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TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

Ca++

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I told him Oz was like gay porn, and I couldn't watch it.
We watched Cell Block-H instead.
 

tobedetermined

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I should be in Cairo tonight. More specifically, we were booked in the Mena House in Giza where I had shot the expense budget to hell. Tonight, I had planned to be sucking a cocktail of duty free booze on the balcony staring at the pyramids. And boring my wife with a recitation of the history of everything. And then there were the drivers, and guides, flights, Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, a dahabiya Nile cruise, the new GEM Museum (although I see that it still isn’t open) . . . anyways it was all canceled.

My wife of 30 + years was diagnosed with lung cancer last fall. She knew she had it for months before but I was in denial until I heard a doc say the dreaded words. I won’t go on with everything that means to a person, a partner, a marriage but we were both shell-shocked. So together, we (she) faced three rounds of chemo + an immunotherapy drug. Each round was three weeks. Two on, one off . . . repeat times three. With frequent blood test, CT scans, x-rays. I have donated hundreds and hundreds of $s to the hospital through parking fees. Btw if you have never been, a chemo centre in a hospital is very, very sobering. A lot of people – every race, creed, sex etc – a lot of people shooting for a cure – or even just a few more years. Not desperate, but determined.

My wife was ‘lucky’ in that a surgical solution was still possible. Again, I won’t go on but suffice it to say she had a portion (only – thankfully) of her lung removed. It was a major operation. She was in icu for three nights and then general ward for another three before they released her three days ago. Now I am her health care provider.

So our life has changed. But . . . maybe . . . just maybe . . . we still might get to Egypt sometime.

Thanks for listening. I am not great at sharing sometimes . . . :cool:
 

Boo

Cabana’s bitch
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I should be in Cairo tonight. More specifically, we were booked in the Mena House in Giza where I had shot the expense budget to hell. Tonight, I had planned to be sucking a cocktail of duty free booze on the balcony staring at the pyramids. And boring my wife with a recitation of the history of everything. And then there were the drivers, and guides, flights, Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, a dahabiya Nile cruise, the new GEM Museum (although I see that it still isn’t open) . . . anyways it was all canceled.

My wife of 30 + years was diagnosed with lung cancer last fall. She knew she had it for months before but I was in denial until I heard a doc say the dreaded words. I won’t go on with everything that means to a person, a partner, a marriage but we were both shell-shocked. So together, we (she) faced three rounds of chemo + an immunotherapy drug. Each round was three weeks. Two on, one off . . . repeat times three. With frequent blood test, CT scans, x-rays. I have donated hundreds and hundreds of $s to the hospital through parking fees. Btw if you have never been, a chemo centre in a hospital is very, very sobering. A lot of people – every race, creed, sex etc – a lot of people shooting for a cure – or even just a few more years. Not desperate, but determined.

My wife was ‘lucky’ in that a surgical solution was still possible. Again, I won’t go on but suffice it to say she had a portion (only – thankfully) of her lung removed. It was a major operation. She was in icu for three nights and then general ward for another three before they released her three days ago. Now I am her health care provider.

So our life has changed. But . . . maybe . . . just maybe . . . we still might get to Egypt sometime.

Thanks for listening. I am not great at sharing sometimes . . . :cool:
may God bless you and you wife thru these difficult times...my wife died of cancer and it took 3.5 years for the disease to gain control...my big boy Dutch knows the smell and a year after my wife died Dutch comes lumbering onto the bed, pulled the covers off of me and began licking my liver, 2 weeks later he and I went into the hospital and we spent 3 days with the removal of the diseased lobe...agreed, a chemo ward is difficult to deal with...I do hope you get to smoke one while gazing upon the pyramids...
 

tobedetermined

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I do hope you get to smoke one while gazing upon the pyramids...

Thanks, Boo.

Since I retired in late 2019, we have canceled 3 trips. Two due to covid - Vancouver/Whistler and a big haul to India. When the world started opening up again and my wife was diagnosed with copd, we decided that dry Egypt would be a better choice than India - although Cairo was touchy. I decided decades ago that we weren't going to wait until retirement to travel so we have been lucky and we have seen a nice chunk of the world. I didn't - and still don't - ever want to be one of those decrepit old dudes wearing the Tilly hat and shuffling off of the tour bus while some inane tour guide rattles on. If we can't travel any more now, I have seen enough to be satisfied and certainly enough to realize that we are all the same.
 

Boo

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Linda and I traveled quite a bit before we found out that she had cancer but we made a point to visit as many state parks in southwest and West Coast as we could. I’ve got extensive travels in the United States and it’s just amazes me how beautiful this country is, Linda always wanted to go to Alaska and once we realized how sick she was that was out of the question, so I wish I had traveled there like yourself in our younger years… As you found out, living with somebody with cancer changes everything and you become one
 

buzzmobile

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Thanks for listening. I am not great at sharing sometimes
You knocked the sharing part all the way to Giza. Cancer sucks and it does not only affect body parts. It's a mind sneaker that begs the question "What now?"
We cancelled a fully booked trip to Barcelona and a drive across northern Spain to stay here.
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Over 12 years later the dream lives and so do I. My wife was the one who held me together. We are stronger today as a result.

Thank you for sharing.
 

tobedetermined

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I am really glad to hear it, buzz. And I didn’t think that Barcelona was all that it was cracked up to be. The subject of my concern at the ruins at Empúries . . .

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It would seem that we have a future as well now. We had a phone app’t with the oncologist and a physical app’t with the thoracic surgeon yesterday. They are both happy with the op and the results from the lab are very positive with only a very small but . . .

Anyways, we are in party mode – as much as a recovering surgical patient and a creaky old stoner can party anyway. :greenstars:

p.s. I had to use image search to find out where your pic was.
 

tobedetermined

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Cric. Crac. Croc.

In case you have ever wondered how Snap. Crackle. Pop. translates into French. From the language police in La belle province . . . :rolleyes:
 

D. B. Doober

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I've been to Amsterdam, Montego Bay, Aruba, Key West, Guantanamo Bay, Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico, Cozumel. Would like to go to Kathmandu and Tibet. India too. The food in india yo!
 

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