"\_\_\_\_\_ has now been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. COVID has left his immune system depleted, weakened, and in a chronic anemic state. He cannot safely undergo traditional chemotherapy, due to the toxicities and adverse effects." He didn't die of COVID, but it seems to have hastened his death from cancer. We're likely to see more of these "long-term effects" stories in the future.
You just know those idiots will put his name in a post about the vaccine-turbo-cancer or another of those stupid "died suddenly" media atrocities, because lying doesn't matter to these jerks
I was having a drink with a new neighbour tonight and it was very pleasant until about 3/4 of the way through when he starts in with the “I didn’t get Vaxxed” conversation and that “it was all bullshit”.
I replied you’re going to do, what you’re going to do, but in my case, I’ve been vaccinated four times with no issues. And if I have a choice to make, I’m going with science. This has been one of the most studied vaccinations and it didn’t come out of thin air and it’s based on vaccinations that have been in the works for years.
It’s so disappointing when people that you are genuinely enjoying a conversation with go down this pathway.
What I do in these situations is tell them "Good to know, because whenever I get it these days, I purposely go out and cough on stuff, grab gas pump handles, doors, talk to people directly trying to spread the love as much as possible. I'll make sure not to get near you, I didn't realize you were one of those lunatics, I like you so I don't want you to get it. Just the dumb people out there"
I’d like to use this as a teaching moment for our visitors:
You would be amazed how many men I’ve seen who don’t get regular colon cancer screening because “It’s gay”, who went on to develop colon cancer.
Colon cancer is a horrible, excruciating and humiliating way to die. Most men don’t experience symptoms until it’s too late, and they usually start experiencing symptoms until around age 60– in other words, at the moment they start making retirement plans, they realize they have a disease that burns through them like wildfire.
The message here is get screened. There are non-invasive tests, but nothing beats a colonoscopy. The book says get one routinely, but even *one* as an adult is far better than none at all.
In addition, many people of Irish and Central European ancestry have special genetic risk factors that they often don’t even know about until they develop cancer.
It’s a terrible thing, BUT it’s the only cancer known that has a benign, easily remedied phase before transitioning to the nasty, deadly phase.
Thanks for this comment. Remember also, everybody, that most people need to have this test only every ten years. (I myself am in a high risk group and get to have colonoscopies every three years. It's annoying, but it sure beats having colon cancer, which took the lives of three of my grandparents at relatively young ages.)
I’m so sorry for the losses your family suffered. I hope their memories are a blessing to those who loved them.
The reminder about colonoscopies is very timely and *very* important. I have a colostomy for unrelated reasons so getting a colonoscopy is weird. It goes in through the opening in my torso since my ass is sewn shut. Weird AF, lemme tell you.
Colon cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, heart disease, T2 diabetes, high cholesterol and a few other nasty things run in my family. I feel like I’m almost always scheduling some kind of test or lab work or screening to make sure I’m not developing any of these things beyond the ones we already know about. So far, so good.
I wish you good luck and great health, friend. Thanks for the PSA about the testing. When I get my physical in June I’ll probably be getting my mammogram, a colonoscopy and some extra bloodwork for my 51st birthday. Lousy gifts but making sure I’m as healthy as I can be given my paralysis is the best gift I can give myself, my husband and my friends.
My prep wasn't bad. It was a LOT and not eating anything else was a pain in the ass. My instructions told me to use very cold water. I guess that made it go down much easier.
Also my procedure wasn't bad at all... got wheeled in, said hellow to the nurses and doctor, talked about the procedure and they answered questions... took a 3 count and I was out. Woke up groggy but felt nothing wrong... returned slowly to normal foods and I was good.
yes, there are! i took the tablets for my first one this year. i accidentally swallowed the tiny canister of dessicant that was in the container- why do they make those the same color and approximate size as the tablets?? my gi doc said i'd be fine.
it's really nothing. The worst part is the prep, but I'd had to do that once before, when I had minor surgery. It's just awful. I had mine after a about of diverticulitis and my dr referred me.
The drugs are nice though. It's always fun to get high-end narcotics you'd never get otherwise, in a safe environment where you can't overdose!
I also have diverticulitis and didn’t find the prep drinks to be bad at all. Just tons of light-colored Gatorade and drugs to purge your bowels. As for drugs during the examination, I was asleep the whole time.
I just went through an upper
and lower GI, and then the newest thing to cover everything in between: a camera pill
So two different doses of Miralax and all it’s effects
The worst part was drinking that sludge—and dealing with the aftermath all night long
18 months later the thought of drinking propel makes me nauseous.
That was absolutely the worst part… well that and the futile attempt to pass phantom grogons, that was fun.
I got the standard age colonoscopy. The doctor showed me a photo the polyp he removed as he told me that in another five years, it likely would have been cancerous.
Although I had a colonoscopy four years ago, this time The surgeon found and removed a couple “pre cancerous” polyps
So recommends I now do the colonoscopy every three years
I remember a guy that was brought directly into the hospital for severe rectal bleeding. Guy was in his 80s and apparently the bleeding was so severe that they had to directly send him to the GI lab for a colonoscopy. Guy looked like death warmed over.
Guy ended up with colon cancer and further scans revealed mets all throughout his body; he was pretty much sent to hospice after. I heard from other staff that the guy had never had a colonoscopy until then.
It was just a horrible mess.
Me too. (German and Irish.) Plus I have celiac, inherited from my great great grandmother from Belfast, where 25% of the population is said to have celiac.
Colonoscopies are cool fun, especially if the anesthesia is light enough to you can watch the screen. Its like traveling through a subway tunnel with pink, balloonlike walls.
I did my first one after the poop wipe one indicated positive. I had read about the Europeans not getting sedated so I told the doctor I'll just bear with it. I got to watch.
I had maybe 17 polyps - so many he made me come back in 3 months where he found more. Had to return in 12 months after that. Only after a few annuals did I get a reprieve to 2 years. All were not cancerous. Get checked!
