In December I was diagnosed with stage 4 Colon Cancer. No cure they say, but with chemo my life can be prolonged. Every 2 weeks I sit in chemo for 5 hours having chemicals pumped into me. Then they attach a "ball" that has more chemicals in it to me to wear home for 2 days. Then I go in and they remove it from me. Freedom! The treatments have been making me pretty ill. I have lost 40lbs..I look like walking death and am very weak. BUT..the good news, is that the chemo is working. It is killing the cancer. Last blood test shows the cancer has shrunk from 100% to 30%. Last Cat Scan showed it is not spreading and the chemo is killing it. It won't totally go away I am aware, but maybe I can stick around for maybe 10 more years. Hopefully! Thank you for reading and looking. Take Care of yourself! Life is precious!! Update: 2 years later. The cancer has built a resistance to the current chemo, and has started growing again, it has invaded my bladder now and has blocked the tubes that run from my kidneys to my bladder. I now have a kidney doc that did surgery on me and inserted stents into those blocked tubes to allow my urine to flow thru them now. My cancer doc is putting me on a new chemo hoping it will slow down cancer growth. This new chemo is really bad stuff..It causes severe life-threatening diarrhea, which is what affected me with the first chemo and caused my weight loss. It affected me bad last week. I won't go into detail, but I thought I was going to die. My doc said she was going to start out with a small dose to see how I would react to this new med, and I am unsure if I can tolerate it. I will find out tomorrow what she has to say about it. Honestly, I am ready to go..this is no way to live.