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 Lonewolf Ed:
One thing about Heinken that is the same over here is when it is fresh, it is decent, but the instant it gets old, it turns to skunk beer. I've never encountered a beer that can turn as fast as Heineken.
I know a friend who puts Lime in his Heinken. Not sure about that [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
One thing about Heinken that is the same over here is when it is fresh, it is decent, but the instant it gets old, it turns to skunk beer. I've never encountered a beer that can turn as fast as Heineken.
Get down with some Budwar; most excellent. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dagnabit:
Get down with some Budwar; most excellent.
I have had that and I loved the ad campaign they had after Anheuser-Busch tried to sue them over their beer name. It was laughed out of court since the town was making the beer for a couple of centuries before there was the A-B company. The ad read, "Try the REAL Budveiser!" They since came to a compromise and call their beer Budvar now and over here, regular Budweiser is labeled simply "Bud."
I am enjoying Brooklyn Brewery's summer ale now. It's a nice, light tasting beer with a bit of lemon tucked into it, not unlike Sam Adam's summer ale. Sascha has three different Brooklyn Brewery beers now since they are distributed by Carlsberg over here. It's a bittersweet time now, since I have just one more full day in Lokken, then I am off to Aalborg for 4 nights and Copenhagen for 5, then I fly back to KC. *sigh* [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I have had that and I loved the ad campaign they had after Anheuser-Busch tried to sue them over their beer name. It was laughed out of court since the town was making the beer for a couple of centuries before there was the A-B company. The ad read, "Try the REAL Budveiser!" They since came to a compromise and call their beer Budvar now and over here, regular Budweiser is labeled simply "Bud."
I am enjoying Brooklyn Brewery's summer ale now. It's a nice, light tasting beer with a bit of lemon tucked into it, not unlike Sam Adam's summer ale. Sascha has three different Brooklyn Brewery beers now since they are distributed by Carlsberg over here. It's a bittersweet time now, since I have just one more full day in Lokken, then I am off to Aalborg for 4 nights and Copenhagen for 5, then I fly back to KC. *sigh*
Eh, don't focus on the end, man. Enjoy the time. And when you get back, go get yourself some Q. [Reply]
It was sad for me leaving Lokken behind today. I feel like it is my secondary home there. People tell me I am part of the town, too. I watched the rolling hills and farmland pass as I sat on the bus heading to Aalborg, passing the familiar little villages on the way, Saltum, Pandrup, Kaas, and Aabybro (translates out to RiverTownBridge and for some reason it makes me chuckle) then the airport and Aalborg came into view. It's "the big city" around here, and compared to where I had been, it certainly is. Now I am in my hotel and about ready to head out to some of my pubs for a pint or three. Since it is a warm day, about 70 to 72 degrees, I expect to see lots of girls in their itty bitty shorts and skirts out today! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
It was sad for me leaving Lokken behind today. I feel like it is my secondary home there. People tell me I am part of the town, too. I watched the rolling hills and farmland pass as I sat on the bus heading to Aalborg, passing the familiar little villages on the way, Saltum, Pandrup, Kaas, and Aabybro (translates out to RiverTownBridge and for some reason it makes me chuckle) then the airport and Aalborg came into view. It's "the big city" around here, and compared to where I had been, it certainly is. Now I am in my hotel and about ready to head out to some of my pubs for a pint or three. Since it is a warm day, about 70 to 72 degrees, I expect to see lots of girls in their itty bitty shorts and skirts out today!
Pics or you stayed in your hotel room all day. C'mon Ed, surely you can, with great care, take (AND SHARE) a few interesting photos for us stateside boys! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Meatloaf:
Pics or you stayed in your hotel room all day. C'mon Ed, surely you can, with great care, take (AND SHARE) a few interesting photos for us stateside boys!
I went for pints and didn't take the camera, but tomorrow, I will! [Reply]
