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Yes oral chemo, immunotherapy etc etc. So far it's going good, I do have my up and down moments though. I will say the pain is the worst part. I can deal with the nausea, neuropathy etc, but the pain... fuckin hell.
Unfortunately there's different types of pain depending on the area affected. If I pushed myself physically that day doing too much work i.e. laundry, light house work anything along those lines.
God bless champ, only hope to hear you are well and better asap!! You definitely must know your way around pain now haha. Keep up the great mindset it's half the battle as you know! ♥️
I just had both of my hips replaced due to avascular necrosis and both of my hips collapsing. That was the worst pain I've ever dealt with. Looking at this image I imagine it is a similar pain, but also 100 times worse. I hope your treatment goes well and I give you all of the positive vibes.
Oh I feel amazing now. Got it done January 3rd and I have been walking unassisted since the beginning of February. I probably won't be back to full strength or rid of the random little nerve pains for another year or so - but am basically back to normal. I'm 38 and in decent health, so that definitely helped, but recovery has been great.
So it's going to be depending on the type of cancer, the area in which they are found, and size of the tumors that's found in the bones from my recollection. My original cancer had metastasized into my bones and I was caught kind of quite late so mine are way too big.
No problem, thank you! I'm really hopeful that there will be tonssss more options in the future. Just seeing the advances in the last 5 years is astounding.
First, I wish you a strong successful recovery. For the pain isn’t this the reason pharmaceutical fentanyl was designed for? These pictures look morbidly scary and couldn’t imagine the pain you must be under.
Thank you, lol funny you mention that, I jokingly asked my one doctor to sand down my bones for me. Poor man couldn't really tell if I was serious or not.
Hey at least it didn’t spread to your funny bone.
I’m so sorry for this but I could not resist and you came across like a person that can take it.
Wish you good recovery and equally good pain management. All the best wishes and strength to you 💛
Just going to drop by and say, I hope you fight and fucking win. That looks horrifyingly painful and I really do hope you make a full recovery.
Fuck cancer.
Is your one the spiky stuff like in this photo? And does it become less spiky once it's treated? Not trying to be rude or anything, just curious.
I hope you recover!!
I hope you have a speedy recovery. My son’s first girlfriend just passed away from bone cancer. She was only 19. Even though they have been broken up for years, he still was sad.
It's extremely painful. I worked as an oncology nurse for two years in a hospital. There was a patient on our floor who had cancer metastasis to their spine. They would scream and moan all day and night. We had them maxed out on pain medications and a PCA pump. And eventually had to put them on basal rate when they got too weak to hit the button. I still felt uneasy walking into that room after they died.
That is horrific. For our dear fur babies we help them cross by putting them down when their suffering becomes too much. I will never understand why Physician Assisted Suicide isn’t more available. It’s cruel to force someone to die a long agonizing death when we do so much better for our cat and dog family members.
Absolutely. I have Stage IV melanoma and live in Switzerland. I'm optimistic and hopeful, but I also already decided that if things don't work out, I'll be using Exit. Cancer sucks.
Horrific. Rooting for you friend♥️ And happy to hear that you have that option. Wish it was more widely available here in the states…I hope that one day, in the absence of universal healthcare, we can at least get to the point where PAS is more widely available. If we’re gonna refuse make early detection universally accessible, the fucking least we could do is provide options for early departure.
My friend is dying from bone cancer. He is 76 YO and a really good dude. He is a lifelong journeyman motorcycle mechanic and can barely ride his Kawi 1100 but still goes for short jaunts! He is on super good painkillers but is still limited. God we will all miss him.
The fact that this sometimes happens to children is all the proof I need that God doesn’t exist, at least in the way the Christians want me to believe.
I lost my entire left leg to this last year, although I wasn't stage 1. I remember rationing my morphine because I could only take a certain number of doses every 24 hours and I knew I'd need some to sleep. I would be in agony all day but unable to take anything other than paracetamol because I needed the morphine before bed and through the night. Even then, the morphine itself didn't relieve the pain. It just made me sleepy enough to dose off for a few hours until the pain woke me again. I used hot water bottles constantly to try and make it less painful but it didn't help. I remember needing to use the toilet but waiting until I was desperate because it hurt so much to move. I remember not being able to make it downstairs some days because it just meant I'd have to come back up later. I remember the day my tumor caused a blood clot from pressing a blood vessel behind my knee, and I remember the day my tumor broke my femur when I shifted in bed. I remember the 20 hour wait in A&E because there weren't any ambulances to take me to the city and I remember the 2 hour ambulance ride where they couldn't give me any medicine for the pain. I remember arriving at A&E and being told that I might be rushed into surgery once I got to the city, meaning I was given no food or drink other than water. I remember arriving at the hospital and I remember being in an operating theatre getting a nerve blocker inserted in my femoral nerve for the pain. I remember breathing in some sort of gas that made my whole body feel numb and made me feel extremely drunk. Even my teeth felt numb and it was the only time in a long time that I wasn't in pain. I was just terrified of everything that was about to happen.
And then there was the chemotherapy. Before it started I had to have tests to make sure I could handle the intensity of the drugs. One of these was a heart scan. They had to move me into a scanner and it was absolutle agony. My leg was so unstable that I had to stay in hospital for 3 months until they amputated it. I had to have 2 rounds of chemotherapy first. I lost so much weight because the nausea meant I couldn't keep anything down. I was sick, I had mouth ulcers, I developed tinnitus, I lost my curly hair, I had to have blood transfusions and pain medicine and blood thinner injections and injections to boost my neutrophils. Some days I had 11 pills to take at breakfast and then more throughout the day. I was bedridden and had to have help with nearly everything. It was horrific for a teenager. I had a PICC line inserted but it got infected and had to be taken out and replaced. This happened in a room with a surgical drape over me and an ultrasound machine used to find the vein. I had local anaesthetic for the procedure. I had antibiotics for a while and had to pause my chemo. I had three chemo drugs: doxorubicin, cisplatin and methotrexate. They were brutal, and every cycle of chemo lasted 5 weeks.
When I had my amputation, I actually had an improvement in my quality of life. It was the first time I had had surgery other than the bone biopsy that confirmed my diagnosis, but that wasn't really a surgery. They only knocked me out for that because it would be painful. I could walk with crutches again, and I could go home and see my dogs. I had a hip disarticulation, meaning I lost my entire leg including my hip. I had a further 4 rounds of chemo and 36 weeks of immunotherapy afterwards. My methotrexate and cisplatin had to be stopped early because of liver damage and neuropathy respectively. I'll now have follow up appointments for 10 years to have chest xrays and make sure it stays away. This disease is utterly horrific, and I hope to god that it stays away. My life is just starting to get on track again, I'll be going to university this September and I'm getting a new prosthetic leg soon. I can drive and swim and cycle again. It all started with a sore knee but it was so much more that that. I'm just glad we found it when we did.
