Sorry to inform you...

[peter havriluk]

Dave, am I glad to be talking with you! I've found shop therapy at least as good for my psyche as anything else, and you're back in the shop. Good! And the weather might us to work in these spaces without getting frostbite.

[Carl Dickinson]

Yeah!!!! Had the last radiation treatment today! Now to wait for the skin on my neck to heal and my taste to return to normal (everything tastes like cr*p). The skin should take a couple of weeks, but the doc said it might take up to a year for the taste. I did loose 20 pounds though, so my BMI is almost back to where it should be. Thanks for the wishes guys. Back to the shop for me too.

[Dave Bagwill]

Good to hear, Carl! Success is sweet.
Out to the shop....

[Herman]

Hee Carl, Such a relief that the treatment is finished. What stress you had to go through, I try to imagine.
I hope you will recover soon.
Lots of love
Herman

[Dave Bagwill]

Well, here's the up-to-date info:
I had brain cancer: 4 tumors.
5 weeks in hospital, 24 hours a day, being treated by chemical infusion.
Couple good weeks followed.
Then 14 days - 15 minutes each day of xray therapy, then home each day. Last of those days, my hair came out. BTW, the radiation side effects can last up to a year.
Rough stretch of weeks followed. Bad sleep, no appetite, sex - forget about it, double vision, falling, forgetting and unable to remember almost everything and everyone from the past, pushing a wheeled cart to enable getting to bathroom (after graduating from the use of a plastic jug next to my chair and my bed and the car etc.); lots of pills, lots of Dr. appts, MRI every 3 months, various tests every couple weeks, did I mention No Sex?.
There is much more. Let me say two things: One, don't get cancer, but if you do there IS hope!; two, a wonderful wife and good friends are blessings beyond words.

I'm doing ok! Right now I'm headed out to the shop for an hour or so.

Couple of pix of things I mentioned:

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[John Parchem]

I am am so sorry to hear what you have been experiencing. It is good to hear you are on the back side of an intense regiment of treatment and are at least feeling OK. Enjoy your time in the shop.

[Dave Bagwill]

Thanks John. All will be well!