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1. Go to Washington D.C. to watch Congress try to figure out what they are doing
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They don’t have to come here to see that. All they have to do is tune to the comedy Channel 
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john, from this angle i've come to recogniz(s)e people by their nostrils and navels and everyone seems 8 feet tall. (chuckle)
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Put up a sign,,"From this perspective I can examine your belly button for a small fee...", 10 cents extra for rings....LOL.
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OK, I think this thread has run its course?
Anyway John, glad you're back.
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I'll say it as it is, I lost my mother, dad, grandfather to this crap...........if I get it I will refuse the treatment, my wife and myself have made a pact to this due to US prices..........If Canada can do the job, great, but here it's bankruptcy................May God do what may, and hope you live another 30 years. Music will keep you living for ever...................................Keep it coming.
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I asked about that option, do nothing. Less than 3 months. As it is I get an 85 percent chance of being around 5 years from now. Sorry!
I can understand the costs. The chemo clinic alone part of the building treats 90 to 120 people a day. In that you do chemo 1 day a week that exptrapolates to over 500 people a week. It is the "Regional Cancer Centre" and that has always peed off people from the boonies..." So if you look at Ontario that arm going up near the Soo USA is serviced from our hospital 200 miles away. What they do is give you a dorm room for the week you are having treatment, a free ride, and a shuttle bus to take you to the cancer centre. So they put all the resources in one building. I can call and a driver comes to my house and takes me there, but that's a volunteer, there were 12 of them the other day...sitting waiting for a call having coffee. I'm only a 6 dollar cab ride away, but the rides are free and I'm not sure, I like to support the new Canadians trying to eke out a living in a cab, heck the guy might be a Cancer Doc from Uzbeckiztan...
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Don't want to stir up a hornet's nest on the back of an encouraging and positive thread about and for John here, but critters post saddens me deeply. How tragic that so many in the worlds most wealthy nation live in such fear of serious illness, not just for the morbidity/mortality aspects, but of themselves and their family being financially ruined.
God bless America sure, and I'm sincere in that, no sarcasm or irony there but even though I am no socialist (ask my pinko brother) I am just so grateful I live in a system where I don't have to face that fear.
Even if Obama achieves nothing else of lasting significance, I suggest his achievements toward universal health coverage will provide him a lasting legacy. Once you guys give it a fly for a few years, you'll never choose to go back. Cost is 1.5% of gross yearly income here in Australia. They take it out of your yearly tax return. When I hear accounts like critters it blows me away your society can function like that. Sorry!
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Don't be sorry. I'm just in awe that a country that gave bailouts to banks could have given everyone in the country free health care for 11 years with the same cash. Odd that....
There's good and bad everywhere, nothing is perfect, but I'm happy to be here, I've no decisions to make, I just get taken care of....Now if I could pick the nurses, they'd all be the girls from Ipememia...tall and tanned and young and...
Whoops never mind...LOL.
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john, did you hear about the okie who won an olympic gold medal? he liked it so much that he decided to have it bronzed.
just trying to keep your spirits up.
you are obviously very well loved.
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paging mister conley, paging mister conley...
please check in john, you are scaring me me we bucko.
btw, did you ever get your navel and nostril inspector's permit?
ps: drinking thickened coffee through a straw gives me something to do all day.
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John,
Our best wishes for a miraculous and speedy recovery. Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed report of your illness. It's wonderful to read that you still can maintain a sense of humor. Please keep us up to date.
And if I can help with any book or movie recommendations to help you pass the time please let me know.
Best,
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Well I considered invading the U.(undeveloped) S.(outhern) A. (rea) just as a test of the defence system. I had a bone scan on Friday, and they scan you, stick radioactive dye into your blood, send you away, and you come back for an hour, which turned into 4. Some doctor sat in another room and wanted continual higher res pictures of certain areas and that took a lot of extra time. After they gave me a wallet card saying that if I crossed a border I was treated with radioactive agent X and I might set off alarms. It was signed by a radiation doctor with a 24 hour call number. I wanted to go to Port Huron just to see them scramble jets and blackhawks, but alas, didn't seem up to the mischief. The nuclear medicine department has 4 great huge machines and there was a steady stream of people in that area on Friday, it's one of the last areas on the old site where the hospital was when I was born, all the rest of the departments have moved to a huge ultra modern regional centre and the nuclear medicine department was moving on the weekend, so it was the last day there. All 5 kids in my family were born in that location...and I remember like yesterday my brothers and I all having our tonsils out in the children's hospital across the road connected by an underground tunnel. You went through the tunnel to the OR and I'd be 8 or so and we went in a convoy in 'cribs' and I was pretty upset at being in a cage at that age. I remember the popsicles after and wanting to kill my youngest brother who cried all the time.
