That's supposed to be a lovely area...! -Patrick >-----Original Message----- >From: Duane Boudreau > > >Near Antigonish - the gateway to Cape Breton ;) > >-----Original Message----- >From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:39 AM >To: CF-Community >Subject: Re: feeling kinda foolish > >hey Duane, > >Where in Nova Scotia. I have family throught the region. > >larry > > >On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:27:37 -0500, Duane Boudreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> Luckily I didn't need a transplant. We caught it before it >spread and it >was >> still contained within the lymph nodes in my neck. I was >still late stage >1 >> or early stage 2. The husband of one of my wife's coworkers >had the exact >> same thing and was diagnosed 3 or 4 weeks earlier. I >remember thinking >poor >> bastard. Fortunately I tolerated chemo very well - so well I actually >gained >> 30 pounds during treatment :( now I have to bust ass and lose it! >> >> Something like this definitely does change your outlook. >It's so easy to >get >> caught up in the day to day crap. Sometimes its hard to >remember to stop >and >> smell the roses or hug your kid. Not for me anymore - life decided to >remind >> me with a big old kick in the butt. >> >> After getting better my wife and I have decided to return >home to Nova >> Scotia, Canada, to be closer to our families. We have the >big house the >nice >> cars but some things just aren't worth wasting your life >for! (BTW, if >> anyone is looking for a house in NH - >> >http://www.pruverani.com/view_listing_residential.asp?MLS=17642 >9&T=1 :D ) >> The US has been kind to us for the past 9 years, but now its >time to go >> home. >> >> >> >> Duane >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:02 PM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: feeling kinda foolish >> >> I am glad to hear that. I know someone else who has that and he is >> having to have some sort of transplant. (bone marrow?) >> >> Look at it this way though, even if it comes back, you will have >> bought yourself some time, right? And it is always better to be here >> today :) That is, in any event, my theory, now that I have had a look >> at the alternative. >> >> I saw the aspen turn this fall, and it was good. >> >> Dana >> >> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:41:56 -0500, Duane Boudreau ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > I am now, but it will be 5 years before I know for sure. >> > >> > In June past I found out I had Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Luckily the >"kind" >> of >> > NHL I had was one of the most treatable. Almost five >months of chemo >wiped >> > it out. My last PET came back clean but until I'm clean for 5 years >> nothing >> > is guaranteed. I'll have my fingers crossed until then for sure. >> > >> > >> > >> > Duane >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:33 PM >> > To: CF-Community >> > Subject: Re: feeling kinda foolish >> > >> > No kidding :) You OK now? >> > >> > Dana >> > >> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:21:41 -0500, Duane Boudreau ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> > > I got a look first hand at how expensive medical >treatment can cost! >> > > >> > > My bills, at least the ones I saw added up to over 45k >over the last 5 >> > > months. On top of that there were 2 CT Scans and 2 PET Scans that >> weren't >> > on >> > > any of the bills I saw. All told my co-pay added up to >about 70 bucks! >> > Quite >> > > a bargain! Best $70 I ever spent. >> > > >> > > Duane >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > > >
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