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Well a few months ago I was diagnosed with colon and rectal cancer. I didn’t ride much dirt this year because of pain and fatigue but now I’m trying to get optimistic for 2021.
Who has been through this and I know the timetables are varied but after you healed up did you regain enough
strength and enjoy riding?
I went from 215lbs to 169 and strength is lacking. I’m plannOmg on a lot of gym time next year.
Who has been through this and I know the timetables are varied but after you healed up did you regain enough
strength and enjoy riding?
I went from 215lbs to 169 and strength is lacking. I’m plannOmg on a lot of gym time next year.
You hit the nail on the head when you said you were going to remain optimistic, though. Keep the chin up! We'll be pulling for you.
I'd allow yourself at least a year or so to get used to the new normal before you judge what you are up to. And then focus on what you can do comfortably.
The desire is strong and it's easy to get discouraged if you get ahead of yourself.
He will tell anyone its mind over matter, stay positive and dont be scared by what the doctors say when it comes to recovery and getting back to what you love to do.
He proved doctors wrong on numerous occasions when it came to what he could do physically during his recovery.
Just dont try to do too much too quickly, i had to go pick him up in my van a few times when he got carried away trying to cycle too far before his body was strong enough 😂
After around a year and a half he was back racing again.
were now 2 years down the line and he is fitter than i am 😂.
Hope this helps man, stay positive
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Waiting for you at the tracks buddy😉
You’ll probably get a lot more people reading the thread and providing advice if you finish the title.
I am also a person that cancer didn't kill just yet. For me. The psychological impact was much bigger for me, the 80 hospital trips were a pain though lol... although my medication just left me feeling shit for 48 hours.
My advice is support for the mental side of things
The fact that your already optimistic about 2021 makes me think you’ll be okay.
Good luck man!
You got this brother!
Be smart and listen to your Dr’s and your body it will tell you when you are doing too much. Be well
Pit Row
This will be long, so before I start please, to anybody else reading this, don't be afraid of colonoscopys. Yeah, they can be a pain in the ass, but even the prep has gotten better in recent years. Please talk to your doctor and get one when he recommends, especially if you have risk factors.
My dad was 73 and kind of old school and hadn't been to Dr in probably 15 years. He calls me one night and asks me to to come get him and take him to the er, which told me it was something serious. He lived 20 miles away, so I asked him if I should call an ambulance because there is a station a mile away. He said no, his stomach was really hurting, and he had locked the gate on his driveway and didn't want them cutting the lock.
I went and picked him up and took him to the er. We are there for a couple hours and his discomfort is obvious and getting worse. They take him for some tests and then a surgeon comes in and tells me that my father's bowel has ruptured and he is being rushed to surgery, and at this point it was 50/50, and the danger of septic infection was the biggest danger.
He spent 5 weeks in ICU fighting every organ system shutdown there is, and finally started turning the corner. I was concerned then because he seemed to be suffering from dimentia. I went to see him one day and he begged me to just take him home. I explained that he was in an ICU unit and he couldn't even get around by himself. He looks at me, and then tells me that all I need to do is bring the old schwinn exercise bike off his back porch up there and he will start riding it so he can go the hell home.
The dr then explained that the dimentia was from sleep deprivation because in an ICU a patient never gets any good sleep. Weird huh?
Anyway, dad does a round of chemo, improves, gets out, gets active, has the colostomy bag removed, has a hip replaced and 5 years after er visit seems to be doing well. I move 2 hours and am not able to see him as often.
He passes away. Going through his stuff I find pictures from a colonoscopy that shows probable tumors that had come back. He aparantly just decided he wasn't going through all that crap again and was taking otc pain meds, including a lot of aspirin, and best guess is started bleeding internally and that was it.
So that is one parent.
3 months after he passes we have Xmas dinner at my brothers house. After dinner mom gathers us all together and tells us that she had a colonoscopy and that they had found cancer and had wanted to schedule surgery for 12/26, but she told them she didn't want to do the pre-op cleanse on Christmas day and had scheduled it for 12/31.
They did the surgery and she did a round of chemo as a precaution. The chemo had nasty side effects with her hands and feet that had a chance of being permenant but eventually they went away. 5 years later she is religious about follow up tests.
At 79, she is back driving around the country in her Chinook rv by herself, including climbing up the ladder to get to rooftop storage bins, which ages me. When she was in the hospital we made a pact that I would skydive with her when she turned 80. A couple weeks ago she informed me that she had decided that she had gotten to do so many things since her diagnosis, including 2 rv trips to the west coast, that she was no longer needing to skydive. I was relieved because at 290 lbs I had some concerns about following through, and maybe being able to find someone that would tandem jump with me strapped on.
I am sorry if I got long winded and maybe a bit off topic. Every case is so different and it looks like the most important thing is catching it early.
It sounds like you did, and have a good chance at a full recovery. Please update your journey and let us know when you are back riding.
Man, I wish you the best in your recovery. Cancer sucks. F*ck Cancer.
In October of 2015, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Colorectal Cancer (Adenocarcinoma) with metathesis to the liver. Being a 36 y/o and relatively healthy I never expected such a thing to happen to me, no one does (I do not have lynch syndrome (Colon cancer - precursor)). My outlook was not good, I was given some odds that would make you fall to your knees. It took about a month before the doctors even starting treating my cancer which began with chemotherapy (5-fluorouracil w/avastin). I would do 3-day treatments once every two weeks. This started a cycle of treatments, surgeries, rest, treatments, surgeries, etc. for the next two years. I'll spare you the colon details but you can imagine - they took a piece that said "You have plenty of time" and hooked it up to the end piece that said, "It's beyond way too late". They removed everything from the exit on up (About 2') along with a 1/3 of my liver.
Now, here's the good part - I'm writing this. I was able to start riding again in 2017. The chemo was a pain to remove from my system and it took a long time (still suffer side effects). You'll be able to ride again and you'll know when. Test the waters when your feeling good. The hardest part about coming back is the effects of chemo and the physical changes to your body. I relate it to trying to heal from a concussion and suffering from PCS, I would get loopy when my heart rate got above a certain rate.
I have some good friends and an amazing wife (SN) who got me through very dark times during my treatments. Keep your head up and PM me if you or anyone has any questions that they don't want to ask in public.
In 2016, I had my first major surgery (of many) at UCI. My room overlooked Anaheim stadium. It was (I think) the week of A2 and to my shock, the Musquin's and RD and LD came and visited me while I was recovering. Very cool to say the least. I was in too much pain and pretty high to even be concerned with attending the supercross but I was able to watch the race on my IPad. Then this happened (Listen to the video);
Your post and many others above are great. I’m not a good rider just want to get close to normal again.
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