put me out for 3-4 months depending on the type of treatment, well more like zombify me for that long. I don’t think I could do school like that. RPLND will suck for the first few weeks of recovery but after that I’m done (hopefully).

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My Testicular Cancer Story – Chapter 2

June 2nd, 2010

Well I had the orchiectomy on May 20th. Everything went well, although it did take me an extra hour to fully awaken. Liz(Kim aka my wife), was stuck in the waiting room for 3 hours, 1 hour surgery 2 hour wake up time. They told her in the beginning someone will come get her when I’m out but no one did. Kinda lame. When I could finally get up and into a wheel chair they wheeled me out to her and I remember how happy she was to finally see me.

So they didn’t prescribe me any anti-nausea medicine, and taking the lortab didn’t help relieve any pain and made me so nauseas that I felt even worse with pain. So I stopped taking it because I have an appointment on the 21st which was originally scheduled for the checkup for after I would have been with antibiotics BUT I figured I’d use it to get some new pain med’s.

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My Testicular Cancer Story - Chapter 1

May 17th, 2010

I was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer on May 4th 2010. I’ve only told some people and didn’t tell others. If you are just finding out about this, I’m sorry and it’s not that I was trying to keep this from anyone but I really wanted to be able to inform people and answer questions that anyone might have but I can’t do that when I’m asking those very same questions.

Today was an important day because the ball is finally rolling. I met with my Urologist today and he answered some of my fears with “More than likely it’s not” type of answers, which is very good. The tumor is located on my right testi and has attached itself to my bloodstream. What this means is that my right testi must be removed and then sent to a lab to see what type of cancer it is. Depending on the type will determine the type of treatment I will receive afterwards.

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