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It's the worst. People are like "oh the leaves are so pretty" Oh yeah? Well I have to pick up those shitty leaves off my lawn and I prefer them green and on the ****ing trees, because i'm not 8 years old. Fall is like the grim herald of Winter, letting you know with each increasingly cooler, shorter day that cold, bitter death is just along the way. Sign me up for rebirth #TeamSpring.

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It's the worst. People are like "oh the leaves are so pretty" Oh yeah? Well I have to pick up those shitty leaves off my lawn and I prefer them green and on the ****ing trees, because i'm not 8 years old. Fall is like the grim herald of Winter, letting you know with each increasingly cooler, shorter day that cold, bitter death is just along the way. Sign me up for rebirth #TeamSpring.

 

winter is the best. dont own a home. cut down trees.

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Oh, if you cut down trees, that's the best part.. because then your neighbor's leafs blow onto your lawn, and you have to pick up leafs that are 0% yours, and it will still be just as much leafs, because they will blow across your lawn and just stick in the empty grass space. No.. if your neighbors have trees, you ahve to have them too, so you can pass the savings onto your neighbors. It's a mutually assured destruction sort of thing.

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Oh, if you cut down trees, that's the best part.. because then your neighbor's leafs blow onto your lawn, and you have to pick up leafs that are 0% yours, and it will still be just as much leafs, because they will blow across your lawn and just stick in the empty grass space. No.. if your neighbors have trees, you ahve to have them too, so you can pass the savings onto your neighbors. It's a mutually assured destruction sort of thing.

 

Well if your neighbors have Maple trees, as mine do, you get the joy of the little "helicopter" seed pods raining on your (treeless) yard all spring and clogging up the gutters. Furthermore, it's the gift that keeps on giving as little sapling maples pop up everywhere all summer long.

 

Anybody know how to poison a maple tree?

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Relax there SA. Been trying to figure out the best way to tell the story without it becoming the longest post on record. Which no one will then read. Going to give the highlights then if you all have questions you can ask.

 

June 7th I'm in Bend, OR visiting clients and by that evening I feel awful; throwing up, super light headed, just overall cruddy so I make the decision to head for home in the morning to see a Doc.So I call my boss the next morning and let him know whats up. He doesn't seem too impressed. Probably not a good idea to make a 7.5 hr drive the way I was feeling but I manage to make it home by early evening.

 

Thursday, June 9th I wake up in even worse shape. My head was spinning like Ive never experienced before, could not walk straight and my eyes were basically locked looking straight ahead, no side to side movement. So off we go to the ER. It took them about 10 minutes to determine I needed to be admitted and they started running all kinds of tests. Blood, CT scans and I don't even remember what else. Soon enough an ER doc comes in and says I'm going to be there for "several days". My response was "Several? Whats "several?" He said he didn't know but I was extremely sick and they had alot of work to do.

 

Specifically, at that point, they told me my kidneys were almost non-functioning with the right one being essentially shut down. News to me since I'd had zero pain, problems peeing etc... next up was that they were almost 100% certain I had Lymphoma. Obviously that was the big blow but there were many other issues going on.

 

So they send me to my room and spend the next 3 or 4 days running test after test after test. A couple of different Docs chastise me for not coming in sooner..."You're only 48. Why would you not get in here sooner as serious as this is?" Well *******, um Doctor, I had no idea any of this was going on or I would have. How about we stop beating me up for the past and focus on what we're going to do going forward?

 

Long story short I was in such bad shape that the group of doctors working on my case couldn't decide whether I was in more risk of not surviving the chemo they wanted to do or not doing the chemo. They finally decided that since if I didn't do the chemo I was definitely going to die within the month that we needed to do it even though they were not at all sure my body could handle the chemo with all the blood work issues I had, not to mention my failing kidneys. So they made the very unusual decision to give me the chemo in the ICU department so I'd have the medical care they provided and to bring over some nurses from Oncology to handle the actual chemo infusion. (All personnel have to be trained and certified to do anything whatsoever with chemo).

 

I'd been at the hospital 4 or 5 days at this point and something else that cropped up was a difficulty breathing caused by fluid around my lungs. The chemo made this worse as well as just kicking my bodies ass to the point that they had to put me on life support for 4 days to save me. I obviously survived that and ended up spending 18 days in the ICU before being moved back to oncology. The number of tests and procedures they ran on me is still mind boggling. In addition to the chemo I had 8 days in a row of radiation treatment to my head area as they were concerned there was cancer on/around my brain.

