Rallying Support for Rain City (cancer diagnosis)

Very sorry to hear of your diagnosis @Rain City and best of luck in your recovery. I know I am beating the same drum, but keeping a positive outlook can mean a big difference to a successful treatment and recovery. And advocate hard for yourself as you are your own best advocate to getting the gears turning.
 
Very sorry to hear about your diagnosis Jon. Your positive attitude is one of the best medicines and I wish you all the best in your fight against this terrible disease. See you on the water next year!
 
Tomfoolery said:
Very sorry to hear of your diagnosis @Rain City and best of luck in your recovery. I know I am beating the same drum, but keeping a positive outlook can mean a big difference to a successful treatment and recovery. And advocate hard for yourself as you are your own best advocate to getting the gears turning.
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Being one's own advocate is key, but what is equally, if not more important, is to have your partner or spouse all papered up to have the ability to deal on one's behalf with the medical system. to read the charts, ask questions and to be given answers and most importantly make decisions .

A well worded Power of Attorney that deals with these matters and clearly eliminates all possible roadblocks that are inherent in the medical system is critical.
 
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Jon, you've been contributing to this forum for years by sharing you knowledge and experience (and even the only one or two times things didn't go as planned on the water :)) to try and help others enjoy this sport in the beautiful area we live in. Thanks for sharing your story with what is happing with you and your family as we can all learn from this battle as well. You're a good person. We look forward to hearing more fishing reports from you as soon as possible. Stay strong. Fight!
 
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Sorry to hear the diagnosis @Rain City - wishing you the best of luck man. Sending positive thoughts your way and hope to see you out on the water after you punch cancer in the mouth and recover.
 
Best of luck going through this ordeal. Never hesitate to reach out to friends for assistance of any type. A ton of good people on this forum. Cheers.
 
kick this cancers butt!! see you soon in the sound. i am around the city quite a bit, if you need something, please let me know.
 
oh man. I’m really sorry to be reading this bad news this morning. But you have been living it for 4 weeks already! I reckon you will keep that positive cheeky attitude through the next months and that will really help you and your family cope better.
I’ve been in NZ escaping winter and not looking at sfbc.
(This is not the thread for fishing talk but if it saves RC having to go all the way over to the other thread… well…
I went out for the first time since Oct.
Entrance Isl and spent 2 hours flat out not retaining a lot of springs up to 15lb. And 6 hours not being able to catch keeper lings…except for 1)
Get well soon Jon.
 
Rain City said:
Thanks so much guys for all the support. It's been a pretty wild few weeks to say the least. I've been admitted in hospital since the 11th but the toughest part by far was the week prior to that making trip after trip to the emergency in agonizing pain. Everyone said it before me and now I can stand in that same camp of ADVOCATE FOR YOURSELF. I've been experiencing back pain for years but this felt different. And then different turned into excruciating. Even my GP was trying to get the hospital to just order a damn MRI. but they kept drugging me up and sending me home with instructions to do yoga and physio. A grown man gets dragged by two paramedics into hospital screaming and they figured it was just plain old back pain. If it weren't for the one final doctor that decided to actually figure out what was wrong, I would have lost out on critical hours that have turned out to be potentially life saving.

The cancer I have is a Burkitt's Lymphoma. The pain I was/am experiencing is from a lump in my bone marrow pushing up against a nerve in my sacrum. This caused the nerve to fire off all kinds of tightening and spasms and cramps all the way from my mid back down into my feet. Nothing I did would stop the pain, there was no relief. As the pain meds have been dialed in, I've been able to function again in relative ease. Im stuck to a bunch of bags 24/7 while I undergo three to four cycles of chemotherapy at VGH. Each cycle is around 21-28 days. So that'll all be while admitted in hospital, and then the doctor figures I'll continue at BC Cancer as an outpatient for a few months after that. Fingers crossed I get make it through all of that.

I'll be packing the boat up for the season so I look forward to hearing all your reports. I hope I don't become one of those guys that's always on here posting stuff 😄🫠😆😉
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Wow sorry to ear this,hope for you and your family it all turn out good for you, **** cancer
 
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