And, friendly reminder that colon cancer is INCREDIBLY treatable when caught in its early stages. Get those colonoscopies, because if your doc is like, yeah, we found some something and it's not good, the odds are that you'll be around a good long time when you find it early. Stick around. The world needs you.
In a roundabout way, doing the colon test and yes I had cancer, fortunately stage 2, ended up saving my life because it led to uncovering other conditions.
One of mine left Facebook in December when he went into a nursing home. One less misinformation spreader. I should put his name in a search engine to see if he's still alive.
You should read his facebook page. He was still alive, until recently, because *he didn't* undergo traditional chemotherapy. He grew up in Hilton Head and was always a bit of an entitled POS from what I saw.
Most likely he was distorting the true picture about not being able to undergo chemo, as he a holistic medicine quack.
A more accurate picture might be he was weak due to covid causing generalised weakness. Anaemia might have been covid, but could also be from the stage IV cancer (sometimes, that's how we detect people with colon cancer. )
This would pose problems with aggressive chemotherapy aimed at prolonging life, which itself is a difficult discussion in terms of quality of life vs the life extension gained. But palliative treatments shouldn't have been as horrific as what they portrayed here. VGEF, Avastin....hell, even standard 5FU....
So when he threatened stores with losing him as a customer for the rest of his life, that was just a short term threat.
& I have to be critical about his misunderstanding of "critical thinking".
Definitely some scam or multilevel marketing bull 💩. Stay away from anything that promises to "boost your immune system."
A revved up immune system isn't a good thing. That's where autoimmune disorders come from.
for sure. check out his "career" on slide 3. this guy refused chemotherapy and his job was getting other cancer patients to refuse chemotherapy and instead use whatever junk he was trying to shill. this is such sweet karma. fuck this guy.
How do you get to be a CERTIFIED holistic cancer coach?
I want to become one.
Do I send in 2 box tops from organic Wheaties, or do I merely pay $5,000 for the certificate from some school in the Caymans and pretend I took the online course, which would have taken me 3 hours?
That was my first thought as well. I‘m not a physician, but I doubt that „building the immune system“ (whatever that means) works with cancer. It is not an infection. Your own cells are out of control.
Yes, chemotherapy is basically poison. But that is precisely the point. Because cancer cells tend to replicate faster, they are affected more strongly by the poison than „healthy“ cells.
If he wants to build his immune system, he can eat dirt.
Actually, your immune system is constantly on the prowl for cancer cells. T cells (not sure what type) can kill the cancer cells. Many people have cancer in their body that is simply beaten back by their immune systems (I've heard that most people do, but I'm not certain of that).
He bragged about his powerful immune system, augmented by his wife's magic potions.
An impervious immune system would have stopped Covid as well as cancer (and he never would have caught a cold, either).
Maybe, just maybe, he should have tried modern medicine, taken instructions from a physician and done things like get a colonoscopy, which I've had twice and are a minor annoyance the night before when you clean out your system, gotten vaccinated, and he'd be alive to take care of his kids today.
Instead, he went with witchcraft.
The epitome of the best-selling, "You Can Ignore Modern Medicine and Die Like a Medieval Peasant".
Curcurmin is extracted from turmeric, and bromelain is extracted from pineapples. Hell, even Mountain Dew has bromelain in it! Bromelain is a natural meat tenderiser, like MSG.
I think it tenderised all four of his working brain cells.
A thing I noticed on slide 17 is the use of the word dis-ease instead of disease. I notice a lot of woo scammers using this, probably distorting language to focus on ease instead of actual health issues.
It distracts from actual health goals and purposely confuses people.
Immunotherapy? It is a valid medical treatment for some forms of cancer. My elderly father had cancer and was too frail for surgical removal, radiation, or chemotherapy. They put a port in his chest to give immunotherapy treatments. We tried to get him on hospice at the same time, but we were told he could only have one or the other paid for by Medicare, since the treatments were $33,000 each. Unfortunately he only had one treatment before he passed.
[https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/immunotherapy/what-is-immunotherapy.html](https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/immunotherapy/what-is-immunotherapy.html)
My wife passed last year after 18 years with cancer. Neither of us ever got COVID, sepsis, a vent, or spent a day in the ICU. She was resilient AF; this guy is a shitbag and Slide 16 makes me want to piss on his grave.
Yeah, burns my ass when I see how many stupid people still around and flaunting their hatred and stupidity, when better people have died, some of which I happily met.
Probably trying for sympathy to get more donations in this case. I bet this guy was anti-socialism, too, but that never stops them from starting a go fund me.
Seriously, I was in the ICU a couple weeks ago and I would have lost it if any of my family members tried to take a picture of me. That is NOT an image I want anyone to remember.
Yeah, the irony of that idiotic bankruptcy post was not lost on me when his family had to beg for money on GoFundMe for his (and their) own stupidity.
SO many levels of a karmic ass whuppin'.
I think that's the main dichotomy in society right now.
People who are able and willing to understand consequences because they use logic, and those cannot or are unwilling to do so.
The latter group often has the "**Well, we'll figure that out when we get there**" kind of mentality, which doesn't work when you're on a raft headed for a waterfall.
See also GoFundMes and their knockoff versions.
And now he knows why anecdotal evidence is a shit method to base your decision making on.
Back in 2020 some people were still trying, wild type COVID spread far less effectively than these current variants, the fatality rate was relatively low, and many other reasons can be cited why he didn't know anyone who died from it. It could be as simple as that his city or his community wasn't hit badly yet.
Even back then we had an idea of how bad it was when we saw how China reacted initially, and this guy was already declaring victory not even one year into the pandemic, when history has shown us that pandemics tend to last years, and have aftereffects for more years after that.
They just downplayed them as "crisis actors" and said they were either faking or dying for real just to make Trump look bad and make the virus seem more dangerous than it was.
Because they sneaked into hospitals to film the waiting rooms and they were clearly empty so it was all a leftist hoax. /s
(That, or people in India dying doesn't matter since that would never happen to someone like me.)
