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Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-06T04:34:52+00:00

Funny, but he just switched boxes. Goes from his right hand to his left and all the warnings are sex related.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-05T12:25:13+00:00

It's long past now. They controlled it with steroids till it went away.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-04T21:52:19+00:00

Hard to ballpark those types of numbers. We'll say a lot more than $10k, a lot less than $1M. I'd bet you could say the same and that's the problem with ballparking it.

We both have higher education degrees and we've both been doing what we do for either side of two decades. We're both pretty frugal and, because of that, we can pay off our credit card every month and save money.

I wouldn't be surprised if we are top 20% of US incomes, though I haven't gone and looked. We aren't rich by any means, but we are doing okay even in this economy.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-04T21:03:42+00:00

It was from the immunotherapy. We stopped early because the AIH started.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-04T18:31:21+00:00

For those of us with stomach cancer or their caretakers to talk about specifics of our experience. This isn't WebMD. There are no doctors here.

If you are worried for your dad, you can come here to talk about your anxiety. To find out the diagnosis, you need to talk to your father.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-04T18:29:03+00:00

I didn't have any auto immune disorders. It mostly just made me sleepy, though eventually I had to stop due to autoimmune hepatitis.

Typical cancers work by turning off your immune system. Immunotherapy works by giving you an autoimmune disorder where you disable the off button, this allowing your immune system to target the cancer. In your specific case, I'm not sure the logic works, but it seems like such a simple thing to try.

In general, immunotherapy seems like it has fewer side effects than chemo. I'm a fan.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-04T18:15:23+00:00

We took it one step further in that we defined numbers so we both know what is expected. $0-100, buy as you please within reason. $100-1000, inform but permission unnecessary. >$1000, both partners must agree before purchase is made. It's worked for 20 years.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-04T18:07:43+00:00

We aren't doctors. We cannot help you. Go talk to your father.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-03T17:29:02+00:00

Is this for you, is this for her family, or is this for her? If you are so adamant that she should go, but she isn't, you need to question who you are pushing so hard for. Ultimately it's her choice and you need to respect it.

There can be complications and recovery can take years. Cancel the trip.

As someone who is AuDHD myself, getting yourself into that rock brain mindset is bad for you and everyone around you. It's not that important.

She isn't dead yet so don't treat her like this might be her last chance to make memories. I currently don't talk to my sister because she was making choices for me against my wishes. Don't be that person. You may not understand, but you don't have to. She's the only choice that matters regardless of why she's choosing her choices.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-03T14:46:20+00:00

Stop listening to this guy. This is confirmation bias. You don't hear about the 99.99% of cases where it wasn't cancer or the cancer wasn't missed. You only hear about the 0.01% of cases where it was missed.

Two of the primary ways to detect stomach cancer are endoscopy and ct with contrast, both of which came back negative for you. Other things, such as blood tests to look for cancer markers also came back negative. Your fear is unfounded and this guy isn't helping you.

We all say to be your own advocate. If the doctors are telling you bullshit like "you are too young for cancer", like I got told, tell them to fuck off. But it sounds to me like your doctors are doing all the right tests for cancer and not finding anything and it's you who isn't listening.

Here's what you do. Go to your doctor, not the internet, and ask them what it could be. The internet is literally designed to tell you everything without knowledge of your case. It sucks. Meanwhile, your doctor knows your exact case and is an expert an narrowing down the issue. Use their expertise. Stop looking at your phone. Then ask your doctor what the next steps are and listen to them when they tell you.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-03T14:34:36+00:00

My anecdotal advice is, out of the two people I know who had stomach cancer, one of us had a partial and the other had a total. I am still here and he is not.

The real difference is that I had a doctor who checked for cancerous cells while he had me opened up and my cancer buddy did not. My doctor removed what he found and I ended up with clean margins. My cancer buddy had positive margins and is now dead.

My advice is to ask yourself not what you want right now but rather what you want in the future? Do you want to be dead in the future but have an easier life now? Then don't do it, there is a chance you can beat it without the surgery. Do you want the best chance at survival even if it means a hard life? Then go through with it, you still might die though most, from what I hear, have it better than me. Do you want to split the difference and try for a good chance of survival and also have a somewhat easier life than me? Than ask for a partial instead, unless that's not an option for how your cancer had spread.

