*Rams - Raiders Gameday Thread*

Okay guys, game day!

I’ve been remiss in not posting. Yes, I have been very busy at work . . . timed nicely with the Raiders’ sucking and my fantasy team dealing with injuries and losses too. Just filed on Friday our opposition to Shakey’s Pizza’s motion for a preliminary injunction under 15 U.S.C. 1115(b) and our reply brief in support of our Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. Both motions are scheduled to be heard at the same time. Case is not going to settle, so somebody’s going to be real disappointed. Fingers crossed.

But it’s more than that.

Tomorrow, I’m in Cedars-Sinai for my second of three surgeries. My first surgery was in September for a wide excision of a rare form of cancer of a sweat gland in a spot (right flank below my right breast, not the armpit or neck) not associated with this rare cancer (apparently a dermatologist can go an entire career without encountering it).

In staging that cancer (luckily the sentinel lymph-node biopsy was negative) the chest image spotted a nodule in my lung. The subsequent PET revealed it as likely cancerous, which a biopsy confirmed.

The PET also lit up my thyroid, and a biopsy revealed a larger mass of Hürthle cells, which they estimated as 40% likely cancerous (weird that science can’t be more certain at this stage). My surgery to remove that is in November.

I was basically diagnosed with 3 stage 1 cancers, the first leading to the discovery of the second, which led to the discovery of the third. Why?

All are in the same grid (I have blue dots on my chest) where I had 9 weeks of radiation therapy (before 9 months of chemotherapy when I relapsed 2 years later) after being diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgin’s Lymphoma back in 1986. My (younger) thoracic surgeon at UCLA who knew my now retired oncologist (who used to work in the same medical plaza) said I’m his first (stage 3) cancer survivor patient from the 1980’s (I was 21 when diagnosed and the treatments just started having good outcomes but were overkill compared to the radiation and chemotherapy they use now).

The prognosis is good (assuming the next two surgeries go as well as the first—meaning removal of the cancers and negative biopsies of the surrounding lymph nodes). The MRI, PET and Cat-Scans give us hope we have identified all the cancer.

My family physician originally missed the sweat gland cancer during my annual check up (as did my dermatologist). It was my wife’s dermatologist, who my wife had take a look at the small bump when I was just there for her visit, that properly diagnosed it. She took it out before we went to Europe in July and then biopsied the skin around it when we got back in August.

My family physician, who I’ve seen since I was at UCLA, made a morbid joke after I got diagnosed. Told me if it had spread, I’d already be dead.

My wife, unfortunately, looked up the cancer on the Internet (clear cell hydrodenocarcinoma) before the first surgery and before we spoke with our surgeon and family physician. It said I would be dead in 6 months. What the Internet did not say is that I would be dead in 6 months only if it had it spread.

It was a weird day being told after the first surgery (a) you are not going to die in 6 months but (b) you likely have lung and thyroid cancer we need to stage. Well, we celebrated that night at El Patron, and the waiter join in our celebration. He said, “I’ve never seen anyone so happy to have lung cancer.” Lol

My doctors have all repeated that it is better to have 3 stage 1 cancers treatable by surgeries than 1 stage 3 cancer or a stage 2 cancer that, having spread, can’t be treated and is quickly fatal. That appears to be the situation (knock on wood). @Birdwell and I talked last month about each other’s situations.

Apparently, the warranty on my radiation therapy was only good for 35 years. Hopefully I’m good for another 35 years after these tune ups.

Go Raiders!
Missed this post at the time. Hope the surgeries go well and you are into remission.
 
Missed this post at the time. Hope the surgeries go well and you are into remission.
Damn, man. Stay strong and heal up. You're in my prayers. Fuck cancer.
Lung cancer is no joke. It likes to spread, can go many places and is resistant to chemo moreso than some others. Luckily, immune therapy (after chemo therapy) has achieved good outcomes against my pathology.

