Those bastards should pay YOU for making you come back a second time.

You need to buy the doctor the book "Biopsies for Dummies" :D

Good luck and let's pray they get this one done right

Ugh... All the best...

You're the toughest sumbitch' I've ever known, buddy. Hang in there.

I am at the hospital now, waiting. I don't feel very good and threw up three times before my brother and I headed up here. Part of it is not having any food since last night. I woke up too late to get breakfast since they want no food in me 8 hours prior to the biopsy. I am thirsty as can be, too ,but can't even have water now.

Fast Eddie, it takes big brass balls to be you these days... I'll be praying for your continued strength

Let's just get you better, we can drink later! Stay strong... :thumb:

Continued prayers for your ongoing battle. God speed.

Tougher than nails, my friend.

I was not feeling so well after my biopsy and was sent home despite a 101.9 temperature. I threw uop at least 8 times in the car on the way home and felt even worse, so took my temperature and it was 103. So, off to the ER I went and am staying overnight at the Olathe Hospital.

Thinking of you buddy.

Christ. What a day. Hang in there bud.

Feeling better?

Yet you still take the time to post here on Chiefs Planet.....now that's a real dedicated trooper! :clap:

Yes, but I am tired since nurses come in my room every two hours. They are trying to pinpoint a source of infection now, but my fever has broken and I am hoping to go home today, but if not, then tomorrow. I need to get out of here before the storms hit and I can hunker down in the house and watch KC handle Pittsburgh!

Glad you're feeling better. Don't rush things because of the game. I'd stay hooked up to IV antibiotics until I'm sure they found the source of the infection. Get some rest.

They have no more antibiotics set for me via the IV and I'd rather get out of here before the ice storm hits. I can take antibiotics orally if they want me to.

I was not released since my blood test results had not come in, so one more night in the hospital for me, and I hope that is all.

Good luck man

Guess who was not released from the hospital today...

Worst case scenario, you do have cable tv in your room yes?

Well, let that positive mind of yours guide your way...and my positive mind will do the same for you. Prayers.

I think there is a reason for everything . What does the nurse look like ?

Ughh - I'm sorry Ed. Please keep fighting hard! Hopefully you will still see the game.

I was finally released this morning and got out of there before 11:00 am. I am home now, had a shower and a big glass of orange juice, and now it is time for a nap and then some playoff football.

Great!

This morning, one last doctor checked me out to okay my release and asked me if I had any nausea or vomiting, and I replied, "Despite the chef's efforts, no." Mercy, the food at Olathe Medical Center is horrid! Two nights ago, I was served something unidentifiable. It *may* have been some overly thick gravy. But, what was the gravy for, my pudding or the ice cream? Except for iced tea, there was nothing else on the tray! Their chocolate pudding is terrible and that is hard to screw up. The strained potato soup would have Gordon Ramsay throwing it against a wall and savagely beating the kitchen staff. How do they expect patients to get well serving things I wouldn't feed to a stray dog?

Good to hear Ed, enjoy these games bud.

The Kitchen Staff were probably watching the wrong Gordon Ramsay videos for recipes! :(

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Will be thinking of you during the games.....

Okay, so I am still recovering FROM being in the hospital and was snoozing well last night, when at 12:15 am my phone rang. It was some asshat from Sudan. He said something like, "Yabba Yabba Yabba Salaam!" to me. I said, "What?" He repeated it and I said, "I don't know who the f--- you think you're talking to, but you need to try again."

He replied, "aaah?" I told him to f- off and hung up. I was about to tell him to suck Allah my...

:cuss:

LMAO

You should have tried to sell him a bible and asked him to join a real religion.

Yabba Yabba Yabba Salaam ROFL

derka derka

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I doubt he understood a thing I said, though! I sure don't speak Sudanese or whatever that was he was yammering in my ear.

Ban Sudanese phone calls.

He never called back. I wonder if it was some satellite glitch that crossed a signal?

Hope you are stabilizing Ed. Prayers, as always, for you.

I have been coughing daily since before Christmas and it has even made me throw up a few times, with my gut feeling like it was being twisted like a pretzel. I am not sick; it is the cancer in my lungs that is causing the cough. I'm going to pick up some codeine today at Walgreen's, my new pharmacy since Aetna won't cover me anywhere else. I had to pay 57 dollars for 5 antibiotic pills when I got out of the hospital at Walmart. :cuss:

So, I have hydrocodone for my regular pains and now will have cough syrup that can knock me out, too. I wonder how much of the day I will end up sleeping away now! I slept about 11 hours last night, not continuously, but already feel like I could use a nap. Cancer, it sucks like few other things do. On the plus side, I've lifted some weights for the third day in a row and am getting muscle tone back already. And do I ever need that. I have been absolutely pitiful lately.

