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[pjam]

No, not currently.... my card is super maxed out. I had to use it to pay a lot of home bills while I caught up on my medical bills. It was rough but I am finally coming out of it and will be able to pay the thing off and afford a little more stuff.

So I use my DEBIT card for SSC figures and such.

Nice to hear your recovery is going well, DA.

 

[DarkArtist81]

Nice to hear your recovery is going well, DA.

thanks pjam! I still have a little bit of wierd sensitivity sometimes around the scar...(right side of neck), and I still can't raise both eyebrows... kind of a permanent "Rock" eyebrow when I try to raise them..

But at least the tumor is gone and I don't have to worry about it anymore. I've had enough of cancer already....sad to say at 25... Just glad it wasn't serious.

 

[pjam]

thanks pjam! I still have a little bit of wierd sensitivity sometimes around the scar...(right side of neck), and I still can't raise both eyebrows... kind of a permanent "Rock" eyebrow when I try to raise them..

But at least the tumor is gone and I don't have to worry about it anymore. I've had enough of cancer already....sad to say at 25... Just glad it wasn't serious.

God bless, great to have such a valued board member to hang with!

 

[King Darkness]

thanks pjam! I still have a little bit of wierd sensitivity sometimes around the scar...(right side of neck), and I still can't raise both eyebrows... kind of a permanent "Rock" eyebrow when I try to raise them..

But at least the tumor is gone and I don't have to worry about it anymore. I've had enough of cancer already....sad to say at 25... Just glad it wasn't serious.

WHAT????....did I miss something....what happened...its sound like your ok now....I dont want to hear anymore bad news this week.....

 

[Khev]

thanks pjam! I still have a little bit of wierd sensitivity sometimes around the scar...(right side of neck),

That can actually be cool. One of my friends and I speculated about how Boba Fett might appear in the prequels long before TPM or even the SE's came out.

We thought that if Boba's face was shown (we thought that he was old enough in ESB to have still been an adult in the prequels) that it would be really cool if he had a nasty scar across the front of his neck. As if someone had tried to kill him by slitting his throat--and failed.

 

[DarkArtist81]

Yeah, it's cool guys... It was about 5 months ago now... I had a tumor on my neck that had to be removed.. it was benign.. They just wanted to be sure it was not a part of the skin cancer I had on my face..

I was out of it for a little while but did not make a big fuss about it. For a while I could not move the right side of my face at all... And actually for the short while that I had the Stormtrooper costume, I was going to burn some gouges in the helmet to match my scars... maximize the effect when I removed the helmet.

Would be cool to have a Boba costume... make it look authentic...

Here's a pic of the skin cancer surgery pic... about 2 years ago.. the new scar is from the back of my ear down my jawline...

 

[Khev]

Your hair looks too dark and your lips are a little glossy. :chew

 

[DarthRamuk]

DA, I very much respect your courage and wacky sense of humour!

 

[Darth Loki]

Your arms are too long.

 

[King Darkness]

Yeah, it's cool guys... It was about 5 months ago now... I had a tumor on my neck that had to be removed.. it was benign.. They just wanted to be sure it was not a part of the skin cancer I had on my face..

I was out of it for a little while but did not make a big fuss about it. For a while I could not move the right side of my face at all... And actually for the short while that I had the Stormtrooper costume, I was going to burn some gouges in the helmet to match my scars... maximize the effect when I removed the helmet.

Would be cool to have a Boba costume... make it look authentic...

Here's a pic of the skin cancer surgery pic... about 2 years ago.. the new scar is from the back of my ear down my jawline...

Man.....that really sux....glad to hear it was benign.....thats very scary, but to know you over came it gives me hope.......

 

[DarkArtist81]

LOL! I wish my arms were longer!!

I think the glossy lips were from all that metal I had in my face back then..

Thanks everyone for the kind words and support... I'm just glad it's all healed up and I don't look like that guy above anymore..

 

[King Darkness]

LOL! I wish my arms were longer!!

...me too....but not my arms

 

[tomandshell]

thanks pjam! I still have a little bit of wierd sensitivity sometimes around the scar...(right side of neck), and I still can't raise both eyebrows... kind of a permanent "Rock" eyebrow when I try to raise them..

Sounds pretty cool to me!

Glad you're doing OK!

 

[Wor-Gar]

Stick it to the man, Tom!


OK, so I got my Boromir notice -- but still no FedEx notice! People are already getting their figure!

ARGGGGGGGGG!!!

 

[JonZ]

Glad your doing well DarkArtist81. I too have been battling medical problems for the last couple years. In 04, I was diagnosed with having a large hole in between the upper chambers of my heart. It was something I was born with and it was never caught until then. Since it went undiagnosed all my life, it caused me to have pulmonary hypertension-PH- (which causes your blood vessels in your lungs to close up and not produce enough oxygen for your body and it also causes very high pressures in your lungs). There is no cure for my lung disease. I was told by doctors at Barnes in St.Louis that I'd have to have a heart/double lung transplant to live because the lung disease is also fatal. Needless to say at 22, my life came crashing down.

