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With my mom for her 7th chemo session
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:26 PM Author: chandler (retired) She’s been undergoing mfolfirinox chemo for borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.
Tumor shrunk 40% and it’s operable but would require a complex vein reconstruction now.
Surgeon referred us to a radiation oncologist for radiation therapy, but because it might take a few weeks to start we’re doing a 7th round of this chemo which is absolutely brutal and my mom is 75 years old.
Neither of us expected chemo today but after the visit with the surgeon and oncologist, we’re in a 6 hour session. I’ve been with her for all of these sessions at cedars Sinai. |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:46 PM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) I will keep her in my prayers, brother. I'm so sorry to hear that. My dad just graduated from the ICU today after two months. He actually turned 75 yesterday. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494497) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:11 PM Author: chandler (retired) Thank you brother. My prayers were answered too in that whokebe was not assigned as her radiation oncologist.
How often do you get to see your dad nowadays? |
Date: December 8th, 2025 3:30 PM Author: gibberish (?) My dad finished a year of chemo in September. They finally put him on hospice. I doubt he makes it to Christmas. He's so fucked up right now I expect he'll just woops take too many pain pills in the next few weeks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494430) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:32 PM Author: chandler (retired) Did he have metastasized cancer? What kind brother. Sorry you went through that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494440) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:36 PM Author: gibberish (?) Colon cancer on his liver. They never found it in his colon. It started pretty small and localized. Honestly my dad didn't even know and it only got worse during chemo. He thinks that had something to do with it but it was just the timing. Its all over now and he can barely move.
I hadn't studied cancer much before this and it's a lot more malicious than I thought. The cancer cells actually fight back against the body and create a really fucked up dynamic. They trick immune cells, kind of like Jews would. |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:27 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon heartbreaking analogy; so true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494615) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:35 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, my sincere condolences, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494447) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:37 PM Author: gibberish (?) Ty...I'm good with it now and I don't want to hijack op. Saddest part is I'm losing the one person on earth I have no ego with and can tell my darkest thoughts when need be. Hard to replace that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494453) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:00 PM Author: Lesbian with a Black, disabled, non-binary child (who worked at an abortion clinic) You have us, friend. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494529) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:39 PM Author: Nazca Redlines (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494462) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:36 PM Author: merry screenmas sorry to hear man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494448) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:59 PM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) I'm sorry to hear that man. Was he in Vietnam at all? My dad was exposed to agent orange there & that's why he has cancer now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494527) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:38 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Sorry to hear that. It's good you can be there for her.
What are you doing to keep her and your spirits up? |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:42 PM Author: merry screenmas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494476) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:14 PM Author: chandler (retired) Made her playlists of her favorite songs, she just wants my presence when she’s at the doctors. She has no one else to take her. I’ve been to cedars maybe 30 times since her diagnosis, and it’s not close to our house. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494571) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:39 PM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) sorry to hear about your parents, guys (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494460) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:40 PM Author: merry screenmas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494464) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:42 PM Author: merry screenmas FIL is about to start tomorrow - gemcitabine based chemo 21 day cycle x 4, then a liver removal. fuck
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:45 PM Author: gibberish (?) Get stories from him. Ask odd questions. Don't expect anyone else knows the family history or cares. I did this for my wife's grandparents. I might be the only person left that knows their background etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494487) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:46 PM Author: merry screenmas ty ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494496) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) Cr.
Every time I talk to my dad now, I take notes like I'm on a client call. I have been asking him more and more about his military service, and after 40 years, he's finally beginning to open up. |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: merry screenmas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494533) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 3:47 PM Author: Jack in the Green and Merry Christmas! So sorry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494502) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:08 PM Author: luis navidad (luis) Sorry man. I was on folfox which is a similar chemo cocktail so I feel her pain. Good news is that the radiation therapy side effects will likely not be that bad compared to chemo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494550) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:14 PM Author: UhOh life is a nightmare, merry christmas! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494568) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:16 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,...,:::,.,.,:,.,.:.:.,:.::.,. Eh, so we get sick and die at the end. It sucks but no need to get hysterical about it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494577) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:20 PM Author: UhOh that's if you're lucky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494594) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:17 PM Author: chandler (retired) Only about 20% of PDAC patients ever get to surgery. Even then, long term outlook is grim because this cancer immediately starts spreading microscopically through the blood vessels. Mfolfirinox is the only legitimate way to defeat it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494581) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:28 PM Author: ( ''.'') Stay strong for your mom, Chandler. Stay strong, everyone. Also, fuck cancer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494620) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:29 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon steve jobs got pancreatic cancer because he would buy a new car every month and get high on the new car smell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494622) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:41 PM Author: chandler (retired) He got the rare form that everyone survives but he didn’t because he went on a juice diet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494654) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:44 PM Author: black abyss (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) Thinking of you, brother. Stay strong for your family. You are the rock upon which everything is built. You got this, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494655) |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:57 PM Author: All American protestor waving Mexican flag tp I’m sorry brother. Chemo is very tough.
I just finished 12 infusions a couple of months ago at age 35 and it kicked my ass. I don’t know how older people do it. |
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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:59 PM Author: luis navidad (luis) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807987&forum_id=2.#49494689) |