**** cancer.


God speed Lonewolf Ed everyone loves you


Just kick cancer in the nuts.

Hang in there Ed.
You're a lion and this illness is a limping wildebeest.

Jesus you're a tough son of a bitch. You might actually be too tough to die.

You're a Rasmussen? Small world.

No, I just picked that name because Rasmus sounds like the kind of guy who can swing an axe, although Ragnar could whip me easily! My Danish family name was Christensen until they got a large farm and then became Vestergaard. Here in the USA, they spell it wrong: Westagard. It's not really a title, but it means Western Farm, so that meant my family had the largest farm in that area. There are Eastern Farms, Northern Farms, and Southern Farms, too, but Vestergaard seems to be more common a name from what I have seen.

I just read a report on my last biopsy and I can't decipher 90% of it since it's all medical speak. One part said that the tumor in my liver was not malignant, I think. Or was the stuff in there not malignant? Groan. SOMETHING is not malignant and I know malignant means bad. I don't know if I should get excited over this news or not, but the potential is there for it to be good if not great news. Now if the cancer in my lungs would just piss off. It can take a hike with the stuff swelling up my lymph nodes, too, for that matter.

I suppose I won't know much more before I see the doc on February 8th, however. I've still got my faith in God and that this is in His hands and part of the plan for me. If I end up cured or it is how I check out of this world, I've got to keep my faith that it is what should be and whenever I make it to the other side, I will be told why I had this burden and then it will make perfect sense to me.

Praying for good news for you, Ed.

Keep your head held high!

Ok, now it is straightened out. What I got was my doctor's sign off report on the first biopsy, so it's not the last one. The nurse called and said those results are still out.

Hang in there Ed , you're right God has a plan and do you know what, part of it may be the inspiration you've given so many here on this site. at some point and time many of us will develope a type of cancer and every one of us will think about your story and how inspiring it is.
Many people are diagnosed with cancer waay too late and given weeks to live. You were put in this place at this time for a reason. We all love you and most of us if not all pray for you.I do. The Chiefs are giving you a SB win before you're done and it ain't gonna happen with Alex smith so you know you got bunches of time left.

Thanks so much. There are two or three on here who don't love me, but that's nothing new to me! All the support I have gotten and am getting from so many of you is truly humbling and I can't thank you all enough.

Who are these two or three jerkoffs?? I will hunt them down for you....Don't dwell on any negativity.. you can never tell what the tide could bring in...

**** those guys

You're good people, Ed. Keep up the fight, sir! Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.

I used the ignore option on them, so it's not a problem. Well, a few years back one of them did to me after neg repping me because I didn't think the Alaska pipeline was all that bad of an idea. He sent me a nasty message and then blocked me so I couldn't reply. Such courage... lol

Name these people and we will turn the Dallas squirt gun teacher loose on them.

Keep fighting the good fight.

They are irrelevant to me and don't affect my life at all. The rest of you matter and make a difference in my life, and that is what is important to me.

Keep kicking that ass Ed.

Your AVI gets me everytime! :facepalm:

Well they're dickholes!

On April 27th, I am throwing a big party in the Irish House in Aalborg, but not a birthday party for myself. It's going to be a gathering of family and friends. I chose that because I want to let everyone there know that they mean a lot to me and are reasons why I keep coming back to Denmark and why I feel like I am a part of the place. I am working on a speech to give before everyone is served dinner. I want to include that I feel like Denmark is a part of me, especially Aalborg and places like the Irish House, and I hope that in some way, I am a part of them, too.

My oldest cousin over there, who will be 67 in March, told me today that he has prostate cancer and starts treatment next week. I pray he can attend the party and that he has an easy time of it. So many people I know are coming down with various cancers and it's bothering me more than usual. I am so tired of it. I am tired of what it is doing to me and tired of it assailing so many people. I hope somehow the time passes quickly until my departure date. I need to get over there and recharge my spirit and get my heart back together.

Should my doctor and team tell me it would be better not to go over there, I may just go anyhow. I feel like if I don't, it will end up killing me, so I'd rather die over there and save time if that is how it is going to be. Of course, I might be on the verge of some wonderful new treatment that will turn things around, but if faced with the possibility of not surviving to the end of my trip, I say pack my bags, I'm going.

I'd go.

**** cancer. Shit can seriously just get bent.

that's the spirit!! live life too the fullest while you can, which is good advice for everybody, not just you...

thinking of you every day, man...

i hope i'll have your courage when it's time to face the music...

you truly are an inspiration to many of us! thank you for sharing!! :toast:

Ed, I've seen through facebook how much you enjoy those trips. Only you know what is best for you, but I say go for it.