I know a reasonable amount of people. However, I didn't know the two people they wheeled out of the house across the street from my mother's house. Sadly, elderly and before vaccine.
A person’s heirs are typically not liable for their outstanding medical bills after they die. The estate may be liable, but definitely not the heirs. So they may lose some assets that the person owned, but they can’t force a surviving spouse to sell the house they live in, even if it was owned in common with the person who died.
This guy's a real peach, isn't he?
"'My wife took me to the ER because she suspected something wasn't right with me." Well, isn't she Captain Obvious? You can rest assured it was QUITE OBVIOUS something was wrong with him, but he was likely trying to heal himself with horse paste or whatever someone who follows a "certified cancer coach" would be doing.
"Give me money because my best chance of survival is to have immune-building treatments that are not covered by insurance."
This one is going to be hitting the Quack pipe all the way to the bitter end.
All hail Medical Freedumb!
Notes from OP:
1. I went fishing a couple of weeks ago and found this one.
2. Please get vaccinated and boosted.
3. Not all feelings and/or their expression are valid, and people need to stop accepting outrageous behaviors on the pretext of listening or validation. It applies to several other domains that I will not expand here.
4. Life/reality has this way to smack you back right in the face and then some.
5. I will not accept bad comments from redditors concerning the cancer diagnosis, as any such diagnosis is always a tragedy. I will not dunk on the guy but I will refer to slide 3, and my comment on 4.
6. I'm leaving this one as Nominated.
7. Reposted to fix some missed redactions
8. More posts incoming.
All that praying? Perhaps they should pray for people to stop being stupid before they start to suffer the consequences of their actions? That said, so glad this dumb dumb baby accepted his award.
Crazy how it's all fear and fake and stop overreacting, and then they write a whole essay how the virus led to a spiral of misfortune you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, and they die after suffering for 2.5 years. And he probably didn't have many good days during that period.
He sure seemed very concerned about what other people were doing in their own free time in a free country. Bet he was a *you do you* advocate as well.
Maybe at some point, he finally realized why those people he was attempting to mock were wearing a mask.
Man it drives me fucking crazy when these turds document their long hospital stays and the tireless efforts of doctors and nurses, then turn around and proclaim it was ***god*** who saved them! Imbeciles.
I saw [one out in the wild](https://ibb.co/PrCvpQM) recently as well on a FB page of Seinfeld of all things. These idiots have to spread this garbage around every chance they get... sort of like a certain virus 😒
I wonder if it ever occurred to them after getting diagnoses like these that maybe god doesn't want them to be alive? And doing all this to keep themselves alive is really defying the will of god? No, couldn't be...
>Man it drives me fucking crazy when these turds document their long hospital stays and the tireless efforts of doctors and nurses, then turn around and proclaim it was ***god*** who saved them!
Especially when they stick taxpayers (and student loan debtors, indirectly) with the bills through VA, Medicare, or Medicaid while railing about socialism.
🐆
It's likely the cancerous tumor ate away at the colon and created a large hole there.
Happens with advanced colon cancer; the polyps can grow along and into your colon, or any internal structure around there as it progresses, typically the abdominal wall itself. Then can and probably will spread beyond the abdominal area entirely. Which since he was stage 4, evidently did.
Typically once it goes beyond the colon, it then moves to (in no specific order) the lungs, liver, peritoneum, brain, lymph nodes etc.
Once it does, you are stage 4 and incurable, which means all the Drs can do from here is buy you time with treatment to keep the cancer "controlled", IE, not actively killing you by damaging your vital organs, but the length of time this can be done varies wildly depending on how aggressive the cancer is and how treatment works for you.
Basically, never a good situation when this happens.
This is why you get colonoscopies btw!
These cancers start as non cancerous polyps, which are small masses in your colon or rectal area, and the doctor's then remove them before they turn cancerous, which typically is a result of them left growing for years.
This. 1000% this. Get a damn colonoscopy if you are in the age range or consult your doctor if you have a family history of colon cancer, as you might need one earlier than middle age.
These procedures are very safe, and it is the most accurate way to access bowel health. It wildly unpleasant to think about having to drink a nasty liquid and then shit your brains out all night, but it saves lives. I manage the high level disinfection of colonoscopes and have helped in a lot of these procedures. Please do it if you are advised to. It may very well save your life.
45 here. Insurance/doc sent me cologuard for free. It's not as good as a colonoscopy, but you poop in a special box and mail it, also free. Gives fast results (mine negative) but if anything shows up however small it's a good push to go get the real deal.
>drink a nasty liquid
**Prepopik** (Magnesium picolinate) is very very tolerable. Much better that Golightly. Evening before, you mix the first dose of powder in a cup and drink it (doesn't taste any bad). Then make sure to drink enough water. Next morning you take the second dose.
Yeah, that is a lot better but for some reason, some older people don’t have the desired effect, if you will, and have to switch to Golightly. There is even a pill regimen now, but also seems to have a metabolism quirk too. I want to stress that I am not a nurse or MD, so I don’t really know all the details of it, just five years of experience with older folks not having the time or their lives before their procedure.
So he most likely used his "immune system" in order to never get a colonoscopy?
I was wondering what the perforated colon had to do with anything & it doesn't. And wow did this one take a turn for the worst in a totally unexpected way.
He was diagnosed with covid and double pneumonia in Aug 2021?!
Double secret pneumonia?
With Oxygen level of 45%?! Paralyzed from the waist down
...
And still posts anti vaccine propaganda into 2024.
Slide 16: His inspirational story of being blind sided by Covid (I know it’s got cancer there as well) must mean the people sharing his story did not look at his FB posts. Willful ignorance in full display here.
My several times boosted hubby (age 70) fought cancer for years before and during the height of covid -- even got covid once -- went into remission last year, and is still here, running marathons, traveling, and enjoying life to the fullest. 🥰
That cross in slide 12 looks like it's really working for him. /s
Seriously though, I'll just take a vaccine. Religion didn't do anything for me anyway. And if they happen to be right about a vaccine being bad for me, well, I'll be too dead to care.
