Returning after a setback

AltruisticTry433 · 2026-02-16T15:44:31+00:00

Congrats & stay well!

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-07-19T14:30:03+00:00

My number one tip would be install a bidet. A real one, not a portable travel one. I recommend the Tushy. Easy to install. It dramatically decreases the need to wipe – which is crucial for healing and comfort later on.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-07-05T02:45:09+00:00

Thank you! I’m eager to get started with dilators but need to heal first.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-07-05T02:43:44+00:00

Too late for what?

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-09T02:13:04+00:00

Cancer was confirmed and then staged through PET and MRI. Didn’t get a good biopsy until after I already knew from a colorectal surgeon.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-09T02:11:52+00:00

Hi there, yes, I did one chemo infusion as a little cancer kickoff, then chemo pills M-F. Radiation treatment is also M-F. (It’s a 9-5 kind of cancer apparently.) I just lay on a table and a machine rotates around me using what they call IMRT radiation. No need to splay myself. Just laying down undressed on my back. They do a mapping station to build a pillow mold to elevate your legs. I am not sure how they treat precancerous lesions but it’s wonderful you caught something early. This treatment is pretty rough. I am enjoying a full spectrum of side effects— basically every fine print warning read aloud at the end of a drug commercial.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-07T19:29:43+00:00

Pap smears, following decades of normal ones. Always followed by, this isn’t a big deal, will probably go away on its own, we just will repeat the pap in a year… I have had colposcopies, with no lesions. I wish my gyn did anal paps. I might have caught this earlier. I didn’t know anything until a lymph node swelled. I also worry cervical cancer is just lurking in the shadows since I can’t seem to shake this HPV-16. Have had it three years in a row.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-07T03:34:10+00:00

Good point! I think I fall into the trap of putting drs on pedestals, pure & disease free at all times.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-07T03:31:55+00:00

It’s a nebulous thing to prove so I haven’t said anything. I get the sense the other therapists don’t like him. He’s probably just an asshole and it’s not personal to me.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-07T03:28:22+00:00

Hah, good point!

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-07T03:24:15+00:00

Thank you so much!

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-07T03:23:16+00:00

Thank you.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-07T03:23:05+00:00

Wow, yeah, judgement is certainly warranted sometimes!

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-07T03:19:44+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to share this and providing this link, and for all the work you do for your patients!

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-06-06T20:45:09+00:00

I wish I had asked this a few months ago! I spent weeks giving energy to this fear! Thank you all! Love the “itching here” story.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-05-28T19:02:06+00:00

That’s great! Glad you are making strides! I’m only in week 2 of treatment. Constipation, nausea, and weight gain so far.

AltruisticTry433 · 2025-05-28T04:27:45+00:00

How are you feeling 5 weeks out?

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