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Right from 0.01 on the timer.. TJ and Tookie..

Thanks folks.. a great read to wake up to, not that we get much good sleep these days. Nancy.. I really do appreciate your gesture, but at this point in time I'd like to decline the offering. If you'd like instead, fire something off to the local Cancer centre, or Mount Sinai directly, and grab the tax receipt. Art.. my twin brother from another mother... I'd give you her address but then we'd have all the young lads here on OFC beating a path to her door, so I'll give you our address and I'll hand deliver them. THANKS my friend. 1516 Alvin Williams Rd. Penetanguishene, Ontario L9M 2C1

It's always that way when you head for LSC Lew! Snowing fiercly up here right now. Can barely see the shop from the house... 23 feet !

UMMM it doesn't get pumped into any body of water in my case.. it stays in the boat, hense the capped inlets. Come spring a garden hose gets feed into inlets, pumps turned on and flushed out here in the yard. Maybe stop by the local marinas and see where the RV antifreeze goes... after they launch the boats! Every cruiser gets the antifreeze treatment. It's only alcohol.. it will evaporate.

You're black now... a minute ago you were a lesbian!!

Albert, talking with my step father today we agreed on one thing. For the first time we're actually glad my mother is gone and doesn't have to hear this news.

We’ve been through a lot in this household in the last few years, but the last three weeks have been the longest in history. I’m hoping that some of the Karma that we’ve put out to others here on OFC comes back to pay us off ten fold. Our daughter Jennifer, now 25 years old… the one that spent half her life suffering and then bravely beating her Crohn’s issues 2.5 years ago, with surgery, all while going to University and still managing to graduate with honours has a new battle on her plate to win. We’ve been tight lipped while she waited for answers and so she could tell her friends directly and not have them find out through the grape vine. That she has done late today. Complaining the last ten months or so of joint pain and hip/leg issues, but still putting up with it and playing volleyball at Ryerson U twice a week despite the pain…. as she didn’t want to let her team down. Thought she had the family arthritis curse. Lots of physio, massage therapy, was even trying acupuncture…… but nothing but a handful of T3’s a day kept the pain dulled. Thankfully she lives downtown and she kept on the Doctors at St. Mike’s and after seeing a few doctors and having some Xrays they sent her for an MRI. She thought she was going in to see if she had Arthritis, so went alone to Toronto General for the MRI. Unfortunately the Dr. that sent her for the MRI had already seen something on an X-ray but didn’t bother to tell her or forewarn her. We talked to her pre-scan by phone and she was sitting in a hallway chair staring at a poster of Terry Fox. Odd she thought… then in for her full body MRI and out to the waiting room. Three Oncologists come out to tell her there’s a 90% chance that she has cancer in her right side pelvic bone. She/we then wait a gruelling week to get into Mount Sinai for a biopsy a week ago Monday that will see her in for 3 days and then probably on crutches after they cut into her right hip. Support from my Brother and his wife and Jennifer’s boyfriend… all there to hold hands as we bring her in at 7:30 am…. not to see her again until late in the day, one of the longest we’ve ever sat through. Then even worse, we are told… “Surgeon and his team don’t do rounds until 7pm”! Only thing they confirmed that Monday night at 7:20pm… she indeed had cancer, but the lab would have to confirm what it was. Two possible Sarcomas or Lymphoma. Late Wednesday night we were able to bring Jennifer all the way back home with us while she/we waited on results. So four nights here at home where we could keep an eye on her and then even though she’s on a total of 24mg of Hydromorphone a day… she wanted to go to work on Monday and we weren’t about to slow that determination down. As a test run I made her walk to the gate and back Sunday morning. That’s 1300 feet each way and she passed that test with shear determination. So work it was and Leah drove her back to the city and she put in her full day…. walking to the subway from her apartment and from the subway to work and then back again. Leah stayed two nights to be sure she was indeed okay and then came home. Minutes before Leah walked in our door on Tuesday afternoon, they finally called Jennifer to advise her that she was one of the “(un)lucky” people out of the THIRTY or so that get diagnosed per year in Canada with Ewing’s Sarcoma / Bone Cancer vs the tens of thousands that get diagnosed with “normal” cancers. Wednesday morning she was to see the head of Medical Oncology at Mount Sinai and he was to give her the treatment protocol and to do another biopsy. This time drilling a hole in to the left side of her pelvic bone, to see if it’s spreading in her marrow. A week this Monday, the 15th, Jennifer starts her Chemo. In on Monday and home Tuesday for the first kind of chemo mix. Three weeks later she goes in Monday and doesn’t get out until Saturday with the next chemo mix. This will continue for a total of 10 visits. 5 of the overnight chemos and 5 of the full week chemos, so she’s looking at minimum 7 months on Chemo and somewhere in the middle they will determine if they need to remove the/part of the right side of her pelvic bone and at the end do radiation treatments. In between, being the trouper she is I suspect she’ll try to go to work, but there is no doubt that she’s going to miss lots of work in the next year. There will be lots of travel and parking fees for family etc while the experts at Mount Sinai keep our child alive. She has the In Chief as her surgeon, Dr. Wunder, and the head of Medical Oncology as her consulting Doctor, Dr. Blackstein. These two teach not only in Canada but all over the world, how can she/we go wrong with them. We are honoured that they took a look at her size, child like looks and these two heads of Oncology at Mount Sinai took her case on personally. They’ve told her that it’s currently localized and curable…we’ll go with that! She’s in good spirits and eating and she needs to, considering the fact that she only weighs 96lbs thanks to her past Crohn’s issues. She gets her courage and drive from her mother that’s for sure!! It’s sure not from me and I’ll be the first to admit that. I’m just sharing our life this week because it helps me mentally to type it out..… not trying to upset anyone else, nothing asked for in return, but some thoughts, prayers, howling at the moon or what ever it is you do. Karma can be a wonderful thing I’ve found, and why when I’ve seen others here on the board in similar situations (that I may not even know) I do my part to try and help them out. It’s a reciprocal thing, or at least I’ve always hoped it was. I often wonder why our family is getting so beaten up over the last few years, but then I think back to what a little bugger I was in Sunday School at Trinity United! Paybacks are a b it ch. I took pictures of her before and after her Crohn’s surgery and she beat that, so she asked me to do the same during this battle. Like I said she’s got a very positive attitude and will beat this monster! I lost my father to Cancer, oddly when I myself was 25 years old…. we WILL NOT lose our daughter. Her she is going in for her biopsy…