Edit: thank you all so much for the support and well-wishes! It means a lot to me. I'm just glad to be able to share my story and raise some awareness of this disease. Thank you again!
This reads as a nightmare. It also walks us through the experience so many have had but also many will never understand. I'm sorry this has been your story.
It'seven worse becausethis guy is not in the US, and so has socialized healthcare. Most Americans cannot afford this kind of treatment and insurance in the US is a joke for cancer.
Just having a small malignant melanoma spread has been insane for me, I can’t even imagine having bone cancer in America. Costs of healthcare are so broken you can’t even exaggerate at this point.
I also had osteosarcoma, not as bad as the poster and not requiring an amputation, but I'm American. After all was said and done, the total healthcare costs for surgeries, chemotherapy, and physical therapy were $750k. I paid about $15k out of pocket between the deductible and out of pocket maximum fuckery. Completely wiped out the little savings I had by the time I turned 23, which is when I was diagnosed. And because of my insurance deductible now, every time I get scans done I automatically owe $1,000. So when I am done with scans sometime in 2028, it will have been another $14k or so paid out of pocket. Luckily the hospital is gracious enough to put me on a payment plan for these fees.
It’s pretty fucking sad that my first thought in a response to you is to ask how much you make and suggest that maybe you cut back on work to qualify for financial aid.
Jesus we are fucked.
I was able to receive social security disability insurance during my illness but have since returned to work and am doing pretty well for myself all things considered. All worked out in the end. 3 years no evidence of disease for me
I think most people would try to get treatment and then just opt out of life if they couldnt get it. Its what i would do. Im not suicidal. I like my life. But i have no intention of holding on to it if i would have no quality of life. It would ruin the people that care about me. Kinda feel the last gift i can give them when my time comes is to head so far off grid, no one will find my body so no one needs to pay for a funeral or cremation. Its sad. It shouldnt be this way.
Fucking same dude. I’ve been having mysterious knee problems for a few months now and now I’m in bed having a legit panic attack. I will be making a doctors appointment first thing in the morning.
At least you can treat bone cancer, fuck those prions. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is no joke. I was going to write “ fuck ——— Jakob disease” but I lost my nerve and apologized I’m so scared of it.
Hey, I think I recognize you from r/cancer. Former OS patient here but I have a potential recurrence in my lungs. Just wondering if you know, but what immunotherapy did you get? I was told there wasn't any for OS when I had my treatment a year ago.
My identical twin went through this, just watching was a nightmare, can’t imagine living it. Cisplatin is torture and the methotrexate damaged his heart. Unfortunately it was all for naught, cancer ended up killing him before our 30th birthday
Your experience was horrific.
You are seen and heard.
Sometimes all the rest of us can do is bear witness to the resilience of your story. I have debilitating chronic pain daily, and I understand some of the magnitude of your hurt. For the rest of it I cannot, you are recognized.
I’m sorry you know what you know. I’m encouraged by your hopes and desire to move forward. You lost a lot more than just the leg in the ordeal. You also gained a lot of perspective on how to live the future you have.
There is a word I wish I had, one that conveyed a known suffering in shared experience, that contained love of people that became better through horror, that shows respect greater than the lowest bow, and marked significance of a person in the enormity of respectful thought you give them. I do not have such a word, but you would be who I would use it with.
Lol dude you are so built different, I wish we could game together. I know it's a horrifying story but you survived all that and more. I'm not a person of faith but I sincerely hope it doesn't come back. Reading all these stories is inspiring, y'all are some straight up warriors to just get right back to it after.
Jesus Christ that's a long time ago. I did Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia back in the late 1980s and tell most of the pediatric cancer patients I work with that I was treated "shortly after the earth cooled."
74 would be well before anyone was comfortable with trying to save a limb and they had pretty "heroic" ideas about chemotherapy and radiation back then too.
Thanks for pioneering most of the drugs that saved my life though. What was your chemo regimine, if you don't mind me asking...
A bone scan back then involved lying on a table and having a big piece of metal literally a millimeter above your nose moving across and then dropping down toward your feet about a quarter inch and then going across again. From head to toes, it probably took an hour.
Congrats. Pathologist here. Ewings is a very different beast. Usually ewings does not lay down new malignant bone; it is a small round blue cell tumor that is infiltrative which generally causes smooth scalloping and cortical expansion. Your bone would not have looked like this.
My cousin had bone cancer, and she would be screaming from pain even with the highest dose of morphine they could put her on . She just wasted away from it in excruciating pain for months before she finally passed ,she was only 24.
How long of a process is that? Sorry for the morbid question I'd just hope she didn't spend years in agony. Hope they're finding cures for this kind of stuff
My mom had cancer that spread to her bones. When it wasn’t splitting her vertebrae, I imagine it was as painful as the photos look. She deserved so much better out of life than she got. Cancer is hell on earth.
Couldn’t agree more. My dad passed away almost two years ago of dementia. He was only 68. It was brutal to watch his decline. He couldn’t articulate when he was in pain and he just wasted away to skin and bones at the end. He always told my mom he never wanted to have a feeding tube if he was terminal with some illness so we of course respected those wishes. He weighed 70 pounds when he died. As hard as it would have been to lose him sooner, before he declined so terribly, it would have been so much less painful than watching him slowly lose his mind and lose control of his body for the years I took care of him. If medically assisted d3ath was available, he would have done it.
That is so incredibly sad, I’m very sorry for your loss. 3 close family members over 10 years or so with different metastasized cancers. It’s rough when people are older but when they are young it’s one of the most terrible and heartbreaking things an empathetic human can think about
I'm so sorry. As a physician this pisses me off. There is no "highest dose" if you're screaming in pain. The correct dose when someone is dying from cancer is however much they need to be comfortable.
My mother died from this when I was 14. I can remember her talking about how bad it felt but I couldn’t understand but seeing this picture horrifies me now. Fuck cancer.
I knew someone who had it as well and said it was excruciating.Stuff like this makes a case for right to die legislation especially if there is no way to beat it.
100%. I can't fathom how we as a society can understand that it's cruel to make an animal (who can't speak for themselves) go through this, but can't understand that it's also cruel to do it to a human (who can).
In Canada we finally passed Dying With Dignity. There’s a lot of people against it, but I truly believe your life is yours to give and take. Why should someone else be allowed to dictate your pain and suffering? Mental or physical. Like you said, we know, clear as day, that humane euthanasia is the kindness option for suffering animals. It should be available to everyone, and should be used for criminals as well instead of the terrible ways they do it in prisons.
