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if tara got as far as ontario and ran into john playing hockey on his backyard skating rink they may have gone back to columbia for my coffee. btw, my cherokee sumo wrestler aide turned out to be a wonderful gal. she keeps me in cold drinks and checks on me often. so where are you john? inquiring minds you know.

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Sponge bath time Don!!!


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I'm in the hawspittal. Got me a fever on Monday. Fever in the evening, fever all thru the night. Bad deal for oncology ..no fever allowed, so right into iso in the emerg icu, hide in corner no passum go.

Then they said need Tuesday chemo sabi, go home. I went home, got Chemo Tuesday, was hard on me, couldn't swallow on Wed, one sip coffe in, on sip coffee out, out my nose!..

Now I've got a private suite with ensuite shower and bath, a picture of row boats, a view of the other tower (If it wasn't there I could see the house I was 'born' in.) and right behind the nurses desk for a running commentary.

I'm waiting for a time for a feeding tube installation. Once that's done a day to have it seal, a day of instruction on how to use it, and then I use it, then I get a home nurse.

I think I've given 10 pints of blood for 80 procedures, had 6 heart monitor strips, 15 bags of Sodium/Potassium Chloride, anti nausea stuff, morphine whatever, man this is one tough deal. The doc says to me yesterday that I am younger than most therefore it's hitting me harder. Makes no sense to me but whatever.

So here I am, draining the Ontario Health System of cash, good thing the cost to me is zip, I'd be down to my last cow if I lived in Oaaaaaaaklahhhhhomaaaaaaa. Why does spell check miss the fact that that there is a musical?

I hope Tara shows up Don, why not send her a card? Invitation....!!


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John,

Sounds like you are going through very tough times, you remain in our thoughts and prayers.

Best To Ya!

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You are in our prayers my friend.


I phoned my wife and asked her if she wanted me to pickup fish and chips on the way home.
She just grunted.
She still regrets me naming the twins.

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I hope Tara shows up Don, why not send her a card? Invitation....!!




john, my canuckastani amigo, i thought about sending tara a card but then i would feel obligated to teach her how to read.

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Yeah, rodeo groupie girls and reading eh? Kinda like yer frenchcanuckistanettes and swingin' on poles without their laundry, gave up on reading after

duc
duk
dukk

motdite

je danserai

and so
(cue stripper song) (ps if you have chart for that share eh..*)

da da da ta da da da )b00m)

ok back to serious, they take my temperature in Celcius huh..

Metric kinda sicko...


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john, celsius is a great way to keep your temperature down, eh? my head nurse, amy, (talk aboot yer basic medical specialization - she only nurses my head) just came in to kiss my cheek and my temperature jumped a full 30F. she's 40 and cute as they get but, yuk, she wears a diamond stud in her nose. erstwhile, if your temperature rises, tell them to read the C-scale, you haven't been calibrated for the F-scale yet and horn players do everything in Bb.

on a rare, but very sincere serious note, i am deeply concerned for you and think about you constantly, my friend. my efforts at levity are only meant to cheer you and not to make light of the terrible ordeal you are going through. i am quite confident that you are well aware of my intentions but i want to assure you that i love you and care a lot.

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How could anyone from Oklahoma with a dancing chicken have anything but the best intentions?!?!?!


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Hard to say, I've heard about staying out too long in the Oklahoma Sun.

It's a wunder full wirld where you can get internet wi fi for 9 bucks a day or 19 bucks a week in your hospital room. Like the TV the hospital makes money off that and parking and renting out space for selling coffee...dang smells good, but my taste buds are radiated and nothing tastes right at all, water tastes like eating chrome.

I get the feeding tube at 10 this a.m. They had 7 people on the list and went around yesterday and prioritized everyone based on need and one person gets to stay until Monday, I get mine 2nd and out on Sunday. And a gal to come to the house and make sure it's all set up right.

Fun and yer games.

The electric guitar and double bass duo were downstairs yesterday and just as I'm being wheeled out I hear the tune, and tell the porter over there to the piano as I croaked out the last of Don't Get Around Much any More in C. Little clap, good tune, fit to a T me in a wheelchair...heading back to the 7th floor.

Something like 10,000 people work at the hospital, no small place.

