Tour
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No feeling sorry. Feeling sorry for person is nearing sympathy. I reserve that for helpless people, which you aren't, or very young people who never really had a crack at life, which you have.
I do however have empathy. It's hard not to, especially as a older dawg who one way to the other is going to have to face the facts soon enough. How soon? Who knows, we don't pick and choose those sort of things. We just go for the ride as long as this journey lasts.
Stay strong of mind and hopeful and know there are a lot of people pulling for you, Bubba.
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
All right bear with me this is going speech to text because I typed a bunch of stuff and then my computer well anyways go on iPhone now.
amongst other things I am on is a steroid that really boost appetite I’m actually gaining weight while in treatment which everyone’s happy about except me because coming out of the hospital and going into the treatment I weighed in at something under is a little under 220 and I haven’t seen under the underside of 220 since college so I was kind of pleased with that but anyways the other is the steroids are stimulating the appetite I think it’s Monday I had five full meals during the day beginning and we hours of the morning I wake up early I’m not sleeping a lot these days and but I just get up and do some egg whites and keep it light because of the first meds coming about 7 o’clock.
sure thank you I married you I want to show everybody how long do you oh that just got transcribed in my post that was to my wife so just settle down yeah we’re just getting ready to head out to do a few things beautiful beautiful beautiful Saturday afternoon here in East Texas bright sunshine mid 50s temperature it’s just this is this is this is the best time of year here spring things are good too but this is the best time of year.
anyway my wife deserves a shout out Cesar she’s my med nurse she’s my companion she’s my cheerleader she’s my best friend and the love of my life suck a little Ohio State here before we depart 17 oh 2317 call shroud T-ball intercepted dammit oh and a penalty coming up yeah yeah guys already out of bounds OK treatments like it’s a chemo pills targeted radiation were halfway through the radiation is daily Monday through Friday the chemo pills are.
i’m in a little city of basically 85,000 people and the quality depth breath of medical professionals in the flock to this place astounds me I’ve had great surgeon great oncologist in college a group that I’m working with reaches from our little place to UT Austin and then from there I’m down to MD Anderson when I dress up a little bit my foot a couple links and I’ve started financial support for a couple different places Saint Jews research the children’s research Hospital and MD Anderson Hospital which is a another leaving kill leaving cancer research Hospital some of our note down in Houston OK also have a picture that I will figure out how to insert in here sooner or later and it’s of a board that my radiation neurologist sketched out just basically show what the treatment doesn’t want advise and nutshell if nothing happens than that things were happened really bad things the surgery did almost nothing to change that situation on the surgery plus what I’m doing now does a little bit to change that situation and then comes the big one and I’ll put it all into a really explain it but it’s one of the latest developments for battling the the number.
The next days of treatment involves wearing a hat there’s maggots in aThe next days of treatment involves wearing a hat it has magnets in it along with the battery pack that then turns on and off the Magnuson I don’t know if it’s in a pattern or random or whatever but the same principle as chemo and everything and the magnetic flux very magnetic fields apparently keep the fastest growing cells from growing the tumor is a very fast growing cell what cancers in general are but mine particular is described as an aggressive term tumor which just it means that it grows very fast, and that’s the bad news the good news is the likelihood of missed of a Geo blastoma metastasizing is very low so we’re probably battling this one and we’re not gonna end up chasing it around the body that’s the hope anyways and that is the norm but then I had a one in 10,000 chance of contracting this thing to begin with I raise my lower those odds considerably in a career choice that involved exposure to things like benzene but such as the lot of a chemical engineer and I get all those exposures to place in a time when we didn’t know any better you know it wasn’t until the late 60s that the epidemiology came out on plastics workers around PVC and the exposure to vinyl chloride monomer the basic building block of polyvinylchloride yeah I wasn’t until the late 60s early 70s that that was that relationship was understood and the term some of the mutagenic and carcinogenic started to become more common place and from there it exploded yo-yo what is the vinyl chlorine monomer or was it a little thing called dibenzyl she ran well actually dachshund was the next one that was that was uncovered much lower levels but much also very very mutagenic carcinogenic and from there actually became from a sub a subset of that was a thing called they benzofuran‘s dumb but that’s probably more than you want to know about organic chemistry I’m not even sure I could draw those things for you but.
