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Thanks yet again Ted! You just made my day! Again! :thumbup:
Still think I'm an Old Hippie?

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Thanks yet again Ted! You just made my day! Again! :thumbup:
And still proud to know you. Never saw me with long hair and a beard? Been a while, but true. Some of the best folk I know are old hippies who made it through the early days with morals and honor intact. Whether they cut their hair, beards or not.Still think I'm an Old Hippie?![]()
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Well, just got paroled yet again. Not sure where this is going to end up but no matter what I have had a great ride,
To the winners, I hope all the Bling arrived in one piece, if not let me know ASAP.
To those in contact with my wife and to those who send get well wishes......................THANK YOU!!!
My uncle needs your prayers/smoke/good thoughts. His cancer has come back and is very aggressive. He's not taking too well to the chemo either.
Got my new marching orders and it may just be the Spring weather, but I'm feeling a hell of a lot more upbeat. I get one more just-in-case round of chemo come the 5th, get one line yanked out and another stuck in on the 11th (I swear these assholes just like punching holes in me. I'm starting to feel like the drywall in Mike Tyson's house.) Then into the hospital for the transplant on April 21st. This is all, of course, barring any further setbacks, but I figure I have to run out of those at some point and now is as good a time as ever.
It's a bone marrow transplant which, thank God, isn't nearly as gruesome as it sounded to me when they first mentioned it. They collect healthy stem cells from me, then hit me with enough chemo to damn near kill me, then they transfuse the stem cells back in so it will regrow all the marrow they wiped out. My dad calls it the Lazarus treatment as he says they're gonna kill me then bring me back.