Posted by FrozenNorth on 01/14/07 14:38

Rev Turd Fredericks tossed the following at the wall, and it stuck:

> FrozenNorth wrote:
>> Rev Turd Fredericks tossed the following at the wall, and it stuck:
>>
>>> Respondant wrote:
>>>> -=Biscuit=- wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <sig partially restored>
>>>>
>>>> Help Heather kick cancer's ass! http://www.limeproject.org
>>>>
>>> SNIP>>>>>
>>>
>>>> But the WORST, by FAR, was the bone marrow
>>>> biopsy. I don't know if they still do it the same way these days, but
>>>> I was given a tongue depressor and asked to assume the fetal-position
>>>> while they shoved something that (IIRC) looked pretty-much like a cork
>>>> screw into my
>>>> hip. Screwed it IN, and YANKED it out. I NEVER felt pain like that
>>>> before,
>>>> and hope I never do again. Bottom line? Hodgkin's Disease.
>>>>
>>> A few months aqo I had a bone marrow biopsy and it was totally painless.
>>> They have refined the technique and the drugs they use. It stung a bit
>>> for a few days after, but no worse than a cut would have. Thankfully for
>>> me, the news was good.
>>>
>> Sounds about like mine, a little over a year ago, good news here too.
>>
> What did they think you had? My blood tests indicated leukemia, and I
> was fucking worried. I had just watched my dad die of that and then,
> about a month after he died I went for a routine physical and they found
> something about my blood profile that suggested the same thing. There
> are no words to describe what goes through your mind at that point.
>
It was a high level of some protein, can't remember which now, it apparently
can be an indicator of all sorts of nasty things.

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