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]
Every day, this would be the first thread I checked. He always had something positive to say, whether you believed the same way he did or not. He wanted his life to matter, and it did. I knew this day would come. I'm kind of disheartened, but glad that he will no longer be suffering. I've seen that first hand, and it's not pleasant. His ability to stay positive throughout the process is to be admired. I hope I can handle death the same way he did. RIP. [Reply]
RIP, ed. It takes a special kind of person to inspire strangers and you did that by sharing your story. The positivity, courage, and dignity you displayed while going through what I can only imagine as a living hell was awesome to witness. May you Rest In Peace. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TimBone:
I'm not sure exactly what to say here, but I figured all of you guys should hear the news.
I'm friends with Lonewolf Ed on Facebook, and just read a post stating that he passed this morning.
RIP, Ed. You have left a heck of an impression on us all.
Thank you, Tim.
I don't believe I've ever been so grateful to know someone that I've never met face to face.
A lot of light upstairs today, and a little less for us down here.
So long, friend. I'll see you on that greatest of days.
