Kick cancers ass! Shatterstar support thread

General Discussion
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it’s because I’m Black. Catch up.

Been in the hospital a week straight now.

they tried to discharge me monday but I threw my brains up after a sip of water. seriously.

prior to all of that, I had ZERO WBCs, I had a “virus” and my eyes were 90% shut and swollen :

Spoiler

http://i.imgbox.com/HDGeJgnV.jpg

monday, my eyes were getting back to normal due to antibiotics but since I was on so many at once it killed all the good bacteria in my gut.

since then, back in the bed with 80 freakin cords on me all while being tortured by this stuff that they called “food”.

Papilion is a small town very south outside of Omaha and in a separate county so I had to deal with some 6/10 nurses. mostly middle-aged white

women who took there jobs too seriously.

the only selfish upside to all of this was me getting shots of dilaudid every 4 hours.

Im suppose to be discharged this friday but I wouldn’t hold my breath. these people cant get a freaking order of imodium corrected.

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still in the hospital. at this point, I think they’re just keeping me here just for the hell of it.

I literally can’t afford to stay here any longer because the food sucks which means my spoiled butt will order food. I barely eat half of it which makes the whole thing pointless. No, I have no family members left since most were old and are passing away. Also, this hospital is far, too far away from most of my associates so yea.

Other than that, I’ve had a lot of time on my hands so I’ve been weighing my options for treatment. I’m constantly seeing commercials on Cancer Centers of America and it always peeks my interest to find out what all I need to do to get something like that going…

Well, for one, the lodging is the most important part of all of this, and the option of how lodging is done isn’t something that makes me happy:

What’s stupid is my hospital offers on site lodging and depending how far outside of Omaha you are then you actually can stay for free.

yeah, $50 a nite isn’t cheap. Not including plane tickets. SMH.

I’m not doing any fund raising for that or anything else for that matter. Tired of asking when a lot of things like this shouldn’t be an issue, IMO.

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I’m having a really hard time believing that there isn’t any type of non-profit that would throw you a financial bone.

@“Dangerous J” have heard of any?

Think getting a group of people to call places in your behalf would be the best way to go. We need to hit up @Ponder and @Inkblot about that smash titty money that fucked Evo up. They can hook up strippers but they ain’t got our boy. That’s some bullshit.

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All of this shows a lot of the mess that is in the Medical Industry that we usually never have to think about.

If anywhere its going to be exposed, surely things going on in the Mid-West can’t be too different from everywhere else in America.

Except if you’re that spoiled-ass Shriner’s kid who looks the same for like a dozen years now!

Best of luck again man.

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*Hey @shatterstar

The American Cancer Society has a free lodging program throughout the United States called the “Hope Lodge”. One of their facilities is located is in Omaha, NE. Here’s a link (click here) detailing more about the project along with contact information to try and set it up or ask questions.

There’s also another program that the American Cancer Society has called “Hotel Partners” which provides free and discounted rates to stay at hotels. Here’s a link detailing more about the program (click here).

I’ll explore some more lodging options for you in your area if I can. *

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Man if things don’t shape up and you need to go elsewhere I don’t give a damn what you say I’ll talk to the Toronto guys about a Fundraiser. I’m sure ArcadeStream could run another. This ain’t about money man. It’s about you needing a stick to beat the shit out of this thing.

We’ll supply the stick.

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Look poor people always manage some bullshit. Your poor AND black, there’s gotta be some 100 federal programs that can get you paid.

DarkGeneral found some stuff. Maybe monday one of us makes some calls in your behalf (yeah that means I’m commiting to it.).

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Just popping in to say what’s up, Shatta! I haven’t had a lot of time for internet lately but I think about you and what you’re going through pretty often. I really hope you get better and can make it to a better medical facility soon.

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They tried to give me tylenol/APAP because I keep getting small, random fevers of 100 - 101. Great idea. The guy has liver cancer so let’s give him something to possibly cause internal bleeding or kill him because a temp of 100.3 is more life threatening. Logic is not logical. Kicked her ass out of my room. SMH.

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Had to hang up the call sooner than I wanted, but we have a lot to work with. So we have this page:

http://www.cancer.org/treatment/supportprogramsservices/app/resource-search

We can put in all sorts of terms to search for various programs to help Shatta. I spoke with one of the American Cancer Society and they have my name on file saying that I was looking for all this info. I’ll give them a call back and get back to where I was in the call. In the mean time, I need some of you guys to just throw words at that search engine and putting the links here for the various programs we can get Shatta signed up for. I asked the rep if we could fill out the application for him and it seems that if we get a good 3-4 people copy pasting his personal info we can have him applied to a bunch of stuff in a few hours.

Best way to proceed would be to look up as many programs as possible and have them posted here. anything you guys find I can edit into a post so that they are all together. while we do that I’ll have a second conversation with the ACS where they grind the search with me to see which programs they’d recommend. Once we have a bunch of shit, we just sign him up for everything and see what we get. Figure the more programs we sign him up for the better since we lose nothing by them saying no.