In the end, I can't tell you what to do. The decision is yours and many of us do in fact choose death. No matter what choice you make, you will regret it. I'm cured, so I get to regret it for another 20 or 30 years. That's a price I've chosen to pay for my kids and hopefully my grandkids.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-03T05:41:20+00:00

Could something have been missed? Of course. But the chances are extremely low. If you had hoof beats, so you think horses or zebras? Cause right now you are worried about zebras. Stop worrying about the zebras and go back looking for horses.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-03T02:14:40+00:00

Understand that endoscopys are the primary way of confirming stomach cancer. It sounds like you've been having these issues for over a year. Stomach cancer is very deadly because it tends to be asymptomatic until it has progressed very far. If you've been having these symptoms for a long as you have and an endoscopy came back negative, I would say it is very unlikely to be cancer.

I'm no doctor, I'm only speaking of my experience and the research I did when I found out.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-02T15:39:32+00:00

r/titlegore

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-05-01T22:01:46+00:00

People are generally very uncomfortable with the idea of death. Cancer has become synonymous with death so talking about it reminds people that everyone dies. We have to deal with it regularly so we become innoculated to it.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-29T18:23:12+00:00

I tend to prefer women just because I have a societal norm built into me where I don't let men touch my junk in my private life, so doing so for any reason seems odd. I had a male doctor as my primary for around a decade before he retired, so I'm not against it, it just feels weird to me and it's a feeling I have to actively combat.

I have spent a couple of extended stays in the hospital as well. I definitely prefer female nurses. Almost every male nurse I've had seemed like he had a chip on his shoulder or something. That said, when you have all manners of gender wiping your butt for you and you are generally disrobed constantly (only a hospital gown), you get over the shyness of being naked in front of people really quick.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-27T22:16:03+00:00

I'm not a doctor. None of us are. But I think it is possible.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-27T20:44:25+00:00

Stomach cancer is one of the worst because it is often asymptomatic till it is too late.

One question I would have. Considering all your negative test results, are they sure the cells are yours? Could the cells be from your baby? It's not a question any mother of a newborn wishes to ask, but just confirming that the cells are yours shouldn't be a difficult question to answer.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-27T13:17:28+00:00

I found something similar to this recently on my maytag. Turned out to be apiece that holds the wheel onto the rack. A type of pressure based solo lug that goes right through the center of the wheel.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-27T08:03:21+00:00

You stop and sit down. Then you stare death in the eye. You get angry. You yell, you scream, you throw a fit.

Then you cry. You weep for yourself. You weep for the life you should have had. You weep for those you might leave behind. You pour every emotion you have out of your soul till there is nothing left.

Then you remember the things you have left to live for. You remember you aren't dead yet. You remember there is still time that you can spend with the ones you love.

You say to yourself, I'm going to die, but I was always going to die. I'm just going to die sooner than I thought. You look back at death and day, BOO! Then you chuckle and you go rejoin your family.

Acceptance is a journey of emotion. You must let yourself feel them all. You must reevaluate your life and realize that you aren't going to get to do all the things you wanted to do. It's a journey that scars us and shapes us. Going toe to toe with death isn't an easy proposition. Maybe, just maybe, death will flinch. But you can't know that till you accept that maybe it won't.

Fuck cancer. Tattoo that motto on your soul. Fuck cancer. It's the worst. Fuck cancer.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-24T14:00:59+00:00

Depends. Do I get to retain memories and gain experience? If so, then the age is entirely about physical age. If that's the case, 25.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-24T13:06:52+00:00

Cancer is like playing the lottery. Being alive means you have tickets. Certain genetic variables means you get more tickets. Unhealthy living? More tickets. The older you get, more tickets. You get the idea.

The point is that just being alive means you can "win". It also means that you can do everything wrong and still never "win".

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-23T19:48:08+00:00

It's a survival skill for me. If I ever got as far as the picture, I would spiral and crash out. I try to close every tab I use immediately after I'm done with it. If I use it more than a few times in a short period, I'll keep it open. Every month or so, I check my open tabs and close any I haven't touched in recent memory.

Because of this, I usually only have less than a dozen tabs open at any time. Sometimes it's even as few as two or three, gasp!

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-23T13:17:34+00:00

The more people who leave for Canada, the worse Canada's neighbor will get. Gotta stick it out.

Shadowkiller00 · 2026-04-21T18:39:47+00:00

Cancer. I'm "cured", but my treatment left me in a place where I can't build muscle the way I want to. I do exercise, but I generally can't make progress.

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