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]
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
Just keep doing what you've been doing, Fast Eddie Ragnarok... it sounds like you're still holding your own and THAT is a victory!
Please tell Sacc he is in my thoughts and prayers as well
Thanks, my friend. I have not heard a thing back from Sacc yet. [Reply]
This past weekend, I made my First Feast of Fall, and invited a dear old friend, despite him being a Raiders fan, over with his two sons for a big Danish meal. They loved it and watched my trip DVD after dinner. I may have planted the travel seed in the lads' heads! I was glad to have the endurance to do all that cooking and setting the table. I slept like a baby that night, though. Cancer still takes a lot out of me. [Reply]
One positive from last night's debacle in Pittsburgh was it distracted me from a very odd and disturbing pain I have had for 2 days in my chest, just to the right of my breastbone, almost feeling like a tiny hand under my rib squeezing something in there. It hurt to exhale, then changed the next day to hurting when I would inhale. Lying on my right side was very painful but I could sleep lying flat on my back or on my left side. Leaning forward made the pain much worse. It hurts to laugh, too. I didn't laugh much last night, though.
I am off to the cancer center shortly, with a very early 7:45 am start. I am definitely telling the doc or nurse, whomever I see today, about my chest pain. Maybe they will x-ray me, who knows? [Reply]