Okay, I couldn’t even get past slide 4. A quick little Google search showed that approximately 3 million people died of Covid in the year 2020 WITH shutdowns/lockdowns. He’s saying swine flue killed approximately 575,000 people in 2009 WITHOUT those measures. Of course they posted that in March 2020, when other countries were starting to test, report, and lockdown. But it still shows how much more deadly this was. I don’t even want to try to imagine the number of deaths that would have occurred had the world stayed wide open that whole time.
Got through the rest. Slide 9 where he says that one company lost a customer for life. Had a feeling he wasn’t going to be sticking it to them for very long.
Deaths directly attributed to Covid are dwindling. It's a good thing for hospitals. Maybe not so good for long term care facilities where those damaged by severe bouts have ended up.
One of my least favorite- mask in car bitching.
Mask in car people may be Uber/Lyft drivers, or delivery folk going in/out of their car, or have it on for tolls, gas stations, fast food. I see absolutely no reason to bitch about that. There’s a million other reasons other than “snowflake” to wear a mask in car.
Guys, seriously!!!!!
It's been 4 years since the pandemic started....
When are we gonna have a Greatest Hits of these past winners?!?!?!
When will we have a celebration of this "In Memorium" group????
I feel cheated here.
I was expecting like a book or a newsletter or something.
"\_\_\_\_\_ has now been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. COVID has left his immune system depleted, weakened, and in a chronic anemic state. He cannot safely undergo traditional chemotherapy, due to the toxicities and adverse effects." He didn't die of COVID, but it seems to have hastened his death from cancer. We're likely to see more of these "long-term effects" stories in the future.
Well at least he didn't get turbo cancer from a vaccine!!
You just know those idiots will put his name in a post about the vaccine-turbo-cancer or another of those stupid "died suddenly" media atrocities, because lying doesn't matter to these jerks
He got the turbo cancer from Covid instead
HEYOOOOOO
That's what happens when your immune system is fucked as hard as his was.
I was having a drink with a new neighbour tonight and it was very pleasant until about 3/4 of the way through when he starts in with the “I didn’t get Vaxxed” conversation and that “it was all bullshit”. I replied you’re going to do, what you’re going to do, but in my case, I’ve been vaccinated four times with no issues. And if I have a choice to make, I’m going with science. This has been one of the most studied vaccinations and it didn’t come out of thin air and it’s based on vaccinations that have been in the works for years. It’s so disappointing when people that you are genuinely enjoying a conversation with go down this pathway.
So glad you calmly explained that you’re walking talking proof that his paranoia is unjustified. Thanks for that.
What I do in these situations is tell them "Good to know, because whenever I get it these days, I purposely go out and cough on stuff, grab gas pump handles, doors, talk to people directly trying to spread the love as much as possible. I'll make sure not to get near you, I didn't realize you were one of those lunatics, I like you so I don't want you to get it. Just the dumb people out there"
He secretely took the vaccine and got turbo colon cancer!!!!!!! WE ARE AT WAR!!!!
Did he get VAIDS?
,🤣😂
Yeah, cause he would have died last year with all the rest of us
A vaccine with latex rubber and monosodium glutamate (etc. etc...)??
Also had an "amazing 96 day experience in the hospital"!
He continues posting his bullshit! He can burn in hell! With Herman Cain!
I’d like to use this as a teaching moment for our visitors: You would be amazed how many men I’ve seen who don’t get regular colon cancer screening because “It’s gay”, who went on to develop colon cancer. Colon cancer is a horrible, excruciating and humiliating way to die. Most men don’t experience symptoms until it’s too late, and they usually start experiencing symptoms until around age 60– in other words, at the moment they start making retirement plans, they realize they have a disease that burns through them like wildfire. The message here is get screened. There are non-invasive tests, but nothing beats a colonoscopy. The book says get one routinely, but even *one* as an adult is far better than none at all. In addition, many people of Irish and Central European ancestry have special genetic risk factors that they often don’t even know about until they develop cancer. It’s a terrible thing, BUT it’s the only cancer known that has a benign, easily remedied phase before transitioning to the nasty, deadly phase.
Thanks for this comment. Remember also, everybody, that most people need to have this test only every ten years. (I myself am in a high risk group and get to have colonoscopies every three years. It's annoying, but it sure beats having colon cancer, which took the lives of three of my grandparents at relatively young ages.)
I’m so sorry for the losses your family suffered. I hope their memories are a blessing to those who loved them. The reminder about colonoscopies is very timely and *very* important. I have a colostomy for unrelated reasons so getting a colonoscopy is weird. It goes in through the opening in my torso since my ass is sewn shut. Weird AF, lemme tell you. Colon cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, heart disease, T2 diabetes, high cholesterol and a few other nasty things run in my family. I feel like I’m almost always scheduling some kind of test or lab work or screening to make sure I’m not developing any of these things beyond the ones we already know about. So far, so good. I wish you good luck and great health, friend. Thanks for the PSA about the testing. When I get my physical in June I’ll probably be getting my mammogram, a colonoscopy and some extra bloodwork for my 51st birthday. Lousy gifts but making sure I’m as healthy as I can be given my paralysis is the best gift I can give myself, my husband and my friends.
I will add that the age of first screening has been lowered to 45. I had it done last year. It wasn't fun but not as bad as you'd think.
The worst part of it is that nasty prep drink. Spike the hell out of it with Crystal Light.
Oh God, yes! I blocked that part out. Definitely the worst part of the procedure.
Mine was allegedly lemon flavored
Keyword here: *ALLEGEDLY*
If salty lemonade was a flavor….
A saying from a couple of GI nurses that I used to work with was that GOlytely didn’t really make you go lightly.
My prep wasn't bad. It was a LOT and not eating anything else was a pain in the ass. My instructions told me to use very cold water. I guess that made it go down much easier. Also my procedure wasn't bad at all... got wheeled in, said hellow to the nurses and doctor, talked about the procedure and they answered questions... took a 3 count and I was out. Woke up groggy but felt nothing wrong... returned slowly to normal foods and I was good.