The growth in my neck 5 weeks ago a pea is now a full fledged baseball. It's really starting to affect the carotid artery which looks like my fat index finger sticking below it, and I have to drop in daily to make sure the blood flow is ok. They talked about putting in an 'open incision' to allow the tumour to move out, and let the nerves and blood vessels work, but I have a 5 hour chemo and then radiation on Tuesday so they hope that shrinks it by 20 percent in the next week.
After Tuesday it's radiation every day for 7 weeks, and chemo every Tuesday. I have prescriptions out the ying yang, special Aloe cream for Radiation Burns, non alcoholic mouthwash (according to my doc using Scope 5 times a day (sometimes more for me) is the same in cancer terms as having 5 drinks per day, and they think this is causing oral cancer...NICE. I got 200 percocets, just take them as you wish. Heck when you were well and broke 3 toes getting an asprin out them was like a major deal, get cancer and if you want take morphine home and shoot up, kid you not.
So I'm down 40 pounds, bought an AKAI EWI4000s which I'm learning to play. Like learning anything the fingering has been slow, I make mistakes and figure them out when sleeping. Sounds good through the Ketron...
I'm up early I have a great huge filet mignon about 5 pounds. There was a lot of fat, and if you know yer butchering it the roast has 3 muscles, with silver and some fat between them. I took it apart and cut off the silver and fat, put it back together with rosemary, peppercorns, bay leaves, herb de province, and flaked Austrian sea-salt, and olive oil, trussed it with butcher's twine, with the fat on the top to drip on it, and plan to sear it with a mustard crust and then slow roast it. Mother's Day, probably her last, she's 83.
So this is the week, and I hoped for some nice weather but it's +1C and it was so windy trees were falling for the last 3 days. I could use with some nice summer like days.
That's about it, I'm crossing my fingers this didn't spread to my bones, I do have a very bad case of osteoporosis and it' possible some cramping lead to cracks in bones, it's happened before.
DON: now I've have to dig around, coffee thickened with boost is OK but #2 Amber maple syrup, about a teaspoon in your coffee makes it really really good. My bottle is just about out, I might have to drive somewhere and get some more, producers often sell the #2 dark or amber to high end restaurants, it's got a LOT of flavour.
Hope you are still getting treated like a king....a little pampering is a good thing.
I just got 5 Nevil Shute books, read them as a kid, and Amazon is so efficient. I might get a kindle so I can read, I don't have the energy to cut the grass, but I am frigging around on the keyboard still.
Take Care......
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Hi John,Only just come on to the PG site and seen your medical problems I wish you well and hope everything turns out ok Cheers Frankie
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good to see you, you crazy canuckastani! you had me worried. yes, i'm still getting the royal treatment. i love the facijity and the staff and the food is great albeit pureed.
keep smiling john, i love you.
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Goodness, John, that's an incredibly fast-growing tumor. All the best toward getting it under control.
In the midst of it all, you got an Akai wind controller? Congratulations! Are you using the brass or the woodwind fingering?
As has been said by many, you certainly haven't lost your sense of humor (humour?). That is helping you, no doubt.
I never dreamed a quick question about how you were doing would turn into the forum's longest current thread (along with a similar thread about Don). It's a tribute to you, John.
Best Wishes,
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Glad you resurfaced, John . . . I'll admit to being a little concerned. Had a chuckle thinking about Port Huron's loss - still LOL at your spur of the moment thought. Coffee, boost and maple syrup - hmmm - the Conley Breakfast Cocktail - thinking of Lightfoot's song "I'm on my second cup of coffee, boost and maple syrup, And I still can't face the dawn." (apologies to Gord) Do ya think Timmy's might be interested in this concoction, John?????? That steak sounds pretty good too. Enjoy the day - heading for freezing tonight up here in Out-a-way. Ah well not cold enough for the brass monkeys to worry. Best - Ian
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Yeah, forecast is for below freezing here tonight too.
Just put the flowers in Friday, it figgers..
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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That is a drag, Bob. Ah yes - life is what happens while you're making other plans.
Any way to protect them?
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i think they're feeding me filet mignon but once pureed its just hamburger anyway. btw, is there any ham in hamburger?
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Ian, I gave the wife a coffee with 1 percent like usual and snuck in the maple surple. Her first words were I hate sugar in coffee but this is outstanding, sell it to Tim Hortons. As both are Canadian I doubt I can claim credit.
Hey I just did Pussy willows cat tails, should send you the file, no melody in it though...all RealInstruments the guitar and fiddle make a great sound. Gordo would like it.
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