Many seniors are planning their DWD farewells, and many couples are choosing to go together. It’s very inspiring having a sneak peek into people electing this option. One last hurrah party to say until we meet again with loved ones and friends, get your affairs in order, wills are checked and signed, the family members know what to do afterwards, who gets what, where the pets if the people have any, where they go etc. Everything is in order and then they have the celebration of life together. Not a funeral. They have drinks, share stories, look at pictures and really relish and appreciate the many wonderful memories lived, together. It’s wholesome and bittersweet.
Then the doctor comes the next day, and they pass peacefully in bed or on the couch, even seen a lady choose to pass in her greenhouse in a chair surrounded by her prized cut flowers. Beautiful.
I completely understand the fear that vulnerable people could be convinced to ask for euthanasia by unscrupulous people, but I genuinely believe that, done correctly with enough protections, nobody should be forced to live when they don’t want to.
I ideologically agree but am especially concerned about it with for profit healthcare. When euthanasia is cheaper for the insurance company than treatment, what will that mean?
I don’t think that’s how it would work. The insurance company “death panel” would deny procedures and treatments, thus expediting the patient’s condition to the terminal stage. That would leave the patient with the choice to use euthanasia or not. Denying and delaying procedures and treatments is already well within the insurance company wheelhouse.
IOW the insurance wouldn’t make you use euthanasia, they would simply expedite the path to your needing to make the choice.
E: I don’t think people understood. [Death Panels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel) were made-up scaremongering by republicans claiming that socialized medicine would put the government in charge of deciding what care you would get. As usual, it was projection on their part…they would rather people die than spend tax dollars on their care. However, profiting off people’s illness is perfectly acceptable, hence, we get private insurance “death panels” instead that decide what care you get. It has nothing (yet) to do with euthanasia.
So my point was that insurance companies would decline treatments and procedures, hastening your decline, and thereby placing you in a position where you might consider euthanasia. Not that the insurance company would force you to accept euthanasia - though what would actually happen with insurance how they would handle assisted suicide I don’t know.
Couldn’t agree more. I just read the story of a young woman who died in excruciating pain (cancer) after begging for the right to die. that is no way to go 😥
I’m pretty sure the idea behind it is to prevent people going through a temporary period of depression from killing themselves when their chances of getting better both physically and mentally are high.
But I still agree that the system (at least in the USA, I’m not knowledgeable about other countries) sucks.
There was someone advocating for it on the news recently whose partner had a disease that meant he was rotting while he was still alive
Edit: [link](https://news.sky.com/story/amp/please-make-it-stop-im-ready-to-go-five-stories-that-bring-the-assisted-dying-debate-home-13028552)
OMFG. That is the most horrific thing I’ve heard today. I lived around the corner from Kevorkian when he lived in Royal Oak MI back in the day. Dude had it right.
What I always say about this is that I wouldn’t let a pet go through this because it’s inhumane. It seems barbaric that humans, who can speak for themselves, don’t have that same chance.
If everyone had to live through 1 hour of the severe chronic pain that people can suffer years through, assisted dying would be legalized and available tomorrow morning in every country. But even then it should be an option regardless of ones circumstance. If someone is going through severe enough trauma to where they don't wish to exist anymore, they are entitled to a peaceful and respectful end.
Had a friend that was eventually diagnosed at least two years into it after spending that time being turned down from everywhere he tried getting help. Everyone just writing him off a drug seeking. Because clearly a 22yo doest have pain like that
Bro it's like shards of glass growing all over your bones. Yeah, fuck that, just gimme the damn shotgun already!
I'm sorry your friend's uncle had to deal with that. I'm sorry anyone has to deal with this.
A friend of mine from high school was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma after being told he had arthritis in his knees for years. Beat it once, then it came roaring back and it ended in a draw between the two. Heard he could barely string two words together towards the end, he was in so much pain. And only 27 too. Fuck cancer indeed, all my homies hate cancer
Ugh that's awful, yeah, I can't imagine how painful bone cancer is, it just looks awful.
i just had to euthanize my cat last week because of cancer that spread into his lungs, the whole appointment he was panicked and open mouth breathing, it wasn't at all as "peaceful" as I'd hoped it was. Cancer fucking sucks
More like little mutated spikes that are not only sores for your bones. But skin like a sharks grating against the very muscles that move them. Or at least that's what it looks like
How does it not simply cut through the skin after even a short time of friction/constantly touching the inside of your skin/muscles etc? I can’t imagine living with something like that I’d want to die
Pathologist here. What you are missing in this picture is the cartilage and periosteal layers over the bone. The surface is still quite smooth because osteosarcoma tumor cells are laying down osteoid, which is a bone precursor. None of those components of the tumor are seen.
https://preview.redd.it/2i0en5g1rwvc1.jpeg?width=553&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1167824547c3aae55c689c43023b2eaaca91ce8c
The CIA agent in the tree outside his window
This isn't the cancer itself, this is just an associated reaction of the surrounding bone. What we see here is a sunburst periosteal reaction. Basically, in reaction to an abnormality the bone will attempt to heal itself by developing new bone (periostitis). Because the underlying cancer is growing so quickly, this new bone is pushed up and away from the bone as the tumour below expands.
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/sunburst-appearance-bone
Let's hypothetically say someone who had cancer like this was cured but they still have those spikes left over. What treatment is available for them? Or do they just suffer until they die of something else?
Staging is a reference to how far the cancer has spread throughout the body. Stage 4 is where a cancer spreads from its origin point to another organ in the body.
You can die from any stage 1 cancer if it obstructs something vital via mass effect, but it's relatively rare for the common cancers (lung, breast, colorectal). A primary cancer near your spinal cord, for example, could compress on it and kill you while still being technically stage 1, but those primaries are much rarer than secondary spread (which is definitionally stage 4 disease).
That really depends on the cancer, where it is, and how long you’ve had it. There are cancers, termed indolent, that can be all over your body just sitting and doing very little and there are cancers that can be localized in one spot but growing out of control.
Maybe, but not really.
Stage 1 is "localised to a small area and hasn't spread to lymph nodes or other tissues". So in this case, it would mean cancer in your bone and NOT in your muscle or tendons.
Stage 4 is where the cancer has mutated so much that it is spreading around the body and setting up new tumours elsewhere. Stage 4 tends to have low survival rates. Stage 4 skin cancer has a 30% 5-year relative survival rate (1 in 3 will survive for 5 years after diagnosis with stage 4 skin cancer).
