Stephen C. McKinney Memorial Thread (1969-2001)

[dlbpharmd]

And for Heaven's sake, Savor Dam, I wish you would have said something before you went to La Pine. I would have loved meeting you and your family! Which brings me to something I said a few weeks ago. I was completely serious about having everyone come up to the mountain next summer for a get together. It would be awesome! We have plenty of room for everyone. And if we run out of room, well, we'll figger it out somehow. Mountain 'Fest

Well, if we ever want to meet you in person, we'll have to come to you. You've punked out on all of our other fests.

[Fist and Faith]

I was thinking along similar lines. It would be much more difficult to not meet us if we've all got tickets to visit there than it has been to cancel plans to visit whichever place. hehe

[Furls Fire]

I had no control over the events that kept me away and forced me to cancel all those other times.

[Fist and Faith]

We know. But it was a good opportunity to bust your chops, eh?

[Furls Fire]

*modifies the open invitation to say "everyone on the Watch and Hangar except Eric and Don are welcome to come to The Mountain next summer"*

P~~

punk out?...bust my chops?...HA! I'll show them!

*Puts a sign out at the base of the access road leading up to the house, "No Fisties or Dlpsies allowed!"

Hmpppppppffffffffff!!!

[Harley Guy]

Well folks, looks like we had a wrong first diagnosis. This one is actually similiar: Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) Stage 3 ES. Uh, yeah. It's in her spleen and her liver, as well as her lymph nodes. We are in discussions about whether or not to have her spleen taken out. Do that before chemo and rad, or start those treatments first. She goes for more tests tomorrow morning. Will know more then.

Keep Trace in your thoughts and prayers. It's gonna be a long hard battle.

Thanks all

[Menolly]

*storming heaven's gates*

[Fist and Faith]

Ah, Tracie. I wish... I wish so much.

[StevieG]

Your friends on the Watch will be right there with you, Tracie and family.

[Savor Dam]

There is little more that I can say beyond rephrasing what has been said. We are ardently praying / wishing / investing energy, each in our own way, for a speedy, complete, and relatively easy recovery from this challenge.

Tracie has said that is all she asks. We do that much freely and wholeheartedly, but should there be an opportunity to do more, merely say the word...

[SoulBiter]

Im at a loss for words except that with Gods help there is nothing that is unbeatable or uncurable. I will continue to keep praying for you because I KNOW that God answers prayers. If God has more work for you here, then you will be here until he is ready for you.

Sending HUGE hugs and well wishes from Georgia!

[Furls Fire]

Hey, hey, hey...It's not as dire as it sounds. Sure, it's a bit different than what we first thought I had, but it's not...and I repeat...it is NOT a death sentence. Yeah, it's going to be a long, very long hard battle and it's going to get much worse before it's gets better. I can handle it. I have so much support and love behind me, how could I not?

Here is a link to the basics of it, if you all want to understand it better:

lymphoma.about.com/od/nonhodgkinlymphoma/p/dlbcelllymphoma.htm

Looks like I have about 4 to 5 months of chemo to look forward too, which puts a damper on WAD, I may have to miss it this year. And with the loss of Alex, I don't want too. It may also halt an adoption Russ and I have been working on for a child in India (yes, I am doing adoptions out of India now too, where the pandemic is as bad as it is in SA). Anyway, we are so close to getting a little boy who is HIV+, I'm praying that my DX doesn't hurt this adoption (it's been in the works for 3 months now). He's only 2 and if we can get him here in time, we may be able to eradicate the virus.

So, I can't leave yet... I have too much to do!

I don't want a cloud of doom and gloom hanging over everything, guys. This will be alright. It will.

More life...the great work begins--Prior Walter, Angels in America

Thank you all for your prayers, your best wishes, your support, but most of all, thank you for your love! I love you all so much!!

Sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear
But our hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our hope is unchanged

Emanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
Emanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
Emanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient

We never walk alone
This is our hope
Our hope endures, the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
let the earth quake
let the earth quake
let the earth quake
Our hope is unchanged--Natalie Grant

God bless

[SoulBiter]

Dont forget you have a bunch of visitors to greet next summer

[Furls Fire]

Dont forget you have a bunch of visitors to greet next summer

Something to look forward too. I should be well past this by then. Hopefully, I 'll have hair again...hehehe. If not, I have all my different colored wigs to chose from.

We're going ahead with the spleenactomy just as soon as my pnuemonia completely clears out. Then, after the recovery period from that, we will start a 5 month regimen of what is called R-CHOP chemo treatments along with radiation. So, that puts treatment thru Christmas Sigh, I was hoping to be done with it before Christmas....

So, needless to say, I'm sure...I'll be off and on the Watch, probably off more than on. Like I was when I was fighting the breast/lung cancer a few years ago. Russ and Brooke both have said they will come on with updates as I go thru the treatments, so it won't be like last time, when I kinda disappeared and hardly said anything. That wasn't the right thing to do then and it's not now.

Huggles to all and thank you for your love and prayers!

[Menolly]

So, needless to say, I'm sure...I'll be off and on the Watch, probably off more than on. Like I was when I was fighting the breast/lung cancer a few years ago. Russ and Brooke both have said they will come on with updates as I go thru the treatments, so it won't be like last time, when I kinda disappeared and hardly said anything. That wasn't the right thing to do then and it's not now.

Good, nice to see that lesson was learned and retained.
Again, if you yourself can't ask, don't hesitate to not only have Harley Guy and Fire Daughter update us, but to post with any requests y'all may have. With the diversity of your dysfunctional family here on the Watch, someone somewhere can probably come up with some way of aiding.

[Harley Guy]

Trace, for you...

If You Ever Leave: Vince Gill/Barbra Streisand

When I fall, you're my place to land
I lose my touch, your my hands
The one I hold on to
If you run out of reasons to try
I'll love enough for both you and I
I'll be the one you can run to.

I'd rather go through any pain love puts us through
Than to spend one day without you by my side

If you ever leave me, will you take me with you?
If you're ever lonely, I wanna be lonely too
My home's beside you, no matter where you may go
My love's inside you, even more than you know

In a world of anger and lies
I find peace in your eyes
A flame in the darkness

And though all space and time
'Til every star refuses to shine
You know where my heart is

I'd rather go through any pain love puts us through

Than to spend one day without you by my side
If you ever leave me, will you take me with you?
If you're ever lonely,I wanna be lonely too
My home's beside you, no matter where you may go
My love's inside you,even more than you know

And I can't remember life without you
The way it used to be
Feels like a million years away

Hold me 'til the angels sing
Tell me every little thing

Promise me forever from this day

If you ever leave me, will you take me with you?
If you're ever lonely, I wanna be lonely too
My home's beside you, no matter where you may go
My love's inside you, even more than you know

Even more than you know.

peachpatch.com/ifyouever.html

I love you, Baby. We'll get through this.

[Seareach]

You and your family are in my thoughts, Furls.

[Dromond]

A smile for Furls Fire...

[Furls Fire]

Smiles and Huggles Pam, Sea and Dromond!

Russell... sometimes I have no words. You say my love amazes you? Ah, yours floors me. I would be literally lost without you.

[Fire Daughter]

My parents are love personified. If I learned anything from being their daughter it is this...Love and God are two powers (or one power) that is surpassed by nothing. I was truly blessed to be born to them, they are the absolute greatest parents anyone could pray for. And if I lost my mother now...I would be utterly bereft. I could not imagine my life without her in it. She and my father are the greatest gifts God ever gave me.

Heidi, Myles and me are staying home until after Labor Day now. Hehehehe...she can argue with us all she wants, we aren't going anywhere until after this surgery is over with. Yeah Mom, you raised me to be like you...so you only have yourself to blame for my...and Heidi's...stubborness on this issue.