https://buttclub.co/blog daily 1.0 2019-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1650344404206-8JFVVR2C8Y73WV8A5XR3/Butt+Club+%E2%80%93+My+cancer+story.png Butt Club - My Cancer Story https://buttclub.co/blog/2019/11/27/hey-im-proud-of-myself monthly 0.5 2021-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1574877485513-IR4Z7OXWXNFCYOTC6FIY/kid.gif Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Hey, I'm Proud of Myself! It me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1574876413376-DGH8TCWNW7HYG1FVQ9SZ/NOLA.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Hey, I'm Proud of Myself! 16 of my dearest most amazing friends came to New Orleans to celebrate no-more-cancer with me! I’m the luckiest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1574876466834-T0CAAXGREF5E7Z6NIG2J/sisters.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Hey, I'm Proud of Myself! A sister reunion on a gator-watchin’ boat in the bayou. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1574876428469-XS7DK58J7TDL39046O6J/hold+your+breath.png Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Hey, I'm Proud of Myself! I kept trying to tell my friends about the cute little guy on this machine, but no one understood. Imagine my DELIGHT when I saw these were a thing. https://buttclub.co/blog/2019/8/8/oneyear monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293726374-MRJGQDXIYC6TW747HVDE/chinese+ceremony.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. Sarah’s Chinese ceremony https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565387400020-KHQW7IFYZB24EZ6QZGLH/black%252Btie.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. That one time we looked presentable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565295702855-GVVDRHOBTU2KRTM76VPP/A15E4BB8-3C67-4F9D-912D-2A5FF610BF71.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. I special ordered a “Ring for the Ring” (ringing of the chemo bell) and several of my friends, my sisters and my mom got coordinating opal rings. :) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293882642-1NBREZJ0IP334K4WBVFH/bye+cancer.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. Woohoo! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565387268252-F2N0ZJUN1GX91H7SXGGV/birthday.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. A little surprise-destination birthday celebration with my guy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293026123-SLZ02YXY98S5R84VS65H/party.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. My roomies threw me a slide party! It was the best day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293474916-B3A8OVXXELX5IDJ5QBZW/malena.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. Meeting tiny angel Malena. She is my good friends’ Eli + Woojin’s new little one and we’re all unabashedly obsessed. I wasn’t able to have skin contact with her because we were unsure about the safety of the chemo I was still receiving. Turns out, it’s all good! If I were actively receiving radiation treatments, I’d have to avoid contact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565387180409-LHGKZOJ50OI9L7G1UMEI/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. This also counts as “other stuff.” Our new house that we LOVE! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293804609-AV436SAJX2ZFJ2BLLF2P/mexico+boo.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. A little Mexican getaway. The room, resort, weather and location were all to DIE for. But my body had other plans in mind, as I was pretty sick the whole time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293186817-Q7AVXMGGDZL3L8HGCZFT/mexico.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. Of course, no medicine better than ceviche by the sea-viche. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565295677954-IDFZHXNAB25E2TVQ28JE/4C8500ED-A392-4562-9707-A16FC12E41B4.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. Right after the bell ringing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565296723620-YSW0BG7IY9RKTV1L8DCF/sarah+chemo+cake.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. Sweet sweet Sarah special-ordered a “Chemo No Mo’” cake WITH THE BUTT CLUB LOGO at her bachelorette party in Palm Springs. Ridiculously wonderful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293926031-CO0UAHE1ME34FPZW5X3K/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. N. E. D. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293773228-827PO0QVWJIBJ205SO7C/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. MA <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293827482-X3SDY2D7QZIQY08QK5IE/Rowan+Surger.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293154107-D38271A2X6BGI5D6IA92/bye+bag.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. Final moments with the bag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293614709-TADRADL4M5JXL2PY2N6E/port.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. They also removed my port during reversal surgery, and I got to keep it! Cool little memento, and you can see where each individual needle went in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1565293411712-DX67JQV3EXAO8NX60F4C/diaper.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - One Year. The hospital is kind enough to provide “adult diapers” for patients. Had to demonstrate this monstrosity. https://buttclub.co/blog/2019/4/22/angry-guts monthly 0.5 2019-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555986368641-LI5XOQT0SKLBI8E1RHYU/1-insides.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555986521512-2DE3DRXFL9T5MQ292WQ2/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts 2019 X-rays are done right in your room, and they’re like the chillest thing ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555985895449-HFLUPMOWNT9X5BWZYP8P/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts Preparing to have the NG tube placed. AKA contemplating how much I REALLY need functioning intestines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555985884629-V2C43MSPYHLZY0VVIHOL/1-kill+me.