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Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by DawgFanFromAlabam, Mar 5, 2025.

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  1. Mar 7, 2025 #21
    incoldblood

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    Wow that’s quite a battle Dawg. Keep up the good fight. Thanks for the update. Continued prayers for you.
     
  2. Mar 8, 2025 #22
    Endless Excuses

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    That is quite a difficult journey. Hoping family, friends and us Gators keep your spirits up. I think you've already seen the bottom (unless you become a FSU fan which is much worse) and there is no way to go but up...there will be better days!
     
  3. Mar 10, 2025 #23
    DawgFanFromAlabam

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    Prayers for Grant and thx to all of you. Kind words and good wishes/prayers really lift the spirits when going through this crap.
     
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  4. Mar 16, 2025 #24
    GatorLegend

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    Give it everything you got Dawgfan, keep up the good fight and get ready for another great football season! Prayers for you.
     
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  5. Mar 17, 2025 #25
    plantado

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    I have a 75 year old cousin who was diagnosed with Stage 4 Liver/Pancreatic Cancer spring of 2023. She has been in remission for over one year. Does chemo monthly. Doctors say she has something in her blood (spike protein?) that will bring cancer back if she stops chemo.

    An uncle of my wife (a proctologist we affectionately called “Sticky Fingers”) fought various cancers for the last 20 years of his life, finally passing at a decent old age.

    Fight, Fight, Fight!!!
     
  6. Mar 17, 2025 #26
    sierragator

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    Best wishes for good health and peace of mind!
     
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  7. Mar 18, 2025 #27
    GatorRade

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    Right here
    It’s tough to fight this stuff, but the alternative is even worse. Keep it up, dawg.
     
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  8. Mar 18, 2025 #28
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    Just seeing this brother. Prayers and much love from me.
     
  9. Mar 18, 2025 #29
    lizardbreath

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    Your faith and tenacity are humbling, you are in my prayers. God bless you and yours.
     
  10. Mar 18, 2025 #30
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    Best wishes from a longtime hep C guy. God bless.
     
  11. Mar 18, 2025 #31
    DawgFanFromAlabam

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    Now that’s funny!!
     
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  12. Mar 22, 2025 #32
    Wanne15

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    I was on i10 in 76 when some fat bastard yelled go hairy dogs at me in gridlock, i was 10. Hated em since
     
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  13. Mar 24, 2025 #33
    DawgFanFromAlabam

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    Docs confirmed cancer in both lungs. Said can nuke it out and start me on 2 pills a month to help keep it at bay. Said liver/lung patients are living 5+ years with this plan. I’d sure take that!!!

    Start nuking the liver lesion next Monday.
     
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  14. Mar 25, 2025 #34
    danmanne65

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    That would be an Elizabethan collar not a Georgian.
     
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  15. Apr 9, 2025 #35
    njgator

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    You aren't going anywhere. You'll be playing with your grand children for many years to come. Faith is a powerful thing. The great healer himself said that.
     
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  16. Apr 9, 2025 #36
    nawlinsgator

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    Get better, bro.
     
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  17. Apr 10, 2025 #37
    2oldgator

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    Pullin’ and praying for you Dawg.
     
  18. Apr 10, 2025 #38
    Wanne15

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    My mom's dealing with the same thing. First treatment of the second bout starts today.
     
  19. Apr 10, 2025 #39
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    DFFA -thatnks for the update my friend. The new heavens and new earth are the sure hope of every Christian no matter how sick they are.
     
  20. Apr 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM #40
    DawgFanFromAlabam

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    Got a new liver 6/24. Cancer returned 12/24. Docs don’t know how - wasn’t seen outside old liver, no vein involved, even took nearest lymph node (which was negative). Scans this year show spread to both lungs (small tumor in each).

    Liver tumor radiated using SBRT early April. Lungs getting same treatment starting next Monday 4/28, once a week for 5 weeks. Docs will watch tumor marker in bloodwork and if it returns I’ll go on 2 meds that are showing great results. Oncologist in Houston told me he’s had patients in the same boat as me doing well 5-6 years later on these meds, and there’s a clinical trial that genome testing indicated could be very helpful to me. More radiation still an option down the road too.


    So…I try to stay positive and thankful for each day. Wish I felt better some days but maybe that’s coming. Kids check on me every day and my dear wife caters to me. Radiation makes me really tired and nauseated.


    I’ll sure appreciate any prayers you can muster.
     
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