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Hammer Pants
05/20/09

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This is sooo sad. But I kind of understand what they are going through. I'm 22 & I've been very ill for almost 7 years (no health insurance) so after going through so many tests doctors did a Colonoscopy finally found that I had developed a ton of polyps in my colon & rectum and diagnosed me with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Syndrome.

You develop this in your teens apparently and after removing polyps to test them for cancer it came back positive so now I will have both colon & rectum removed :(

Never thought I'd have to worry about colon cancer at 22.

This poor kid is going through so much, I'm sure. I just hope she's getting proper care & can heal emotionally from this cus I almost lost my damn mind with my condition.
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ElviraGooch
05/20/09

@Hammer Pants: I am so sorry for what you are going through. Is it better now, knowing what is wrong, than before when you were sick and just kept getting test after test? Even knowing that you have cancer? This an ongoing discussion at our house, because I know why I am sick, but know I can't get better, but won't get much worse, either. Is your prognosis good, after the surgery? I will send healing energy and strength to you, dear.
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Hammer Pants
05/20/09

@ElviraGooch: Thank you so much hun.

You don't know the relief I feel to finally know what is wrong as shocking as the news was. For the last decade I've hard terrible unexplainable stomach pains & food poisoning symptoms for weeks at a time but as I got older symptoms got more & more severe. I ate (& still do) very well, only organic, no beef or dairy & hardly anything fried and still felt like I was close to death. Turns out I was cus I barely had any blood left in me.

But my surgery isn't till a few weeks and even after it's done it ain't exactly the end of this condition. But at least I will know how to handle my illness & will be closely monitored for the rest of my life.

There is nothing worse than being sick & not knowing why and growing accustomed to having stomach pains daily after eating. It really ruined my life & kept me from completing college or even having a normal life. I just hope my life improves after removing my colon & rectum.
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brigita
05/20/09

@Hammer Pants: I tried to reply to your post but it got all mucked up (see: below), just wanted to reiterate that if you need a good online resource regarding colorectal cancer, the Colon Club was a great source of info and support to me when I was going through treatment for stage III rectal cancer @ 33yo, 4.5 months after my daughter was born.

I am so sorry to hear about your diagnosis but am glad that it was found and can be treated.
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thesciencegirl
05/20/09

@brigita: Thank you so much for providing that link. I have a sister who is awaiting results from a colonoscopy that we are worried will reveal cancer (she's 27). I hope I don't have to send her this link, but just in case I do, I'm glad to have it.

@Hammer Pants: I hope that everything works out well for you. I will definitely say a prayer for you.

@ginkgotree: Likewise, my thoughts and prayers go out to you.
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kookla
05/20/09

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My sister died of ovarian cancer at 4 years old. That was decades ago. Every time I hear a story about a child with cancer, it makes me angry that there isn't an improvement in medical technology to prevent and/or cure this horrific disease.
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gherkinfiend
05/20/09

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Does it take longer to diagnose these cases in teenagers and children because doctors wouldn't be looking for ovarian or breast cancer?

And therefore it is harder to treat the cases? Or am I being incredibly negative thinking this?
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PreposterousHypothesis
05/20/09

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Cancer + children = The ringing question in my mind when thinking about cosmic justice.
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jigglyball
05/20/09

@PreposterousHypothesis: So I have a pretty big guilt complex, generally speaking. I apologize for everything, for real mistakes as well as far too many well-intentioned words an actions, not to mention apologizing for things I didn't do. Sometimes I wonder if I can trace this back to the years I spent as a youngin' hanging out at my dad's lab in the pediatric hematology oncology ward, because even as a kindergartner, I knew that every one of those kids was sick, and that I wasn't, and that there was simply no good reason for it.
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Triphena
05/20/09

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You know, I've always been fairly critical of parents who are super-ultra-crazy insistent on feeding their precious, precious babies only organic local non-gmo kale picked at midnight by vegan Wiccans and get the vapors when someone is like, yeah, we stopped at McD's the other night on the way home from soccer.

However, after these back to back breast and ovarian cancers in children, I feel like it may be local pesticide free quinoa and kelp mash for my (eventual) little ones, and I should stop making faces at the women in their Subaru Forresters with their "Got Local?" bumper stickers.
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KentuckyBabe
05/20/09

@Triphena: it seems like some "trend" or whatever but it seriously is a major big deal. The stuff we eat is not food. The food we do eat has been raised unnaturally... something's gonna give. I think the way we eat will soon have to be revolutionized...
although an occational McD's is not the end of the world!... i hope.
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Triphena
05/20/09

@KentuckyBabe: Joking aside, I read Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle last summer and it really did give me a push to start really reading labels for more than the calorie count. It's really sort of scary.

