TurtleDigester
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Would you rather fight one Icelandic horse sized arctic fox or 100 arctic fox sized Icelandic horses?
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Wow, that's crazy! And congratulations, too, go eat a big meal after you see those clear scans!
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Hey, I have osteosarcoma, too! Great to hear you're doing alright, this stuff sucks. I was diagnosed in 2013, and will hopefully be heading up to a clinical trial in Bethesda, MD soon. So did your doctor say you were close to remission? I've had 9 surgeries so far because mine keeps spreading all around, so even when we've gotten it down to just one spot, it still has grown again, which sucks. And may I ask about the near death experience? I've had a few myself and was wondering if they were similar. Did it involve low blood pressure and a few nights in the ICU or ER?
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As a current chemo patient, yes. It's the chemo, and not every type of chemo, just certain ones make you lose your hair, but you lose it everywhere: pubic hair, armpit hair, facial hair, leg hair, arm hair, hair on your head, chest hair, eyebrows, eyelashes sometimes, EVERYWHERE. The worst part of losing your hair is probably you don't realize how warm your hair keeps you. I'd be wearing long pants or have a blanket over me in the summer. And where I live, we have humid summers spent mainly in the 80s and 90s. It's pretty crazy.
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