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]
Lord have mercy! If only I could get a photo of this woman I see outside the cafe... She is with a guy, of course. She is beyond gorgeous and stunning. Blonde, hair done up awesomely, slender but not skin and bone, tall, and her face is just about enough to make a guy forget to breathe. Aphrodite comes to mind. If I look at her too long, tears start to form in my eyes. Wow. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Lord have mercy! If only I could get a photo of this woman I see outside the cafe... She is with a guy, of course. She is beyond gorgeous and stunning. Blonde, hair done up awesomely, slender but not skin and bone, tall, and her face is just about enough to make a guy forget to breathe. Aphrodite comes to mind. If I look at her too long, tears start to form in my eyes. Wow.
Damn, Ed. You think you've got a free ride here on CP? Heck, it's your DUTY to get that pic for us. Just go out there, introduce yourself and let her know that you've got a few hundred buddies on CP who'd like to see what the heck you're slobbering over! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
350, actually. He plans to buy 300 more across the road. It's utterly amazing. He took us into one of the huge fields and pointed out at the horizon. "See the trees way out there? That is where the property ends." I couldn't see further than the trees on the horizon. If that place was mine, I'd have to go to the doctor. Me: Doc, I have this erection that has lasted for over four hours now. Doc: Oh? How many viagra did you take? Me: None. I just bought a castle.
That's about the kind of place I want to move to when I retire... [Reply]
Originally Posted by Meatloaf:
Damn, Ed. You think you've got a free ride here on CP? Heck, it's your DUTY to get that pic for us. Just go out there, introduce yourself and let her know that you've got a few hundred buddies on CP who'd like to see what the heck you're slobbering over!
I wish I could have taken one even just for myself! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Meatloaf:
You're a good man, Ed. A little slow with the camera, but a good man nonetheless!!!
Well, I do have a good reputation in this town. The old guard call me "The May Resident." Plus, there is a photo of my aunt shaking hands with the Queen a few years back. I've got to keep my perving on the down low. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Well, I do have a good reputation in this town. The old guard call me "The May Resident." Plus, there is a photo of my aunt shaking hands with the Queen a few years back. I've got to keep my perving on the down low.
If you're known by everyone, there's no sense in running around like a tourist for the sake of CP. [Reply]
My dad emailed me and asked how I was doing. I shouldn't have mentioned that the abdominal pains I have had since March got very bad the Sunday before last, such that I could hardly bend to tie or untie my shoes. My doc told me it is the newly infected lymph node by my liver pushing against stuff in there that causes the pains. Now my dad wants me to come back to KC now and end my trip. I don't want to do that. I need to be away from all the doctors, nurses, needles, chemo, and all that mess. If I die before I return, so be it. I am not really expecting much out of whatever treatment I have in store next. A friend's wife back in KC said I should go to a doctor here and get methadone for the pains. Umm, last time I checked, I had cancer, not a heroin addiction... She was a surgeon in Croatia but she says some wild stuff. She also said I should get and smoke weed. Maybe I should just have a hooker bring me the methadone and weed, and a pizza, and we can make it a party.
With my luck, it would be a tranny, he would have brought Mentos instead of methadone, smoked the weed on the way and ate all the pizza. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
My dad emailed me and asked how I was doing. I shouldn't have mentioned that the abdominal pains I have had since March got very bad the Sunday before last, such that I could hardly bend to tie or untie my shoes. My doc told me it is the newly infected lymph node by my liver pushing against stuff in there that causes the pains. Now my dad wants me to come back to KC now and end my trip. I don't want to do that. I need to be away from all the doctors, nurses, needles, chemo, and all that mess. If I die before I return, so be it. I am not really expecting much out of whatever treatment I have in store next. A friend's wife back in KC said I should go to a doctor here and get methadone for the pains. Umm, last time I checked, I had cancer, not a heroin addiction... She was a surgeon in Croatia but she says some wild stuff. She also said I should get and smoke weed. Maybe I should just have a hooker bring me the methadone and weed, and a pizza, and we can make it a party.
With my luck, it would be a tranny, he would have brought Mentos instead of methadone, smoked the weed on the way and ate all the pizza.
i could be mistaken, but my understanding is that methadone is an effective pain-killer with less of the side-effects of heroin/oxycontin type narcotics. addicts maintained on methadone have greatly increased levels of functioning compared to users of other opioids...
unless one of our resident docs can straighten me out, i think the lady gave you sound advice...
oh yeah, pot is one of the best anti-inflammatories known to man, to say nothing of it's contributions to appetite and an improved sense of well-being...