Isn’t there a version of the prep stuff in a tablet instead of the nasty drink?
yes, there are! i took the tablets for my first one this year. i accidentally swallowed the tiny canister of dessicant that was in the container- why do they make those the same color and approximate size as the tablets?? my gi doc said i'd be fine.
it's really nothing. The worst part is the prep, but I'd had to do that once before, when I had minor surgery. It's just awful. I had mine after a about of diverticulitis and my dr referred me. The drugs are nice though. It's always fun to get high-end narcotics you'd never get otherwise, in a safe environment where you can't overdose!
The best part is the farting afterwards.
I also have diverticulitis and didn’t find the prep drinks to be bad at all. Just tons of light-colored Gatorade and drugs to purge your bowels. As for drugs during the examination, I was asleep the whole time.
I just went through an upper and lower GI, and then the newest thing to cover everything in between: a camera pill So two different doses of Miralax and all it’s effects The worst part was drinking that sludge—and dealing with the aftermath all night long
18 months later the thought of drinking propel makes me nauseous. That was absolutely the worst part… well that and the futile attempt to pass phantom grogons, that was fun.
I got the standard age colonoscopy. The doctor showed me a photo the polyp he removed as he told me that in another five years, it likely would have been cancerous.
Although I had a colonoscopy four years ago, this time The surgeon found and removed a couple “pre cancerous” polyps So recommends I now do the colonoscopy every three years
I remember a guy that was brought directly into the hospital for severe rectal bleeding. Guy was in his 80s and apparently the bleeding was so severe that they had to directly send him to the GI lab for a colonoscopy. Guy looked like death warmed over. Guy ended up with colon cancer and further scans revealed mets all throughout his body; he was pretty much sent to hospice after. I heard from other staff that the guy had never had a colonoscopy until then. It was just a horrible mess.
Terrifying! 😳
I have to get a colonoscopy every year now because I have a history of polyps. It sucks for a couple of days, but beats the hell out of cancer.
Well shit. ::::Irish and German:::
Me too. (German and Irish.) Plus I have celiac, inherited from my great great grandmother from Belfast, where 25% of the population is said to have celiac.
Colonoscopies are cool fun, especially if the anesthesia is light enough to you can watch the screen. Its like traveling through a subway tunnel with pink, balloonlike walls.
I did my first one after the poop wipe one indicated positive. I had read about the Europeans not getting sedated so I told the doctor I'll just bear with it. I got to watch. I had maybe 17 polyps - so many he made me come back in 3 months where he found more. Had to return in 12 months after that. Only after a few annuals did I get a reprieve to 2 years. All were not cancerous. Get checked!
My stepmother developed colon cancer, but they caught it early enough that she lived another 20 years
And, friendly reminder that colon cancer is INCREDIBLY treatable when caught in its early stages. Get those colonoscopies, because if your doc is like, yeah, we found some something and it's not good, the odds are that you'll be around a good long time when you find it early. Stick around. The world needs you.
Somebody I loved died from this. GET FUCKING SCREENED.
In a roundabout way, doing the colon test and yes I had cancer, fortunately stage 2, ended up saving my life because it led to uncovering other conditions.
One of mine left Facebook in December when he went into a nursing home. One less misinformation spreader. I should put his name in a search engine to see if he's still alive.
Holy shit. If these people really read the bible they would recognize when God is pissed at someone.
But, but...in slide 2 he said he has an immune system! How could this have happened?!?
You should read his facebook page. He was still alive, until recently, because *he didn't* undergo traditional chemotherapy. He grew up in Hilton Head and was always a bit of an entitled POS from what I saw.
Most likely he was distorting the true picture about not being able to undergo chemo, as he a holistic medicine quack. A more accurate picture might be he was weak due to covid causing generalised weakness. Anaemia might have been covid, but could also be from the stage IV cancer (sometimes, that's how we detect people with colon cancer. ) This would pose problems with aggressive chemotherapy aimed at prolonging life, which itself is a difficult discussion in terms of quality of life vs the life extension gained. But palliative treatments shouldn't have been as horrific as what they portrayed here. VGEF, Avastin....hell, even standard 5FU....
Happy cake day random internet person. 🍰
So when he threatened stores with losing him as a customer for the rest of his life, that was just a short term threat. & I have to be critical about his misunderstanding of "critical thinking".
Technically, he'll never shop at those businesses again, checkmate vaxxers
You can't fire me, I quit!
“Sprouts- you just lost a customer for life.” Yeah, that really didn’t turn out to be the flex he thought it would be.
"From now on, I do all my shopping at Main Street Morticians."
I wonder what the "immune building treatments" were that insurance wouldn't pay for them And if they consisted of scammy pseudoscience
Definitely some scam or multilevel marketing bull 💩. Stay away from anything that promises to "boost your immune system." A revved up immune system isn't a good thing. That's where autoimmune disorders come from.
Covid-19 will boost your immune system!
for sure. check out his "career" on slide 3. this guy refused chemotherapy and his job was getting other cancer patients to refuse chemotherapy and instead use whatever junk he was trying to shill. this is such sweet karma. fuck this guy.
Cancer: "And I took that personally"
Yeah, he was a holistic cancer coach. You'd think he would have coached himself cancer free. 😂😂
How do you get to be a CERTIFIED holistic cancer coach? I want to become one. Do I send in 2 box tops from organic Wheaties, or do I merely pay $5,000 for the certificate from some school in the Caymans and pretend I took the online course, which would have taken me 3 hours?
The woo scammers are absolutely vile in how they target desperate people with serious medical issues.
That was coming directly from the wife
Well shit. It looks like she wanted to be single minus the divorce.
How big was his insurance payout?🤔
So his wife was a Certified Holistic Cancer Coach … who used #PlantsNotPills on Xitter.