They say I'll be a new person once I gain some weight back and the oncologist is happy my one time lemon in the neck is but a nub now, and my stay that way, I'm 1/2 way through treatment now and if it's still a hard pea at the end they take it out along with the rest of the lymph nodes on that side of my neck.

Thanks for the encouraging words, the sky is not cloudy today, it's very foggy!


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john, ole buddy, now you've got me checking posting times. what in the world are doing up at 5:01 am? besides pestering the nurses, that is.

i wanna ask you aboot your feeding tube. is it surgically implanted through your abdomen or down your esophagus? if i can't gain or maintain my weight they wanna put one through my abdomen but i'm delaying that as long as possible.

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Don,
I'm just going to open up a Burger King next to you and force feed you Whoppers and Chocolate Milk Shakes!

Of course, you'll probably die from coronary disease, but at least you'll be heavier. LOL

<looks in the mirror and the smirk goes away...quickly >

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john, got a new aide today named megan and she's a cherokee princess who definitely can't grow a beard. she confirms the rumor that the cherokee are a beautiful race of people. a lot of them work here and they all are raven-haired beauties. they all have cherokee names as well but i'll be hanged if i can remember any of them nor would i be able to spell them.

hope you are doing well today. btw, is your replumbing job permanent or just till your throat mends? mine would be permanent if i should accept it.

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Don, my tube is the thru the wall of the stomach type, and I'm recommending it. I take some stuff through a pump, on the preliminary run up now, increase the dosage until I go home. Tasty (can't taste a thing). The thru the nose one I have too, and it's messy, and it's coming out this morning, interferes with swallowing and pulls. The other one is a few minutes pain, I think from into the room until out took about 30 minutes. A bit sore the next day but what the hey.

I thought I was in NASA, you know us backwoods canucks, they had 6 Big screen tv's bopping around on some huge scoreboard and not even any sign of a hockey game. That pump they hooked the thing up to is running all night just a tease, but up to full bore sometime to day. Then they are going to feed me all night and I can do whatever all day. They grind up stuff like meds and throw them into a syringe and whack that into there too. Seems like a good deal to John. Now I 'd rather be tasting the beans and maple syriop but they've fried my taste buds with the radiation so that's out.

The nurses are keeping me going, and vice and versa. Same day, second verse.

They now say it's going to be Monday but probably Tuesday before I head home meaning I've spent a week here in solitary, (well the wife and kids and Mom and Dad have made it in), but private room with a view of the lightinin' show.

Tc you old galatte, tuck yer pants into yer wellies, the water's risin'.


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john, i hate weekends here cuz they break out the newbie aides and i have try and make myself understood. they are trained to ask me yes or no questions but not 5 at once. my answers get out of sync i end up with a suppository instead of a cappuccino. but it has its plus side...they'll forget to thicken my coffee and i'll get a normal cup once in awhile till somebody catches me but i just point to the aide and let them take all the flack for it cuz taking some flack is good training too lol. i've learned that drinking thickened coffee through a straw gives me something to do all day. tracy, my regular weekday aide, makes me a reese's peanut butter cup cappuccino before waking me each weekday morning. i am very fortunate to have her assigned to me permanently, she's an angel in scrubs and i don't know what i'd do without her. for being on the bottom end of the pay scale she makes this place run and she's the 'go to girl' if you wanna get something done. i'd guess she's 23 or so with a 2 year old baby girl, the cutest little thing. she brought her in to meet me. i just sent for a cappuccino but i'll either get milk of magnesia or another suppository. i've learned to play the odds and, since i don't have room for yet another suppository, there's a 50/50 chance i'll get my coffee. john, i buy my cappuccino by the case and would love to send you some but, since it comes in 2-pound plastic bags, it wouldn't get across the border. next installment i'll tell you about christine, my speech therapist, wow, she's beautiful. she's 27 and got her master's in speech-language pathology 3 years ago from osu so she's 'a hankerin' to get me to 'jawin' korect'.

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4 a.m. in Canuckistan,
And I'd trade my tube for a beer,
My mouth tastes bad,
And I'd be feeling glad,
If I could get outta here.

The popsicle doesn't help any,
And the nurses gotta help me pee,
A little to the left Jenny,
There now let me be.

