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This is the GAW Announcement and discussion Thread - Discuss Colon Cancer all you want. 
The sign-up thread is separate over in the Becker forum.
Today, December 03, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of discovery of the unusual mass in my colon.
December 10, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of being gutted like a fish, a foot of my colon being removed, having my guts stuffed back in kinda
where they came from and the beginning of my recovery from colon cancer, to include chemotherapy.
To celebrate these two historic events, I have decided to have a Give-Away. The sign-up period will run from today until December 31, 2013.
The prize will be a used Kabar BK2. (Is there any other kind?) It is lightly used and does not have a box, but it does have a sheath. READ THE RULES. THEY ARE NOT DIFFICULT.
This thread is being started in General Knife Discussion forum and the Becker sub-forums. The GKD thread is for notification of the GAW and discussion. The Becker sub-forum thread is the actual sign me up- Im in thread.
The purpose of this thread, over and above the GAW, is to raise colon cancer awareness. In a nut shell, I did not know that my father had had polyps removed when he had his Age 50 Colonoscopy so I never knew to tell my doctor about it and so get put into an early screening program. Had I been in such a program, the docs would have found the polyps in my gut long before they became a 6 inch long, 2 inch diameter tumor. No chemo would have been required and I would not have already seen the pearly gates. (No, I didnt get rejected. Thats another story.)
After my cancer was found, one sister had pre-cancerous polyps removed, another sister had a stage 1 tumor removed, my niece (at age 23) had polyps removed. My dad subsequently died of metastasized colon cancer because, being a hard headed German, he refused to have another colonoscopy. (His had been done w/o anesthesia and he refused to have another even though he was told they knock you out now. See hard headed German.
Dont be afraid to ask your parents. If you dont ask you may end up like me or worse dead because it metastasized before you found it. I should have been dead, because most colon cancers metastasize within 3 5 years of starting. Mine, by doctors estimates, was over 9 years old. Yep, shoulda died from the cancer and then shoulda died from the chemo. Thats the other story.
Here are the rules. Yes, rules. They are very simple.
Requirements to be IN are as follows
Rule number 1 - Must be a participating BASIC or HIGHER member with at least 50 posts on BF. None of these I just signed up to post in GAW people. Nothing against registered users really, but the price of admission at the Basic level is cheap, cheap, cheap ($10 per year less than 84 cents a month) to help Spark keep this thing going. If you are not Basic or above, but become so by the end of the sign up period, you are good to go.
Rule number 2 You must post that you are in the GAW in the thread over in the Becker sub-forum. I dont care if you are a Beckerhead or not. Posting Im in here in the GKD sub-forum thread is not a valid entry. I dont care if you never post in the Becker sub-forum again. Thats up to you. In fact, my preference would be for a non-Becker owner be the winner for the big reason of bringing another non-Becker person over to the Light-side of The Force. But the winner will be determined by a random number generator to keep me from having to pick.
Rule number 3 there are no other rules.
Good luck!!!
The sign-up thread is separate over in the Becker forum.Today, December 03, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of discovery of the unusual mass in my colon.
December 10, 2013 is the 10th anniversary of being gutted like a fish, a foot of my colon being removed, having my guts stuffed back in kinda
where they came from and the beginning of my recovery from colon cancer, to include chemotherapy.
To celebrate these two historic events, I have decided to have a Give-Away. The sign-up period will run from today until December 31, 2013.
The prize will be a used Kabar BK2. (Is there any other kind?) It is lightly used and does not have a box, but it does have a sheath.
READ THE RULES. THEY ARE NOT DIFFICULT.This thread is being started in General Knife Discussion forum and the Becker sub-forums. The GKD thread is for notification of the GAW and discussion. The Becker sub-forum thread is the actual sign me up- Im in thread.
The purpose of this thread, over and above the GAW, is to raise colon cancer awareness. In a nut shell, I did not know that my father had had polyps removed when he had his Age 50 Colonoscopy so I never knew to tell my doctor about it and so get put into an early screening program. Had I been in such a program, the docs would have found the polyps in my gut long before they became a 6 inch long, 2 inch diameter tumor. No chemo would have been required and I would not have already seen the pearly gates. (No, I didnt get rejected. Thats another story.)
After my cancer was found, one sister had pre-cancerous polyps removed, another sister had a stage 1 tumor removed, my niece (at age 23) had polyps removed. My dad subsequently died of metastasized colon cancer because, being a hard headed German, he refused to have another colonoscopy. (His had been done w/o anesthesia and he refused to have another even though he was told they knock you out now. See hard headed German.
Dont be afraid to ask your parents. If you dont ask you may end up like me or worse dead because it metastasized before you found it. I should have been dead, because most colon cancers metastasize within 3 5 years of starting. Mine, by doctors estimates, was over 9 years old. Yep, shoulda died from the cancer and then shoulda died from the chemo. Thats the other story.
Here are the rules. Yes, rules. They are very simple.
Requirements to be IN are as follows
Rule number 1 - Must be a participating BASIC or HIGHER member with at least 50 posts on BF. None of these I just signed up to post in GAW people. Nothing against registered users really, but the price of admission at the Basic level is cheap, cheap, cheap ($10 per year less than 84 cents a month) to help Spark keep this thing going. If you are not Basic or above, but become so by the end of the sign up period, you are good to go.
Rule number 2 You must post that you are in the GAW in the thread over in the Becker sub-forum. I dont care if you are a Beckerhead or not. Posting Im in here in the GKD sub-forum thread is not a valid entry. I dont care if you never post in the Becker sub-forum again. Thats up to you. In fact, my preference would be for a non-Becker owner be the winner for the big reason of bringing another non-Becker person over to the Light-side of The Force. But the winner will be determined by a random number generator to keep me from having to pick.
Rule number 3 there are no other rules.
Good luck!!!
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