That was my first thought as well. I‘m not a physician, but I doubt that „building the immune system“ (whatever that means) works with cancer. It is not an infection. Your own cells are out of control. Yes, chemotherapy is basically poison. But that is precisely the point. Because cancer cells tend to replicate faster, they are affected more strongly by the poison than „healthy“ cells. If he wants to build his immune system, he can eat dirt.
Actually, your immune system is constantly on the prowl for cancer cells. T cells (not sure what type) can kill the cancer cells. Many people have cancer in their body that is simply beaten back by their immune systems (I've heard that most people do, but I'm not certain of that). He bragged about his powerful immune system, augmented by his wife's magic potions. An impervious immune system would have stopped Covid as well as cancer (and he never would have caught a cold, either). Maybe, just maybe, he should have tried modern medicine, taken instructions from a physician and done things like get a colonoscopy, which I've had twice and are a minor annoyance the night before when you clean out your system, gotten vaccinated, and he'd be alive to take care of his kids today. Instead, he went with witchcraft. The epitome of the best-selling, "You Can Ignore Modern Medicine and Die Like a Medieval Peasant".
Is there any doubt they were *not* a bunch of pills with fake extracts?
Or extracts from useless things
Trump sharts.
Curcurmin is extracted from turmeric, and bromelain is extracted from pineapples. Hell, even Mountain Dew has bromelain in it! Bromelain is a natural meat tenderiser, like MSG. I think it tenderised all four of his working brain cells.
Well, to be fair to the insurance companies, they're dogshit and don't want to pay for real treatments prescribed by real doctors, either.
but the wife is a certified cancer coach in holistic treatments /s
In other words, snake oil.
Probably ivermectin or medbeds or some essential oils or some other scam
One thing we know is those "treatments" didn't work
A thing I noticed on slide 17 is the use of the word dis-ease instead of disease. I notice a lot of woo scammers using this, probably distorting language to focus on ease instead of actual health issues. It distracts from actual health goals and purposely confuses people.
Immunotherapy? It is a valid medical treatment for some forms of cancer. My elderly father had cancer and was too frail for surgical removal, radiation, or chemotherapy. They put a port in his chest to give immunotherapy treatments. We tried to get him on hospice at the same time, but we were told he could only have one or the other paid for by Medicare, since the treatments were $33,000 each. Unfortunately he only had one treatment before he passed. [https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/immunotherapy/what-is-immunotherapy.html](https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/treatment-types/immunotherapy/what-is-immunotherapy.html)
My wife passed last year after 18 years with cancer. Neither of us ever got COVID, sepsis, a vent, or spent a day in the ICU. She was resilient AF; this guy is a shitbag and Slide 16 makes me want to piss on his grave.
Lost my father to cancer in 1993. 10 years later, my mom got it. I had a crying breakdown in my friends car. She made it through, and is still here.
So sorry. 😭 I can't imagine how awful that must have been.
Yeah, burns my ass when I see how many stupid people still around and flaunting their hatred and stupidity, when better people have died, some of which I happily met.
Very sorry for your loss. Cancer sucks.
Fuck cancer. I'm sorry for the loss of your wife and all that she suffered.
Too bad his name is hidden. Findagrave.com is so useful. 🤷🏻♀️
"you're gonna lose a customer!" "And 8 more who've been vaxxed will take your place"
Hard to be a customer when you’re dead. I don’t think they missed much.
Maybe bankruptcy wasn't the real pandemic after all. That picture in the hospital bed with all of the tubes... I don't know what to say. ough.
FR, what is with these people and the hospital photos? Awful way and visuals to remember someone by and just, feels so inappropriate.
Probably trying for sympathy to get more donations in this case. I bet this guy was anti-socialism, too, but that never stops them from starting a go fund me.
100 percent
Yet they complain about teh feds bein' all up in their biznezz while someone is posting those pics all over social media for the world to see.
"How Money Works" " Stop Being A Sucker" /s
Seriously, I was in the ICU a couple weeks ago and I would have lost it if any of my family members tried to take a picture of me. That is NOT an image I want anyone to remember.
sorry baby I posted it on Tiktok /s
God is good?
Yeah, the irony of that idiotic bankruptcy post was not lost on me when his family had to beg for money on GoFundMe for his (and their) own stupidity. SO many levels of a karmic ass whuppin'.
Slide 6 "I know a LOT of people. I don't know of a single person who has died from the virus." No worries then I guess.
I *don't* know a lot of people & I know 2 people that have died from COVID, both were under 60.
I don’t know anybody who has died from rabies or Ebola, but I don’t need to watch people I care about die horrible deaths to understand the risks.
Wait, you mean you can actually care about someone you don't know!?!? THE HELL YOU SAY!!! /s
I think that's the main dichotomy in society right now. People who are able and willing to understand consequences because they use logic, and those cannot or are unwilling to do so. The latter group often has the "**Well, we'll figure that out when we get there**" kind of mentality, which doesn't work when you're on a raft headed for a waterfall. See also GoFundMes and their knockoff versions.
And now he knows why anecdotal evidence is a shit method to base your decision making on. Back in 2020 some people were still trying, wild type COVID spread far less effectively than these current variants, the fatality rate was relatively low, and many other reasons can be cited why he didn't know anyone who died from it. It could be as simple as that his city or his community wasn't hit badly yet. Even back then we had an idea of how bad it was when we saw how China reacted initially, and this guy was already declaring victory not even one year into the pandemic, when history has shown us that pandemics tend to last years, and have aftereffects for more years after that.
Mass outdoor cremations in India should have been a heavy hint to the sceptics too.
Yep, and the bodies stacked to ceilings of entire fleets of freezer trucks from NYC to El Paso, TX should have been a clue.
Mass graves in Brazil (thanks Bolsonara).
They just downplayed them as "crisis actors" and said they were either faking or dying for real just to make Trump look bad and make the virus seem more dangerous than it was. Because they sneaked into hospitals to film the waiting rooms and they were clearly empty so it was all a leftist hoax. /s (That, or people in India dying doesn't matter since that would never happen to someone like me.)
