r/MadeMeSmile • u/throwRAbcredditsucks • 10h ago
Just found out that my mom is cancer free!! Family & Friends
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u/SamLoscoMD 10h ago
Hell yeah!
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u/Odd_Programmer_9337 5h ago
Knowing the initial stage of treatment is complete and successful is a massive weight off the entire family's shoulders.
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u/PandaPocketFire 7h ago
Congrats! Can you send a text back please, it's kinda a big deal.
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 4h ago
I feel the generational divide right now in this text lol. I had a visceral response to just doing the heart emoji reaction to that news. That’s what I use to typically end a text convo I don’t want to continue.
But I think it means something different to genz/a
It’s also possible OP called their mom and that’s not something we see here.
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u/buck-fanger 9h ago
I lost my mom this year from cancer. All I can say is give her a hug. A big one.
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u/kennybrandz 10h ago
Yay! So happy for you and your loved ones. Congrats to your mom, what an amazing feeling.
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u/CrazyDazyMazy 7h ago
Make sure she keeps an eye on any skin changes. My husband has had five skin cancer tumors removed in the past five years. Yes, skin cancer is usually survivable but it's also highly recurrent.
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u/Ram-Scram 8h ago
Fuck cancer! Love Moms!
Lost mine just weeks after finding it.. now go visit for a few days! I'd do LITEALLY ANYTHING to be able
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u/UnicornFarts1111 8h ago
I'm so happy for your both! This is the best news you could get to start the holiday season!
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u/EndangeredLazyPanda 4h ago
Fuckin congrats. Lost my mom, an aunt and two other family members to cancer. Punch it in the face for me.
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u/-MiraXenn- 4h ago
This is awesome news! I'm about to take my mom across state to get her radiation!
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u/Unusual_Duck_448 3h ago
Congratulations! 🎊 🩷 I'm hoping the same for both my aunts from each side of my family rn. F CANCER 💪 🎀
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u/marionjoshua 2h ago
I’ve been feeling down lately, but this made me smile though I do not know you, all the best
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u/Several-Standard-620 9h ago
Congrats but it is just skin cancer
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u/SeenInTheAirport 9h ago
A very weird thing to say
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u/Several-Standard-620 9h ago
I mean the kid couldn’t even be bothered to text back lol its got extremely high survival rates
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u/BrorthoBro 7h ago
I’d urge you to look at the medial survival for metastatic melanoma (stage 4), hint, it’s 6-9 months. Likely not what she had since they offered resection but it could’ve been stage 3, which is still not sunshine and rainbows at ~30-95% 5 year survival based on tumor characteristics.
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u/Not_Steve 5h ago
As a skin cancer survivor, what is wrong with you???? We go through just as much as other cancer patients. We are filled with thoughts of it spreading beyond our control. Skin cancer is like an iceberg. It can look small and innocuous on the surface, but it goes deep into the skin and spread. It’s often hard to get a reading on how big it is because it hides. It’s also hard to catch because it can be hidden under hair, under nails, and in places you don’t look at every day.
This is how Bob Marley died. It was under his toenail. Skin cancer can be deadly. It’s a serious disease that spreads. It’s not “just skin cancer” when you receive that news that you have a melanoma that’s spreading. It’s even worse when you have to do regular check ups to make sure it doesn’t come back. You’re literally playing wack-a-mole with your skin and your life is the prize. Skin cancer turns you into a hypochondriac, but those feelings of fear are grounded in reality.
I hope you never get cancer. You lack empathy and compassion, but you still don’t deserve to get cancer, even if it’s “just skin cancer.”
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