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Originally Posted by horzverti
I meant to quote this above ↑↑
"Brian,
You seem to have been a bit tongue-in-cheek with some of your posts, so I also hope that you are only kidding about brain cancer. I don't know you outside of this board, so I can't really gauge if this is your sense of humor or not. If you are serious, then I sincerely also wish you the best with beating it and recovery." -me, two mins ago
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Thank you, Curt. No change since the surgeon got 91-95% of the tumor in the left side of my brain during surgery at UPMC Presbyterian on December 1, 2020. Went through six months of radiation every weekday and a chemo capsule in my apartment each evening. Originally on November 3, 2020 in the emergency room at St Clair Hospital I asked the doctor the prognosis and at 11:43 (this is my time memory which drives my sister-in=law up a wall) I was told 5-7 median. I turned my head to the right to my brother and told him immediately I was going to be around 30 years.
I approach this battle like a barroom brawl. Everything is legal and if I have this SOB down, I am not allowing time for it to get back up. The tests over the past three have backed my statement to my brother.
The only thing in the six months that annoyed me is that I was restricted from driving which is completely understandable. It, however, nearly interrupted a tradition I have held since 2004. My father died January 8, 2002. He was cremated. We interred him after his birthday in 2003.
Every May 11 from 2004-2020 I traveled from Pittsburgh to Fremont/Ballville, Ohio to pay respects. Because of the cautionary period I was at risk of missing it, but a friend volunteered and drove to and from. I will always be appreciative. Next year would have been my dad's 99th birthday and 2025 of course is a date I am missing at no cost, so to the Stage 2 Astrocytoma the barroom brawl is on.