It has been exactly one year since he was deemed cancer-free.
Stay strong, Wink.
Stay strong, Wink.
Congratulations to Wink
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Sportsrmylife
EOG Master
congrats winky.
Good on you Wink
Takes a lot of strength and courage to overcome what you did.
Hoping you’ve taken a lot that you might have learned from the experience and turned it into positives
Takes a lot of strength and courage to overcome what you did.
Hoping you’ve taken a lot that you might have learned from the experience and turned it into positives
Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
Major accomplishment....congrats
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
He’s going to live long enough to be a conservative.
mrbowling300
EOG Dedicated
Congrats Wink, stay stong and safe!!!!
jimmythegreek
The opening odds start here
Continued excellent health winky. Strength and prayers.
TheGuesser
EOG Dedicated
Why are you wishing brain damage on him?He’s going to live long enough to be a conservative.
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
Thanks to all
I spent most of May 20 calling/thanking people for all of the support they showed me during my "Nightmare Journey From Hell"
I am lucky. I know it. There are things I wanted to do but can't because of the current situation but they are still on my list. I am a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time Dodgers fan yet I have never been to Opening Day. I sense I might have to wait until the 2022 season to do this. There are others but they will also have to wait but they will get done.
I have a Weekly Blog with posts every Monday. This week I waited until Wednesday. I posted this. It is long but it also represents my no-filtered thoughts: https://erikschuman.blogspot.com/2020/05/happy-birthday-30-days-later.html
I spent most of May 20 calling/thanking people for all of the support they showed me during my "Nightmare Journey From Hell"
I am lucky. I know it. There are things I wanted to do but can't because of the current situation but they are still on my list. I am a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time Dodgers fan yet I have never been to Opening Day. I sense I might have to wait until the 2022 season to do this. There are others but they will also have to wait but they will get done.
I have a Weekly Blog with posts every Monday. This week I waited until Wednesday. I posted this. It is long but it also represents my no-filtered thoughts: https://erikschuman.blogspot.com/2020/05/happy-birthday-30-days-later.html
Almost Allright
GO Bucks!!!
Congrats Winky! Here’s to continued great health!
A life threatening event usually gives a person a unique perspective on things
Any advice/thoughts/observations you're willing to share?
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
***Live life like tomorrow is not a given - because it is not. There are things I wanted to do and put them off. Not any more. Although I wanted to go to Opening Day for the Dodgers. And still do. I just realize that might not happen until 2022
***Never be afraid to tell those who are important in your life just how much you appreciate them. I spent Tuesday Night and most of Wednesday calling family and friends (including JK) and letting them know how much I valued all they did for me on my "Nightmare Journey From Hell." I easily spent 8 hours calling people and telling them and I loved doing it.
***Stop and "smell the roses": Slow down every so often and take a look around and appreciate all that is around you. You will see things you have missed before that will make you realize how much you have missed.
I am not afraid to die. I don't want to die but if I do - I do. I "cheated death" so everything now is a "free roll." Do it and enjoy it and if you die doing it that will suck but since I should have died last year and did not everything from that point forward is just "icing on the cake."
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
DITTO!
I am actually looking forward to the day when no one asks me about this. I hope that is taken the right way. I appreciate everyone asking. I would do the same for others. I know their heart is in the right place. I just hope one day no one asks because it is 10-20+ years down the line. That doesn't mean forget it happened just have enough time lapse where people "forget" I had it. I never will. I know the second I left my guard down it will come back and kill me. I am like an addict. I know trouble can pop up at any second and I have to be vigilant about it. I know Cancer will try and make a comeback some time down the line. I just have to be ready for it (I am) and catch it earlier..........although I knew something was wrong in May, 2018. I asked my insurance company for an MRI on my pelvis and they turned that down (I even have a PPO). It wasn't until 9 months later they finally agreed to one and I got one - when I could barely move. I had trouble getting this most recent batch of scans approved. I reminded them I wanted an MRI in May 2018 but got turned down. If accepted they might have caught it in Stage 1 which would have cost maybe $25-50k....not the Over $500k it ended up costing them. Didn't cost me anything extra since once I reached my limit everything was FREE but if they had OKd things in May 2018 they might have saved themselves over $450,000