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts Accepting my fate. The fate of the tube. This hair/headband combo make me look like Willie Nelson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555986458958-9II5J8X1ISV9H2PSLD2Y/1-pal.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts The very best hospital attendant, as always. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555986098025-NW39M3SRRS3FLH8BZLDW/1-guts.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts Images from surgery. In the lower left corner, you can see the tiny white blood vessel clips, with bloodied intestinal tissue after having been cut away from my abdominal wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555986048210-2LZLCF1P4T99J8Z4XFI9/1-cheryl.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts Don’t let the eyes fool you, it’s the most amazing, sweet, rad beautiful rainbow nurse in the world! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1556042192354-YPMR089XRU47Z01AF6SP/1-scope.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts Images from the scope – clean as a whistle and no clues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555985975539-3PZTIDP1LPQDDO49XOET/1-escape.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts My great escape, via Wheelbert! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555986819039-TB6JBKP1NG61LYWXCZRD/sneakyween.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts My roomies snuck me in a weenie dog! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555986962220-IN1EX6T7DV9GMVI3HE3R/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts She came to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day and it made everybody smile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987049304-OD28CP8P4BHV9EG646TM/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts The roomies also brought the pups back for a visit in the parking lot another day. Oh and my mom was there too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987026926-XTBZ54GIISJOESBHDQXF/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts I hadn’t breathed fresh air for 9 days before this! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987073940-H42D3L2RTM384EKUR3ZE/mama.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts My amazing wonderful fabulous mama surprised me during my first hospital stay. It was so incredibly good to have her there. My hospital outfits need work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987200161-WVSLFO946SL552CXU0PQ/friends.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts Pals like these dudes came to visit, which was a delight! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987236140-7LJO4EV44IODF69GXE80/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts My beautiful friends Eli and Woojin were frequent visitors, and getting to feel and hear all about the impending darling of our lives, Malena Victoria, was SUCH a pick-me-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987302408-REM7N5JGMCIEZDYB9S8M/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts Heidi sent her love, which fueled me through at least 24 hospital hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987343192-6D98NY2I3MRO5UQCZD8H/flowers.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts No real flowers are allowed on the 6th floor, so Marissa brought me a dupe. :) Plus, my skyline view was pretty beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987417048-XMB1JZ7A0Y9VL0334WD3/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts My favorite fisherman caught this very supportive little guy one day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987488713-FJBTCI3OZZLOLZBYTMV9/bday.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts Rowan’s birthday fell on a Friday when I was locked up. Instead of spending it doing fun stuff, he stayed with me in my depressing hospital room, happy as a clam. We shared takeout and a finely aged bottle of the good stuff, (Sprite) over a fire, and attempting to play Scrabble but instead falling asleep. He is the best of the best. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1555987613931-1Q6I4ZM5GYLG4KJY8VXZ/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Why'd You Have to Go and Make Things So Complicated? The Story of the Angry Guts https://buttclub.co/blog/2019/4/1/the-ileostomy-tales-life-as-an-ostomate monthly 0.5 2019-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1554223336608-34J9W3VVTGQR9E4FG8U7/TYPES+OF+STOMA+1.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Ileostomy Tales: Life As an Ostomate Different types and locations of stomas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1554165637522-5L3UDR85PDGS7G3032IG/front-view-stoma-abdominal-surgery.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Ileostomy Tales: Life As an Ostomate Stomas in real life look constantly irritated (but don’t typically feel like it!), and always have a big ugly red circle around them from adhesive. They’re useful but not cute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1554222654263-J4SU012IXXPZOHK8ACEN/loop-ileostomy-sm.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Ileostomy Tales: Life As an Ostomate An end ileostomy would catch waste at the very end of your small intestine – on the actual ileum, and just be a single hole protruding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1554223796306-IJ75XJ8CV9TJS504BFZR/IMG_2974.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Ileostomy Tales: Life As an Ostomate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1554167812633-21SSZPQSMRCBCZEHARM0/sideways.