Dear all,
It was September of 2018 when I started feeling the first health problems making me suspect that something was going wrong. It took some time to find out, mainly due to an initial wrong diagnostic, and it wasn’t until May 2019 when the right diagnostic was made: a big cancerous tumour had been growing and was nearly blocking all the internal diameter of my rectum.
After
- an initial ileostomy operation in June 2019,
- some chemo treatments in July and August 2019,
- radiotherapy+chemo in October and November 2019,
- an operation in January 2020 to finally removed the tumour from my body and
- a final chemo treatments in May and June 2020,
I had a scanner (TAC) this last Monday and the results are good, very good. Not a single trace of cancer disease or metastasis was found anywhere, so I can finally say that it looks like I finally won this battle and my cancer is fully and finally defeated.
There’s only one last operation still pending to reverse my ileostomy so I’ll get rid of the plastic bag I’ve had attached to my belly since last June 2019. However, this is a minor intervention made by laparoscopy and it shouldn’t give problems. I still don’t have a date for this operation.
I want to publicly express my big gratitude to the many good SOTA friends who have been sending me their sincere good wishes, charming comments, warmth and great support all over this long time. I assure you it’s been of very, very great help to me and I have no words to express my immense gratitude and true friendship feeling I have developped towards you all over this time. You have worked as a great support, the one I’ve never found in my xyl along this time, who soon after my cancer was diagnosed told me she would divorce as soon as I had overcome my illness. This has fortunately happened, my cancer is overcome and my xyl is now pushing hard to get the divorce done ASAP. We are now working on trying to reach a “friendly agreement”. I hope this will get sorted out soon and I’ll keep enjoying SOTA for a very, very long time. In my new life as a divorced man, without an xyl hating all of my mountain and radio hobbies, I hope I’ll have the chance to go to see you all and do some SOTA together in your own different associations.
Thank you!!!
73,
Guru - EA2IF