Been so long I may have forgotten what a TC Contender even looks like. Yes I know this is off topic, but most of my friends on GBO run this forum so hopefully Admin will allow it this one time. I'm not up to much computer time yet, so I appologize for the pasted update I am sending to friends. I'll get to the PM's as I can, so please bear with me...
Dear Friends,
As some of you may know, I have been fighting a hard battle with several cancers that have taken over my body along with other life threatening health issues the last 3-4 years in hopes of buying a little more time on terra firma. The battle I have fought alone and privately for the most part, but it all came to a head in early July. After endless biopsies, labs, clinics and tests I went through two surgeries here in Las Vegas in mid Oct for cancers. One will be successful eventually, the life threatening one failed. So I had little choice except to drop everything on a days notice and fly to San Diego for emergency surgery on 11/2 by a team of specialists there. After a barrage of labs and clinics I went under the knife in the wee hours of 11/5 for 9 hours, where they removed a few organs, remade one from parts of another and tried to get all traces of a very invasive and fast spreading cancer that was literally ending my life very quickly. Naturally every complication from this massive surgery possible reared its ugly head, so recovery was laced with follow up surgeries, it looks like I have permanent nerve damage to my legs that will reduce my mobility even further, and I will have to return to San Diego for possible additional surgery in 2-3 weeks – loosing more organs. So instead of what was suppose to be a two week trip turned into almost 6 weeks, most of it laying flat on my back staring at a ceiling 24/7 and not able to get up out of bed. I flew home last night at about 10,. The good news I guess is at least for now I have a better shot at hanging around for a little longer.
The trip home really beat me up big time, so it will be some time before I can do much towards building my strength and trying to get back to some kind of daily regime. Since I can do little more than lay in bed, walk around a little with the aide of a walker and sit at the computer for short sessions, I hope to fill some of the endless hours visiting and catching up with friends on line. Won’t be much at first as I tire very easily (in fact typing this has me pretty dizzy already and ready for a move back to bed).
Thank you again for your concern and well wishes. I’m a fighter and I will come through this at least as far as nature will let me heal.
More as I feel up to it,
Larry