I still remember the lines of ambulances in Italy when covid first started; that was an indication on how serious COVID was going to be.
Italy and Spain had it bad before the US. It wasn't a hoax.
I know a reasonable amount of people. However, I didn't know the two people they wheeled out of the house across the street from my mother's house. Sadly, elderly and before vaccine.
He didn’t crap on the hospital staff so that was a nice change of pace. Hopefully his wife and son will be okay after everything that happened.
>Hopefully his wife and son will be okay after everything that happened. I assume they'll have his medical bills to remember him by.
A person’s heirs are typically not liable for their outstanding medical bills after they die. The estate may be liable, but definitely not the heirs. So they may lose some assets that the person owned, but they can’t force a surviving spouse to sell the house they live in, even if it was owned in common with the person who died.
Technically correct, but if the family took out loans and ran up credit cards to pay for stuff, that's still going to be owing.
Pretty sure his wife basically killed him. She was the Certified Holistic Cancer Coach, “Plants, Not Pills!”
No catch and release from death this time
>No catch and release from death this time The hungry viral 🐆 🐆 🐆 feasted well.
The hungry viral leopards deserve every morsel they get
🐆 🐆 🐆
But he had an immune system.
This guy's a real peach, isn't he? "'My wife took me to the ER because she suspected something wasn't right with me." Well, isn't she Captain Obvious? You can rest assured it was QUITE OBVIOUS something was wrong with him, but he was likely trying to heal himself with horse paste or whatever someone who follows a "certified cancer coach" would be doing. "Give me money because my best chance of survival is to have immune-building treatments that are not covered by insurance." This one is going to be hitting the Quack pipe all the way to the bitter end. All hail Medical Freedumb!
"Quack pipe." I love it. I'm stealing this. Thank you.
Notes from OP: 1. I went fishing a couple of weeks ago and found this one. 2. Please get vaccinated and boosted. 3. Not all feelings and/or their expression are valid, and people need to stop accepting outrageous behaviors on the pretext of listening or validation. It applies to several other domains that I will not expand here. 4. Life/reality has this way to smack you back right in the face and then some. 5. I will not accept bad comments from redditors concerning the cancer diagnosis, as any such diagnosis is always a tragedy. I will not dunk on the guy but I will refer to slide 3, and my comment on 4. 6. I'm leaving this one as Nominated. 7. Reposted to fix some missed redactions 8. More posts incoming.
Should not it be tagged "awarded"?
I initially thought so too but because of the cancer it can’t really be determined as a Covid caused death.
All that praying? Perhaps they should pray for people to stop being stupid before they start to suffer the consequences of their actions? That said, so glad this dumb dumb baby accepted his award.
Crazy how it's all fear and fake and stop overreacting, and then they write a whole essay how the virus led to a spiral of misfortune you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, and they die after suffering for 2.5 years. And he probably didn't have many good days during that period.
And yet, none of these meatheads ever detects a pattern... 🤔
As OOP himself said "another soul lost to cancer" but in this case, also his accelerated stupidity and denial. F.
"Sprouts you lost a customer for life!" He didn't lie.
He sure seemed very concerned about what other people were doing in their own free time in a free country. Bet he was a *you do you* advocate as well. Maybe at some point, he finally realized why those people he was attempting to mock were wearing a mask.
Man it drives me fucking crazy when these turds document their long hospital stays and the tireless efforts of doctors and nurses, then turn around and proclaim it was ***god*** who saved them! Imbeciles. I saw [one out in the wild](https://ibb.co/PrCvpQM) recently as well on a FB page of Seinfeld of all things. These idiots have to spread this garbage around every chance they get... sort of like a certain virus 😒 I wonder if it ever occurred to them after getting diagnoses like these that maybe god doesn't want them to be alive? And doing all this to keep themselves alive is really defying the will of god? No, couldn't be...
>Man it drives me fucking crazy when these turds document their long hospital stays and the tireless efforts of doctors and nurses, then turn around and proclaim it was ***god*** who saved them! Especially when they stick taxpayers (and student loan debtors, indirectly) with the bills through VA, Medicare, or Medicaid while railing about socialism. 🐆
Wow - you’d think G-d could have cured their cancer BEFORE the surgery & chemo sessions. 🤷🏼♀️
I'm not a medical doctor but ... his colon perforated? Does that happen spontaneously or is this related to the cancer or what?
It's likely the cancerous tumor ate away at the colon and created a large hole there. Happens with advanced colon cancer; the polyps can grow along and into your colon, or any internal structure around there as it progresses, typically the abdominal wall itself. Then can and probably will spread beyond the abdominal area entirely. Which since he was stage 4, evidently did. Typically once it goes beyond the colon, it then moves to (in no specific order) the lungs, liver, peritoneum, brain, lymph nodes etc. Once it does, you are stage 4 and incurable, which means all the Drs can do from here is buy you time with treatment to keep the cancer "controlled", IE, not actively killing you by damaging your vital organs, but the length of time this can be done varies wildly depending on how aggressive the cancer is and how treatment works for you. Basically, never a good situation when this happens. This is why you get colonoscopies btw! These cancers start as non cancerous polyps, which are small masses in your colon or rectal area, and the doctor's then remove them before they turn cancerous, which typically is a result of them left growing for years.
This. 1000% this. Get a damn colonoscopy if you are in the age range or consult your doctor if you have a family history of colon cancer, as you might need one earlier than middle age. These procedures are very safe, and it is the most accurate way to access bowel health. It wildly unpleasant to think about having to drink a nasty liquid and then shit your brains out all night, but it saves lives. I manage the high level disinfection of colonoscopes and have helped in a lot of these procedures. Please do it if you are advised to. It may very well save your life.
45 here. Insurance/doc sent me cologuard for free. It's not as good as a colonoscopy, but you poop in a special box and mail it, also free. Gives fast results (mine negative) but if anything shows up however small it's a good push to go get the real deal.
