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]
Nobody needs money to be happy there, you just have to be alive! And I'd only work of getting a new passport should all my thoughts be wrong... [Reply]
My brother took my picture with Anna Longlegs today! I am 6'1" so when I figure out how in the hell to post them from this ipad, you can see how tall she is. [Reply]
I got an email from my dad stating that he took my mom to the doctor with a very bad cough. It is not pneumonia, but the doc said she has a loud heart murmur. She just turned 93 on May 10th, so this could be bad. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I got an email from my dad stating that he took my mom to the doctor with a very bad cough. It is not pneumonia, but the doc said she has a loud heart murmur. She just turned 93 on May 10th, so this could be bad.
You and your family are in my prayers, Ed.
One of my two great-grandmothers passed away this past November at the age of 98 from an infection. A great, long, healthy life she sure lived. It was the first time I went through an immediate family member passing away. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I got an email from my dad stating that he took my mom to the doctor with a very bad cough. It is not pneumonia, but the doc said she has a loud heart murmur. She just turned 93 on May 10th, so this could be bad.
My mother's check up went fine, oddly enough. My time is running out on my adventure and I am feeling a bit sad over that. The sun is out, at last, and I've even worked on my tan a bit. I had dinner with two friends last night, Steen and Nidal. Steen is a cop and his girlfriend Nidal is from Beirut. She made a delightful Lebanese dinner. Dessert was awesome, too. She scooped out cantaloupe halves and filled it with the pieces of cantaloupe, fresh Danish strawberries, and a chocolate-nougat ice cream. We had slices of watermelon on the side and it was great! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
My mother's check up went fine, oddly enough. My time is running out on my adventure and I am feeling a bit sad over that. The sun is out, at last, and I've even worked on my tan a bit. I had dinner with two friends last night, Steen and Nidal. Steen is a cop and his girlfriend Nidal is from Beirut. She made a delightful Lebanese dinner. Dessert was awesome, too. She scooped out cantaloupe halves and filled it with the pieces of cantaloupe, fresh Danish strawberries, and a chocolate-nougat ice cream. We had slices of watermelon on the side and it was great!
That kinda freaked me out man. Glad you had an excellent time and see the joy in things many of us don't see. [Reply]
Originally Posted by eDave:
That kinda freaked me out man. Glad you had an excellent time and see the joy in things many of us don't see.
I could have worded that differently as I can see how some might have started seeing that as I was circling the drain! I feel pretty good, physically, and people in the Irish House told me I look a lot better than I did when I arrived, and even better than I did just a couple of weeks ago. I'll be feeling great just in time for more chemo and then I will have to deal with that mess again and all that comes with it. Ugh. [Reply]