Damn it. My nurse called and said the biopsy results show that I am ineligible for the clinical trial. There is another test result that may come in today where if that one shows any mutation in the cancer, they can administer the immunotherapy as a regular treatment and not a clinical trial.

The doc wants to see me on Monday instead of Wednesday, too.

Ed, I continue to be amazed by your spirit, and I wish you nothing but the greatest in travel and adventure, my friend!

You are in my thoughts, Ed. I check on this thread every time it is on the front page. You go, Viking.

I was having a bad day yesterday and something new happened. I coughed up some blood. It felt like and looked like a small clot, but it was stuck in my throat and didn't feel like it came up from a lung. With all my coughing, it is no surprise that my throat may be getting roughed up. Once I coughed it out, I coughed more since and there has been no blood.

My friend Chris came to see me directly from the airport after he arrived from St. Louis to pray over me. He is an amazing man and very dedicated to his global missionary work. He leaves Sunday for India again and he asked me to pray for him. It's very dangerous there where he is going because radical Hindus are in charge and he said they are killing Christians there and in greater numbers than ISIL can claim. The last time there, he said the group was almost arrested and one of the pastors in the global organization was murdered recently. His wife is going along, too. He won't have any social media to post on, so it's going to be tense wondering if he is okay. Should all go well there, he is set to visit Liberia and Ethiopia in April and May.

Chris prayed over me and I feel better emotionally than I did. I prayed for his safe journey. His courageous dedication to Jesus is amazing to me and I am baffled that he tells me how I inspire him and his wife. Me, really? He brought me some gifts, too, which I do not deserve. I am not a whiskey man by any means, but I now have a 750 ml of Redbreast Single Pot Still 21 year old Irish whiskey. The stuff retails for around 300 dollars. I had the 15 year old a couple of years back and it was not unpleasant. My brother said it was the best whiskey he ever had. I'm gonna have to hide this bottle when he gets here Friday, I think. :)

If he truly appreciates a fine whiskey then you may have to share just enough with him to make him really envious. What good is almost anything if you can't/don't share it with a friend. I said almost everything , not everything.......

Did you ask the doctor about the clot, Ed? I think I might run it by him. I haven't had chronic coughs enough to make anything bleed. I have no idea what the risks are but with your propensity for infection, you make sure you keep that nonsense out.

Props to your friend. He must have gonads the size of coconuts to preach over there. But don't ever think that you aren't inspirational. You are my friend. Very much so.

Oh, he does. I got a bottle of 15 year old Redbreast a few years ago as a gift and gave it to my brother since I am a beer man, and he finished it with a buddy of his one Friday night! The 21 year old Redbreast is supposedly even better and the 15 was incredible, even coming from me. I hate bourbon and Scotch just tastes terrible to me. So for me to say a whiskey was not unpleasant is something. My brother said the 15 was the best whiskey he had ever tasted.

You ramin in my prayers. I hope when I ask him to bless you, he understands who "Lonewolf Ed" is. I'm sure he has Godoogle...

It always feels "funny" when I pray for Lonewolf Ed and Saccopoo. He must have a sense of humor.

Nice to meet you-we joined at the same time but you have been mostly in the shadows.

POS REP for coming out for Lonewolf Ed! :clap:

May the firewater and boobies flow free to you

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamen.

I have enough firewater to last me if I live to be 100, as little of the hard stuff as I drink. Now, the boobs on the other hand... They would make me feel SO much better if only I had some to play with frequently. I haven't seen any since August and dammit, that was too long ago for my taste. She went all squirrely on me after that, and I don't have time for that mess. I wouldn't have time for it even if I didn't have cancer.

And on another note, people have been confused as to why I don't just get some immunotherapy going. I've been trying to think how to explain it and a good analogy just came to me. If there is nothing in my genes to fix, it won't do anything for me. So, think of it like putting a bandage on your arm but there is no cut or scrape there.

Hope you are doing well and feeling better this week Ed, go tear up Aalborg again for old times' sake!

I am a bit better thanks. I haven't had to take as many pain pills and didn't have any dry heaves today, like I had the past two days. I am eating a bit more and I hauled a big wheelbarrow load of firewood to the house, lifted some weights, and took a nap. I only have so much energy in me and then it's time to hit the sheets. I do not know how much stronger I will get, or if I will lose strength with whatever treatment comes next, but my hope is that I can carry my luggage up steps when needed and I can walk about a mile without feeling like I haven't had any water in so long it dries out my mouth, and I won't be huffing and puffing from the effort of walking. It's only two and a half months until I am scheduled to fly out of here. If I get to feeling better more and more, then I will start getting more excited about my trip.