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 mikeyis4dcats.:
Sorry the hear that Ed. You've put up a good fight, and I also hoped you would best it.
CP should have a memorial page for our fallen...
I really like this idea.
Thoughts are with you, Ed. Cancer has taken much of my father's side of the family from us. I hope that your loved ones take solace in the fact that you will no longer be suffering. [Reply]
Originally Posted by luv: I really like this idea.
Thoughts are with you, Ed. Cancer has taken much of my father's side of the family from us. I hope that your loved ones take solace in the fact that you will no longer be suffering.
Me too.
Sadly, this seems to be becoming a far too frequent event.
Dave was one of my favorite posters, and he was one of the few people that understood my sense of humor.
And Ed has made me feel like a part of his life for well over a year now. Losing our friends like this, be they down the street or an across the country "e-friend", just completely sucks. [Reply]
Ed, thank you as well. Peace be with you and those around you! You have truly been an inspiration to many! You will no doubt pass through the pearly gates! God bless you! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I don't know how much longer I will be able to sit at my computer and make posts, so I wanted to share something with you all now, to put my mind at ease that I got to say it. The multitude of you who have expressed such wonderful sentiments to me has been truly overwhelming. I never really thought I could inspire people, let alone to the degree you all tell me I have. My friend Chris who is a global outreach minister and goes to some nasty, scary places to bring God's word such as Ethiopia, northern India where radical Hindus rule, and Liberia said that my purpose here may well have been to show through my suffering how a man of faith in Jesus lives and how he dies. I may have brought many closer to Christ and eternal salvation and when I do pass, I will hear, "well done, my faithful servant."
I want to thank you all once again for how you have touched my life with all the prayers, support, and love these past two and a half years. It has made more of a difference in my life than I can put into words. I love you all.
Ed:
We have not had a chance to speak but this greatly encourages me. We will meet in heaven.
And remember what Paul said: For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18
