I also went to the ER recently and... (Bad News Bears pages 4, 37) (Bad Ass Family Photo page 49) (CT Scan Update page 59)

January 05, 2016, 12:27 PM

S600MBUSA

Saw this a few days ago and was hoping it'd turn out to be nothing. This certainly isn't the update I expected or wanted. Can't imagine what you're going through, but I know you have a good outlook and wonderful wife to help you through whatever comes.

I'm confident that you'll have good news for us soon when after your next appointment.

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Their system of ethics, which regards treachery and violence as virtues rather than vices, has produced a code of honour so strange and inconsistent, that it is incomprehensible to a logical mind.

-Winston Churchill, writing of the Pashtun

January 05, 2016, 01:52 PM

Slippery Pete

So sorry to hear this. Prayers sent to renew your strength.

January 05, 2016, 02:02 PM

mark123

quote:
Originally posted by lbj:
Geez, I am stunned by the incredible numbers of members posting support.

Thanks.

I thought most had forgotten me from the way back time when I was more active here on the site with Admin duties.

Wow.

You offered support through a few bad times and I never forgot it. Even way back when I first came aboard here you were good to me. You went to bat for me when I got ripped off in the classifieds that one time and you just sent emails of encouragement when I had "one of those days".

You're not exactly forgettable.

January 05, 2016, 02:07 PM

Cliff

quote:
Originally posted by mark123:
quote:
Originally posted by lbj:
Geez, I am stunned by the incredible numbers of members posting support.

Thanks.

I thought most had forgotten me from the way back time when I was more active here on the site with Admin duties.

Wow.
You offered support through a few bad times and I never forgot it. Even way back when I first came aboard here you were good to me. You went to bat for me when I got ripped off in the classifieds that one time and you just sent emails of encouragement when I had "one of those days".

You're not exactly forgettable.

I remember those Admin Duty days as well. I totally agree with Mark.

"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

--Sir Winston Churchill

"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."

--James Earl Jones

January 05, 2016, 02:56 PM

erj_pilot

lbj,

I'm still a mere neophyte in this forum, but know that you are very highly revered by all of us here. Prayers are with you and yours, my friend.

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power...to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. - Mark 16:15
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up... - James 5:15

"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24

January 05, 2016, 04:46 PM

wingfoot

Sorry to hear the news, prayers already sent your way.

January 05, 2016, 05:39 PM

S600MBUSA

quote:
Originally posted by Angus the Kid:

How many people remember this:

And now, for the rest of the story

January 05, 2016, 05:49 PM

Ed Fowler

Sorry to hear about our trouble, my sincere hopes and prayers for your coming out if it in good shape.

January 05, 2016, 05:58 PM

eweiss

Prayers sent.

January 05, 2016, 06:18 PM

Skins2881

Prayers for a full recovery and no pain.

January 05, 2016, 06:41 PM

lbj

That girl kicked me off that bench too.

I had the brain and upper chest scans this afternoon.
I got a bit emotional during the scans themselves in the sense of praying during the procedure and all sorts of thoughts going through my mind.
I had a tear fall out of each eye from the outside corners during the process.

The scan only lasted about 10 minutes but it seemed time stood still while thoughts filled my head. I was thinking about me, thinking about my family, and praying for us all.

I have a bone scan tomorrow and then Thursday we will get the results.

I also saw the doctor who will be doing the hernia repair after the kidney is removed and he told me how that will go. I will get some sort of mesh put in.

We talked a bit about the cancer and he said it is encouraging in the sense that the kidney mass being so long in place and not finding much in the way of spreading in the first scan that if 10 years old, the mass attached to my kidney may be encapsulated and to hope for that.

All but the bone scan is done, so it is make or break time regarding what is found or not found.

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New and improved super concentrated me:
Proud rebel, heretic, and Oneness Apostolic Pentecostal.

There is iron in my words of death for all to see.
So there is iron in my words of life.

January 05, 2016, 06:47 PM

21bubba

You'll be fine. We all can't be wrong.

January 05, 2016, 06:49 PM

cgode

Hoping those head and chest scans come back clear lbj.....stay strong, prayers inbound.

January 05, 2016, 06:53 PM

lbj

Today has been an emotional one, more so than yesterday.

Yesterday was the shock and acceptance day, today is the day it all hits home in the sense of the possible ramifications for me and my family.