I’m gonna go ahead and post this now I’ll come back and clean it up when we’re done running around and so if you wanna well it’s a little late now I get to the bottom of the of the of the post but if you struggle through it and can make sense of it don’t give a shout later on if you want to do what I can at least have a try to make sense get rid of some of the more humorous I’m sure there are plenty of humorous text voice for the walls in the thingi’m gonna go ahead and post this now I’ll come back and clean it up when we’re done running around and so if you wanna well it’s a little late now I get to the bottom of the of the of the post but if you struggle through it and can make sense of it when I go to shout later on if you want to do what I can at least have a try to make sense get rid of some of the more humorous I’m sure there are plenty of humorous text voice for the walls in the thing but it’s kind of my brains working these days is Chyna let me in there’s a little bit so if you have trouble following it it’s not you it’s me."When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
Thanks for the update, and for the love of God, do not clean it up.... if I had to wade through that, then so does everyone else. You had me at maggots.
I think about you several times a day.... and no, not in that way, you freak. You sound super positive and I know that is a large part of any battle. Stay positive, stay strong, remain brave, and kiss that wife of yours one extra time every day for no reason.
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Appreciate the update, Tour. The tech they have is amazing - I said that before. Not me personally, but been there in a way.
You are strong to stay so upbeat - that is going hugely in your favor. and you fight like crazy, with a sense of humor to match.
and yes, I humbly apologize to you because when I read about "maggots" instead of magnets, I just started laughing while sipping my hot cider with cinnamon. LOL
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Guys as I said before it’s all about the humor the therapeutic value of laugh at her. That and still the mini breaks talking about not future of the past things and I will send a memory or hit it’ll be so strong and I got a little blueberry for yes he had 20/32 tops and then kind of suck it up and I was like you know a little mini break and it’s strange but but if they’re there equally as therapeutic it’s like OK let’s bend the wall a little bit OK it’s cracking a little bit it’s OK get the pressure off now it’s more solid than it was before we started cracking it that I like I like a bone break heels ends up stronger after heels and the surrounding bone didn’t break.
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What else major general is growing like a weed is occasionally forgetting he’s a puppy and just likes to bite and chew on everything though I think it’s gonna be quite a dog and he already is quite a dog but it is rounding in the shape just unbelievably big so I had a first obedience lesson one on one with the lady who runs one of the better it will be the schools in the area she’s impressive got her dogs to do what I did a lot of coaching with Suzanne and I and and I think we’re starting to get the hang of this dog ownership thing.
And with a couple of items that I’m not really put up here before I want to wish I wasn’t even aware of that when I did the original post and that was that the week before my surgery and I was hospitalized I was pretty much out of it here at home in bed and Xander is concerned enough to finally tell the doctors and just say we got to go to the hospital that started the path right now so again kudos to her and the other one is a postop I really don’t like that I transferred it was at the Sunday before the surgery right now yeah I was transported to the hospital on Sunday, 29 August and had surgery on August 31.
The week before that I was pretty much out of it in bed. Complication was I was under some pretty heavy antibiotics pursuing the possibility that my headaches were due to a high sinus infection which is a very difficult diagnosis.
ultimately Suzanne me to call the doctor and said we got to get on the hospital phone call 911 and transfer came. I remember doing kind of a regal hand wave farewell to neighbors who I was sure was watching as I was carded out on a gurney corona whatever transport Anna whatever transport.
in the day I was in the hospital before surgery I was shuttle amongst the number of small spaces either small curtain area within the ER a small room and when I woke up postop I was in this gigantic room probably the size of 15 to 20 of the normal private single bed rooms that were in this particular hospital part of the shuttling was all due to the Covid patient load was in the hospital system. Anyway I woke up in this gigantic room I look down there’s like four doctor standing across the bed talking amongst themselves about me and finally they look at my way and I’m looking at this room I just asked them literally is true this is a “am I someone important?“ Somewhere along the way I heard that this facility and the staff by Navy personnel sometime in the past it was originally founded as a hospital on Galveston Island by a group of nuns but after the 1900 hurricane currently was relocated to Northeast Texas or East Texas.
The doctor for this left him was my surgeon neurosurgeon he’s the one who took out what he could of the tumor.
To the right of him was I there’s a Doctor Who had that point in time was in the lead for them for the groove and as it’s kind of melted in the background next to him with someone who I’m not sure what was that could’ve been the anesthesiologist and then to one more step to the right was my oncologist and the head of a very large oncology operation here here in there and he’s the lead right now.
Back to the story after asking if I was someone important I followed up with a more pointed questions asking if I was an admiral switch my college I said no he said you’re your the general I went OK and he said he won’t know why you’re the general and I said yeah cause you’re the patient and the patient is the most important person like a general… OK sounds good.so that’s the parallel story as far as the dogs name which who got his name primarily because he had two white spots in a long is back in though was a brown hair area was body I was well body hair and it looks very much like stars early on the feeding and kind of becoming less distinct now ones basically gone in the other one is fading but two star general yeah major general that’s a Dino and think we’re adding true Scott or TruScott OK more later and yeah I’ll minimize fix office if I do any just so Dbone won’t sulk ??
