So I popped another fucking tumor in my brain, bramaged as much as it is. [View All]

This one was a complete surprise. Caused my pituitary to hemorrhage it was so big. 3.3 CM. Got my 3 year MRI in 2003, clear no problems. First one came out without leaving any residue in 2000. This time it took out the eyesight in my right eye when it hemorrhaged. Could be the optic nerve is comprimised, Have to do Gamma Knife to shrink the bit that's left, have to do nasty steroids because the old boy is pretty punked right how. They need 1 MM clearance on my left optic nerve or radiation is out and I have to choose on having my skull capped to get the rest.

Growth hormones, testosterone, prednisone, I'm going to look like Paul Tuttle Sr. when I'm cleared to work out again muscle mass is already coming back and I haven't lifted a weight.

But this was not fun or anything to joke about. The morning I was taken out of ICU and put into recovery, the gentleman across from me (they put us 3 to a room with one brain nurse) peacefully passed away about 2 hours after I got there.

They tried for an hour to revive him, but he was gone. Had an aggressive tumor removed but it was his time to smile at his nurse and go.

I did not sleep until 3 days after I was discharged.

Even after everything, in another couple of years, it may return. This time, I'll be more careful and not ignore the signs, like the Bell's Palsy I had last December my doctor said was nothing, everybody gets it.

That was the tumor becoming large enough to interfere with my day to day routine and my Doctor didn't think it was serious.

He was wrong again. Just like he was wrong in 1998 when he said I had arthritis and not the first tumor.

It's time to change Doctors.

They shaved my face when they operated, so I don't look like my pictures anymore. Short hair and the handlebars are gone.

But I am vertical. Heart attack August 1, I fell down my stairs and cracked some ribs end of August, and now this. My threesome is done.


I'm glad to be back. Oh, and I had a real attitude change and got to be good friends with God after ignoring him for the last 40+ years. Even for those who do not believe, it gave me something to latch onto while I faced my devils during recuperation.

And your ears will hear a word behind you, this is the way, walk in it',whenever you turn to the right or the left.
Isaiah 30:29.