I have cancer
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_Jersey Girl
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Kev I know you're probably dealing with a million issues and thoughts right now. I just wanted to say that I hope you can achieve some clarity, a sense of direction, and make a space in your day to seek a sense of peace. I don't know how possible that is to do right now, but I hope you can find all three before long here. Thinking of you...
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
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Re: I have cancer
I'm so sorry to hear this, Kevin. Hang in there.
(And stay the hell off Google for a while!)
(And stay the hell off Google for a while!)
"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
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_Kevin Graham
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Re: I have cancer
Thanks everyone.
I'm flying to Brazil on Monday and will have surgery next week. After they remove the mass and we get the results from pathology, we'll know more. Hopefully it isn't the kind of cancer that spreads. If it is, they'll scan the rest of my body to determine if I need chemo or radiation treatment.
I'm flying to Brazil on Monday and will have surgery next week. After they remove the mass and we get the results from pathology, we'll know more. Hopefully it isn't the kind of cancer that spreads. If it is, they'll scan the rest of my body to determine if I need chemo or radiation treatment.
Re: I have cancer
Good luck with the surgery. I’ll be thinking of you.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
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_Kishkumen
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Kevin Graham wrote:Thanks everyone.
I'm flying to Brazil on Monday and will have surgery next week. After they remove the mass and we get the results from pathology, we'll know more. Hopefully it isn't the kind of cancer that spreads. If it is, they'll scan the rest of my body to determine if I need chemo or radiation treatment.
Good luck, sir. We have our fingers crossed for great news.
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_subgenius
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How much of your treatment/surgery is being covered by ACA? and are you glad that ACA was there for you now?
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I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them
what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams
If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
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_Doctor CamNC4Me
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Kevin Graham wrote:Thanks everyone.
I'm flying to Brazil on Monday and will have surgery next week. After they remove the mass and we get the results from pathology, we'll know more. Hopefully it isn't the kind of cancer that spreads. If it is, they'll scan the rest of my body to determine if I need chemo or radiation treatment.
I just want you to know I have a tremendous amount of respect for you, and I think you'll triumph. You're an incredibly resilient and, frankly, passionate man. Focus that energy into courage and go into this think like you're going to own it. I know your family is rallying around you. Lean on them and internalize their love.
You got this.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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_Jersey Girl
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Re: I have cancer
Kevin Graham wrote:Thanks everyone.
I'm flying to Brazil on Monday and will have surgery next week. After they remove the mass and we get the results from pathology, we'll know more. Hopefully it isn't the kind of cancer that spreads. If it is, they'll scan the rest of my body to determine if I need chemo or radiation treatment.
I'm happy to see a post from you. Over the years, whenever I am at odds with you, I've come to feel like I'm fighting with my kid brother. That's only a statement on our ages, not intended to demean you, and I feel that way about a couple of other posters that we know as well. I know that you know that there is never any animosity involved. So, if you don't mind a little sisterly advice from one who has gone toe to toe with you, here goes.
One thing I have never seen you do in all these years is be perfectly gracious to anyone. So don't be gracious now.
Take the gloves off, come out swinging, and kick it's damned ass, Kevin.
You are a fighter.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb
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subgenius wrote:How much of your treatment/surgery is being covered by ACA? and are you glad that ACA was there for you now?
Why does that matter? For all intents and purposes the ACA doesn't even exist anymore. We're living in the age of Trumpcare.
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_Kevin Graham
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Kevin Graham wrote:Thanks everyone.
I'm flying to Brazil on Monday and will have surgery next week. After they remove the mass and we get the results from pathology, we'll know more. Hopefully it isn't the kind of cancer that spreads. If it is, they'll scan the rest of my body to determine if I need chemo or radiation treatment.
I just want you to know I have a tremendous amount of respect for you, and I think you'll triumph. You're an incredibly resilient and, frankly, passionate man. Focus that energy into courage and go into this think like you're going to own it. I know your family is rallying around you. Lean on them and internalize their love.
You got this.
- Doc
I appreciate that man.