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Ileostomy Tales: Life As an Ostomate Sideways is an option, but it’s not as east to empty, and always feel suspicious that it’s burning my skin this way for some reason. Here you can also see the scars from my surgeries. Also, usually the part I’m holding with velcro on it would be tucked into the piece above it with another velcro closure, just exposing it here to show how draining works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1554218689467-0DLRAYFTOGB5OTK1VFPD/supplies.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Ileostomy Tales: Life As an Ostomate My giant hand for scale. See post-cut wafer in back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1554218764964-GLLBN5YDPNC8SPGRK09T/wafer.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Ileostomy Tales: Life As an Ostomate Wafer close-up before cutting to fit from the middle. https://buttclub.co/blog/2019/2/20/chop-chop-surgery-time monthly 0.5 2019-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550765100654-5R4GBSR0RGI4EOBSHOCK/IMG_2177.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! He’s a natural! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550706589359-OBPT807CNNYXEZCE6YS9/IMG_7485.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! Touching a piece of the moon! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550767218835-JDD4S9JWOA931ZC75OC8/rocket.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! Just the most enormous rocket ever made, no biggie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550763896688-I5KBKOFBDS95VSXYM089/IMG_4118.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! The Space Station simulator at NASA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550767640575-4YKR23FFLQB2VMILCZUH/hookem.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! Now I’m sworn in as a Texas fan since they saved my life or whatever. HOOK THEM! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550770703136-4LSX6SVSHV83SGC6UUKW/IMG_2573.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550767760311-VWLBMOQF4A24O22GIMNK/Irish+Wishes.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! Well wishes from my Irish cousins! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550767921426-LPA22W5ANBVNRD7SF14I/IMG_2246.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! BB Kona sent a pep talk! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550768099136-RBYZE45IHHCGL7QDHXP4/IMG_2242.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! And Russell boy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550767561098-IT88U9ZUVB4ZV4CSAYP7/IMG_2250.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! They had me put a wristband on each hand and we all joked that my ankles must be next. Turns out we were right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550770797892-QJAVPJ2P1AWOA0EA855T/IMG_2252.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! My mom loved feeding me those sweet, delicious ice chunks and letting me suck on this useless little sponge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550768673977-30FTFDQXKYQZ8DD6CI3L/you+are+loved.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! My incredible friends wrote me notes and made me a poster and made my room soooo much happier. I could never deserve them. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550768756805-H3EZ5GPHBQ41KC3O0SSM/hibeav.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! My favorite note, honestly. (Don’t laugh at the Beavy’s handwriting, he’s a baby!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550768864403-IOYATNOGIG77X28D61GQ/nap.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! This picture makes me want to cry because I could never in a million years imagine a better partner through all this. He slept in a ridiculously small futon-chair for five days, worked from the hospital, kept me sane and made me laugh every single day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550769028624-OWR7CYENWFZKZGC4FF7N/IMG_2295.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! Lexa was sick one day in the hospital so she got to have a fun little quarantine. (I’m actually happy in this picture, promise.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550770372546-UGD55ER144L2S4VG8TQI/Ernie.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! My absolutely lovely nurse, Ernestine. I promise I own pants that aren’t these. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550769119827-1PQONQ48G9LLK8OB7XB6/lexa.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! I had to walk 10 times a day, and Lexa was a tyrant about it! (Thanks, Lex) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550770274279-YF01XSJA7HH2MW8GF3RZ/leni%2Bhi%2Bmom.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550770538444-YFMFUSWVKCGLI38TORRC/IMG_2358.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! The best roomies! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1550769673616-7WHLUSDI09L0T1SAU3WB/shaybeav.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Chop Chop: Surgery Time! Beaver looooves cuddles with his god-grandma. https://buttclub.co/blog/2018/12/21/this-hurts monthly 0.5 2018-12-21 https://buttclub.co/blog/2018/11/22/silver-linings monthly 0.5 2018-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542906813488-FTAYSRKG7JNUZGT5A2IE/IMG_0146.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Silver Linings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542907083380-O03S04MRQJNS8IPZUAPJ/IMG_5121.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Silver Linings My mom REALLY loves brunch and puppies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542907195406-KFGL1EB6GTY6YLWJBPGZ/IMG_3931.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Silver Linings I’ve known Lyssa and Jan since I was two! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542907503419-JVPA1K6LA6G4SYPA0Z1Z/cancer_1.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Silver Linings It flips inside out to become a white blood cell! