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: I hate to break up the baby sitter discussion, but I have prepared a speech for my party I am holding in the Irish House on April 27th, and thought maybe some of you might like to read what I plan to say. I hate speaking before groups, but I think it is called for here, so I have to grin and bear it. Just a reminder what the party is about, I have invited my cousins and their spouses, and friends I have made over there. I used to make it an early birthday party, but this year it is a gathering of family and friends. I bet I get presents anyhow...
In Danish: Hearty welcome, good friends and family and thanks for coming. This is a special place and it is good to see you all here.
In English: First, I would like to introduce the owner of the Irish House, Jerome, and thank him for all the work to make this party happen. Also, welcome to my nephew Alan making his first visit here, and welcome back to my brother Darron and to Chipp. Even when I am not here, I feel like part of me is always here in Aalborg. I have so much to come back for here in people and places. Denmark is part of me and I feel it in Aalborg, Vrensted, Løkken and places like the Irish House. I hope that in some small way, I am part of those places, too.
Two years ago, Darron, Chipp, and Rod joined the King Christian IV Guild after me. I saw to that in part so that they would be part of Aalborg, too. So if I am gone, (looking at Darron and Chipp) you can still come back here on your own and I hope that you will. But, if this is my last trip here, let it be sad after I am no longer living. I want to celebrate with you all that I am here now and I will be here tomorrow and the day after that. Right here and now, I have family and friends and good food and drink in one of my favorite places. For me, this is a fine moment in life to share.
In Danish: To friends, to family, to life. Cheers!
Sounds very very good to me.......now let's get back to the baby sitter porn! :-)
Hey, what if we combine your trip to Denmark with baby sitter porn?
You up for a starring role as " the strong single Danish Dad" who is raising two young girls all by himself?
We could get a hot young Danish girl of around 18 to be your kid's babysitter.
It would feature you eating some of those Danish pastries you posted photos of off the hot babysitter while she is topless.......:-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I hate to break up the baby sitter discussion, but I have prepared a speech for my party I am holding in the Irish House on April 27th, and thought maybe some of you might like to read what I plan to say. I hate speaking before groups, but I think it is called for here, so I have to grin and bear it. Just a reminder what the party is about, I have invited my cousins and their spouses, and friends I have made over there. I used to make it an early birthday party, but this year it is a gathering of family and friends. I bet I get presents anyhow...
In Danish: Hearty welcome, good friends and family and thanks for coming. This is a special place and it is good to see you all here.
In English: First, I would like to introduce the owner of the Irish House, Jerome, and thank him for all the work to make this party happen. Also, welcome to my nephew Alan making his first visit here, and welcome back to my brother Darron and to Chipp. Even when I am not here, I feel like part of me is always here in Aalborg. I have so much to come back for here in people and places. Denmark is part of me and I feel it in Aalborg, Vrensted, Løkken and places like the Irish House. I hope that in some small way, I am part of those places, too.
Two years ago, Darron, Chipp, and Rod joined the King Christian IV Guild after me. I saw to that in part so that they would be part of Aalborg, too. So if I am gone, (looking at Darron and Chipp) you can still come back here on your own and I hope that you will. But, if this is my last trip here, let it be sad after I am no longer living. I want to celebrate with you all that I am here now and I will be here tomorrow and the day after that. Right here and now, I have family and friends and good food and drink in one of my favorite places. For me, this is a fine moment in life to share.
In Danish: To friends, to family, to life. Cheers!
"Let it be sad" works, but I think you meant "let it be said". :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I saw a photo of the CT scan I had this past Saturday and one from two months ago. The existing cancer in my liver and lungs has grown and there are new spots in both, plus another lymph node. If this new treatment I am about to begin does nothing for me, I may not make it past August after all.
Stay strong and positive friend, prayers and thoughts your way.
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
I had some strange questions posed to me at the clinic, too. The oddest was, "Has diarrhea adversely affected your sexual activity?" Whaaaaaat? Ummm, how the hell wouldn't it? Browning the sheets isn't very sexy, in my opinion. So, why ask that and why now? How come they never asked me, "So, has having 9 inches of colon chopped out and that big scar in your gut up to your navel that we sliced through nerves so you can't even feel your junk affected your sexual activity in any way? How about the bi-weekly poisonings we pump into you? Anything not working like it used to?" :-)
Since hydrocodone was making me throw up anywhere from 4 to 6 hours after taking it, I went with Aleve and Tylenol for my pains, but my docs said not to take those and I got a new med today, oxycodone. It was in me for two hours and then brought half the pizza I ate for dinner out rather forcefully. I had a lot of clean up to do around the toilet, but it could have been worse. I literally had just gotten out of the bath tub and was half dressed. I hope the next thing to try isn't morphine. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Since hydrocodone was making me throw up anywhere from 4 to 6 hours after taking it, I went with Aleve and Tylenol for my pains, but my docs said not to take those and I got a new med today, oxycodone. It was in me for two hours and then brought half the pizza I ate for dinner out rather forcefully. I had a lot of clean up to do around the toilet, but it could have been worse. I literally had just gotten out of the bath tub and was half dressed. I hope the next thing to try isn't morphine.
Zofran ODT, wait 20 minutes. Take roxicodone. Worth a try. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TigerUppercut:
Zofran ODT, wait 20 minutes. Take roxicodone. Worth a try.
I have atavan, if that is how it is spelled, and that seemed to help last night, since I took two more oxys after that and have yet to call on Ralf and Earl. [Reply]