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
What else major general is growing like a weed is occasionally forgetting he’s a puppy and just likes to bite and chew on everything though I think it’s gonna be quite a dog and he already is quite a dog but it is rounding in the shape just unbelievably big so I had a first obedience lesson one on one with the lady who runs one of the better it will be the schools in the area she’s impressive got her dogs to do what I did a lot of coaching with Suzanne and I and and I think we’re starting to get the hang of this dog ownership thing.
And with a couple of items that I’m not really put up here before I want to wish I wasn’t even aware of that when I did the original post and that was that the week before my surgery and I was hospitalized I was pretty much out of it here at home in bed and Xander is concerned enough to finally tell the doctors and just say we got to go to the hospital that started the path right now so again kudos to her and the other one is a postop I really don’t like that I transferred it was at the Sunday before the surgery right now yeah I was transported to the hospital on Sunday, 29 August and had surgery on August 31.
The week before that I was pretty much out of it in bed. Complication was I was under some pretty heavy antibiotics pursuing the possibility that my headaches were due to a high sinus infection which is a very difficult diagnosis.
ultimately Suzanne me to call the doctor and said we got to get on the hospital phone call 911 and transfer came. I remember doing kind of a regal hand wave farewell to neighbors who I was sure was watching as I was carded out on a gurney corona whatever transport Anna whatever transport.
in the day I was in the hospital before surgery I was shuttle amongst the number of small spaces either small curtain area within the ER a small room and when I woke up postop I was in this gigantic room probably the size of 15 to 20 of the normal private single bed rooms that were in this particular hospital part of the shuttling was all due to the Covid patient load was in the hospital system. Anyway I woke up in this gigantic room I look down there’s like four doctor standing across the bed talking amongst themselves about me and finally they look at my way and I’m looking at this room I just asked them literally is true this is a “am I someone important?“ Somewhere along the way I heard that this facility and the staff by Navy personnel sometime in the past it was originally founded as a hospital on Galveston Island by a group of nuns but after the 1900 hurricane currently was relocated to Northeast Texas or East Texas.
The doctor for this left him was my surgeon neurosurgeon he’s the one who took out what he could of the tumor.
To the right of him was I there’s a Doctor Who had that point in time was in the lead for them for the groove and as it’s kind of melted in the background next to him with someone who I’m not sure what was that could’ve been the anesthesiologist and then to one more step to the right was my oncologist and the head of a very large oncology operation here here in there and he’s the lead right now.
Back to the story after asking if I was someone important I followed up with a more pointed questions asking if I was an admiral switch my college I said no he said you’re your the general I went OK and he said he won’t know why you’re the general and I said yeah cause you’re the patient and the patient is the most important person like a general… OK sounds good.so that’s the parallel story as far as the dogs name which who got his name primarily because he had two white spots in a long is back in though was a brown hair area was body I was well body hair and it looks very much like stars early on the feeding and kind of becoming less distinct now ones basically gone in the other one is fading but two star general yeah major general that’s a Dino and think we’re adding true Scott or TruScott OK more later and yeah I’ll minimize fix office if I do any just so Dbone won’t sulk ??
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I swear I am not half as weird as this voice to text i making me out to be...
Yeah sure.?
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I have his phone # and email... I'll check in today....
As a fellow wine lover... You can't take it with you... Unfortunately- like my pal Tom who didn't get around to drinking 6,000 or so bottles of wine before he checked out- that his kids inherited. So if you're going out... Drink up.
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Funny this is being bumped, I just thought about him the other day and was going to shoot Tour a text.
I know he was dealing with the fallout from chemo and treatment, so I didn't want to bother him. But figured we would have heard from him around this point.
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I have his phone # and email... I'll check in today....
As a fellow wine lover... You can't take it with you... Unfortunately- like my pal Tom who didn't get around to drinking 6,000 or so bottles of wine before he checked out- that his kids inherited. So if you're going out... Drink up.
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I hope he is OK, but we can't think the worst. He is going through a rough patch, and some patches are rougher than others. In those rougher times it would be hard to think about a message board of "friends" when it is hard enough to deal with the day to day stuff on his plate.
Prayers out to Tour and his family.
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Sent him a text this morning, will check back in when I hear something.
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Heard back from him around 6pm last night. Seems like he's in good spirits. Said he hasn't been hitting much film review because he's struggling to find the energy. But his focus when he does is on Day 2 and beyond QB's.
Most importantly, he's still with us fighting the good fight.
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Too many fucking ologists in our lives these days. Best of luck old friend Rock on. Thankfully friendship is here to remind us how insignificant our petty differences are elsewhere.
Remember it's too damn early for you to go see the Gipper.
WSS
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