I beat Cancer ... I hope :)

imalive wrote:

the following is from two years ago....a couple months after my surgery...

imalive wrote:

WOW! it's been a good day...first I drove up past park city with my brother-in-law. we were taking his kids to a sleepover at grandma's. the leaves are changing and it's gorgeous up there. in a minute, I'm going out for some lunch and beer at a place where they have comfy couches. in between those to things, the fed ex man came...

ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? this is probably the coolest gift I have gotten in my entire life!! whoever came up with the idea is a genius...so freaking cool, but something I never would have thought of. two of my loves, in one. thank you SO MUCH to halifax2themax, dottles, pj_rocks, paulina87, claireack, brianlux, whoprincess and giventolukinKP. I could sit here and type all afternoon and never be able to convey my gratitude.

EVERYONE who has ever sent me encouragement has helped me get thru this summer from hell. along with the hell, there have been some really special moments....this being at the top of this list. you don't need to wonder what I'll be wearing in vancouver on sunday night

I still feel the same about everyone who supported me thru that crap. I busted out the jersey in portland, even tho it was much too cold and damp to be running around in a jersey. but, as they say, "fashion first"

anyway, portland seems to be giants country . by the end of the night, I felt like kim k. being chased by the paparrazzi. the jersey was a huge fucking hit (again)

Black Diamond wrote:

norm wrote:

30 stitches?!?!?! :shock: :wtf:

Zipper Back?

imalive wrote:

and, oh yeah....I have 30 stitches in my back from having some melanoma removed last week.

the dermatologist is very matter-of-fact....."you'll most likely be fine but people do die from this stuff" :shock: :fp:

imalive wrote:

and, oh yeah....I have 30 stitches in my back from having some melanoma removed last week.

the dermatologist is very matter-of-fact....."you'll most likely be fine but people do die from this stuff" :shock: :fp:

imalive wrote:

Lizard wrote:

HI Rob . Wow... take care....


for some reason this pops in my head: "Must take quite a zit to kill a man!!"

:wave:

^^^^ :wave:

for whatever reason, I've kind of been an emotional wreck lately....I'm fine, but real emotional....I'm sure it's cuz our little doggie is dying of cancer and I've just been doing a lot of thinking....

so, anyway, my wife codie tells me to watch the following video....jason isbell of the drive by truckers...everyone in it is a twitter or facebook follower of jason (you KNOW I don't do that shit! )... my buddy and fellow cancer survivor jimmy is in it at the 2:39 mark. he kicked lung cancer's ass and survived several months in a coma. so, I'm already emotional and I watch this video. you can guess the result.

I love what all you guys have done for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMrJB1uhu64

She said Andy you're better than your past,
winked at me and drained her glass,
cross-legged on the barstool, like nobody sits anymore.
She said Andy you're taking me home,
but I knew she planned to sleep alone.
I'd carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor

If I had fucked her before she got sick
I'd never hear the end of it
she don't have the spirit for that now

We drink these drinks and laugh out loud,
bitch about the weekend crowd,
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
somehow

She said Andy you crack me up,
Seagrams in a coffee cup,
sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone.
When she was drunk she made cancer jokes,
she made up her own doctor's notes,
surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone.

I'd sing her classic country songs
and she'd get high and sing along.
She don't have much voice to sing with now

We'd burn these joints in effegy,
cry about what we used to be,
and try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Somehow

I buried her a thousand times,
giving up my place in line,
but I don't give a damn about that now

There's one thing that's real clear to me,
no one dies with dignity.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Somehow.
Somehow.