My Chemo Buddy

dav1965

When i went through chemo i meet a man going through the same thing i was. He had about a dime shape size cut off his tongue. He never quit dipping the whole time. He had stage 2 cancer and i had stage 4. After the first chemo treatment he lost hearing in one ear and never went back. I just got a phone call saying he died.[:(] Why would you not quit dipping. If i knew what caused my cancer i would quit in a heartbeat.[:(]They offered him other chemo and he wouldnt try anything else. I still have ringing in my ears from chemo but at least i am still hear.

Don McManus

My grandmother smoked until a couple of days before she died of lung cancer.

This was in the 1970s, her diagnosis was terminal, and she enjoyed smoking. At the time I didn't understand it, but it makes perfect sense to me today.

Your buddy most likely died because he stopped getting treated, not because he continued to chew.

KSUmarksman

my guess is he gave up on hope for a cure.

quitting tobacco products would do nothing about the progression of the tumor that was already there, just reduce the odds of getting another one down the line if he survived. If he figured he was dead anyway, there was really no reason to quit

17tobyracing

I started chewing leaf when I was 12 and did so until I was 24. When my daughter was born, my wife told me that I needed to quit chewing. I tried several times and always went back to the habit, until my wife told me I needed to make a choice between chewing or sex.

Bamavol

I am 70. I found I had lung cancer about the 1st of Nov. I never used tobacco and had no family history of cancer. I have almost finished chemo and radiation. I think I will make it but will have wait and see. I would tell any one to never touch tobacco. This call is too easy. It is not worth the risk. If you have not used, don't start. If you are using stop now.

woodshed87

Your Winning Dav

17tobyracing
The Reason she Probly Said that I Because Your breath from the Chew Smells like Poop
I Can't talk to a Tobacco Chewer I about Throw up From the Smell
Just Rank Sorry.[:I]
Glad Ya Quit So is She and the Kids.

Bamavol
Hang in there Your In Great Hands between The Lord and GBroker[^]

17tobyracing

quote:Originally posted by woodshed87
17tobyracing
The Reason she Probly Said that is because Your breath from the Chew Smells like Poop


I would not doubt it... I still miss chewing at times, but I know the health risks and the $$$ I save from not buying the chew is now spent on my kids & shooting.

dav1965 ~ sorry for your loss and I hope you stay healthy!

shilowar

I quit dipping several years ago, hopefully I didn't quit too late. i finally got tired of worrying if I had cancer everytime I got a sore in my mouth. I dipped and smoked for 24+ years, so if I get sick I only have myself to blame.

Every once and a while when I think about getting a dip I remind myself of why I quit.

My Dad is a Physician, and he has always said Tobacco is the most evil substance on this earth. He has never so much as touched a cigarette, yet my mom was a smoker for 40+ years until she got breast cancer.

dav1965

The first 3 or 4 times my wife and i met my team of doctors they would ask if i quite smoking yet. Finally they firgured out that i dont smoke or never have. My cancer always is blamed on smoking or dipping. Odds are over 98% for smoking with this cancer. They remember me because im the only one they ever seen that did not smoke.[:)] Also the fact that i lived.[:)]