"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

r redden said:
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I feel funny about mentioning this with Carl's troubles but I had another TIA (mini-stroke) and spent the weekend in the hospital. There were no residual symptoms this time which is a good thing I got home yesterday afternoon and starting to feel much better. They ran a lot of test and feel they are being triggered by A fib so I am going to have a long term heart monitor placed under the skin in my chest. There's an old Rolling Stones song called "Mothers Little Helper" that has a line in it that says "What a drag it is getting old" and I can relate to this line. :D
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Glad you made it through the experience and are back home with no long-term effects, Randy. :thumbsup::thumbsup: I hope the monitor helps control the situation. Funny that you mention that Stones song. It's one of many I've thought of recently as I consider doing one of my "Totin' Today" posts using comments that are all Stones' lyrics. :rolleyes:

kenspen said:
Carl, praying diligently for you and Karen. I know what a sucker punch that new is. I've been off the forum for a while now fighting inoperable brain cancer. So, rest assured, you and Karen will be in my thoughts and prayers!
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Good to see you back, Ken, :cool::) but sad to hear the reason you've been missing for a while. :( I've added your name to my prayer list. Your signature line is from a favorite hymn of both my grandfather and me! :cool::thumbsup:

jackknife said:
Again, thanks t you all for the prayers and well wishes. Things are a little tense right now since 7am tomorrow is when Karen goes into surgery and we find out if it's any in the lymph nodes. It's going to be a very good day or bad, can't tell yet. The surgeon is still very optimistic since the tumors are so small he's doing just two small lumpectomies and no mastectomy. Karen joked that she'll still have boobs, as if I care. I love this gal so much I don't care if they take some of her off, as long as she's still with me.

Okay, 13 hours to go. I think a bit of Even Williams may be needed tonight!
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Praying and hoping that all's going well today, Carl, and that you and Karen can deal with whatever the outcome turns out to be. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

- GT
 
Carl, I am praying for great results for Karen...and a peace that passes all understanding for you! Looking forward to a good report!

God Bless,
Ron
 
Okay, yesterday was a long day. Up at 5:30, in the hospital by 7, prepared and into surgery by 8. Sat out in the waiting room for a few hours with my sis in law, Diane waiting to hear anything. The surgeon came out after three hours and told us he's still very optimistic and we'll know by Monday when he gets the lab results back from what he went down. As I understand it, the question is that he got enough "good" tissue around what he took out, and that the lymph nodes he took test negative. If so, we're done and its' one with a normal life for Karen. If there's a negative from the lab, that means localized radiation and a course of chemo, with maybe more surgery. But he doesn't think so because all this was caught so early.

I guess I'l still keep the man upstairs on call till we find out. Gonna be a long time till Monday. Till than I'll keep that gal in bed for the next day or two with a hydrocoden every four hours. She's not in any pain with the good meds, and yesterday she was very soppy from the anesthesia that she went to sleep for the rest of the day. The doctor was very serious when he told me to go as far as to wake her up every four hours during the night to give her a pill. That way she stays ahead of the pain. Di's coming over in a while s I may get some sleep today while sis in law takes over.

So far, so good.
 
Thanks for keeping us posted Carl, I hope the next few days pass quickly for both of you, and that we'll all be celebrating next week :thumbsup:
 
Carl, sounds like the initial report is cause for optimism! I’m continuing to pray for you and Karen as you face an interminably long weekend.
 
Prayers said for Karen. Take care of yourself too, Carl!
 
Hope you both are resting comfortably, Carl. Here's hoping everything stays optimistic!!
 
jackknife said:
Okay, yesterday was a long day. Up at 5:30, in the hospital by 7, prepared and into surgery by 8. Sat out in the waiting room for a few hours with my sis in law, Diane waiting to hear anything. The surgeon came out after three hours and told us he's still very optimistic and we'll know by Monday when he gets the lab results back from what he went down. As I understand it, the question is that he got enough "good" tissue around what he took out, and that the lymph nodes he took test negative. If so, we're done and its' one with a normal life for Karen. If there's a negative from the lab, that means localized radiation and a course of chemo, with maybe more surgery. But he doesn't think so because all this was caught so early.