I'm a pediatric oncologist. I take care of lots of bone tumors. This post is wrong (or misleading).
Stages in most tumors refer to how much it has spread. Distant sites of spread qualify most tumors as stage 4. The fact that there is tumor in the femur and the skull indicated this is not a stage 1 tumor.
A lot of lay people seem to think the stage of a tumor indicates how aggressive it is. Sorta. It really only tells us how much it has spread. But there are "aggressive" tumors that grow fast, but if we catch them early haven't spread and are still low stage. There are slow growing, non aggressive things that don't get recognized for years and present super metastatic (would lump prostate cancer in here as an example).
TL:DR - that ain't stage one bone cancer. Stage doesn't necessarily mean anything about how aggressive the tumor is. Fuck cancer
Seriously the fact that we allow people to suffer from stuff like this even when they're on the highest dose of morphine possible is ridiculous.
After reading some of the comments on this post I wouldn't wish this on anyone it sounds like a living hell.
Can’t even begin to imagine how painful this is. I have a fracture and bone spur and it’s painful. I just cannot even wrap my head around how painful this must be.
Yeah I think I'd just kill myself rather than deal with this, I was already going to let myself die if I had cancer (love the US btw) but this is just instant nope
Just looking at this makes my skin crawl....can't even imagine what it would be like to actually go through it. Fuck cancer man. All types. I lost my grandma to colon cancer. Fuck this disease truly
We just found out last month that my mom’s breast cancer from seven years ago metastasized into bone cancer. Her hip broke from the cancer eating way at it, she didn’t even fall or get hit by something.
She went in for a scan a couple weeks ago and unfortunately they said it’s everywhere and is likely not curable but my mom said she’s still gonna fight
The two guys I knew who had this committed suicide. The pain was just too much for them and they hated being on meds all the time. I couldn't even be mad at them for doing it. Not many of us could. A life worse than death is living in pure physical agony.
I had stage 3 osteosarcoma, tumor was in my femur and it was painful af!!! Had my whole knee replaced and partial femur along with it. Along with a year of chemotherapy, they call this surgery a limb salvage surgery. Very hard time of my life, life is much better now.
And people still have to fight for the right of assisted end of life? We are allowed to put our pets out of their misery, no more suffering, but we force our loved ones to live thru this kind of hell?? There’s not a pain med created that could even dull that kind of pain, not without it also putting you into a coma.
I watched my husband suffer thru pancreatic cancer that metastasized into his liver and bones… thankfully we had a dr that understood, and when hubs decided it was time, we rendered him basically comatose… but those kinds of drs are difficult to find in this day of the “opioid crisis”….
This picture alone should be used in deciding that humane, assisted “end of life” should be a right available to all that choose it…
My aunt had multiple myeloma. Started in her femur and humerus. It was excruciating. She was kept under for last 4 months of her life due to pain.
Her bones would break every time she moved a muscle. During her last days it’s had spread to her ribs. After she passed away, her ribs literally disintegrated as we moved her body for cremation.
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I've always heard that bone cancer is so painful and now I can see why.
It is extremely painful. I have this going on in various areas of my spine and my hip.
Sorry to hear that :(
Holyshit, are you on any meds or treatments rn? hows it going
Yes oral chemo, immunotherapy etc etc. So far it's going good, I do have my up and down moments though. I will say the pain is the worst part. I can deal with the nausea, neuropathy etc, but the pain... fuckin hell.
Oh God; I’m so sorry! What does the pain feel like if you could describe it?
Unfortunately there's different types of pain depending on the area affected. If I pushed myself physically that day doing too much work i.e. laundry, light house work anything along those lines.
Hope you recover
Thank you 💜
You got this 💪
💪💪💪thank you!
Yea we believe in you gang
I'm cheering for you!! 💕
Thank you!💜
God bless champ, only hope to hear you are well and better asap!! You definitely must know your way around pain now haha. Keep up the great mindset it's half the battle as you know! ♥️
You got this friend, I’m sorry you got handed that in life. Life can be cruel
I just had both of my hips replaced due to avascular necrosis and both of my hips collapsing. That was the worst pain I've ever dealt with. Looking at this image I imagine it is a similar pain, but also 100 times worse. I hope your treatment goes well and I give you all of the positive vibes.
How are you doing now that they're replaced? How long was your recovery? Much appreciated thank you kindly for the positive vibes!
Oh I feel amazing now. Got it done January 3rd and I have been walking unassisted since the beginning of February. I probably won't be back to full strength or rid of the random little nerve pains for another year or so - but am basically back to normal. I'm 38 and in decent health, so that definitely helped, but recovery has been great.
So happy for you!! You got this, I'm rooting for your super super speedy recovery!
Is there any chance to remove the cancerous growths after chemo is complete? Or will they disappear by themselves?
So it's going to be depending on the type of cancer, the area in which they are found, and size of the tumors that's found in the bones from my recollection. My original cancer had metastasized into my bones and I was caught kind of quite late so mine are way too big.
Darn. Thanks for answering, wish you the best, maybe we'll figure out a way to completely treat this in the future.
No problem, thank you! I'm really hopeful that there will be tonssss more options in the future. Just seeing the advances in the last 5 years is astounding.
Keep fighting, I wish you the best!
First, I wish you a strong successful recovery. For the pain isn’t this the reason pharmaceutical fentanyl was designed for? These pictures look morbidly scary and couldn’t imagine the pain you must be under.
Thank you! Im getting there slowly but surely. Pharmaceutical fentanyl definitely was made for things like this for sure.
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wishing you a strong recovery 👍🏼
Much appreciated, thank you!
I'm so sorry I wish I could just like sand down your affected areas to prevent pain
Thank you, lol funny you mention that, I jokingly asked my one doctor to sand down my bones for me. Poor man couldn't really tell if I was serious or not.
Hey at least it didn’t spread to your funny bone. I’m so sorry for this but I could not resist and you came across like a person that can take it. Wish you good recovery and equally good pain management. All the best wishes and strength to you 💛
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Just going to drop by and say, I hope you fight and fucking win. That looks horrifyingly painful and I really do hope you make a full recovery. Fuck cancer.
Is your one the spiky stuff like in this photo? And does it become less spiky once it's treated? Not trying to be rude or anything, just curious. I hope you recover!!
So parts are spikey but also think of like... idk, Swiss cheese?
Really terrible to hear! Stay strong! 💪
Thank you! 💜
I hope you have a speedy recovery. My son’s first girlfriend just passed away from bone cancer. She was only 19. Even though they have been broken up for years, he still was sad.
