[TexasCowboy]

Hello, folks.

I gave up on my wireless laptop. Maybe the network will let me stay on long enough to post.

I have okay days and bad days, but, like everything else, I take it one day at a time and pray for the best.
God knows He can load the wagon and I'll pull the load. I just ask Him to lighten the load a bit if it be His will.

The leg is healing very nicely. I'm walking with two crutches now, and by the end of next week they hope to have me down to one.
There is nothing for the titanium rod to affix itself to so it takes a lot of time for the scar tissue to wrap itself around the rod sufficiently to hold it, but it does feel really good to put weight on it. It feels like a good stretch for some strange reason.
I've have recurring bowel problems and urinary problems, but it seems to be slowly getting less severe.

I go into UCLA next Monday to begin the chemical treatments to combat the remaining cancer in my body. I'm told that this is not regular chemo, and I won't have the same reaction to it as with regular chemo.
Whatever. I just want to get started killing this damn thing!

The worst part of all of this is the exhaustion. I have to do what I can do early in the day because by four o'clock I'm wiped out.
I've tried to keep up with all the posts, but my computer time has been almost nil. Even with the few I've read I can see the love and kindness pouring fourth.
I thank the Good Lord that He has allowed me to live long enough to meet so many people with hearts of pure love.

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Faith is gone to UCLA to set up an appointment to install a device in her chest cavity to automatically interrupt the seizures. It works by providing a constant stimulus to the Vegas nerve which sidetracks the seizures.
My poor angel is having eight to ten seizures a day now along with all the other MS problems.
She and I remind me of the blind leading the blind. We both do as much as we can for the other, but it's always a struggle.

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I'll try to keep you better informed, folks, when I get my laptop on line and get off this network.
God bless you all for your thoughts and prayers.

TC

[El Gato]

She and I remind me of the blind leading the blind. We both do as much as we can for the other, but it's always a struggle

Sometimes you have to either cry or laugh.

You laugh (as usual), we'll do any needed crying.

[SandRat]

Keep in the fight TC for you shall be reqarded. As it is written; Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

You are standing fast before the trials of Satan as did Job.

[humblegunner]

You get better, pard, and get back home.
We got your back down home.

And the sides and obliques and whatever it takes.

[ladyinred]

Much love and prayers going out for you El Roy from Tom and I. Hang in there.


Connie

[amom]

Joining in on the prayers up and thanks for the update here. Prayers increased for Faith's health too. As a matter of fact, praying for all y'alls well being.

RE: Helping each other as you can.
It's amazing what we can do when the need is there isn't it? Always tested a bit beyond anything we could imagine and then we grow.

Hang in there and keep on the sunny side my friend.

[Alamo-Girl]

I thank God for you and Faith! Prayers continue...

[Valin]

68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

thanks for the ping

TexasCowboy

NAPS! Naps are good, naps are our friend, naps are one more proof that there is a God and he wants us to be happy

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Joe and Frank were in the office, and noticed that someone had put up a suggestion box with some 3x5 cards next to it. Both decided that this was a great idea, and each took a card to fill out.

Joe wrote, "The office workers should all be given raises!"

When he looked at Frank's card, it read: "Can we all have raises, and keys to the executive washroom, and personal secretaries, and new company cars, and new coffee cups, and longer lunch breaks, and an extra three weeks vacation each year, and a holiday on St. Patrick's Day, and Columbus Day and Martin Luther King's Birthday?"

Joe said, "Frank, that isn't the right way of getting things changed around here - You shouldn't put all of your begs in one ask-it."

"Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.'
Ellie Katz

[stanz]

Dear heart,
So good to hear from you. I know your struggle is hard, but you seem to be doing the best anyone could under the circumstances. So glad to hear you'll soon be walking with only one cane. Always amazed at you Texans...full of "piss and vinegar." When you get rid of the one crutch, I get the first dance!
In the meantime, you are in my thoughts and in my heart.
Hope to hear from soon....be well.
Auntie Stanz

[luvie]

Good to see your report. I'll bet it feels wonderful just to stand upright even for a moment. God is answering so many prayers for you and I continue my prayers that your healing is ongoing. Prayers that the cancer is killed completely and you finally get to be rid of the exhaustion. Just take it one day at a time. God bless you and your family!

[Allegra]

Prayers continue for you, my friend. And for Faith.

May the good days start outnumbering the bad days at an accelerated pace.

[proud2beconservativeinNJ]

Prayers for Faith and you. What a nice message you have returned to your Freeper Friends. There is no wonder why you have so many people rooting and praying for you.

[LucyJo]

Continuing prayers for you and Faith, TC. May God lighten the load, if it is His will, and grant more strength to bear all that y'all are going through now.

[LucyJo]

Today's the day! May God's providence surround you today, TC, and bless every effort by your doctors, every therapy and treatment to bring you back to the good health that we all desire so much and are praying that will be yours.

[Rightfootforward]

Haven't forgotten that today's scheduled to be a big one for you. Many prayers headed your way, as they are each day. We continue to be with you in spirit, TC. And that is precisely where we're going to stay!

[BIGLOOK]

Stay the course, El Roy. Godspeed to you and Faith.