- Tue Jan 13, 2015 9:00 pm
#52347
Well, Well, Well, I stumble back into the old town Hall for the first time in eons and what to my tired old eyes doth appear to welcome me back? Why it's a Beautiful Busty Blonde! I am touched that The welcoming committee remembered me as a sucker for long-haired blondes! Nice to meet you Star!
And it was a delight to scroll down the page and see "Long timers" Manda (I love the way you've brought in 2015!) and Honora (Love the pro pic, you're looking more beautiful than ever.) and Sugar and Rufus are even here. (speaking of long-haired blondes . . . .)
You'll just have to excuse me for stumbling past all the guys, that's just the way I roll!
I've been promising a couple of you long time COFFers and COFFettes for some time now, that I would stop in and say Hi. Soooo, since I've been housebound for the past few weeks I thought it was about time to do exactly that. The past few months has been a pretty crazy time for me. In mid-September,right in the middle of trucking season, I went to the emergency room with terrible pain in my gut. Was diagnosed with diverticulitis, spent 12 daysin the hospital being bombarded with all sorts of antibiotics.
In the process of getting that under control and having serveral CT scans done, a spot was detected on my pancreas. A biopsy determined that this was benign at that point but the doctors also felt that it was the type of growth that could easily turn cancerous in time. I was introduced to the only surgeon between San Francisco and LA that specialized in pancreatic surgery. After two long discussions with her I decided to go ahead and have the surgery done. The first step was to endure six weeks of no food or drink by mouth. IV feedings only to allow the inflammation in my pancreas time to subside.
Three days before Thanksgiving I spent 12 hours on the operating table. And then a day and a half enduring terrible, wild hallucinations brought on by the anesthetic. The first week of December I came home, to start what is likely to be a very long recovery process. I lost about 40% of my stomach in the process and a good sized piece of my pancreas. Bit the very good news is that my blood sugar has returned to normal, pancreas is working just like new, they successfully removed two cancerous tumors from my pancreas and the last comment from my internal medicine doctor was,"your cancer has been CURED!" I'm not ashamed to admit, I cried like a baby when I heard that word!
I know I passed the TMI threshold long ago so I'll sign off for now but I will be back! Consider yourselves warned!
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