Thank you!

Thank you!

I doubt that I will and hope I never get used to needles. And I just looked at the calendar and realized it was one year ago today when I first got the call and the C word was uttered. That was after the colonoscopy and that doctor sent me over to the KU Cancer Center. The news just got worse and worse with every doctor visit until August 11th when the doc told me I also had stage IV liver cancer and 3 years to live if I was lucky.

You're a beast, Ed.

I'll be thinking of you on the 12th. Keep kickin' cancer's ass!!!:thumb:

I think it was those chocolate chip cookies you brought to me that got the ball rolling! My inner Viking was energized by them, grabbed up his axe, screamed "Valhalla!" and started hacking into the cancer-monster.

Thank you very much. I think if I am not out by the time I see the surgeon, I am going to tell him that I have been battling the cancer hard since this started and now he is going to be my champion for a while. Take that colon cancer and send it back to hell where it belongs. Then I can recover and move onto the liver.

I had my former work colleague go with me to the center today, thinking that since they called it an anesthetic test that they might, you know, TEST me with some and I wanted a back up driver in case I was not good to drive home. They drew some blood and asked me lots of questions and that was it. Kim was giving me grief for not liking needles and the nurse had to jab me twice. Kim thought it would be funny to get video of it on her phone. I got my revenge, though. When we got in the elevator, I started saying something, trailed off, and made my eyes flutter and started to let myself fall toward the wall. She gasped and reached out to catch me and I said GOTCHA!

And the nerve of her to hit a guy with cancer...

:LOL:

MOAR chocolate chip cookies for Ed & Dave :rockon:

Buy a Berry jersey, Ed.

There's mojo in them thar' hills.

That is a good idea!

Good friends are good, great friends are great, she's great! LIKE!!

What has been going on today makes me long for my surgery and I can't wait for it to happen. Often, this cancer and chemo has given me the runs or close to it. Not today, flip the coin hard. I feel like I have a brick in my colon and it HURTS! I was bathed in sweat, panting for breath, and seeing spots and barely able to pass anything much larger than a bullet. I spent the last 45 minutes in or near my bathroom. I feel like someone has been stomping on my gut with golf shoes. If my surgery makes this sort of thing go away, then come and hack that colon, doc!

Ed stool softener with a prune juice chaser. Might help the constipation.