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542907248513-ZPN87552XN2Z2YO2OVRC/IMG_5033-1.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Silver Linings Tiny fragile bbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542907297942-GYX16BN34LUF6R3C1PBY/IMG_5056.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Silver Linings Smol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542907374958-M7560QX7MABRG4ORO9Q6/IMG_0444.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Silver Linings Big boy is growing up! https://buttclub.co/blog/youve-got-cancer monthly 0.5 2018-11-16 https://buttclub.co/blog/2018/11/14/first-steps-second-opinions monthly 0.5 2018-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542236322085-KB3VXXCFJUCJ9QG1UXY9/image-asset.png Butt Club - My Cancer Story - First Steps, Second Opinions A lil illustration to show you what the colon is and where my cancer is. There are five parts of the colon. My tumor affects the last two, starting in the top of my rectum and going up into the sigmoid. Cancer is the red stuff and YOU KNOW WHAT THE STAR IS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542225398208-FN164YV0VC79GSW9AX81/IMG_5074.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - First Steps, Second Opinions Those are tiny little pieces of my tumor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542225527221-UWQDX910DWNLRPGDLYFV/IMG_5076+2.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - First Steps, Second Opinions During the sigmoidoscopy (did I mention you’re awake for that?), they send this tiny little wire through the scope tube, and use this clampy bit to take biopsies. https://buttclub.co/blog/2018/dirty-deets monthly 0.5 2018-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542075918385-DPKDWJQ209HM0K1TFFDG/IMG_2054+2.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) It’s called fashion sweatie, look it up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542077933939-NH3NP7TVENSNDNE8GHSI/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) Oh yes, please stick more wires to my butt. DON’T LAUGH AT MY DIRTY SOCKS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542241695007-6BP2Z6X8DWTGPU7VKP95/IMG_2057+2.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) Ahh the ol’ in-n-out. And in. And out. And in. And Out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542078744075-49FO43Z6FIB5XROQI1JL/IMG_5199.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) The radiation room setup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542226520761-DBVP5QQAYN4N0XP7H0I7/IMG_0616.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) Needle freshly inserted. Don’t worry, I don’t have a face rash, just the satisfying after-effects of the dermatologist extracting some milia for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542227264660-XTZ6OX8SWMML0TDAKWOD/IMG_0797.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) Very dangerous stuff you’d never want to ingest under any circumstances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542080104709-H1AEYGNJPPGOT9H7P8ZV/image-asset.jpeg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) This is a very genuine and not-at-all-forced half smile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542318124549-VGHYDJZZF758VU1HEUAP/IMG_0781.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) Oxliplatin, the hard stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542234480995-D8VDH44FTEYTFXKLVWUX/IMG_0786.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) Leucovorin, the helpful stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542319215983-P5EHJKKMN4HQQA7S8C5E/IMG_0788.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) The bolus of 5FU that gets pushed through at the end. And Rowan concentrating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542227385910-CCJ7MCUU9JQAY5W1B6FI/IMG_0790.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - The Dirty Deets (Staging, Treatment, Side Effects) https://buttclub.co/blog/2018/11/4/blog-post-health monthly 0.5 2018-11-17 https://buttclub.co/blog/fertility-preservation monthly 0.5 2018-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542230817546-K3MS9BBUFWIV3J67DNA4/328977.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Fertility Preservation The big guns (with small needles) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542231251870-WA69TX2G45KCPGNQXUFA/vial-cetrotide-0-25.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Fertility Preservation With Cetrotide, you shoot the liquid in the syringe into the bottle of powder, mix, pull it back in, attach a new needle, and inject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542230043625-CRY2VCB1W3SA4BFUSQDQ/IMG_5024.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Fertility Preservation 19 eggies, sittin in a tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542230409758-4CENJXFLUBO2UFBLNP07/IMG_1752.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Fertility Preservation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542241628821-J5UJFRDIYBBQBMXM715Z/IMG_1763.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - Fertility Preservation How I really feel about all of this. https://buttclub.co/blog/2018/11/14/whats-up-with-the-port monthly 0.5 2018-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542232837364-BPAQAPVCSNBWY1DBIWJF/IMG_0119.jpg Butt Club - My Cancer Story - What's Up With the Port? Exhibit A: Why port access is better. The tiny prick on the right was from an oncology nurse (the best people on earth) and the right was by an ER Nurse (still amazing, but don’t have time to be as careful, cause, ER.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bddbb46e74940ee312ff56a/1542233050866-3GR8UXUOR7KU8OVOK8E6/634FC9C6-A637-44C9-B6E1-56C59F5A5A74-7259-000004C4921D68F8.JPG Butt Club - My Cancer Story - What's Up With the Port? 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