As part of my lung surgery, they removed 8 lymph nodes. 2 tested positive, unfortunately. The spread moved me from Stage 1 to Stage 3A. Even if my lymph nodes had tested negative, which we were hoping b/c the PET, CT and MRI were negative, there was still a 20% chance that a reoccurrence without further treatment.

I start chemo next week (4 6-hour treatments, 3 weeks apart). I’ll feel shitty for a week, good for 2 weeks, repeat and rinse. Far better than 9 months of chemo therapy I went through in the ‘80’s. Then I start immune therapy for 1 year (weekly treatments). Then we wait 5 years to celebrate together.
 
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Lung cancer is no joke. It likes to spread, can go many places and is resistant to chemo moreso than some others. Luckily, immune therapy (after chemo therapy) has achieved good outcomes against my pathology.

As part of my lung surgery, they removed 8 lymph nodes. 2 tested positive, unfortunately. The spread moved me from Stage 1 to Stage 3A. Even if my lymph nodes had tested negative, which we were hoping b/c the PET, CT and MRI were negative, there was still a 20% chance that a reoccurrence without further treatment.

I start chemo next week (4 6-hour treatments, 3 weeks apart). I’ll feel shitty for a week, good for 2 weeks, repeat and rinse. Far better than 9 chemo months of therapy I went through in the ‘80’s. Then I start immune therapy for 1 year (weekly treatments). Then we wait 5 years to celebrate together.
Hope all goes well, man. I know it's probably not on the top of your list, but if you can keep us informed that would be cool. Been interacting with all you mofos for so long, even when we don't see eye to eye, I like to know everyone is good...
 
Lung cancer is no joke. It likes to spread, can go many places and is resistant to chemo moreso than some others. Luckily, immune therapy (after chemo therapy) has achieved good outcomes against my pathology.

As part of my lung surgery, they removed 8 lymph nodes. 2 tested positive, unfortunately. The spread moved me from Stage 1 to Stage 3A. Even if my lymph nodes had tested negative, which we were hoping b/c the PET, CT and MRI were negative, there was still a 20% chance that a reoccurrence without further treatment.

I start chemo next week (4 6-hour treatments, 3 weeks apart). I’ll feel shitty for a week, good for 2 weeks, repeat and rinse. Far better than 9 chemo months of therapy I went through in the ‘80’s. Then I start immune therapy for 1 year (weekly treatments). Then we wait 5 years to celebrate together.
You got this, bro.
 
Lung cancer is no joke. It likes to spread, can go many places and is resistant to chemo moreso than some others. Luckily, immune therapy (after chemo therapy) has achieved good outcomes against my pathology.

As part of my lung surgery, they removed 8 lymph nodes. 2 tested positive, unfortunately. The spread moved me from Stage 1 to Stage 3A. Even if my lymph nodes had tested negative, which we were hoping b/c the PET, CT and MRI were negative, there was still a 20% chance that a reoccurrence without further treatment.

I start chemo next week (4 6-hour treatments, 3 weeks apart). I’ll feel shitty for a week, good for 2 weeks, repeat and rinse. Far better than 9 months of chemo therapy I went through in the ‘80’s. Then I start immune therapy for 1 year (weekly treatments). Then we wait 5 years to celebrate together.
Just to confirm, it's not Meso, is it? That shit did my MIL in.
 
The most unnerving and tragic parts about internet communities is how long time posters can pass away and you might never know.
 
The most unnerving and tragic parts about internet communities is how long time posters can pass away and you might never know.
Depends on the poster. Some of you fuckers post 10-20 times an hour, so we'd know. Others like me that only post here and there are the ones you wouldn't know about.
 
Who was that dude? Several boards ago. Met him once or twice. Might have been from Hayward. Good dude but on the board he kinda played nasty.

Always ripped on the Raiders which isn't too hard of course.

Heard he died and can't even remember dude's name.
 
Did we ever find out what happened to RaiderBruce?
 
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