Hey! It's Brandon. You may know me as that guy who speaks Japanese and plays smash bros a lot. Or that guy who got rear ended twice in just 2 weeks and I needed to buy a new car. You may also know me as the guy whose apartment burned down and I had to replace nearly all my furniture and stuff. Rough year but surely it'll get bett--fuck I've been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer.
So I had trouble breathing for a lot of the year, talked to a doctor and they said it was just asthma and I needed to take more Mucinex or something. Turns out mucinex doesn't cure cancer, it kept getting worse, and when I went to the ER it turned out I had a giant tumor taking up my whole neck and crushing my trachea. Size of a grapefruit! I've had 2 surgeries to remove the tumor, my thyroid, and I'm about to start radiation, during which time I'll have to quarantine because I'll literally be radioactive. From there more to come based on how the scans come back.
The cancer is considered "severe" because of how many blood vessels it got into and how rapidly the cancer cells are multiplying. It sucks! I haven't been able to work while undergoing treatment, and given that I was already trying to save and rebuild my life after all the chaos this year, I could really use some help. It's like every time I try to get back up on my feet I'm getting a sledgehammer to the kneecaps.
I also took a selfie when I woke up from a coma while intubated in the ICU, isnt that wild
So if you can help me out in any way it would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully I'll be able to return to work once this round of radiation is over, but it's looking like this is something I'm going to have to fight for a long time. If you can spare any amount it would be greatly appreciated.
Much love :3
よろしくお願いします