Twas a time I stood tall
In the heartland
Twas a time I had a ball
But for now I'm wishing
I was fishing,
In canoe with Don in the sun.


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Don and John,
You guys are truly an inspiration.


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Hey Oakie. Now listen up. Got the thru the gut feeding tube. Much better. They can set the milkshake to run all night, and unhook you all day. Put pills in it. No more need for needles for the most part. I hardly know it's there today. Way better than that big tube down the nose.

So ask your Doc about pros and cons. Ask your nurses. Shaddup and listen. I say go for it, freedom. The only think for me is getting used to the grinding noise the worm gear pump makes shoving a few tablespoons an hour into my upper intestine. The actual tube goes into the stomache but extends about 2.5 feet into the bowel. Nice talk for a music forum eh? I played some good music this morning before the thing got moving, good thing no one lit a match eh? LOL. Feel WAY better now. Night and Day, you are the ONE, la la da, and under the sun....

Don't go by me, get all the info, ask for help, seems like you have lots. How you ever managed before this place is beyond me.


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Mornin' Don and John,

I quite agree with Sinbad and I'm sure most of us do. Truly inspirational.
Your collective musings . . . a-musings . . . are quite addictive to your readers. John, you should have been writing lyrics years ago. Spent some time in hospital back in the 70s - they let me take my guitar in with me - actually wrote some nice tunes while in there.

And Don, I love hearing about your care supporters - va-va-voom.

John, I was thinking about your comment:
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Nice talk for a music forum eh?


A good PR person can spin it this way . . . you mentioned beans and maple syrup . . . see where I'm going'? What was that kid's rhyme "Beans, beans the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot." Who says there's no musical discussion on this thread?

And Don . . . with your feeding tube and beautiful speech-language pathologist and wonderful day care, seems to me that they're helping you mind your p's and q's, and well looking after your bowels and vowels. Oh, I know, the humour's a bit rough but what the H-Eh-y

Have a comfortable day lads.
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I just had a wonderful orange popsicle. Why do they make them so cold?
And the chemo has hit the taste buds bad, it tasted like naptha.

My fright night nurse almost blocked the tube. I was getting some panicky. She had it narrowed down to one part, but couldn't let it be that, going back and forth. Broke her into a sweat. Man I was upset. I wanted her to let me do it. Finally I told her take his piece and soak it. Was ok then. I don't want to redo the puncture your belly and stomache because of a dim wit who didn't grind my pills right.

They do have an emergency group here to handle that type of thing, glad it got sorted out.

As to Don, well, he's a fish of a different colour being from yer south end of the Ewes' Eass of Eh, zippidy do yer da.

Now if he'd only get on here and describe his feedings in detail we'd be equal or maybe not.

At least being in the hospital the porters can wheel me to radiation without me leaving home and getting ready. What a bonus. Go for a burn and still wear a gown. Now they have loose fitting drawstring trews to cover your asspirations. They come in brown or brown. The wife says beige. That's not a colour.

Got the hospital gown blues,
Got the hospital gown blues,
My butt's hanging out, my back is bare
And there's nothing in the news.

Got the pretty nurse blues,
Got the pretty nurse blues,
Size 10 shoes, and I don't care
That's all the cancer ward news.

Got the hospital gown blues
Got the hospital gown blues
Gotta snooze, my butt is bare,
Got them hospital gown blues.

Hospital gown blues now,
Hospital gown blues now,
In the Cancer ward, a tube or two,
I got the hanging out, freezing butt, bare back sorry ol' blues.

Sorry Ian you asked for it LOL.


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Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Windows & Mac Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) is here with 200 brand new RealStyles!

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In this PAK you’ll discover: Minimalist Modern Funk, New Wave Synth Pop, Hard Bop Latin Groove, Gospel Country Shuffle, Cinematic Synthwave, '60s Motown, Funky Lo-Fi Bossa, Heavy 1980s Metal, Soft Muted 12-8 Folk, J-Pop Jazz Fusion, and many more!

All the Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 20 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 209 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Order now!

Learn more and listen to demos of the Xtra Styles PAK 20.

Video: Xtra Styles PAK 20 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!

Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 20 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.

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