Thanks G! And Norm.. I have no issues paying for the entertainment here. I voluntarily pay about $150 US a year to belong to an aircraft forum with similar traffic as here. Other forums.. I've pitched in as well to help keep going.. and have no issues doing so here either, but Roy won't take my money!!

He'd have to push Geoff.. my engine has no cylinders on it!

Here's my original post Randy.. http://www.ofncommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12271&st=0&p=125046&hl=livewell&fromsearch=1entry125046

Ya want me to pick you up on the way Hun?? It's KD here otherwise tonight...

It would have happened in my Glaston Randy... as the way that livewell was set up a good 3/4" of water stayed in the tank that couldn't drain. I won't take the chance with my Lund with 16 feet of hose to the front livewell and especially the power washer. There is no way it can drain on it's own! I posted how I winterized a few years back (and capped to allow boat use to continue to freeze up) and some said it was nonsense so others thought so too..... and then fishnsled found out he should have heeded my advise, as his boat almost sank first trip out in the spring thanks to a cracked off livewell pump fitting. .. and yes, it's a simple as a 1" hose and a funnel attached to your inlets. Turn on the pump and cycle the RV antifreeze through.

Do you have livewells or power washer pumps/hoses?? I winterize mine and cap the inlets before the late fall Musky season...

Sorry to hear you are off to Sick Kids Phil.. been there done that, but they are GREAT people and will take the bestest care of your little sweetie. Good chance I'll be across the street at Mount Sinai with one of our little sweeties, now 25, at the same time and if so maybe we need to do lunch or supper. Lexx, great that you'll be aboard the U and Me express fishing machine with the motley crew. I hope that I'm there as well to enjoy a much needed weekend.. but we'll see where we are at come Thursday the 18th.

Just tell them you're doing a TV show and need a cabin and a guide... they'll have room for you. Unfortunately then Joey and Paul may not have a reservation either...

We don't want to go over reasons 1 to 7 again... lol

All I wanna know Geoff.. is it time?

Damn... and I was always drawn to these things because I thought it stood for Gorgeous Topless Gals....

On the way Paul..

Just checked.. I thought it was mine that was due, but I'm good 'till 2012. Leah's is done Dec 31st....

Gee.... I wonder if they've fixed their system to take an apostrophe yet...

Tell Bruce that's gonna look nice above his fireplace G !!! LMAO..

NAAA.. Terry's moved on from that position at the lake... I hear you bought a sled Jose, so maybe you can be next in line!!