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Here's wishing you and yours a positive outcome. Just know that, in the meantime, you will be missed by us here...We're all pulling for you!!

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Randy, a lot of well wishes and good thoughts have already been posted. I can't say anything better. Just keep your spirits up and positive thoughts. We'll be seeing you back in here in no time.

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Randy and Lynn, I am sorry to hear that will have to go through this, but amazing things are being down now. VA hospitals are about the best care you can get. We wish you the best possible success, knowing that God's will will be done. You have a purpose here and you will be around to fulfill it. May God be with you and guide your doctors hands, we wait anxiously for your quick recovery.

Hang in there Lynn, he's too ornery to let this beat him.

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Take care Randy, be sure to communicate with the doctors, nurses and pharmacists about how you're feeling during your stay.You're in good hands at the VA. Oh, and try not to get hooked too bad on any daytime soaps while you're there!

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Gents,

About six weeks ago I posted a tentative goodbye due to a Stage 4 cancer the VA found in my brain and now it's time to emulate Paul Harvey and tell you "the rest of the story":

I was sitting in the hospital a few days before my noggin was going to be pierced when a team of doctors came in and introduced themselves as the people who were going to remove my right kidney because of the Stage 4 cancer they'd found on it. That was the first I'd heard of it so I was in a bit of a shock over the affair because the survival rate of advanced cancer is about 3% and figuring I now had two of them to contend with my odds were roughly 0.09% for living through it. Okey-dokey, but the odds makers didn't take into consideration the power of a forum such as this and all the well-wishes I received, and today I was informed that there's nary a trace of the tumor in my noggin (other than the scar, which is fittingly shaped like a large question mark) and by it being gone and clean the odds were changed sharply upward in my favor. The kidney will be removed in ten days (March 19) and it appears there won't be any particular problems with that procedure either, so once it's down the toilet my survival should be right about 73% in my favor, and I'll take those odds while I spit in the devil's eye.

There's nothing more I can say for now without speculation but enough time has elapsed that I feel you deserve to hear something, especially when it isn't negative.

Thanks to you and all else who chimed in on my part; you have certainly raised my outlook more than just a nudge.

-Randy

What happened to this post? It sounded like such great news.

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