I thought I'd start a new thread for updates on my cancer treatments and whatever else is going on, since the bad news thread title is misleading now.
My last treatment went better than the previous two and my chest wound is still closed up, which is a good thing. My arm is getting slightly stronger and I hope to resume lifting dumbbells next week. I need to build up my strength again, because I am going back to Denmark in May and I am extremely pumped about that! I'd like to be able to schlepp my own checked bag and not have someone else lifting it for me.
It's going to be a fabulous trip, 6 weeks and a couple of days for me. My brother is going along as well as my friends Chipp and Rod. Chipp is staying close to 3 weeks and has not gone with me over there since 2006 so he is also very pumped to be going. It will be Rod's first trip and he will be there for 2 weeks. I will get to be a tour guide. Also, I am throwing a party in my favorite pub of all, the wonderful, ever-magnificent Irish House in Aalborg on May 7th. The owner and I are friends and he will give me a little discount. We'll have Irish stew and brews in the cellar and I hope to have around 25 family and friends there. I might bill it as the "Fu** Cancer Party." A few months back, I was not sure I'd ever be able to go over to Denmark again or if I'd even be alive, but the cancer hasn't gotten me yet. I'm doing a number on it, instead.
Some other cool things I plan to do when I am back in my ancestral lands include a wine tasting in a castle, touring another castle and the northernmost manor home in the country, and visiting Skagen, the top of Denmark, where you can stand on a little patch of beach and have one foot in one sea and one in another. They also have a brewpub up there I am wanting to check out. I will start and end my trip in Aalborg and spend 5 weeks in an apartment I rent that is very close to the beach. I can hardly wait for May 4th to roll around! [Reply]
Airports to avoid at almost any cost. Newark, JFK, LaGuardia, ATL, Philly, O'Hare, SFO. Glad you are home safe. Hope the dizziness is simply exhaustion. Good luck. [Reply]
Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop:
Airports to avoid at almost any cost. Newark, JFK, LaGuardia, ATL, Philly, O'Hare, SFO. Glad you are home safe. Hope the dizziness is simply exhaustion. Good luck.
Unfortunately, if you want to go to Europe and live in KC, you will have to go through one of those. I prefer O'Hare over Newark, JFK, and LaGuardia. I have been through Chicago many times and only got hosed once, last year when my flight was cancelled at 10 pm and I was scrambling to find a hotel. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Unfortunately, if you want to go to Europe and live in KC, you will have to go through one of those. I prefer O'Hare over Newark, JFK, and LaGuardia. I have been through Chicago many times and only got hosed once, last year when my flight was cancelled at 10 pm and I was scrambling to find a hotel.
Delta goes from Minneapolis to Amsterdam. Perhaps that's an option? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Unfortunately, if you want to go to Europe and live in KC, you will have to go through one of those. I prefer O'Hare over Newark, JFK, and LaGuardia. I have been through Chicago many times and only got hosed once, last year when my flight was cancelled at 10 pm and I was scrambling to find a hotel.
When Trump builds the greatest east coast international airport ever, you will literally want to spend hours there, I promise! [Reply]
Things didn't go so well today at the cancer center. I had a temperature of 102.7, but the strange thing was, it didn't feel like I did to me. Every other time I have been at 102 or more, I have felt horrible, weak, unsteady on my feet, and aching all over. My ears would be hot and my hands cold. None of that today, though. I felt fine, walked fine, my ears were cool and my hands were warm. I had to get stuck two more times for blood draws (three needles in one day! I hate needles!), pee in a cup and have chest x-rays. I have some mystery infection... maybe. My nurse practitioner and the staff are baffled. I said, "I'm just a strange man." She said they knew that already so I didn't have to prove it some more. I got some anti-biotics and will start on them in the morning. If I start feeling terrible, I was told to go to the ER right away. [Reply]