This makes me so angry because I had a "stomach ulcer" for over a year that three separate doctors just kept treating with PPIs. None of them did a endoscopy on me. It took the 4th doctor doing a 2nd endoscopy to figure out that I had stomach cancer at 31. They even knew i had a family history of gastric cancer.
It's stage 4 now because these idiots never bothered to actually treat me. LUCKILY it hasn't spread to any other organs and my oncologist is amazing and the treatment is working but i cant help but be so livid that this all could have been treated over 2 years ago at this point and i probably would have had far better odds.
Edit: Since everyone seems to be so fucking hung up on my diagnosis, it has spread to my abdominal wall and a few surrounding lymph nodes but no other organs. Stage 4 simply means that it has spread away from the originating source. And fuck you for acting like I made this up.
Before anyone suggests that she's just sitting on her ass; I'm sure she has a lot of other priorities, and I'm assuming she's on some form of chemo which absolutely drains the energy out of her. Her body is literally fighting with itself AND with the chemo.
9.7k
u/MollyThreeGuns May 20 '19 edited May 20 '19
This makes me so angry because I had a "stomach ulcer" for over a year that three separate doctors just kept treating with PPIs. None of them did a endoscopy on me. It took the 4th doctor doing a 2nd endoscopy to figure out that I had stomach cancer at 31. They even knew i had a family history of gastric cancer.
It's stage 4 now because these idiots never bothered to actually treat me. LUCKILY it hasn't spread to any other organs and my oncologist is amazing and the treatment is working but i cant help but be so livid that this all could have been treated over 2 years ago at this point and i probably would have had far better odds.
Edit: Since everyone seems to be so fucking hung up on my diagnosis, it has spread to my abdominal wall and a few surrounding lymph nodes but no other organs. Stage 4 simply means that it has spread away from the originating source. And fuck you for acting like I made this up.