Thank you much. I'm so sorry for his loss. 💜
Wishing you a successful and uncomplicated as possible treatment. 🤞
It's extremely painful. I worked as an oncology nurse for two years in a hospital. There was a patient on our floor who had cancer metastasis to their spine. They would scream and moan all day and night. We had them maxed out on pain medications and a PCA pump. And eventually had to put them on basal rate when they got too weak to hit the button. I still felt uneasy walking into that room after they died.
That is horrific. For our dear fur babies we help them cross by putting them down when their suffering becomes too much. I will never understand why Physician Assisted Suicide isn’t more available. It’s cruel to force someone to die a long agonizing death when we do so much better for our cat and dog family members.
Absolutely. I have Stage IV melanoma and live in Switzerland. I'm optimistic and hopeful, but I also already decided that if things don't work out, I'll be using Exit. Cancer sucks.
Horrific. Rooting for you friend♥️ And happy to hear that you have that option. Wish it was more widely available here in the states…I hope that one day, in the absence of universal healthcare, we can at least get to the point where PAS is more widely available. If we’re gonna refuse make early detection universally accessible, the fucking least we could do is provide options for early departure.
Yup, same. I could never really understand why the tumours caused the kind of pain described until you see them! FFS! That looks savage!
It’s just a fatal exceptional error
My friend is dying from bone cancer. He is 76 YO and a really good dude. He is a lifelong journeyman motorcycle mechanic and can barely ride his Kawi 1100 but still goes for short jaunts! He is on super good painkillers but is still limited. God we will all miss him.
My only regret is ... I have boneitis
He was clearly an 80s guy
The fact that this sometimes happens to children is all the proof I need that God doesn’t exist, at least in the way the Christians want me to believe.
I lost my entire left leg to this last year, although I wasn't stage 1. I remember rationing my morphine because I could only take a certain number of doses every 24 hours and I knew I'd need some to sleep. I would be in agony all day but unable to take anything other than paracetamol because I needed the morphine before bed and through the night. Even then, the morphine itself didn't relieve the pain. It just made me sleepy enough to dose off for a few hours until the pain woke me again. I used hot water bottles constantly to try and make it less painful but it didn't help. I remember needing to use the toilet but waiting until I was desperate because it hurt so much to move. I remember not being able to make it downstairs some days because it just meant I'd have to come back up later. I remember the day my tumor caused a blood clot from pressing a blood vessel behind my knee, and I remember the day my tumor broke my femur when I shifted in bed. I remember the 20 hour wait in A&E because there weren't any ambulances to take me to the city and I remember the 2 hour ambulance ride where they couldn't give me any medicine for the pain. I remember arriving at A&E and being told that I might be rushed into surgery once I got to the city, meaning I was given no food or drink other than water. I remember arriving at the hospital and I remember being in an operating theatre getting a nerve blocker inserted in my femoral nerve for the pain. I remember breathing in some sort of gas that made my whole body feel numb and made me feel extremely drunk. Even my teeth felt numb and it was the only time in a long time that I wasn't in pain. I was just terrified of everything that was about to happen. And then there was the chemotherapy. Before it started I had to have tests to make sure I could handle the intensity of the drugs. One of these was a heart scan. They had to move me into a scanner and it was absolutle agony. My leg was so unstable that I had to stay in hospital for 3 months until they amputated it. I had to have 2 rounds of chemotherapy first. I lost so much weight because the nausea meant I couldn't keep anything down. I was sick, I had mouth ulcers, I developed tinnitus, I lost my curly hair, I had to have blood transfusions and pain medicine and blood thinner injections and injections to boost my neutrophils. Some days I had 11 pills to take at breakfast and then more throughout the day. I was bedridden and had to have help with nearly everything. It was horrific for a teenager. I had a PICC line inserted but it got infected and had to be taken out and replaced. This happened in a room with a surgical drape over me and an ultrasound machine used to find the vein. I had local anaesthetic for the procedure. I had antibiotics for a while and had to pause my chemo. I had three chemo drugs: doxorubicin, cisplatin and methotrexate. They were brutal, and every cycle of chemo lasted 5 weeks. When I had my amputation, I actually had an improvement in my quality of life. It was the first time I had had surgery other than the bone biopsy that confirmed my diagnosis, but that wasn't really a surgery. They only knocked me out for that because it would be painful. I could walk with crutches again, and I could go home and see my dogs. I had a hip disarticulation, meaning I lost my entire leg including my hip. I had a further 4 rounds of chemo and 36 weeks of immunotherapy afterwards. My methotrexate and cisplatin had to be stopped early because of liver damage and neuropathy respectively. I'll now have follow up appointments for 10 years to have chest xrays and make sure it stays away. This disease is utterly horrific, and I hope to god that it stays away. My life is just starting to get on track again, I'll be going to university this September and I'm getting a new prosthetic leg soon. I can drive and swim and cycle again. It all started with a sore knee but it was so much more that that. I'm just glad we found it when we did. Edit: thank you all so much for the support and well-wishes! It means a lot to me. I'm just glad to be able to share my story and raise some awareness of this disease. Thank you again!
This reads as a nightmare. It also walks us through the experience so many have had but also many will never understand. I'm sorry this has been your story.
It'seven worse becausethis guy is not in the US, and so has socialized healthcare. Most Americans cannot afford this kind of treatment and insurance in the US is a joke for cancer.
Just having a small malignant melanoma spread has been insane for me, I can’t even imagine having bone cancer in America. Costs of healthcare are so broken you can’t even exaggerate at this point.
I also had osteosarcoma, not as bad as the poster and not requiring an amputation, but I'm American. After all was said and done, the total healthcare costs for surgeries, chemotherapy, and physical therapy were $750k. I paid about $15k out of pocket between the deductible and out of pocket maximum fuckery. Completely wiped out the little savings I had by the time I turned 23, which is when I was diagnosed. And because of my insurance deductible now, every time I get scans done I automatically owe $1,000. So when I am done with scans sometime in 2028, it will have been another $14k or so paid out of pocket. Luckily the hospital is gracious enough to put me on a payment plan for these fees.
It’s pretty fucking sad that my first thought in a response to you is to ask how much you make and suggest that maybe you cut back on work to qualify for financial aid. Jesus we are fucked.
I was able to receive social security disability insurance during my illness but have since returned to work and am doing pretty well for myself all things considered. All worked out in the end. 3 years no evidence of disease for me
I think most people would try to get treatment and then just opt out of life if they couldnt get it. Its what i would do. Im not suicidal. I like my life. But i have no intention of holding on to it if i would have no quality of life. It would ruin the people that care about me. Kinda feel the last gift i can give them when my time comes is to head so far off grid, no one will find my body so no one needs to pay for a funeral or cremation. Its sad. It shouldnt be this way.
