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Old 03-13-2018, 06:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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2825: Could Justy Dodge Cancer

with Justy Dodge and Shauna Lane – Keith and Justy’s volatile friendship; breast cancer, chemotherapy, and new leases on life; teaching; 5 tourists killed on helicopter sightseeing tour; learning to swim; a 30-pound tumor; man dies jumping out of the car of a drunk driver; gay-conversion therapist caught having gay sex with patients

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Old 03-14-2018, 03:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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“How long you been dry?” I love when fellow alcoholics say this. Like the liver is supposed to be soaked in alcohol.

Clever show title. Justy is a mess and that’s why I love her. Could Justy Dodge Cirrhosis?

I’m glad Keith quit booze. If Chemda can just get him to smoke more weed. I’m not saying you need substances to relax. But I do think you can smoke weed for 10-15 years with little damage to body. 10-15 years of alcohol ripping your liver up, it starts to heal funny and quit working.

I’m reading Doug Stanhope’s new book This Is Not Fame. I always knew he drank - like a lot. This book is insane in to what degree he drinks. He doesn’t go into amounts but you get the idea. Like an entire 10 day festival is totally fucked because he’s too drunk to perform. He runs into Greg Giraldo who says, “This is what I looked like last time I checked into rehab.”

Poor Doug can’t move or travel without a cocktail in his hand. He’s been doing comedy, (really well btw) for like 28 years. Can you imagine how scarred and wrecked his liver is???

If you’re an alcoholic, drinking is the worst. I had no idea not drinking could make quality of life SO much better. It still sucks. I still relapse. I still wonder wtf I’m going to do on St Patrick’s Day. But being crippled by social anxiety and trying to fix that with being drunk and out of it is not solution.

This is really long. Sorry. But I gotta include this last part. Dr. Jordan Peterson says that what alcoholics experience is what

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Carl Jung refers to as consciousness. In the beginning people weren't aware of life or death and all that comes with the burden of being. The burden of being conscious. So a good way to avoid being an adult is a return to the womb/ unconsciousness. Drinking is a great way to achieve this.

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Old 03-15-2018, 01:13 AM   #3 (permalink)
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My mother was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. She was 56 years old. Very healthy. People in her family live to be 110. No history of cancer. She had a normal mammogram in 2009. In 2010, the doctor saw something close to her armpit.

They did an ultrasound. Then a biopsy. It was cancer. They said it was the size of a pea. They told her she could do chemo and a lumpectomy or a mastectomy and no chemo. She opted for a mastectomy.

After they cut off her boob they discovered the tumor was actually the size of a golf ball and deep into her chest along the chest wall. That's why it didn't show up on a mammogram.

And it was the bad kind of cancer. HER2+ The lady-killer. HAHA

So the docs said she HAD to do chemo. She did chemo, radiation and one year of herceptin. They blessed her and sent her on her merry way.

In 2014 she developed a lump on her shoulder between her neck and shoulder. She thought an insect bit her. She went to the doctor. They said it was a lymph node. They did a biopsy. The cancer came back. Ha! I was like, "shoulda cut off both boobs." Nope. The other boob was actually healthy. And the oncologist told us that you can get a recurrence even after a double mastectomy. You can have breast cancer without boobs.

I thought, ok, more chemo blah blah.

The doc did a PET scan and said there was cancer in her chest, lungs, shoulders, jaw, neck and liver. So chemo? For how long? And he said the words I will never forget. "Chemo until the cancer miraculously goes away or until she cannot take it anymore."

I was still confused so I looked it up. Stage 4. Incurable. The doc gave her 6 months without chemo. He said chemo would prolong her life but not cure her.

My heart sank. My mom told me she would rather die than do chemo again. So I cried. And my whole world died that way.

But a little glimmer of hope, the doctor said, "She's gone home. She started chemo today."

She chose to fight.

6 months later her scans showed "No evidence of disease." NED. They don't consider stage 4 cured. Ever. It is incurable.

Herceptin for one year. And then her doctor ventured to say, "you're in remission."

20% of stage 4 cancer patients are dead within 2 years.

Then in 2016, I am sick in ICU. My mother comes to see me. She leaves and says she has to go. She has to go back and do treatment. The cancer is back. In her lungs and her liver.

And that has been my rollercoaster to this day. She is still alive. NED. Metases. NED. Metases.

And she doesn't want anyone to know. So I suffer in silence. It's her right to fight her private battle.

But all I have to say is fuck Susan Komen. Fuck the pink movement.

30% of women who are successfully "cured" of cancer have a stage 4 recurrence. Some as far as 20 years into the future.

Many women to mammograms every year and get a clean bill of health but they still have cancer.

HER2+ is more prevalent in black women and is deadlier than other breast cancers.

100% of women who die of cancer die of stage 4. Yet hardly any money is allocated to research it.

Fuck the pink movement for not telling me it could come back. Fuck them for not telling me that the survival statistic means how many women are alive in 5 years. Not how many are permanently cured.

Fuck the insurance company for canceling my mom's long term disability because she hasn't died soon enough.

Fuck all the pink because it means nothing to me and my mom.
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Gay Conversion Therapy

Sensible people should picket these idiots until they stop peddling this sort of crap.

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I used to drink a lot when I was younger, I think that is natural, you learn from your mistakes and recognise whats good and bad for you. All the people I know who are still drinking in their forties like they did in their twenties have addiction problems, they may think they are just having a craic but something dark is underneath it.

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cancer is terrifying
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