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I’m the first of my four brothers not not drop out of high school. Only person in my family to go to college. I don’t like crowds. I don’t smoke, do drugs, have any piercings or tattoos. I try not to drink caffeine. I was fat as a kid and have trouble keeping weight off unless I exercise every day.
I am a dog lover. I have two of them right now, a beagle and a beagle-doxie mix. I support several rescue organizations.
I was a professional musician for a while. I saved and paid off debt to be able to do that but eventually the money ran out and I had to go back to work.
I work in sales now, which is disappointing because its a career I didn't really want to end up in, but I'm pretty good at it I guess and the money is nice.
I own and reside in a single family home on the West side of Chicago. My neighborhood is still rough around the edges, but I love living here.
I am terrible at gardening or any landscape maintenance. It's my least favorite part of owning a home.
I've been to Maui 6 times. I miss it, but doubt I'll ever go back.
My car is 11 years old and only has 54,000 miles on it.
Although I am a dog person, I love cats, and birds and lots of other critters.
I was previously married for 16 years but got divorced about 3 years ago.
I'm a pretty dang good cook. I used to not like it when people would be in my kitchen while I was cooking, but now I enjoy cooking together with my girlfriend.
My girlfriend is Canadian.
I love beer. Sometimes too much. My current favorite type of beer is barrel aged stouts. (Goose Island Bourbon County in particular, but Founders KBS, and CBS as well)
I am learning to appreciate wine more as I get older.
I am learning to appreciate vegetables more as I get older.
I am learning to appreciate friends and loved ones more as I get older.
My house suffered catastrophic flooding this last weekend when those crazy storms hit Chicago, so I've been in kind of a crap mood for a few days. I think I was able to save my favorite guitars though.
Ive mentioned it in a topic, but I doubt most saw.
2 years ago I was misdiagnosed with diverticulitis. When I woke up from a emergency surgery I learned that it was Colon cancer, and the tumor was the size of a fist. But pretty good odds of it being survivable. another surgery to install a port, and 12 rounds of brutal folfox chemotherapy later it looked like I had made it.
6 months ago we were discussing removing the port, but I said Id wait a bit more. Also my CEA numbers had bumped a bit. Still under what was considered cancer. 2 months later and they were higher. So..Colonoscopy, and a CT scan. Both clear. 1 month ago CEA has jumped more, So I get a PET scan.
That finds it. In my liver. My cancer has metastatized into my liver. its Stage IV cancer. 30% survival estimate from my Oncologist. Initially they schedule Chemotherapy to start, but the local Cancer board decides that the best method is surgery first. So they ordered a 3 phase CT scan, and then a MRI (that was a odd experience. I could feel it...inside sorta.
Anyways in a little under 8 hours I will start a 4 hour surgery to remove a few sections of my liver. Its the first step. then 4 days in the hospital, and then back home for 3 weeks of recovery.
Once I am recovered it will look like I will get 6 more rounds of Folfox Chemotherapy.
Fun fact-a small % of people will go bald for this one, it is fairly rare. My past experience says I will get to rock the bald look again.
Eventually one of you will get the actual last word with me on here, but 30% says it wont be for a long while. Best of luck!
i grew up in an all white community no blacks till high school as an adult i developed a severe substance issue...
going on twenty years ago i was so full of hatred i hated everything then i met a black Vietnam veteran who hated all white people for sending him to Vietnam...thru fellowship soul-searching and much talking we became best of friends..we both actually saw past our color..
i work some in recovery and maintain contact with people the world has disowned we are all human beings
if people sat and talked to each other instead of AT each other we would all be better off
[quote=Crazee Cat Lady;61346480]That would be terrible to sprain your ankle right before walking down the Aisle. Glad that it didn't stop the wedding.
I broke it so it took longer to heal. I told people I would crawl down the aisle to marry that man. LOL Glad I didn't need to. Some thought we had cancelled so didn't come but we still had a great time. The little ones wanted to go back to that wedding the next day, they danced so much and had fun.
I'm skinny but I love food, and much of my planning for traveling and day-to-day activities revolves around food. Can be cooking, eating out, visiting markets, whatever.
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