I guess I'l still keep the man upstairs on call till we find out. Gonna be a long time till Monday. Till than I'll keep that gal in bed for the next day or two with a hydrocoden every four hours. She's not in any pain with the good meds, and yesterday she was very soppy from the anesthesia that she went to sleep for the rest of the day. The doctor was very serious when he told me to go as far as to wake her up every four hours during the night to give her a pill. That way she stays ahead of the pain. Di's coming over in a while s I may get some sleep today while sis in law takes over.

So far, so good.
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This is excellent Carl... brought a smile to my face and a slight tear to the eye :) Thanks to you for starting this thread so many years ago as I'm sure it has brought smiles and perhaps tears to many people who likely will never meet in person but are here in spirit on The Porch :D:thumbsup:
 
Sounds promising, Carl. Fingers crossed and positive thoughts!
 
Great report. Thanks for keeping us up to date, Carl.
I know the whole porch will be praying and raising smoke for a positive test result on Monday.
 
Wow!!! Some pretty heavy stuff coming down right now.

Life is great- it really is, but it can be darned tough as well.
Randy- a warning to take it easy brother- theres been some stress lately- so Im guessing you need to shirk that new friend out of your life ( stress ) and sit back and enjoy.

Carl...I was sick - in fact very sick for three years, I always felt there was some kind of Alien sticking on the back of my neck- my Joints ( now this will sound weird ) actually felt sick..I felt sick and poisoned in my joints, I would have "attacks" that started one day when I was at the movies with my daughter- all my joints started to ache- and got worse and worse- as it worsened my body temp would drop and I felt horrifically cold- shaking like a leaf- couldn't steer my car into the driveway as I was shaking so bad...my breathing would be like you pulled me out of a ice river - then I would heat up after about 3 hours of this....and have a feverish spell for about 12 hours of sweating and not quite with it...
These would be at intervals of a month or so at the beginning- then they worked their way to being nearly every 4 to 5 days...it would take me a couple of days to get over an "attack"... 3 years of going to doctors etc...I was not in a good space- expecially after being so strong and active....
The doctor visit- which I think saved me I told my doc I was bleeding quite bad..... half an hour later the hospital rang me and booked me in 2 days to get scanned, Colonoscopy etc- yep...massive Bowel Cancer Tumour- and about a million scans later and more scares... I went through the course of getting chopped up ...
Today I saw my Surgeon - Dr Lincoln Israel, this man saved my life :), its been 5 years - he stood up and hugged me and said I was now an official survivor!:D:thumbsup:

I was saved because I didnt have an aggresive Cancer- Quite an unique one actually which grew within itself and didnt get to travel outside my bowel walls - it had all the time in the World to do it- 3 years of hell as the poisons from the Cancer was what was making me so so sick....
If it was an aggressive Cancer, I would be little piles of Worm :poop: now... so man I am the luckiest guy out! I guess its how you want to look at it.

I guess what I am trying to say Iis that your lovely wife is lucky- you may not think so, but she is...she has a chance, sounds like a darned good one at that - where others never did, and from the sounds of it her odds are looking good - I pray that they are.

My next mission is to one day have my Heart Aneurysm that is quite big now on my Aorta dealt with- theres no stenting that baby lol.

My Brother died when he was 29 years old...he had only just become a man....I am now twice as old as my older brother when he died.... so with life what I do is put such bad negatives into perspective and Thank God, My Wife and my friends and daughters for helping me get here, I could have died as a young baby, boy or young man where so many millions have before me and I am now have just passed 5 years lease of life when I should have died, so I am so so lucky & 5 years up! Hows That! :) :thumbsup:...gunning for a hang of a lot more lol
I dont feel sorry for myself at all, and hate people passing pity onto me - although I do still get a bit scared in the quite of night - sometimes wondering if I heard Cancer creeping up on me again.... but if I get hit again, Im just going to hit back as hard as I can - a bit like our mate Randy - geeez - talk about that saying of "You cant kill Weeds"!!!:eek: :D


Ken, I am so sorry to hear of your bad news, I hope more than anything you - with perhaps your wife or mates, children? are working down through that Bucket list and manage to have some good times!
 
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