We’re gonna need some of Shatterstar’s personal info so if @DarkGeneral can hit up Shatta and get all the general stuff we’d need to fill out applications.

questions?

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*@Pertho

What’s some of the information that they need other than full name and current address/mailing address. That way Shatta can give me all the info in one fell swoop while his energy is up.

Edit: By the way it goes without saying that I appreciate you setting all of this up. *

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Need to have a second call with the guy to look for programs. I’m a bit late picking up the wife. Think full name, address, age, birthdate, type of cancer, if insurance etc.

I assume it’d be a lot of stuff only his girlfriend would have access but not sure how comfortable he’d be with that.

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or I could fill it out myself…?

I’m not that helpless, but I can be more prideful than Vegeta.

Other than that:

UPDATE

[details=Spoiler]I’ve actually got out the hospital over the start of the weekend, and I was there almost a week. Two saturdays ago, I was with my other half, and we were hungry. I needed to go to my hospital to pick up a medical script, and didn’t want to go far to grab a quick bite to eat. I was indifferent so I chose BK but she wanted Popeye’s. I hadn’t had it in a while so I we ate at Popeye’s. Normally, I’m like a horse or cow while eating. Meaning, unfortunately, when I eat I also “go” at the same time. Which sucks and isn’t attractive at all. You wont notice but I will. Especially after my ileostmy (fyi, mine is reversible) bag is like 45% full.

So naturally, I emptied the bag after I finished eating like normal, and got ready to go to the pharmacy. I was only in the car for like 10 minutes, and I got out the car my bag was full again. Thought nothing much of it and emptied in the near by bathroom as I headed to the pharmacy. To make a long story short, I emptied my bag 18 times in 3 hours. It wasn’t waste per say, but fluid only. Like whatever I drank, it came out in the bag 40 minutes later. It made me super dehydrated and me drinking everything in sight didn’t help either. In the midst of things I actually went to my place then decided to go right back to the hospital to go to the ER.

After the murses and nurses saw how much fluid that kept flowing out of me they admitted me. It finally stopped once I got my power port accessed and they pumped me full of fluid and delaudid. Once they wheeled my bed from ER to the other part of UNMC, Clarckson, (since they had no rooms available on the UNMC side) I started to throw up all the stuff that didn’t exit my stoma. Once they saw that, they shoved a tube down my right nostril and put me on NPO: I couldn’t eat or drink for almost two days. Come to find out it was not food poisoning, chemo or cancer-related. Somehow, my lower intestine got “pinched off” and it caused a blockage. Something I can’t really prevent yet that was the very first time that this happen.

four days and countless bags of fluid later, I’m back.[/details]

sorry about not checking in sooner. I was loopy and “high” during those days anyway.

120mg of Morphine every 12hrs + 1mg of dilaudid every 2/3hrs = shatta is fawked up, yo.

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Cool. Glad to hear you’re doing better man. :tup: If you’re able, I hope you get hooked up with the fat ass steak and soon.

-Starhammer-

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lol @ the steak.

I’m not on a strict diet. they actually want me to get fat which IMO is counter productive since I wanted to lose weight before all of this happen.

it’s weird now. Nothing seems to stick to me anyway unless I constantly cook my own food.

One day I’m craving a burger then the next day I’m only eating carbs and ensure because the thought of meat is making me nauseated.

to the members that text me, hit me up with a link or whatever for the stuff you guys were discussing earlier.

I rather that you teach me how to fish than beg you for a dish.

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Middle ground is you take care of what you can and once you hit the ceiling we’ll get you the rest of the way.

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thank you. like, always.

@Pertho check your DM.

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Micro update***

right now, I’m doing okay.

I’ve been enrolled into physical therapy for the next month till further notice. I can walk, but running/jogging, or climbing up stairs is like, my biggest battle physically. Sadly, my current living arrangement is on the 3rd floor and no elevator. To view me climbing stairs is like watching a 34 year old in a 88 year old’s body. Then carry bags from walmart…

October 13th, 2016 will mark two years since I’ve been battling cancer. Remission, “semi-remission”, cell mutations, septic pneumonia, latent tuberculosis, anxiety, compulsive behavior which has gotten me in trouble with the law and now me in the works to sue because I was on Ambilify at the time, implacable girlfriend, tweaker associate/ roommate stealing my pain meds then offers to sell them “for me”, actually lived in two physical rehab facilities which me getting kicked out of both (lol), fights with social security, people literally robbing my apartment then squatting in it, and yeah… It’s been a long, wild ride already.

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Fuck, its been 21 days since the last update.

What’s the stat on this fool? Been to worried about getting baby stuff.

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i’m right here, daw; and the soundsof HnK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Hci13Ym90

ohn yeah, the chemeo doesn’t work anymore so I’m i Hospice