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]
Sorry to hear your journey is almost at an end, but theres always next year... as for me, heading off on a fishing trip to brand new grounds about an hour or so away. Some exciting possibilities down there, have a great day!
I did not get as much sleep as I would have liked last night. Not only was the colon cancer making me go every hour, a damned seagull kept landing near my window and pitching a fit every hour or so. I wanted to strangle that rotten bird!! :-) [Reply]
Chicago must hate KC. United cancelled my flight after saying it was merely delayed an hour and there are no vouchers for hotels, so here I sit in Elk Grove's Super 8 for 180 bucks, hoping the airline sees fit to send a plane to KC tomorrow at noon with my ass on it. They tried booking me on the 5:34pm flight and I said that was shit and no way. I pulled the cancer card, for all the good it did me. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
Chicago must hate KC. United cancelled my flight after saying it was merely delayed an hour and there are no vouchers for hotels, so here I sit in Elk Grove's Super 8 for 180 bucks, hoping the airline sees fit to send a plane to KC tomorrow at noon with my ass on it. They tried booking me on the 5:34pm flight and I said that was shit and no way. I pulled the cancer card, for all the good it did me. :-)
O'hare is a seriously fucked up place, and it's in the middle of Chicago that, other than short visits, generally blows. Go no further than their jack0ff mayor to see where the mentality begins.
And you flew from pure awesomeness to Shitsville, so it's hardly a surprise that Chicago/O'hare's crappiness was going to shine with the brightness of 10 suns! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
This is the first time I've had a flight cancelled in Chicago. It happened in D.C. in 2008 and I was stuck in the airport for about 18 hours.
Damn Ed that blows and so does United Airlines. They couldn't get you on anther airline to KC or into St Lou then to KC? Also 180 bucks for a super 8 is the crime of the century. [Reply]
Originally Posted by srvy:
Damn Ed that blows and so does United Airlines. They couldn't get you on anther airline to KC or into St Lou then to KC? Also 180 bucks for a super 8 is the crime of the century.
United couldn't do dick or diddly, but send me to Omaha and then I'd have to rent a car, and that flight left sat 7 am, so I'd have been in the airport all damned night anyhow. With tax, my room came to over 200 bucks. I shouldn't have flushed the toilet this morning... [Reply]
I was stuck in Midway last year for about 10 hours for a flight that finally left at about 10:30 PM. At least in O'Hare you're not afraid to stand next to the windows for fear of stray bullets. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed:
United couldn't do dick or diddly, but send me to Omaha and then I'd have to rent a car, and that flight left sat 7 am, so I'd have been in the airport all damned night anyhow. With tax, my room came to over 200 bucks. I shouldn't have flushed the toilet this morning...
Once upon a time Airlines made things like this right. Canceling a flight that they booked you on is United's fault. I honestly dont understand why they couldnt get you a voucher for one the hotels they work with. When you get home I would sure call our write someone in the main headquarters of United and let them know why you wont be using the services again. They just might make it right. [Reply]