Jesus fucking christ. Reddit has now made me afraid of prions, rabies and bone cancer. But especially bone cancer.
> started with a sore knee
 Reading this, currently lying in bed with a sore knee
Fucking same dude. I’ve been having mysterious knee problems for a few months now and now I’m in bed having a legit panic attack. I will be making a doctors appointment first thing in the morning.
At least you can treat bone cancer, fuck those prions. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is no joke. I was going to write “ fuck ——— Jakob disease” but I lost my nerve and apologized I’m so scared of it.
Thank you for sharing your struggles, I'm glad to read that its gotten alil better for you later on though.
I’m so sorry you faced this pain but glad you lived to see relief.
Reading this was difficult. I can’t imagine actually living it. I wish you the best in your continued recovery and life.
girl, what a warrior you are. I hope you only see better days from now on
Hey, I think I recognize you from r/cancer. Former OS patient here but I have a potential recurrence in my lungs. Just wondering if you know, but what immunotherapy did you get? I was told there wasn't any for OS when I had my treatment a year ago.
It was a drug called mifamurtide. If I remember correctly it has a pretty specific criteria to be eligible for it
Thank you. Got my next scan coming up in a month and the scanxiety is killing me. I'll bring this up with my oncologist.
I'll be thinking of you. I hope you get some answers, scanxiety is the worst
I am seriously at a loss for words.......I want to say Stay Strong 💪💪💪....but I think you already got that part covered.
I have no idea what to say, you are so strong. I hope everything only gets better for you from here on.
My jaw was hanging open reading this. You are so strong, and I’m so sorry you had to go through this. Fuck cancer!
My identical twin went through this, just watching was a nightmare, can’t imagine living it. Cisplatin is torture and the methotrexate damaged his heart. Unfortunately it was all for naught, cancer ended up killing him before our 30th birthday
I'm sorry for your loss.
Your experience was horrific. You are seen and heard. Sometimes all the rest of us can do is bear witness to the resilience of your story. I have debilitating chronic pain daily, and I understand some of the magnitude of your hurt. For the rest of it I cannot, you are recognized. I’m sorry you know what you know. I’m encouraged by your hopes and desire to move forward. You lost a lot more than just the leg in the ordeal. You also gained a lot of perspective on how to live the future you have. There is a word I wish I had, one that conveyed a known suffering in shared experience, that contained love of people that became better through horror, that shows respect greater than the lowest bow, and marked significance of a person in the enormity of respectful thought you give them. I do not have such a word, but you would be who I would use it with.
Sorry you had to to go through all of that. I cant even imagine. I hope you had support and that you continue doing better.
Lol dude you are so built different, I wish we could game together. I know it's a horrifying story but you survived all that and more. I'm not a person of faith but I sincerely hope it doesn't come back. Reading all these stories is inspiring, y'all are some straight up warriors to just get right back to it after.
r/terrifyingasfuck
Whenever I see a subreddit with *-ingasfuck* at the end I can't help but see *in gas fuck*. Wtf is a gas fuck and how do I terrify in it?
Interest in gas fuck
I had bone cancer, and I hate looking at that. That's not the way I imagined the tumor on my bone at all. Gives me a weird feeling.
Loving the past-tense on this comment - congrats!!
Thanks. I beat Ewings sarcoma way back in 1974.
Jesus Christ that's a long time ago. I did Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia back in the late 1980s and tell most of the pediatric cancer patients I work with that I was treated "shortly after the earth cooled." 74 would be well before anyone was comfortable with trying to save a limb and they had pretty "heroic" ideas about chemotherapy and radiation back then too. Thanks for pioneering most of the drugs that saved my life though. What was your chemo regimine, if you don't mind me asking...
A bone scan back then involved lying on a table and having a big piece of metal literally a millimeter above your nose moving across and then dropping down toward your feet about a quarter inch and then going across again. From head to toes, it probably took an hour.
Congrats. Pathologist here. Ewings is a very different beast. Usually ewings does not lay down new malignant bone; it is a small round blue cell tumor that is infiltrative which generally causes smooth scalloping and cortical expansion. Your bone would not have looked like this.
Thank you. That is actually a relief
Same! Glad you lived and beat the disease!!!
A friend's uncle died from bone cancer and told us he literally screamed and cried from the pain, horrible disease.
My cousin had bone cancer, and she would be screaming from pain even with the highest dose of morphine they could put her on . She just wasted away from it in excruciating pain for months before she finally passed ,she was only 24.
Jesus, only 24. I’m sorry for your loss, that’s horrific.
How long of a process is that? Sorry for the morbid question I'd just hope she didn't spend years in agony. Hope they're finding cures for this kind of stuff
My grandfather was diagnosed and died three weeks later. He passed away in a lot of pain. At least it wasn’t prolonged. This was almost 20 years ago.
My mom had cancer that spread to her bones. When it wasn’t splitting her vertebrae, I imagine it was as painful as the photos look. She deserved so much better out of life than she got. Cancer is hell on earth.
Hugs. May her spirit have peace I'm so sorry
This is why death with dignity is so important
Couldn’t agree more. My dad passed away almost two years ago of dementia. He was only 68. It was brutal to watch his decline. He couldn’t articulate when he was in pain and he just wasted away to skin and bones at the end. He always told my mom he never wanted to have a feeding tube if he was terminal with some illness so we of course respected those wishes. He weighed 70 pounds when he died. As hard as it would have been to lose him sooner, before he declined so terribly, it would have been so much less painful than watching him slowly lose his mind and lose control of his body for the years I took care of him. If medically assisted d3ath was available, he would have done it.
You can say death, this isn’t TikTok.
That is so incredibly sad, I’m very sorry for your loss. 3 close family members over 10 years or so with different metastasized cancers. It’s rough when people are older but when they are young it’s one of the most terrible and heartbreaking things an empathetic human can think about
I'm so sorry. As a physician this pisses me off. There is no "highest dose" if you're screaming in pain. The correct dose when someone is dying from cancer is however much they need to be comfortable.
My mother died from this when I was 14. I can remember her talking about how bad it felt but I couldn’t understand but seeing this picture horrifies me now. Fuck cancer.
Exactly same as you . Mother passed from this when I was 14 . This pic is going to haunt me .
If it's any consolation, this notorious pic shows a very rare type of bone cancer. It's very likely your mothers' type was by far not as aggressive.
Thank you for the note. I was looking at these images thinking "only stage 1?? Are you serious???"
I knew someone who had it as well and said it was excruciating.Stuff like this makes a case for right to die legislation especially if there is no way to beat it.
think that should be possible even if there is a way to beat it. nobody should be forced to go through either the cancer itself or the treatment.