That said, my uterus demands a medium fry from McD's once a month, and who am I to argue with her?
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GirlFailer
05/20/09

@Triphena: I'm a crazy pants naturalist, though I don't have a bumper sticker. I don't think it's a trend for all of us, just a way of life. I want to give my kids the best, healthiest lifestyle I can give them. I use cloth diapers (do you know what they put in disposable diapers to absorb the piss?) feed my kids mostly organic fruits and veggies, and try to buy hormone and antibiotic free meats and milk. I give my kids junk from time to time, but my rational is that by giving them less preservatives, hormones, and antibiotics daily it makes up for an occasional treat that might not be great for them. I am also a paranoid freak who wears a tinfoil hat, so there's that too.
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Triphena
05/20/09

@GirlSailor: See, I wouldn't call that crazy-pants. The woman who berated my friend, a first-grade teacher, for letting her child eat a hotdog during field day for a half hour- that is crazy-pants. The woman who lectured my mother for letting my little brothers start the day with smores while camping (before a real breakfast) and snittly demanded to know if that's how she fed them at home- crazy-pants. ("No, Diane," said my mom. "We don't have a smoldering bonfire at home.")

You, trying to do the best for your kids, including letting them eat junk once in awhile- not crazy-pants.
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JessaFields
05/20/09

@Triphena: "No, Diane," said my mom. "We don't have a smoldering bonfire at home."

Your mom is awesome.
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slowpoke.r
05/20/09

@Triphena: You know what? That's just rude. That has nothing to do with being a locavore or caring about where your food comes. It's been said many times before, but rude people are going to be rude people, no matter what theories/ lifestyle/ religion/ eating practices they ascribe to. That woman could have been handing out McNuggets dipped in heroin as a morning snack and she still would have found a way to be rude.

Also, your mom rocks.
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Triphena
05/20/09

@JessaFields: It really was ludicrous. We had been camping by a lake for a week. My brothers were dirty, they were in underoos, they were crouched by a fire pit like little cavemen, and she was all, "Is this what you do at home?!"

Like, yeah, of course. My brothers run around naked in our suburban Boston backyard, dancing around fire pits. They don't even go to school, we just feed them straight sugar and let them throw rocks at passers by.
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jemandtheholograms
05/20/09

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God, some people are so competitive. Ok, you beat the 10 yaer old from yesterday. Happy now?
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KiddyKat
05/20/09

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Is this one of those things where we're just noticing it more but it actually isn't happening at a greater rate than before or is it REALLY actually happening more often? Either way, it sucks.
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thesciencegirl
05/20/09

@KiddyKat: I don't think it's happening more. I think the news likes to highlight outliers because they're shocking. Ovarian CA is still so exceedingly rare in pre-adolescent girls that doctors who see it publish case reports talking about how rare it is. You can also find case reports like that back in 1962 (I know because I just looked it up).
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Liz11685
05/20/09

@thesciencegirl: Thank you for doing that research. I was thinking perhaps it was getting diagnosed more frequently, but the research trumps my assumptions.
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maneki neko
05/20/09

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This is horrifying. That poor little girl.

Please don't tell me we'll have a six-year-old with prostate cancer next.
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angelheadedhipster
05/20/09

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Ugh. Seriously? This and the breast cancer story give new, terrible meaning to "kids growing up too fast these days." I haz a sad.
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Mary McCarthyite
05/20/09

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NO is right. I want to hug this girl and Hannah with breasst cancer from yesterday.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
05/20/09

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first a 10 year-old with breast cancer, now an 8 year-old with ovarian cancer. Jesus roller-skating Christ. Babies should not experience this!!
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bluebears
05/20/09

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What is going on?????
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Trulymadlyme
05/20/09

@bluebears: Wasn't there an article about shockingly young woman with breast cancer recently too?
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Ailatan
05/20/09

@Trulymadlyme: yesterday... she's ten.

this is so fucking sad.
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bluebears
05/20/09

@Trulymadlyme: yes. this is not right. something is going on.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/20/09

@bluebears: I know, WTF?
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chatterboxwriting
05/20/09

@Trulymadlyme: Oh dear, I'm sorry I came in this thread. I have a lump that has to be biopsied and my comfort to myself has been, "I am only 28." That's kind of out the window now.
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