Chadio's journey to beat cancer again
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Feb 6.2019
Hi everyone, lets bring you up to speed on whats been happening for the last year and a half:
2016 – having trouble going to washroom, lots of testing over the year showing no negative results until….
October 2017 – Have a colonoscopy and am diagnosed with stage 4 rectal cancer. There is a large tumor in my rectum.
March 2018 – Start 10 weeks of radiation and chemotherapy. During this time I lost about 30 pounds and became very weak.
Summer 2018 – Put weight back on and lots more tests to see how well the tumor shrunk.
August 2018 – Went for a laproscopic surgery on my liver to remove 3 cancerous spots.
Sept 2018 – First round didn’t shrink the tumor as much as my surheon would have liked so I tart a second, more intense round of chemotherapy that lasts until November 2018. During this time I was unable to drink or eat anything cold, and the skin peeled off of my palms and bottoms of feet. Still feeling the effects of that on my feet.
December 2018 – Chemotherapy worked extremely well this time, the tumor has now shrunken down to a flat, white scar. Doctor still suggests surgery to remove the part of my rectum where the tumor is.
January 2019 – Go for a major surgery to remove an inch of my rectum.
It has been about a month since my surgery and I am wearing a temporary ostomy bag in the meantime before we can run more tests in approximately 3 months. The drain they installed to get rid of any built up nastiness during the surgery didn’t worked exactly as planned and I had to go back to the hospital for another week long stay to have another one put in that I have been wearing for the last 3 weeks. The location makes it very uncomfortable to sleep, or do most of my normal activities but hopefully it will be coming out next week.
I also had a meeting with my chemotherapy oncologist last week who recommends I go for another 3 months of intense chemotherapy to make sure any cancer cells are eliminated, so I will be starting that up again in the next week or two.
After chemotherapy (sometime in May or June) I will be ready for more tests and hopefully another surgery to reverse the ostomy that was put in and re-attach my small intestine to my rectum.
At this point, recovery is going to be a long and slow process, having this second drain has hindered my progress by a month and I am still coping with living with this ostomy bag. My mobility is limited, I cant drive, cook, clean, lift anything over 5 lbs, its just very difficult taking care of myself right now.
What this means is that I will have to continue my unemployment for approximately another year. I am receiving some financial assistance from the government, but it barely covers my rent and definitely not the rest of my monthly expenses. The funds donated will be going to things such as: healthy food and groceries, monthly bills, additional services and treatments not covered by MSP (Vit C IV, body treatment, naturopath visits)
As much as I didn’t want to make another one of these, I am reaching out to ask for your help again. Would like to thank everyone for this past year of support, financial, emotional, and otherwise. People bringing me food, or rides here and there, the generosity of family, friends and community have made this burden a lot easier to bear, and I could not be more grateful.
I have located a few boxes of the last record I put out as well, so anyone that donates more than $20 can get one from me until they are gone. If you want one from last time you donated, no problem, just send me a message!
Thank you from the entirety of my heart, this has been a difficult process with a long ways to go still, but I am so confident that I am on the road to beating this thing again, I definitely could not do it without the help from everyone reading this. Love you.
Hi everyone, lets bring you up to speed on whats been happening for the last year and a half:
2016 – having trouble going to washroom, lots of testing over the year showing no negative results until….
October 2017 – Have a colonoscopy and am diagnosed with stage 4 rectal cancer. There is a large tumor in my rectum.
March 2018 – Start 10 weeks of radiation and chemotherapy. During this time I lost about 30 pounds and became very weak.
Summer 2018 – Put weight back on and lots more tests to see how well the tumor shrunk.
August 2018 – Went for a laproscopic surgery on my liver to remove 3 cancerous spots.
Sept 2018 – First round didn’t shrink the tumor as much as my surheon would have liked so I tart a second, more intense round of chemotherapy that lasts until November 2018. During this time I was unable to drink or eat anything cold, and the skin peeled off of my palms and bottoms of feet. Still feeling the effects of that on my feet.
December 2018 – Chemotherapy worked extremely well this time, the tumor has now shrunken down to a flat, white scar. Doctor still suggests surgery to remove the part of my rectum where the tumor is.
January 2019 – Go for a major surgery to remove an inch of my rectum.
It has been about a month since my surgery and I am wearing a temporary ostomy bag in the meantime before we can run more tests in approximately 3 months. The drain they installed to get rid of any built up nastiness during the surgery didn’t worked exactly as planned and I had to go back to the hospital for another week long stay to have another one put in that I have been wearing for the last 3 weeks. The location makes it very uncomfortable to sleep, or do most of my normal activities but hopefully it will be coming out next week.
I also had a meeting with my chemotherapy oncologist last week who recommends I go for another 3 months of intense chemotherapy to make sure any cancer cells are eliminated, so I will be starting that up again in the next week or two.
After chemotherapy (sometime in May or June) I will be ready for more tests and hopefully another surgery to reverse the ostomy that was put in and re-attach my small intestine to my rectum.
At this point, recovery is going to be a long and slow process, having this second drain has hindered my progress by a month and I am still coping with living with this ostomy bag. My mobility is limited, I cant drive, cook, clean, lift anything over 5 lbs, its just very difficult taking care of myself right now.
What this means is that I will have to continue my unemployment for approximately another year. I am receiving some financial assistance from the government, but it barely covers my rent and definitely not the rest of my monthly expenses. The funds donated will be going to things such as: healthy food and groceries, monthly bills, additional services and treatments not covered by MSP (Vit C IV, body treatment, naturopath visits)
As much as I didn’t want to make another one of these, I am reaching out to ask for your help again. Would like to thank everyone for this past year of support, financial, emotional, and otherwise. People bringing me food, or rides here and there, the generosity of family, friends and community have made this burden a lot easier to bear, and I could not be more grateful.
I have located a few boxes of the last record I put out as well, so anyone that donates more than $20 can get one from me until they are gone. If you want one from last time you donated, no problem, just send me a message!
Thank you from the entirety of my heart, this has been a difficult process with a long ways to go still, but I am so confident that I am on the road to beating this thing again, I definitely could not do it without the help from everyone reading this. Love you.
Organizer
Chad Pee
Organizer
Vancouver, BC
