Trials

[Drich]

Keep up the good spirit because science will save you.

Actually, the funny thing is, it's been 6 months and 'science' can't even tell if it is cancer. That's why I have to start over with all the tests. The only thing science has done for me so far is take 1/2 a gallon of blood 4 sample vials at a time and managed two fingers up my rear end.. And if 6 months of 'scientific blood letting and sodomy wasn't enough, I just got a prescription for more intense blood letting and sodomy.


So, we'll see if science will save me or as with the Aids scare God saves me from science.

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Sorry to hear about your illness. I've known guys who had it. I would suggest that you make out your will or recheck it if you already have one. Also make your final arrangements and don't be afraid to tell people of your condition. Some people like to keep it a secret but enjoy your life and loved ones while you are relatively healthy. It can go into remission if it was discovered early enough.

I'm glad you were able to get health insurance and go to the doctor. So many guys won't take care of themselves. Stay as healthy as you can for as long as you can.

I have made out a will (legal zoom) and set Trich up with a pretty sweet insurance policy, I have also point out business in a less dependant on me direction so she can run it if need be.

I haven't told anyone yet because we don't know for sure. My family falls on the drama queen side so to tell them is to open a can of worms I do not want to open unless we have to. When we told my dad of my wife's former drug problem he needed to goto consoling to manage all the grief and stress... Then proceeded to tell me all the crap I needed to do to help him manage his way through this mess.

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So to Clarify have they given you a for sure it's cancer?

No they do not know for sure.

They said with an elevated white cell count, blood in the urine, enlarged prostate, cancer markers consistant with non hogkins limphoma or prostate cancer, there is a 98% chance I do have it, but because this other protein marker is not present there is a 2% chance that these are just 4 random symptoms.. That my body just over produces white cells, that I just so happen to bleed in my urine, the cancer markers without the protein are a fluke, and my only real issue is my prostate started to enlarge early in life.

That is why I've been order through another battery of tests, because they do not know for sure. One positive thing if it is cancer they said it is early enough that they think they can treat with drugs rather than have to goto chemo and radiation.

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I can't help but notice that you went to a doctor....even if you do make him sound like Mengele... instead of praying to your god boy. Better choice. Listen to the doctors and not the voices in your head.

right now it is still up in the air, as to whether or not the doctors can help or not. It been it been 6 months or so, and they can't even tell me what I have.

We will see, what happens. That is one of the reasons I shared this with you all at this stage. If I have to go through all of this then I figure you all can see how my faith will get me through this trial (for better or worse) or if God decides to take care of it Himself as with the Aids scare then I will be in a better position to provide the proof you all demanded from me that I could not provide last time.

Right now I have been given several orders/prescriptions for the various tests that" Mengele" ordered, oh and my cancer patient binder that has a list of instruction and contacts for me to follow if need be.

I just need someone to tell me the best way to post pics.

[KUSA]

So, we'll see if science will save me or as with the Aids scare God saves me from science.;)

Why even bother with doctors and science? If God cured you from aids then why would you even think to look to man for healing?

[Neo-Scholastic]

Modern medicine is just another part of God's provision. Regardless of how it turns out for you physically, I know that you will endure, be the better man for it and your faith will be an example to those around you (and a few here as well). Our prayers go with you.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Cancer is a brutal disease, and chemo- and radiation therapy are brutal treatments. Good luck.

[Cyberman]

I'm not going to turn this into a preaching moment, in either way. I know what that's like, to have your most vulnerable moments twisted into something unwelcome and abhorrent to you. I've also lost family to cancer, last year in fact I lost two aunts. As has been said, it's not a laughing matter.

Just do whatever you need to do. If that involves redoubling your faith etc, who am I to say ye nay? But please listen to your doctors and specialists as well. I want you to be pounding your pulpit at me when I'm an old grey Stimbo, ok?

[Drich]

Dude, Drich... cancer is no laughing matter.... that's why the people in there looked like zombies... Chemo is a bitch.

Best of luck for your trials and tribulations.

Allow my cynical part to come up... you decided to get health insurance at the precise moment when you come to find you have some problem? Were you already suspecting of something wrong?

It was two fold. Obama care just kicked in for me, and like I said I had no medical insurance for 10 years, so I thought it would be time for a check up, and my uncle had his first heart attack at 38. Heart attack and stroke are a thing on my dads side of the family. I was 38 at the time so I decided to bite the bullet and see what has been brewing for the last 10 years.

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So, we'll see if science will save me or as with the Aids scare God saves me from science.

Why even bother with doctors and science? If God cured you from aids then why would you even think to look to man for healing?

To scientifically document it, then to scientifically document my (lord willing) miraculous recovery.

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Cancer is a brutal disease, and chemo- and radiation therapy are brutal treatments. Good luck.

I sat in a cancer ward waiting area for 4 hours Thursday... I kinda gathered that.

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I'm not going to turn this into a preaching moment, in either way. I know what that's like, to have your most vulnerable moments twisted into something unwelcome and abhorrent to you. I've also lost family to cancer, last year in fact I lost two aunts. As has been said, it's not a laughing matter.

Just do whatever you need to do. If that involves redoubling your faith etc, who am I to say ye nay? But please listen to your doctors and specialists as well. I want you to be pounding your pulpit at me when I'm an old grey Stimbo, ok?

In your avatar you look pretty grey now..

..and rest assured I will do what ever it takes, as I believe what woot said. In that God works through medicine. God is the God of the natural universe which by its very nature is (to a degree) a universe of processes that can be manipulated and explained. As such it would be foolish to ignore what God has given us/man dominion over.. Like the treatment of cancer.

How's that for pulpit pounding?

[Crossless2.0]

I'm so sorry to hear of your troubles, Drich. Stay strong and fight it as best you can. My best wishes to you and your family.

[Jenny A]

I missed this. Sorry Drich. I hope all your tests come back negative and that you are around to drive us all crazy with your interpretation of the Bible for some time to come.

[Drich]

Thanks everyone for the well wishing, but i'm not dead yet. The Doctors all say it is very earily and I am in a good spot to treat this with our having to do all the heavy radiation and chemo. I have adopted a new saying in the last 6 months... It isn't till it is. If it is, we will break it down and deal with it, just like every other big thing that has been placed before us.

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All this cancer business aside, "No quarter will be expected and no quarter will be given" on any other Topic concerning Biblical Christianity. I am simply notifying you all why I may be more selective in my topics and more selective in who I devote these long marathon posts to. (I have to shake the dust from my feet on a few of you/and or topics that we have done ad nasuim.) Rest assured if we go at it, i still expect a full on bare knuckel fight. I still have quite a few teeth to kick in, before this ride is over.

[Lucanus]

Best of luck, good old Drippy. Let's hope it's a negative.