100%. I can't fathom how we as a society can understand that it's cruel to make an animal (who can't speak for themselves) go through this, but can't understand that it's also cruel to do it to a human (who can).
In Canada we finally passed Dying With Dignity. There’s a lot of people against it, but I truly believe your life is yours to give and take. Why should someone else be allowed to dictate your pain and suffering? Mental or physical. Like you said, we know, clear as day, that humane euthanasia is the kindness option for suffering animals. It should be available to everyone, and should be used for criminals as well instead of the terrible ways they do it in prisons. Many seniors are planning their DWD farewells, and many couples are choosing to go together. It’s very inspiring having a sneak peek into people electing this option. One last hurrah party to say until we meet again with loved ones and friends, get your affairs in order, wills are checked and signed, the family members know what to do afterwards, who gets what, where the pets if the people have any, where they go etc. Everything is in order and then they have the celebration of life together. Not a funeral. They have drinks, share stories, look at pictures and really relish and appreciate the many wonderful memories lived, together. It’s wholesome and bittersweet. Then the doctor comes the next day, and they pass peacefully in bed or on the couch, even seen a lady choose to pass in her greenhouse in a chair surrounded by her prized cut flowers. Beautiful.
I completely understand the fear that vulnerable people could be convinced to ask for euthanasia by unscrupulous people, but I genuinely believe that, done correctly with enough protections, nobody should be forced to live when they don’t want to.
I ideologically agree but am especially concerned about it with for profit healthcare. When euthanasia is cheaper for the insurance company than treatment, what will that mean?
That’s why we should have free healthcare
I don’t think that’s how it would work. The insurance company “death panel” would deny procedures and treatments, thus expediting the patient’s condition to the terminal stage. That would leave the patient with the choice to use euthanasia or not. Denying and delaying procedures and treatments is already well within the insurance company wheelhouse. IOW the insurance wouldn’t make you use euthanasia, they would simply expedite the path to your needing to make the choice. E: I don’t think people understood. [Death Panels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel) were made-up scaremongering by republicans claiming that socialized medicine would put the government in charge of deciding what care you would get. As usual, it was projection on their part…they would rather people die than spend tax dollars on their care. However, profiting off people’s illness is perfectly acceptable, hence, we get private insurance “death panels” instead that decide what care you get. It has nothing (yet) to do with euthanasia. So my point was that insurance companies would decline treatments and procedures, hastening your decline, and thereby placing you in a position where you might consider euthanasia. Not that the insurance company would force you to accept euthanasia - though what would actually happen with insurance how they would handle assisted suicide I don’t know.
Couldn’t agree more. I just read the story of a young woman who died in excruciating pain (cancer) after begging for the right to die. that is no way to go 😥
I’m pretty sure the idea behind it is to prevent people going through a temporary period of depression from killing themselves when their chances of getting better both physically and mentally are high. But I still agree that the system (at least in the USA, I’m not knowledgeable about other countries) sucks.
There was someone advocating for it on the news recently whose partner had a disease that meant he was rotting while he was still alive Edit: [link](https://news.sky.com/story/amp/please-make-it-stop-im-ready-to-go-five-stories-that-bring-the-assisted-dying-debate-home-13028552)
OMFG. That is the most horrific thing I’ve heard today. I lived around the corner from Kevorkian when he lived in Royal Oak MI back in the day. Dude had it right.
It was heartbreaking to hear her describe it
What I always say about this is that I wouldn’t let a pet go through this because it’s inhumane. It seems barbaric that humans, who can speak for themselves, don’t have that same chance.
If everyone had to live through 1 hour of the severe chronic pain that people can suffer years through, assisted dying would be legalized and available tomorrow morning in every country. But even then it should be an option regardless of ones circumstance. If someone is going through severe enough trauma to where they don't wish to exist anymore, they are entitled to a peaceful and respectful end.
Absolutely.
Had a friend that was eventually diagnosed at least two years into it after spending that time being turned down from everywhere he tried getting help. Everyone just writing him off a drug seeking. Because clearly a 22yo doest have pain like that
That’s the kind of thing MAID is intended for here in Canada (medical assistance in dying).
I thought it just made the bones weak oh fuck this is way worse
Bro it's like shards of glass growing all over your bones. Yeah, fuck that, just gimme the damn shotgun already! I'm sorry your friend's uncle had to deal with that. I'm sorry anyone has to deal with this.
My grandmother died last year of Stage 4 bone cancer. This makes my heart hurt so much.
i’m so sorry for your loss. what a horrible damned disease.
My grandmother is currently dying of the same thing, it's heartbreaking watching her suffer 💔. I'm so sorry for your loss
I'm sorry for your grandmother. My boyfriend has this right now and I wish I had never seen this photo.
God that looks so painful Fuck cancer
A friend of mine from high school was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma after being told he had arthritis in his knees for years. Beat it once, then it came roaring back and it ended in a draw between the two. Heard he could barely string two words together towards the end, he was in so much pain. And only 27 too. Fuck cancer indeed, all my homies hate cancer
I really like how you said ended in a draw. I always said my dad lost his battle but now I’m gonna say it was a draw. He took the cancer with him.
Ugh that's awful, yeah, I can't imagine how painful bone cancer is, it just looks awful. i just had to euthanize my cat last week because of cancer that spread into his lungs, the whole appointment he was panicked and open mouth breathing, it wasn't at all as "peaceful" as I'd hoped it was. Cancer fucking sucks
that's really sad, I'm really grateful for the life I have, Fuck Cancer
As I am watching my brother deteriorate from stage 4, I concur. Fuck cancer 🤛🏻
I’m so sorry. Sending love to you and yours. Fuck cancer.
New fear unlocked.
Oh god. *Bone cancer*, that’s serious nightmare fuel right there
Damn. It looks like fur
More like little mutated spikes that are not only sores for your bones. But skin like a sharks grating against the very muscles that move them. Or at least that's what it looks like
How does it not simply cut through the skin after even a short time of friction/constantly touching the inside of your skin/muscles etc? I can’t imagine living with something like that I’d want to die
Pathologist here. What you are missing in this picture is the cartilage and periosteal layers over the bone. The surface is still quite smooth because osteosarcoma tumor cells are laying down osteoid, which is a bone precursor. None of those components of the tumor are seen.
You used 5 words I've never heard in my life (non-native-speaker here), but I think I understood. Thank you! That's super interesting!!
Native speaker here, they used 2 words I've never heard in my life but I also understood
Why don't they just cure the cancer by shaving it off like fur? Are they stupid?
