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Adam's Story: The Highest Dose of Chemo - Ever

Adam Frey
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Surviving lung cancer

Hi,

I am a 22-year-old wrestler at Cornell University who...

Adam Frey

Monday, September 29, 2008
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Since my last post, I have had a five-day stay in the ICU getting the first round of high-dose chemotherapy. The hospital is a nice place, but it is nowhere you want to be for sure. I started chemo on Friday, and figured it was going to be horrible, just like everyone had told me. I sat there waiting...
  1. a reminder to shelve the self pity
    randilynne
    Saturday, October 04, 2008 at 09:21 PM

    wow.  your bravery and honesty are inspiring.  by posting on a smoking site you add prospective and reality to we formers.  it drives home the point that dangers lurk and that to continue to smoke would be disrepectful and ridiculous.  i wish you all the luck in the world.  never lose your non preachy, slightly ironic sense of humor

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    re: a reminder to shelve the self pity
    Anonymous
    Thursday, October 09, 2008 at 09:39 AM

    A reminder to shelve the self pity . . . what self pity? I didn't hear anything like that in Adams post. Just a brave young man telling all the details of his horrific experiences,

    as a warning to everyone who is doing damage to their bodies with smoking  . . . who could end up having the same results as he is experiencing now.  The rest of your post was great. Just don't see the self pity.

     

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