I am being treated for and therefore I suppose I am also fighting two different kinds of cancers: Non Hodgkin's B Cell Lymphoma and Metastatic Melanoma because it has moved from my foot to my groin to my neck for 12 and 6 years respectively. My condition(s) are further complicated by a serious heart attack that I had about 12 years ago that because of my healthy physical condition, I barely felt. Three heart arteries were blocked 100%, 90% and 90% and while a triple bypass was the norm, I had my arteries cleaned out and 5 stints inserted, experiencing no problems since then.
Not realizing my health situation was as serious as it was, I left a bug bite or a spider bite unattended after scratching it and ended up in the hospital for 6 days with a staph infection in my blood and throughout my entire body and an antibiotic infusion protocol 3 times a day for 28 days after I was discharged.
I won't make that mistake again. Hindsight is always the best.
BUT, I completely disregard and completely ignore the single most important aspect of my cancer odyssey and that is the fact that either or both cancers could suddenly not respond to treatment or become relentlessly aggressive... in which case my life would be put in some serious jeopardy.
ALL CANCER PATIENTS live with this fear daily whether they think about it or not.
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