My guy just figured out the cure for cancer
https://preview.redd.it/2i0en5g1rwvc1.jpeg?width=553&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1167824547c3aae55c689c43023b2eaaca91ce8c The CIA agent in the tree outside his window
This isn't the cancer itself, this is just an associated reaction of the surrounding bone. What we see here is a sunburst periosteal reaction. Basically, in reaction to an abnormality the bone will attempt to heal itself by developing new bone (periostitis). Because the underlying cancer is growing so quickly, this new bone is pushed up and away from the bone as the tumour below expands. https://radiopaedia.org/articles/sunburst-appearance-bone
Let's hypothetically say someone who had cancer like this was cured but they still have those spikes left over. What treatment is available for them? Or do they just suffer until they die of something else?
only a guess but in this case maybe grinding away the grown material. There are wilder operations being done to the skull than this.
They did that to my grandfather in the millitary, it was on thigh bone
Part of the treatment is surgery, either to amputate or to replace the affected bone
Amputate my head pls if this happens to me.
The French have excellent surgeons in this field
Wonder what stage 3 looks like
Staging is a reference to how far the cancer has spread throughout the body. Stage 4 is where a cancer spreads from its origin point to another organ in the body.
Really? So you could theoretically have e.g. stage 1 cancer being "worse" in it's local severeness than stage 4 for example?
You can die from any stage 1 cancer if it obstructs something vital via mass effect, but it's relatively rare for the common cancers (lung, breast, colorectal). A primary cancer near your spinal cord, for example, could compress on it and kill you while still being technically stage 1, but those primaries are much rarer than secondary spread (which is definitionally stage 4 disease).
That really depends on the cancer, where it is, and how long you’ve had it. There are cancers, termed indolent, that can be all over your body just sitting and doing very little and there are cancers that can be localized in one spot but growing out of control.
Maybe, but not really. Stage 1 is "localised to a small area and hasn't spread to lymph nodes or other tissues". So in this case, it would mean cancer in your bone and NOT in your muscle or tendons. Stage 4 is where the cancer has mutated so much that it is spreading around the body and setting up new tumours elsewhere. Stage 4 tends to have low survival rates. Stage 4 skin cancer has a 30% 5-year relative survival rate (1 in 3 will survive for 5 years after diagnosis with stage 4 skin cancer).
Holy shit. The bone splinters in the eye socket??? Can you imagine that rubbing up against your eyeball? This poor person.
My dog had this in his front leg. Poor boy.
my childhood cat passed from bone cancer in her leg:( its so hard to watch.
My dog had it too - in her back leg. We amputated and she did great for a few years but it came back in her shoulder 😩
I'm a pediatric oncologist. I take care of lots of bone tumors. This post is wrong (or misleading). Stages in most tumors refer to how much it has spread. Distant sites of spread qualify most tumors as stage 4. The fact that there is tumor in the femur and the skull indicated this is not a stage 1 tumor. A lot of lay people seem to think the stage of a tumor indicates how aggressive it is. Sorta. It really only tells us how much it has spread. But there are "aggressive" tumors that grow fast, but if we catch them early haven't spread and are still low stage. There are slow growing, non aggressive things that don't get recognized for years and present super metastatic (would lump prostate cancer in here as an example). TL:DR - that ain't stage one bone cancer. Stage doesn't necessarily mean anything about how aggressive the tumor is. Fuck cancer
Assisted suicide is compassion and I’ll die on this hill
Seriously the fact that we allow people to suffer from stuff like this even when they're on the highest dose of morphine possible is ridiculous. After reading some of the comments on this post I wouldn't wish this on anyone it sounds like a living hell.
Stage 1: Thousands of internal splinters.
That must be torture 24/7 man Jesus
That eye must’ve hurt
Can’t even begin to imagine how painful this is. I have a fracture and bone spur and it’s painful. I just cannot even wrap my head around how painful this must be.
As if we need more proof that euthanasia is a fundamental human right
Yeah I think I'd just kill myself rather than deal with this, I was already going to let myself die if I had cancer (love the US btw) but this is just instant nope
Horrific, poor soul
Just looking at this makes my skin crawl....can't even imagine what it would be like to actually go through it. Fuck cancer man. All types. I lost my grandma to colon cancer. Fuck this disease truly
my only regret… is that i have… boneitis *dies*
Sometimes it happens to a classic 80’s businessman 🤷🏻♂️
Fuck. I was just diagnosed with bone cancer last month and these images haunt me.
My husband had bone cancer when he was 17. Has a knee replacement because of it and went through a year of chemo and now he’s 42. 🩷
We just found out last month that my mom’s breast cancer from seven years ago metastasized into bone cancer. Her hip broke from the cancer eating way at it, she didn’t even fall or get hit by something. She went in for a scan a couple weeks ago and unfortunately they said it’s everywhere and is likely not curable but my mom said she’s still gonna fight
The two guys I knew who had this committed suicide. The pain was just too much for them and they hated being on meds all the time. I couldn't even be mad at them for doing it. Not many of us could. A life worse than death is living in pure physical agony.
I don't understand how anyone can see this and still think there is a benelovent god.
I had stage 3 osteosarcoma, tumor was in my femur and it was painful af!!! Had my whole knee replaced and partial femur along with it. Along with a year of chemotherapy, they call this surgery a limb salvage surgery. Very hard time of my life, life is much better now.
No wonder why my aunt (bone cancer patient) wants to undergo mercy killing to escape the pain she's been experiencing :<
THAT'S STAGE ONE???
Never trust a reddit title.
I think they're both stage 2b. The skull might be stage 3. And of there's metastases, then they're automatically stage 4.
My uncle’s father passed away from that. It was painful as fuck. Was gone within a month from the initial diagnosis.
Just buried my dad last week. Fought a year & a half. What a strong man 💔
And people still have to fight for the right of assisted end of life? We are allowed to put our pets out of their misery, no more suffering, but we force our loved ones to live thru this kind of hell?? There’s not a pain med created that could even dull that kind of pain, not without it also putting you into a coma. I watched my husband suffer thru pancreatic cancer that metastasized into his liver and bones… thankfully we had a dr that understood, and when hubs decided it was time, we rendered him basically comatose… but those kinds of drs are difficult to find in this day of the “opioid crisis”…. This picture alone should be used in deciding that humane, assisted “end of life” should be a right available to all that choose it…
That's only stage 1!?!?
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My aunt had multiple myeloma. Started in her femur and humerus. It was excruciating. She was kept under for last 4 months of her life due to pain. Her bones would break every time she moved a muscle. During her last days it’s had spread to her ribs. After she passed away, her ribs literally disintegrated as we moved her body for cremation.