tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260917642011-12-13T22:57:07.536-05:00I've seen brighter days but it seems that I have very high chances to recover completely. With this blog I'd like to share my story and hope to create peace of mind both for myself as well as other testicular cancer victims. If you would like to share your story on this blog or have a link here to your blog please email me. --EREaster Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12876196743834260456noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26091764.post-1149245362033237622006-06-02T06:38:00.000-04:002006-06-02T23:01:07.270-04:00

I haven't posted much in the last week. I guess I've been able to start focusing on other things than the treatment and cancer, which is very good. My mind starts to function again on a more normal level. I'm more relaxed and I don't freak out about every little pain I feel. In fact I haven't even felt the tiny infection in my left testicle anymore. Vitamins A,B, C and E, Isoflavones, Q10 as

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I start to feel completely normal again.  Every now and then the incision causes a little bit of trouble if I walk for a longer time, but it's not too drastic.  During the sleep I start to dream about pain under my armpit which worries me, but I can't tell whether it's only part of the dream or whether the pain is real.  I have not experienced the pain during the day yet so it might just be a

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It's roughly one week since the first dosis of paraplatin. All the sideffects seem to be over. It took about 7 days for the constipation to disappear. the muscle pain vanished after 3 days. I was tired for roughly 1 day. and no nausea whatsoever. But yes a major constipation. I started another blog trying to write short thoughts or stories related to my cancer while I am waiting for the

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I got the first dosis of paraplatin three days ago. I went up to the hospital with my girlfriend at around 9am. The doctor said I wouldn't feel anything and I should not prepare anything of any sort. They gave me some anti nausea medicine and then I had to wait for an hour for the drug to kick in. Then I walked into a room which a bounch of beds with people on them getting their chemo. The

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Sperm Banks. I was always curious about these places. The one I went to looked like this. "Would you like to watch some DVDs?" the nurse kindly asked me. They made me release my potential future babies into a plastic cup with my name on it. I needed the help of my girlfriend, the DVDs and the posters on the wall didnt really do it for me. I think I could offer them my porno consulting

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Alright I don't like any of those three options. Who would. After long dicsussions with my girlfriend, my family and my doctors, I came to the conclusion that chemo was not the worst option for my case. My Beta HCG Values have dropped from a 14 to a 2 after 4 weeks which is a great sign that things are going better. There is a chance that the values could drop to zero but it might not which

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There is a 80-90% chance that the surgery has healed me completely and that there are no cancerous cells in my body left. Another doctor gave me a relapse rate of 70% and 80%. It's all statistics anyway and it boils down to whether I'm a half full or a half empty kind of person: 20% Chance that the tumor will come back within the next 5 years 80% Chance that nothing will ever happen again...I

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I signed up with this online support group, it's free...TC NET SupportI have received great help and mental support from them. I highly recommend signing up and telling your story. I have met with the radiotherapy specialist. The options for post surgery treatments of testicular cancer are all a little confusing and irritating right now. Every option seems to affect the probability of a

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About 1 week after the operation my urologist set up a CT Scan meeting for me. The CT scan takes X-ray slices of the body and allows in my case the doctors to see whether any lymph glands have been affected by the tumor. The Seminome tumor spreads almost exclusively through the lymph system. The CT Scan procedure took about 10 minutes total. I lie down on the platform, the nurse hooks my arm

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One week later I was at the hospital. No food 12 hours and no drinking 6 hours before the operation. 7am: Admission to hospital8am: Switching to hospital clothes9am: Shaving all pubical hair12am: OperationI don't recall the moment of waking up, but I felt relieved. The nurse said that everything went well. I carefully explored my genitals. One testicle only. It felt a little numb on the

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about 2 weeks after the antibiotics ended, my right testicle started to have the same symptoms again: Reddish color, slightly bigger, uncomfortable to touch. Also the stinging pain in the groins, legs and stomach area came back slowly.I went to another urologist for the followup. He checked my prostate (not sure to this day why..?), and thorougly examinated my testicles and my penis. He was not

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The next day I went back to work. I told my boss what happend and he was very supportive . The antibiotics seemed to work. The right ball started to feel more normal after 3 days. The scrotum took on a more normal looking skin color and I felt like I was on my way to recovery.The doctor suggested that I wear a jock strap. To this day I am not quite sure where to get this contraption. I

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Already on our way to our favorite sunday brunch place I started to feel a strong pain in my groins. It started to sting in the groins but also in the legs and the lower part of the stomach when I was walking. Needless to say that the eggs benedict were not quite the right medicine at that moment. We took a cab back home and I lay down to take a rest.The pain didn't go away. Next thing I

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So what happend next? As I said the slight pain did not develop any further so there was no need to be alarmed, I thought. Then a couple of weeks ago my right testicle started to feel a little sensitive. Slightly more than usual. Again there was no pain involved so I was not too concerned. Its size also seemed a little large, but as I've learned from my father and then later confirmed by

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I mean honestly, who really keeps track of what's going on down there? Are they bigger? Was the right one always this big? Is it ok that they have different sizes? What's up with this slight short pain every once in a while? --I felt this short, sharp pain that seemed to come from the left testicle. Really short, one second max. It started two years ago approximately. Not all that painful.

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I have been diagnosed with testicular cancer a few weeks ago. The journey has started off a little bumpy but it is starting to smooth out. After reading a lot on the internet and talking to a lot of doctors I am starting to get a grasp of my disease. I start having the distance to it and slowly stop having nightmares. I am coming to understand that my tumor is treatable and the recovery rate

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