Grappling with a luminous doom.

pasibe:

theaestheticproject:

Wondering how to get one of these cool Season One: Zombie Princess shirts? Well… here’s how:

The shirts are $20. Pre-sales start April 1st and end April 15th.

• You can purchase them online through our store
• You can e-mail us at theaestheticproject@gmail.com
• We will also be taking orders at Talentado, SFSU on April 8th
• Or contact Roxanne Pasibe

15% of every shirt sold will go to Team Roger. These proceeds will go toward helping Roger pay off his medical bills after three surgeries.

Roger Meneses was diagnosed with a rare breed of Testicular Cancer: Embryonal Carcinoma & Immature Teratoma in March 2010. Embryonal Carcinoma is an aggressive malignant germ cell tumor that develops in the testis. Malignant tumors have the ability to spread into the blood stream, into other organs, and typically into lymph nodes. Immature Teratoma is a rare type of malignant germ cell tumor containing primitive neuroepithelium. Although testicular cancer is one of the most curable of all cancers, the surgery procedures to rid the illness have high-risks and complications.

At the age of twenty-three, Roger had to undergo a Radical Inguinal Orchiectomy. This type of surgery removes the testicle(s) containing the cancer. Unfortunately, through this procedure, doctors are not certain if the cancer had spread to any of his major organs. Barely recovering from his first surgery, Roger had to have a second surgery: a Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection (RLND) in June 7, 2010. This major operation involves the surgeon to make a large incision from the sternum to just below the naval to extract lymph nodes to establish what stage the cancer is in. Fortunately, no malignant tissues were found! This means that the cancer did not spread to his major organs and is considered stage I, where it was just limited to the testis. Doctors announced that Roger was 95% cured from Testicular cancer.

According to the American Cancer Society, however, “about 5% to 10% of patients have temporary complications such as bowel obstructions or wound infections after a RLND.” Roger falls within these statistics after enduring several trips to Valley Medical Center’s Emergency Room due to a loop in his intestines formed from the RLND. These “temporary” complications were not improving so therefore his doctor suggested a Laparoscopic surgery to remove the adhesions/scar tissues that were causing all these blockages. December 15, 2010, Roger went under the knife for the third time in less than one year.

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