Johnsfolly Posted December 14, 2016 Posted December 14, 2016 Norm Great to hear about your recovery. Keep up the fight!
Al Agnew Posted December 14, 2016 Posted December 14, 2016 Great news, Norm...after Mary's experience, as somebody else said, we cherish life a lot more and take it for granted a lot less. Pretty sure you feel the same way. BilletHead and laker67 2
Norm M Posted December 14, 2016 Author Posted December 14, 2016 had the surgery one week ago today . still taking pain pills to eat but I've found that using the right side to eat with is working right now as the cancer was on the bottom left . I have an appointment to see a speech therapist , my wife says I sound a little better . how long did you have to do the soft diet ? I have an outrageous desire to take two slabs of homemade bread, slather on some creamy peanut and have some bbq chips on the side . what a long strange trip it's been , put a dip in your hip, a glide in your stride and come on to the mother ship , the learning never ends
Norm M Posted December 14, 2016 Author Posted December 14, 2016 Believe me, when you come up to that kind of brink and your doctors let you know what could happen good or bad, with most of it bad , it sets you to thinking . I knew that attitude can help and not even the docs fully understand how much your mental attitude affects your body's ability to fight off disease . That is why I decided from the start that I was going to win . No point in going into the biggest challenge I have ever faced admitting defeat from the start . What did I have to lose, go in with the right attitude and hope like heck it matters . To my way of thinking , catching it early was probably the biggest thing I had going for me . After they did yea many tests and confirmed the cancer had not spread, I knew my chances of living had just taken an upward tic . Add in a very good medical team , support and prayers from family and friends and the fact that I am in deed a stubborn, crotchety old curmudgeon who wasn't going out without a fight all played a role . I think all these years of fishing and the mental attitude I developed along the way helped . When you can make yourself believe that you will catch a smallmouth bass on a topwater in a river in the middle of winter and keep on believing that cast after fishless cast , then you can likely convince yourself of anything . Believe in yourself and your abilities and good things happen . Another positive to come out of this , is that my wife and I have grown even closer through her unwavering support and belief in me . I did not think that after all these years it was possible to grow any closer but I was wrong . I love that woman now more than ever . I knew I was getting the news about my future when I met the doc today . I doubt I slept more than 2 hours the night before . I should be dead asleep by now. The adrenaline rush I got when the doc gave me the great news still has me going. The emotional release and the joy that sprang thru my soul at that time is something that I just don't know how to describe with words . Falling in love with and marrying this wonderful woman was the greatest thing that ever happened to me . Being there for the birth of all three of my kids comes next . The doc giving me this news is third. There is no fourth as everything else pales in comparison 176champion, swilson, Mitch f and 6 others 9 what a long strange trip it's been , put a dip in your hip, a glide in your stride and come on to the mother ship , the learning never ends
BilletHead Posted December 14, 2016 Posted December 14, 2016 4 minutes ago, Norm M said: Believe me, when you come up to that kind of brink and your doctors let you know what could happen good or bad, with most of it bad , it sets you to thinking . I knew that attitude can help and not even the docs fully understand how much your mental attitude affects your body's ability to fight off disease . That is why I decided from the start that I was going to win . No point in going into the biggest challenge I have ever faced admitting defeat from the start . What did I have to lose, go in with the right attitude and hope like heck it matters . To my way of thinking , catching it early was probably the biggest thing I had going for me . After they did yea many tests and confirmed the cancer had not spread, I knew my chances of living had just taken an upward tic . Add in a very good medical team , support and prayers from family and friends and the fact that I am in deed a stubborn, crotchety old curmudgeon who wasn't going out without a fight all played a role . I think all these years of fishing and the mental attitude I developed along the way helped . When you can make yourself believe that you will catch a smallmouth bass on a topwater in a river in the middle of winter and keep on believing that cast after fishless cast , then you can likely convince yourself of anything . Believe in yourself and your abilities and good things happen . Another positive to come out of this , is that my wife and I have grown even closer through her unwavering support and belief in me . I did not think that after all these years it was possible to grow any closer but I was wrong . I love that woman now more than ever . I knew I was getting the news about my future when I met the doc today . I doubt I slept more than 2 hours the night before . I should be dead asleep by now. The adrenaline rush I got when the doc gave me the great news still has me going. The emotional release and the joy that sprang thru my soul at that time is something that I just don't know how to describe with words . Falling in love with and marrying this wonderful woman was the greatest thing that ever happened to me . Being there for the birth of all three of my kids comes next . The doc giving me this news is third. There is no fourth as everything else pales in comparison No truer words said Norm. Life sometimes jerks a knot in our tails. Bless you, The BilletHead's "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
JestersHK Posted December 14, 2016 Posted December 14, 2016 Congrats and good luck with a speedy recovery!
Smalliebigs Posted December 14, 2016 Posted December 14, 2016 19 hours ago, Norm M said: cancerous lesion on the forehead removed, got it all, margins good - no further treatment needed cancer on the tongue removed with about 1/3 tongue, tongue rebuilt with graft from tissue donor. margins good . no cancer found in lymph nodes removed- no further treatment needed . looks like I'm going to win . GREAT NEWS!!!!......my wife is a cancer survivor and she has come thru as an extremely strong person after the fact. She says what's on her mind in front of everyone and anyone.....Life is ever so precious and our time in this form is limited. Have a good Holidays and continued success nailing those Illinois smallies Johnsfolly and Quillback 2
176champion Posted December 14, 2016 Posted December 14, 2016 Awesome news!!... God has Blessed you indeed. My wife wasn't as lucky, she fought leukemia(bone cancer) for a year and a half and lost I know everything about nothing and know nothing about everything! Bruce Philips
Norm M Posted December 14, 2016 Author Posted December 14, 2016 sorry for your loss to this horrible disease . what a long strange trip it's been , put a dip in your hip, a glide in your stride and come on to the mother ship , the learning never ends
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