good lord dude! I hope you get better. amy

The hospital put one of my ads in the local newspaper over the weekend. I didn't even know until one of the guys at work showed me a copy. He gave it to me and I scanned it into my computer. It is now in with the pictures on my profile! Check it out!! Tim

Keep sending those prayers and thoughts: they ARE helping. It's been an interesting 3 weeks.On Monday, Oct 14, I was admitted to the Markey wing of the UK Hospital with a red cell count of 19 after two episodes that weekend in the UK emergency room after vomiting and pooping large amounts of blood. The chemo and anti-nausea drugs left me with a 4 centimeter pouch ulcer right at the stoma. After 3 "scopes", my team decided to see if a clot that had formed in the pouch could sustain healing as surgery was life threatening. With 6 units of blood and protonix to aid in healing, I weathered this latest hitch and went home Monday, the 22. We left the hospital and had a great day. At 7:00 PM, I was getting out of a recliner when my feeding tube came completely out so we drove to the UK emergency room. After 7 hours (the computers had been hit by a lightening strike and were down), we drove back with a new tube installed. Turns out, putting a new tube in is actually fairly simple, if all goes right. I received 5 days of radio last week: 12 more to go! The ulcer continues to heal!!! I see Dr. Neighbert, my bariatric Dr. after the last radio. We accepted Dr. Arnold's advice to quit chemo. She indicates that my ulcer was life threatening, the chemo way overachieved, and we can revisit it if the cancer returns later, which is unlikely. She will be monitoring my red counts twice weekly. I'm a pin cushion. I took several days to "catch up" on my sleep. I'm also sleeping even more as the radio makes me exhausted. This is most difficult, but also, most rewarding. Shrinking in more ways than one, Dave

How is everyone doing these days? How is the weight doing? Anyone had anything exciting going on? What ever happen to nannygoat? What happen to us july peoples? Hope you are all good. I am still fighting for my life. Still anorexic and bulimic and still have ocd and sever depression. Have to take vitamin b12 shots every monday. Have to take 2000 units of vitamin d......Can't see good at all anymore. Sever underweight. Look like a dead woman walking. **** happens...........love you all.............still l think of you all often.............god bless all.... amy jo

Tim- That is amazing-- I think it's great-- and you deserve to be an attention *****!!!