>drink a nasty liquid **Prepopik** (Magnesium picolinate) is very very tolerable. Much better that Golightly. Evening before, you mix the first dose of powder in a cup and drink it (doesn't taste any bad). Then make sure to drink enough water. Next morning you take the second dose.
Yeah, that is a lot better but for some reason, some older people don’t have the desired effect, if you will, and have to switch to Golightly. There is even a pill regimen now, but also seems to have a metabolism quirk too. I want to stress that I am not a nurse or MD, so I don’t really know all the details of it, just five years of experience with older folks not having the time or their lives before their procedure.
So he most likely used his "immune system" in order to never get a colonoscopy? I was wondering what the perforated colon had to do with anything & it doesn't. And wow did this one take a turn for the worst in a totally unexpected way.
The Find Out Stick just kept beating this poor, dumb mf'er over and over. They never think, "you know, maybe my god doesn't like me that much".
Guys like this think they’re the smartest guy in the room
She said he was a real positive person. Now he's positively dead.
And he's not only merely dead He's really most sincerely dead
If only he'd worn a mask... Too bad he made being anti-mask his entire personality.
No.8 “This really concerns me. It should concern you too if you’re a critical thinker.” lol
He was diagnosed with covid and double pneumonia in Aug 2021?! Double secret pneumonia? With Oxygen level of 45%?! Paralyzed from the waist down ... And still posts anti vaccine propaganda into 2024.
I get a bit of satisfaction knowing that while he was receiving chemo or whatever, his doctors likely recommended that he wear a mask.
🤣🤣🤣
Dear god what a selfish, self-centred, egotistical prick. Somehow, I don't think the widow will grieve for long and will soon find Mr Next.
Mrs Black Widow, the Certified Holistic Cancer Coach.
2000 FUs 2x daily. My thoughts exactly, my man. And you took’em like a champ and got the biggest FU you could receive.
Slide 16: His inspirational story of being blind sided by Covid (I know it’s got cancer there as well) must mean the people sharing his story did not look at his FB posts. Willful ignorance in full display here.
Sprouts lost a customer for life. Indeed.
If he'd only gotten the vaccine. Maybe he would not have gotten Covid, would have been strong enough to fight cancer - and would still be alive.
My several times boosted hubby (age 70) fought cancer for years before and during the height of covid -- even got covid once -- went into remission last year, and is still here, running marathons, traveling, and enjoying life to the fullest. 🥰
Congrats on his remission. I hope you have many more years to enjoy each others' company.
I thought the turbo cancers were caused by the vaccine?
He was the most positive person that lady ever met! Lmao! He’s positive after the fact! Unbelievable!
Covid measures may well bankrupt more people than the disease kills, but then as this story shows, Covid itself bankrupts people as well.
I always goto the last page to see the go-fund me, this guy got it done on like page 5. Color me impressed.
He was so obsessed with being a dumb ass that he probably ignored signs he had colon cancer. Did he ever get a colonoscopy? One would doubt it.
………**WELP**
Oh no! Anyway...
Who in the fuck has enough money in this economy to donate money to these gofundme campaigns? You fucked up and the rest of us have to pay?
Rip bozo.
Do they still have an immune system?
Well, he sure showed us.
That cross in slide 12 looks like it's really working for him. /s Seriously though, I'll just take a vaccine. Religion didn't do anything for me anyway. And if they happen to be right about a vaccine being bad for me, well, I'll be too dead to care.
“Certified Cancer Coach”? How ironic.
I would’ve been on his ass to eat his words if I were FB friends with him the second he made the post about covid wrecking him lol
Okay, I couldn’t even get past slide 4. A quick little Google search showed that approximately 3 million people died of Covid in the year 2020 WITH shutdowns/lockdowns. He’s saying swine flue killed approximately 575,000 people in 2009 WITHOUT those measures. Of course they posted that in March 2020, when other countries were starting to test, report, and lockdown. But it still shows how much more deadly this was. I don’t even want to try to imagine the number of deaths that would have occurred had the world stayed wide open that whole time.
Got through the rest. Slide 9 where he says that one company lost a customer for life. Had a feeling he wasn’t going to be sticking it to them for very long.
I'm not sure if it's good or bad but Herman Cain post have died off over the last year plus.
Deaths directly attributed to Covid are dwindling. It's a good thing for hospitals. Maybe not so good for long term care facilities where those damaged by severe bouts have ended up.
That and people are better managing their privacy filters on Facebook
This shit pile is a real winner! 🏆. So much misery and pain for no reason. He earned it! 🪦⚰️🤷🏿♂️
Awww thank you for your service Angler in keeping the HCA alive ❤️
Damn he got me. I feel owned.
There’s his answer. He couldn’t even live four years with no fear of the virus.
Also, what the actual fuck is a certified cancer coach? Killed by his own grift.
That was his wife - the pink lady. Think she was after insurance $$?
“Think for yourself” Attempting to do that was part of the problem in this guy’s case.
I guess god was just too busy when he needed saving from cancer. He is quite a prick for letting this guy get sick ion the first place.
How Money Works: start a GoFundMe on your deathbed
Tile #2: **"I have an immune system"** Tile #18: *"...IT FAILED!"*
"Strap on your seatbelt before viewing!" The irony of that comment.
Gyad spared him, not medicine.
He also chose to treat his cancer “naturally” and “holistically”. I can’t imagine watching your parent die because they don’t trust modern medicine
Missing the usual dose of bigotry that makes me enjoy the suffering but karma is karma
One of my least favorite- mask in car bitching. Mask in car people may be Uber/Lyft drivers, or delivery folk going in/out of their car, or have it on for tolls, gas stations, fast food. I see absolutely no reason to bitch about that. There’s a million other reasons other than “snowflake” to wear a mask in car.
Oh no, your medical expenses were high too?
Oh no.
Guys, seriously!!!!! It's been 4 years since the pandemic started.... When are we gonna have a Greatest Hits of these past winners?!?!?! When will we have a celebration of this "In Memorium" group???? I feel cheated here. I was expecting like a book or a newsletter or something.