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 Chiefnj2:
Glad you're feeling better. Don't rush things because of the game. I'd stay hooked up to IV antibiotics until I'm sure they found the source of the infection. Get some rest.
They have no more antibiotics set for me via the IV and I'd rather get out of here before the ice storm hits. I can take antibiotics orally if they want me to. [Reply]
I was finally released this morning and got out of there before 11:00 am. I am home now, had a shower and a big glass of orange juice, and now it is time for a nap and then some playoff football. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I was finally released this morning and got out of there before 11:00 am. I am home now, had a shower and a big glass of orange juice, and now it is time for a nap and then some playoff football.
This morning, one last doctor checked me out to okay my release and asked me if I had any nausea or vomiting, and I replied, "Despite the chef's efforts, no." Mercy, the food at Olathe Medical Center is horrid! Two nights ago, I was served something unidentifiable. It *may* have been some overly thick gravy. But, what was the gravy for, my pudding or the ice cream? Except for iced tea, there was nothing else on the tray! Their chocolate pudding is terrible and that is hard to screw up. The strained potato soup would have Gordon Ramsay throwing it against a wall and savagely beating the kitchen staff. How do they expect patients to get well serving things I wouldn't feed to a stray dog? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
The strained potato soup would have Gordon Ramsay throwing it against a wall and savagely beating the kitchen staff. How do they expect patients to get well serving things I wouldn't feed to a stray dog?
The Kitchen Staff were probably watching the wrong Gordon Ramsay videos for recipes! :-)
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I was finally released this morning and got out of there before 11:00 am. I am home now, had a shower and a big glass of orange juice, and now it is time for a nap and then some playoff football.
