SGrem said:
For my 27th birthday I was diagnosed with stage 4 type B aggressive hodgkins disease. MD Anderson turned me away. Very literally told me to go home and die. Three other oncologists told me the same thing. One of them called me back and said he had something we could try but if it didn't work he would kill me faster than the cancer. It was my only hope to try.
Wife left me and my daughter 2 weeks after diagnosis because she didnt want a cancer husband. My daughter was 9 months old.
11 months of chemo once a week for 8-12hours.
11 weeks of radiation every day.
I am now 51 and in remission for 23 yrs and my daughter is 25 and killing it!!!
Never smoked. Never dipped. Never seen drugs in my life. Hardly any drinking maybe a bottle of whiskey and a 24 pack of beer over a years time. No bad habits. Eat reasonably. Fish and hunt all the time. Purdy clean living. Worked out and exercised couple times a week.
Sometimes it just gets ya....
When I am having a tough day, I will think about you and quit acting like a ***** and get back at it.
I dipped and chewed at a young age because friends did it. Curbed my appetite, and I think gave me an oral fixation that later led to me chewing straws and hot toothpicks. I quit dipping numerous times, and still to this day my mouth waters when I smell some of them. I'm sure it did some damage as the side I always kept it has had more problems at the dentist. But I worry about the internal things. Back in school we would swallow it since it was not allowed. I try not to think about it.
Second Hardest Workin Man on Texags
