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]
Enjoy my friend, make some lasting memories for those close to you.
If I encounter the White Sweater Girl from 2005 ever again over there, she isn't getting away so easily and I'll make some memories for sure! I was too awestruck to say much when I first saw her. She had a fishnet type sweater on and no bra and she was dancing in this little pub with a girlfriend. It was like two jello molds in an earthquake. I may never see her again, but I will *always* love her! [Reply]
Originally Posted by EPodolak:
Happy for you Ed, sounds like a great trip. Ever been to Kronborg castle?
Not yet. I've explored Copenhagen before, but the last time I was there in the city was in 2005. I toured the Carlsberg Brewery, which was fascinating, and it was where I first discovered Jacobsen Brown Ale in the tasting room at the end. It is one of my all-time favorite brews. Generally, I am in Copenhagen changing planes to get to Aalborg. [Reply]
