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 Lonewolf Ed:
The pain I had in my chest is all gone, I can lie down on the right side or my stomach now with no problems, and I can breathe pain free again, too. So it was not a death knot or blood clot in there after all.
Ed it almost sounds like you passed a kidney stone. [Reply]
Originally Posted by srvy:
Ed it almost sounds like you passed a kidney stone.
My doc said it was necrotic tissue from a lymph node pressing the cartilage where my rib meets my breastbone, so that was much better than a blood clot. When I would lie on my right side, it would wake me up with a very sharp, intense pain, like a screwdriver pushing my rib away from my sternum. Not pleasant at all! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
My doc said it was necrotic tissue from a lymph node pressing the cartilage where my rib meets my breastbone, so that was much better than a blood clot. When I would lie on my right side, it would wake me up with a very sharp, intense pain, like a screwdriver pushing my rib away from my sternum. Not pleasant at all!
I see Ed, why it sounded like to me is I had last year something very similar. Had intense pain just under rib cage like knife in my side. I to could not sleep on my right side and pain was nearly intolerable getting up to piss or crap was an effort and painful. It scared me to death I pushed through and week later I was ok. Didnt see my Doc as was scared what would learn. About a month later it happened again this time even more intense and only way I could get up to cook kids breakfast was raise my right hand in the air above my head. I really looked stupid but it worked. It hurt so bad I literally was nauseated and sweating. this time it went away after 2 days. On a routine exam I mentioned to my Doc and got earful and all kinds of tests especially heart. They couldn;t find anything so he said I probably passed 2 kidney stones and I was one stupid tough son of a bitch hahaha. [Reply]
Sacc sent a reply to my last message. He feels good, has been working out and going on hikes, but a month ago, the doc said he has 3 to 6 months left to live. He says whatever happens, happens, and he's making the best of it, fighting as well as he can. He gave me words of encouragement, too. If a miracle happens for only one of us, I hope it will be for him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Sacc sent a reply to my last message. He feels good, has been working out and going on hikes, but a month ago, the doc said he has 3 to 6 months left to live. He says whatever happens, happens, and he's making the best of it, fighting as well as he can. He gave me words of encouragement, too. If a miracle happens for only one of us, I hope it will be for him.
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Sacc sent a reply to my last message. He feels good, has been working out and going on hikes, but a month ago, the doc said he has 3 to 6 months left to live. He says whatever happens, happens, and he's making the best of it, fighting as well as he can. He gave me words of encouragement, too. If a miracle happens for only one of us, I hope it will be for him.
I'd so love for you both to meet up in 30 years when Alex Smith retires and we finally win a Super Bowl. Keep fighting dude, we love your attitude. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dave Lane:
I'd so love for you both to meet up in 30 years when Alex Smith retires and we finally win a Super Bowl. Keep fighting dude, we love your attitude.
If cancer doesn't kill me, having to wait 30 more years to see KC win a Super Bowl just might! [Reply]
I just got a visit from Dave Lane and we yapped for well over an hour. He gave me a fantastic picture he shot in Yosemite with the Milky Way visible and it's stunning. Thanks for coming by and for the birthday gift, Dave! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I just got a visit from Dave Lane and we yapped for well over an hour. He gave me a fantastic picture he shot in Yosemite with the Milky Way visible and it's stunning. Thanks for coming by and for the birthday gift, Dave!
