 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Yeah, been there. I was riding at my summer's peak when I was told, Oh you have Stage IV cancer and have a 60% chance of surviving 5 years!! I fainted, how dare he say that to me. I've never been sick a day in my life. I eat the right things; I exercise; I don't do drugs or anything else "they" tell me not to and you're telling ME I got something that has a good chance of ending my life before I retire!!!
One thing you need to do right now is stop riding and eat all the fattening things you can. Try to put on some much needed weight. I couldn't afford to loose a pound and I still lost 30% of my body weight. I wasn't worried so much about the cancer as I was dying from the Tx.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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