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Beating the Odds with Pancreatic Cancer
Hi, my name is Roger and I’m 63 years old. I am a resident of Montana, but not all the time. I’m a Nebraskan. Moved out here about twenty years ago. Worked in a gold mine for twenty years. I’m married to a very loving wife. We got three children. We got six grandchildren.
In the beginning–our cancer problems go back a long ways. My wife had cancer eight years ago and we went through the whole ordeal while I was well and got her through. She is an eight-year veteran of breast cancer, and now I’m a two-year veteran of pancreatic cancer.
It all started off when I was operating heavy equipment in the mine. I was having problems keeping food down. It just kind of gradually came on, and finally I went to my local doctor and he ran a tube down my throat and really couldn’t tell anything. He got clear down to my stomach and said, “Well, it looks like a bruise down there.” But then he said, “I think I’ll have you go see a gastroenterologist in Bozeman.”
So I did that, and they tubed me once and said there was some problem with the duodenum, that they’d want to try it again. So they tried it again, and this time they put a balloon in there and blew it out and it collapsed again. So they kept me in the hospital over Christmas, this was in 1999, and did that every day for three days, and finally arrived at the decision that it wasn’t going to work. So they thought they’d have to do some surgery to correct this. Well, I got lined up on the second of February of 2000. …read the rest of this entry»
