My heart goes out to everyone posting who has suffered or suffered loss. It’s an awful disease and a very frightening thing.
I’ve had a cancer and a precancer, and I’m good; so I’m not sure whether I should describe myself as lucky or unlucky.
The (skin) precancer was during a period of immunosuppression (for UC). They tell you to be very careful about exposure to sun, so when I found a dry, flaky patch on my face I had it checked out - caught it at the precancerous stage when they can just whiz it off with a liquid nitrogen spray. So I guess I was looking out for that one, because of the immunosuppression.
The bladder cancer story I detailed in this thread. I pissed blood - once. If you have UC, it gets you into the habit of looking, if you know what I mean, and so that’s how I noticed. Turns out that pissing blood gets you into the system fast-tracked. (As a follow up to the earlier thread, I had my second follow-up on Thursday, and I’m still clear. One more follow-up to go.)
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