 

I'm really fast forwarding here but I ended up spending 43 days total in the hospital. I had lost 50 lbs by then and was almost unrecognizable. Because all I did was lay in bed for most of that time my legs especially had atrophied and I was unable to stand up without assistance. With a walker I could walk around a bit though. I was sent home with the walker for short distances and a wheel chair for going to Dr appointments or longer trips. Thankfully it didn't take long and I was able to get up and walk with just a cane. I've been home 2 months now and I just ditched the cane. I still don't have a ton of stamina but I've been able to go grocery shopping, wander around Target etc... some. I've gained back about 15 pounds but still have 30-40 to go. I just had a pet scan this week (a fancy CT scan that can see cancer cells) and the Doc was very pleased with the results and the effect the chemo is having on the Lymphoma. I will still be doing a spinal tap chemo each Friday and normal chemo via IV every 3 weeks, for the next month or two probably but the Docs I'm working with are all very happy/somewhat surprised at the amount of progress I've made. Obviously we're all hopeful that the cancer can and will be totally iradicated which is a good possibility with Lymphoma. I was told by several Doctors that if you had to get cancer, Lymphoma was the one you wanted because its the most treatable.

 

So anyway, that was really the readers digest version believe it or not but lets you all in on my sudden disappearance.

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Happy Birthday Cobalt!

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Holy shit, Tilt. Sounds like you went through a gd house episode.

 

But, glad you're alive, buddy. And Christ, I was kinda down in the dumps about being limited to just walking after my ordeal. can't imagine that level of atrophy.

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tilt here's some highlights of us on your disappearance.

 

I wonder if Tilty got murdered and stuffed into a shed or drove off the road and crashed into a tree

rest in peace tilt. WE HARDLY KNEW YE.

I'm starting to get worried about my guy Tilty. Hope he didn't actually die.

Oh, well fvck him then. Good riddance, I say.

what kind of excuse could he have for not posting? Selfish people are the worst.

He doesn't seem to be dead. His LinkedIn is still active and there is no news in the local papers of his death.

I demand he start posting again. UNACCEPTABLE.

i miss the way tilty took advantage of people for a living and had no idea. he just kept living his life thinking he was a good person.

Might go to the casino tonight, might not. If I do I'll be thinking of our late friend Tilty. #RIPInPeace

Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind.

 

I haven't left the couch, and I don't plan to. Same for tomorrow. Getting quality couch time bro.

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Lets not forget

 

I'm starting to get worried about my guy Tilty. Hope he didn't actually die.

I was thinking about this morning. This is very unTilty and he's constantly traveling so a car crash isn't out of the realm of possibilities. I was trying to think of his name to do a search but not sure he's even let it be known.

 

Tilty, if you can read this, let us know you are just tired of us and that you're alive.

Someone who is willing to hang around for years while knowingly being jeepster'd doesn't overnight decide his social life is more important. There's something else afoot.

 

Did Tilty explicitly leave or has he just disapeared?

Xe vanished like a fart in the wind. I tried doing a search off his listed FCP birthday of deaths in California and Oregon and came up with nil. brvy insists xe's still active on LinkedIn, though.

Maybe being associated with a gambling website was bad for his career. You know how puritanical the shed game can be.

I still don't think he ever understood why we were saying obtuse. *Shrug*

 

I have been checking for Northern CA and Wash deaths with his name and nothing has come up.

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The absurdity of the human condition, that's how. Tilty faced the abyss and came back. My guess is when he's through all of this and healthy again his zeal for life will be ten fold from before. He'll live fully and confidently and he'll love and be loved and appreciate it in a way impossible to those who haven't been near death.

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The absurdity of the human condition, that's how. Tilty faced the abyss and came back. My guess is when he's through all of this and healthy again his zeal for life will be ten fold from before. He'll live fully and confidently and he'll love and be loved and appreciate it in a way impossible to those who haven't been near death.

Like, go somewhere beside Chipotle?

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I'm going to start a Sickie "near-death" pool for next year. I think Ron might be the current favorite but I don't think we should discount Dutch having an accident while in the midst of some sexual act. You would think Essay would be close to 1,000/1 but I'm not convinced Chipotle has cleaned up their act.

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