My stay at UMC Tucson

The nursing staff.here is great.  Some of the.nurses are even.more arractive.than.others. One nurse.down in the.icu even.looked.like.my neice. Strange but true. Well for the.last day and a half i have.been waling on my own. In search of food cause it has been.5 days.since I had eaten
Anything. The nurses now are keeping a close eye on me. Some one had dropped a bag of potatoe chips in the hall but by the time  i got to the spot they had a cleaning crew cleaning the mess up.  I even tried to sneak into the nursey across the hall looking for food. Again by the time i got to the door  they got inside and  had the door locked behind them

Post high school years

I graduate high school in 1980 . Really glad that it is over. Only had to take one final to get my diploma. The history test was a breeze. Had a girlfriend and a killer job for the times. I was taking home $600 a week working at a car dealership up the hill from my house.  Things were great till my girl started harping on me about how I have the gasoline smell and grease that just will not come out of my skin.

still there kickin and screamin

OK so here I am , I have survived cancer for 22 years now. I thought I had turned the corner since I had moved to Az. But of course that is not the way things go. I have just been diagnosed with bladder AND prostate cancer. The Drs told me that the type of cancer I now have is transitional cell cancer . Which means it had come from the little stump of the urethra that was left in my bladder from when they removed my right kidney back in 2008. They (the  doctors) say they have never seen this happen before, you either get prostate cancer or you dont. Having this type of cancer in my prostate is really not normal. But then again that has been my story since the beginning. So here I am just a few months shy of 50 years old now being told that I have to get my bladder and prostate removed . The Doctors say the I could leave all alone and have a 5% chance of living 5 years or remove them all and the chances move to 80-90% chance that I live longer than 5 years.  Well all I can say is that my choice was made for me long before I opened my mouth. I have a great family , Wife and 2 great kids and when I think of them I can remind myself that I am not a quitter( and 22 years fighting this proves it) 


Monday is the day I travel to Tucson Az to have this radical surgery done.


More to come