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Post by Thomas Eversole on Dec 16, 2016 10:04:41 GMT -6
Well, today is the day. The series of scans I have will give my oncologist the information on if my cancer is in remission or not.
Already drank that dye. Just waiting to get that harpoon in my chest and get shoved into a machine...
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Post by Deepfriar on Dec 16, 2016 10:39:50 GMT -6
I pray for full remission in Jesus's name!
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Post by Deepfriar on Dec 16, 2016 22:17:39 GMT -6
How long until you hear the results?
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Dec 17, 2016 5:51:28 GMT -6
I get the results back Wednesday, December 21st.
Want to hear some irony? December 21st last year was when I found out I had cancer.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Dec 17, 2016 5:51:47 GMT -6
Thank you for the prayer!
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Dec 21, 2016 11:37:30 GMT -6
My oncologist told me today that I'm in remission from cancer. Some lymph nodes were prominent and there was an opaque spot in my lungs, but that could be from the back to back colds. Nothing looked cancerous. Follow up scans in 3 months... God is good!
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Post by Kerrick on Dec 21, 2016 14:13:23 GMT -6
Ah this is such great news!!! Praise God!
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Post by Thomas Eversole on May 13, 2017 2:13:31 GMT -6
Well I'm at the ER. Took me a half hour to stand up. Another half hour just to get to my car. I wonder what the hell is wrong with me now...
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Post by exo on May 13, 2017 4:45:33 GMT -6
That sucks, man. Hope it's just a pinched nerve or something. Praying.
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Post by _ on May 13, 2017 12:22:56 GMT -6
Damn, dude. I'm sorry you have to endure this.
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Post by Bartimaeus on May 13, 2017 19:02:40 GMT -6
Praying for you now Thomas
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Post by Kerrick on May 15, 2017 10:01:33 GMT -6
Sending up prayers right now! Please keep us posted Thomas.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on May 15, 2017 14:54:13 GMT -6
Thanks for the prayers guys. The butt-ton of painkillers they gave me are helping, but they make me feel sluggish and tired. I'm ok walking a little, laying down a little - but sitting is excruciating. (which is why the ER doctor wrote me a note requesting I be excused from work, since working entails sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours)
I've got physical therapy tomorrow morning. I'm guessing from there, if I don't handle that well, they'll schedule me for an MRI.
I'm moving very very slow. Too big of a step, I get a jolt of pain to my lower back.
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Post by Kerrick on May 15, 2017 15:49:17 GMT -6
Thomas I am really worried... This doesn't seem normal - at least not for someone your age. Will they be doing any sort of assessment tomorrow at your physical therapy? Do they still not know what's wrong? I hate that they're just pumping you with painkillers but [seemingly] being resistant to figuring out what's ACTUALLY causing this. I will be keeping you in my prayers.
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Post by blake on May 16, 2017 15:27:00 GMT -6
Will definitely pray. Hope all is well
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Jun 24, 2017 17:55:33 GMT -6
I could use some prayers gents. So I did these new exercises yesterday that my physical therapist gave me - they involve one of those 65cm "workout balls" and they were supposed to strengthen my abdominal muscles. Did about an hour's worth in the afternoon, and by the time I was trying to go to sleep, I was in excruciating pain and my whole left leg was numb.
Only slept a few hours, (I think the numbness kept me awake more than the pain) and couldn't stand up straight today at all, or sit for longer than a few minutes. I called off work (which would have involved around 8 hours of sitting) and also missed a hog roast my wife and I were planning to go to after work. ...because I wouldn't be able to sit in my car for 40 minutes to get there.
Walking feels like someone pried open a mouse trap and clipped it on my left calf. More than anything is the frustration of feeling back at square one to something that has been bothering me since April.
My wife says she's going to push for me to have an MRI. I've jumped through the physical therapy hoops, it helped until it didn't. Something else seems to be going on and it probably needs to be checked if I'm ever going to get my back, back to normal.
I appreciate any and all prayers.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Jun 24, 2017 21:11:01 GMT -6
Dang. Praying, Thomas.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Jun 25, 2017 13:04:53 GMT -6
Well, I'm glad that I made it through my entire shift today. ...not so glad that after sitting for so long, the bottoms of both my feet are completely numb.
Gotta call the doc first thing in the morning.
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Post by exo on Jun 25, 2017 17:59:30 GMT -6
Yup. Hopefully, it's just the new exercises swelling muscles and compressing a nerve, sir something else equally minor. Prayers going up!
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Post by _ on Jun 26, 2017 6:04:19 GMT -6
Praying now, bro. Please keep us updated.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 11, 2017 10:42:59 GMT -6
24 hours and counting in the midst of one of the most painful bowel obstructions I've had. I missed work. I've slept maybe a few hours.
Its a partial obstruction as I'm moving some things, but the pain.... it feels like someone taking a butter knife, plunging it into my gut (to the hilt) about 2" above the navel and twisting it. Set a timer for it to happen randomly every 10 minutes.
My hernia is getting worse. I can see it looking at my stomach in the mirror.
I'm almost positive I'm going to take that surgery that was offered to me in a prior appointment. They'd put in a mesh for supporting that hernia, which I know is complimenting these obstructions and pain.
I could use some prayer please. For my pain, that my job is gracious enough to excuse these sets of absences, that (God willing) I can still complete an Orationem track for the comp....
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Nov 11, 2017 11:18:44 GMT -6
Praying, Thomas.
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Post by _ on Nov 11, 2017 18:18:35 GMT -6
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Post by avjr on Nov 11, 2017 19:46:09 GMT -6
I will be praying for you, Thomas. 🙏🏾
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 12, 2017 8:52:10 GMT -6
My pain has lessened, but.... its still there. I'm getting a double whammy. This sharp stabbing pain above my belly button and lots of pressure from my hernia. Its only gotten worse... I'm actually wearing a bathrobe right now because pants and shirt hurts it too much. Too much pressure. Too much pain. I never thought I'd be so anxious to get a surgery in my life.... but this needs fixed. My life is no longer manageable with it as is. Even being upright needs a hand to hold my gut.
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Post by Bartimaeus on Nov 13, 2017 9:30:27 GMT -6
Praying for you, brother.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 13, 2017 10:54:53 GMT -6
Got a surgery consultation next Monday morning. My first surgery, I was extremely stressed and anxious. Never been so worried about something about to happen in my life. 4th, 5th, however many surgeries I've had, I'm like.... whatever. Lets just get this over with.
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Post by Thomas Eversole on Nov 14, 2017 10:38:49 GMT -6
My surgery consultation got moved up - from Monday morning to Thursday morning. ._.
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Post by Bartimaeus on Nov 16, 2017 14:54:56 GMT -6
Hope it went well, Thomas. Need to get you feeling better.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Nov 16, 2017 16:55:21 GMT -6
Oh wow, today's Thursday. Where is this week going?? Also, I'm here thinking you just had surgery Thomas, somehow missing the word "consultation" in your post Well, I seem to be losing my mind, but regardless, I hope everything went well today.
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