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

[waynorth]

Chemo and the outcome.
I’ve mentioned in a number of conversations that I’m taking chemotherapy for cancer. Many of you have done the same. My prognosis is that once this round of chemo stops working, I will go into hospice here at home and let nature take its course. Could be months yet but that is the inevitable outcome. I just want to be clear. No condolences needed. It’s just my life and I live each day grateful to see the sun rise and I make it as good a day as I can.

maybe buy a new knife …

Hang in there, Buddy!! The porch is an enormously supportive place, and helped me through a very rough patch!! Let these great folks step up!!

Don't forget to post your new knife!!

 

[meako]

Mayonardo
Never surrender!
I cant find a link but I remember a story from the 80s about an guy who was diagnosed with cancer and given 3 months.
He checked himself out ,put his boots on and pushed a wheelbarrow across Australia...Across the Nullabor Plain!!...he was still going 8 years later....
point being he didnt give in..
May the sun be on your back.

 

[Modoc ED]

Mayonardo - I've found that one day at a time is the way to go. Looks like that's the path you've chosen too. Any time you need to vent come here. I complained about having to go to wound care one day and these guys/gals busted my chops telling me to cheer up and just get through the day. It wasn't because they were being sympathetic so much as it was that they cared - at least that's what I care to believe. What ever you believe in or how you believe, "Keep the Faith".

 

[Mayonardo]

Mayonardo - I've found that one day at a time is the way to go. Looks like that's the path you've chosen too. Any time you need to vent come here. I complained about having to go to wound care one day and these guys/gals busted my chops telling me to cheer up and just get through the day. It wasn't because they were being sympathetic so much as it was that they cared - at least that's what I care to believe. What ever you believe in or how you believe, "Keep the Faith".

Thanks so much. I know there is a kind of hidden association many of us have with the disease. Many brave souls.

Yes, today is THE day. I am happy that I get to keep experiencing them, one at a time.
I future the guys and gals who inhabit the porch are not going to let me get away with much. That’s as it should be.
Thanks again, and make it a good day!

 

[Prester John]

Happy Columbus Day, everyone!

It is my tradition (for at least 25 years now) to celebrate with a cigar, one of the most delightful products of the New World.

Wishing everyone a safe holiday.

 

[Scott J.]

That's a great tradition you got going. I'm going to steal it. I'm embarrassed to say I didn't even realize that today was Columbus Day until I got no mail. Nothing on TV etc

 

[Prester John]

That's a great tradition you got going. I'm going to steal it. I'm embarrassed to say I didn't even realize that today was Columbus Day until I got no mail. Nothing on TV etc

It was a bigger deal when I was younger. I still celebrate Lincoln's Birthday (Feb. 12) and George Washington's (Feb. 22).

 

[Scott J.]

It was a bigger deal when I was younger. I still celebrate Lincoln's Birthday (Feb. 12) and George Washington's (Feb. 22).

Yeah, I hear ya. Kids used to get off school for Columbus Day, hopefully we at least keep President's Day even if it's a two for one now.
Kudos to you for keeping it alive.

 

[Will Power]

 

[Cutfinger]

PA ? (Political Arena)

 

[redsparrow]

Should be required reading along with Orwell's, Animal Farm.

 

[screened porch]

I haven't read Animal Farm, though I hear that all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

 

[Scott J.]

I haven't read Animal Farm, though I hear that all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Just buy it and keep it in the bathroom and you'll have read it in a week, less if you're a Taco Bell regular. It's a fantastic little book, it says sooo much in so few pages.

 

[afishhunter]

My ex and a couple others would be so disappointed if they ever found out what the doc said today.
"You'll see past 85, if I have anything to say about it!"

 

[Prester John]

I haven't read Animal Farm, though I hear that all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

That's all you need. Interesting book, though.

 

[Henry Beige]

Since those statues of Confederate generals and politicians went up, not at the end of the Civil War to honor war heroes, but after Reconstruction, as a reassertion of white supremacy in the Jim Crow era, we don’t really lose much in the way of history or culture by tearing them down.

 

[knarfeng]

Politics and items of Political Correctness are not discussed on the Porch.

 

[rbeggs]

Maybe not your history or culture...

 

[Jack Black]

 

[Ramrodmb]

I love gum!

Just don't mention country of origin!