To all my VAF friends I have been keeping a secret while selling my plane which a handful caught on to and that I swore to secrecy due to my kid still being deployed and didn't know about it. Once she found out the secret was out.
My kid now knows and should be home very soon so it is safe for me to finally tell the truth to all my friends here.
I have been told I have a Renal Mass on my right kidney. It is operable and I will have the surgery 6/30. They say it will be orthroscopic and outpatient.
They do not think it has spread but won't know for sure until they finish and will monitor me for a while.
This is a tough one for me as most of my family, which used to be large, died from cancer but most of them smoked. I don't, but there are few of us left in my family so I hope the Doctors are right.
My hope is that I am well enough to make it to OSH at least a day or two since I'm only a couple hours away.
Getting well enough to greet the transport plane when the kid comes home is my main focus for now, I've been waiting a year for that hug and I plan to be there no matter what.
The plane can be replaced, I have to beat it for my kids and for a lot of other reasons I won't go into here.
It went to a great home, it returned to it's home out West actually and I'm glad it went to whom and where it ended up. When I'm better I can even go visit it and my pals there.
I have too many people to thank for getting me this far and for helping sell my baby, Doug and Rosie stand out but there are many more that "figured it out" and called or emailed and kept the secret.
Well the secrets out, even in town and at work they know about it so I am actually being greedy and selfish here by writing this(with Dougs' permission) because I have no family left but my flying pals amd as the surgery gets closer it gets lonelier and scarier and I could use some chatter to keep me busy.
I'll get word out after the surgery to one of the guys to let everyone know how it went but I will probably be too out of it 6/30-7/2 maybe to reply much but email anyway please.
Most of all, blue skies, be safe and hopefully see you folks at OSH.
You are the closest thing to family that I have in a lot of cases.
Thanks
Jim
My kid now knows and should be home very soon so it is safe for me to finally tell the truth to all my friends here.
I have been told I have a Renal Mass on my right kidney. It is operable and I will have the surgery 6/30. They say it will be orthroscopic and outpatient.
They do not think it has spread but won't know for sure until they finish and will monitor me for a while.
This is a tough one for me as most of my family, which used to be large, died from cancer but most of them smoked. I don't, but there are few of us left in my family so I hope the Doctors are right.
My hope is that I am well enough to make it to OSH at least a day or two since I'm only a couple hours away.
Getting well enough to greet the transport plane when the kid comes home is my main focus for now, I've been waiting a year for that hug and I plan to be there no matter what.
The plane can be replaced, I have to beat it for my kids and for a lot of other reasons I won't go into here.
It went to a great home, it returned to it's home out West actually and I'm glad it went to whom and where it ended up. When I'm better I can even go visit it and my pals there.
I have too many people to thank for getting me this far and for helping sell my baby, Doug and Rosie stand out but there are many more that "figured it out" and called or emailed and kept the secret.
Well the secrets out, even in town and at work they know about it so I am actually being greedy and selfish here by writing this(with Dougs' permission) because I have no family left but my flying pals amd as the surgery gets closer it gets lonelier and scarier and I could use some chatter to keep me busy.
I'll get word out after the surgery to one of the guys to let everyone know how it went but I will probably be too out of it 6/30-7/2 maybe to reply much but email anyway please.
Most of all, blue skies, be safe and hopefully see you folks at OSH.
You are the closest thing to family that I have in a lot of cases.
Thanks
Jim