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Ray Suarez's Battle with Cancer: Facing Fear and Facing Treatment —A Life Changing Journey

After struggling through a 275 mile bike ride, Ray Suarez uncovers a terrifying diagnosis and embarks on a heart-wrenching journey of courage and resilience, facing a harrowing paradox of recovery to make himself sick again with the life-saving, toxic chemotherapy. In this episode, you will learn the following: 1. A 275 mile bike ride that was much harder than it should have been as a sign of something wrong 2. A diagnosis of cancer that involved having tumors removed and chemotherapy 3. The experience of having a port inserted in the chest and the protocols involved with chemotherapy treatment. [00:00:00] Ray Suarez is a colorectal cancer survivor. He just finished his eight part podcast series called The Things I Thought About When My Body Was Trying To Kill Me. The podcast deals with diagnosis, treatment, and recovery from cancer. [00:00:26] He was struggling with fatigue and sleeplessness. He chalked it up to age, stress, and personal setbacks. Eventually went to the doctor, who told him he needed an emergency blood transfusion and a bag of iron. [00:07:24] Out of the 36 lymph nodes that they took adjacent to the colon, there was cancer in three of them. That meant chemotherapy. They were still optimistic about his recovery. [00:09:35] Doctors were very straightforward, very concrete, and gave you the grounding to make the decisions for yourself. [00:14:21] Every drug, even a bottle of aspirin, comes with a list of possible side effects. The list together between the two drugs was horrifying, absolutely horrifying. You have to approach this with a kind of discipline and also a suspension of obsession with comfort. [00:23:45] The port was not exposed. It was subcutaneous. She would stick it through my skin into the mesh every time I would get an infusion. That was when I thought, yeah, this is the kind of thing that makes people complain about the system. [00:25:08] The last day of the last bunch of pills. There were four pills left and one dose left. The impact of these four pills is pretty marginal. [00:26:55] I did many years covering healthcare, sure. When it's you, it's very different. It stops being abstract, and it continues to be a miracle. Keeping hold of yourself after something like that is tremendously challenging. [00:30:44] I had to learn gradually to force myself to take it easy. He says he was tremendously angry after his cancer diagnosis. Religion helped. Getting better had to become job one, he says. [00:38:07] If you could only do one thing to change healthcare in the US, what would it be and why? Resources: Ray's podcast: https://evergreenpodcasts.com/the-thi... Connect with Cancer U: Instagram:   / canceruniversity   Facebook:   / canceruthrivers   YouTube:    / canceruniversity   LinkedIn:   / cancer-university   Website: https://cancer.university/ Support Cancer U: Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/canceru Join us on Patreon:   / canceruniversity   Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: https://podcast.cancer.university/rev...