They put me on some medications for the PH and oxygen 24/7 (that one really sucked) and eventually, my lung pressures went down low enough for them to consider doing surgery (which they said could never happen) to close the hole in the heart. Alot of risks were involved, but my wife and I decided to take them because I wanted to try to avoid tranplantation at all costs. In July 05, I had open heart surgery and had the hole closed. Since then my lung pressures have gone down quite a bit and transplantation has been put off completely. I have been taken off of the oxygen and am on a medication that is infused into the body by a small pump for the PH. The doctors at Barnes told me that I should now be able to live a long health life and that they would be able to take what they learned from my case and use it to help others.

I would be lying if I said that there are days that go by that I don't get angry about the whole situation, but I also have to say that I feel Blessed to have gone through this. I truely believe, now more than ever, that GOD won't put us through anything we can't handle...

 

[tomandshell]

Beautiful attitude, JonZ! If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger, right? Glad you're doing well! Experiences like that really make you grateful for every day that you have in life. Good to hear that you are looking at a normal life expectancy--and that what you went through is going to help the doctors to assist others!

 

[King Darkness]

Glad your doing well DarkArtist81. I too have been battling medical problems for the last couple years. In 04, I was diagnosed with having a large hole in between the upper chambers of my heart. It was something I was born with and it was never caught until then. Since it went undiagnosed all my life, it caused me to have pulmonary hypertension-PH- (which causes your blood vessels in your lungs to close up and not produce enough oxygen for your body and it also causes very high pressures in your lungs). There is no cure for my lung disease. I was told by doctors at Barnes in St.Louis that I'd have to have a heart/double lung transplant to live because the lung disease is also fatal. Needless to say at 22, my life came crashing down.

They put me on some medications for the PH and oxygen 24/7 (that one really sucked) and eventually, my lung pressures went down low enough for them to consider doing surgery (which they said could never happen) to close the hole in the heart. Alot of risks were involved, but my wife and I decided to take them because I wanted to try to avoid tranplantation at all costs. In July 05, I had open heart surgery and had the hole closed. Since then my lung pressures have gone down quite a bit and transplantation has been put off completely. I have been taken off of the oxygen and am on a medication that is infused into the body by a small pump for the PH. The doctors at Barnes told me that I should now be able to live a long health life and that they would be able to take what they learned from my case and use it to help others.

I would be lying if I said that there are days that go by that I don't get angry about the whole situation, but I also have to say that I feel Blessed to have gone through this. I truely believe, now more than ever, that GOD won't put us through anything we can't handle...

That is truly awesome that you made it through ok.....stories like these are giveing me much hope right now....often times emotional strength is hardest to come by, but you and DA(J2 as I may now refer to him) have shown that anything is possible....

 

[tomandshell]

We were told by the doctors that my son had a 10% chance of survival as the due date approached. In addition to several other complications, he was not getting enough oxygen to grow and would likely not survive the delivery process if he made it that far at all. Amongst the problems was the fact that they couldn't take him out via emergency c-section because his lungs weren't developing and if he was delivered he wouldn't be able to breathe, so they decided to wait as long as they could before the fetus gave up the struggle of trying to get oxygen. We got to the point where my wife was stuck in a hospital bed hooked up to monitors 24/7, and whenever the baby's heartbeat would stop, she had to press this little button to alert the nurse, and if it didn't start up again they would do an emergency c-section on the spot. After several weeks of that, the vital stats finally dropped and didn't recover so they went in and got him. He only weighed 3 pounds and they took him immediately to the newborn intensive care unit. (My wife didn't even get to see him first.) He was in intensive care in a little climate controlled box for about a month with all sorts of needles and tubes going into him. But day by day, he began to recover and grow. While that whole experience left me feeling pretty helpless, it also gave an appreciation for how fragile and precious life is. The day we finally got to take him home from the hospital was one of the happiest of my life. Today, he is doing well. (You can catch him in my avatar wearing the google eyes that fell off his Elmo slippers.) All of the worst case scenarios that the doctors gave us didn't happen. So King, just remember that there are others out there who have made it through tough times physically and come out OK, and have faith that your dad will be among that crowd eventually!

 

[Darth Rage]

Your hair looks too dark and your lips are a little glossy. :chew

ROTFLMAO Damn, that's funny.

Seriously though, glad all you guys are ok. Scary stuff but I firmly believe God doesn't give us anything we can't handle.

 

[pjam]

Great stuff of human triumph, guys. My Dad was an Internist at the Scarsdale Medical Group in NY so everyday was another day living vicariously through his patients when I was a kid growing up in Rye, NY.

What's most stunning to me, and he has told me as much, is many of these stories we hear today would not have had a positive outcome back then if it weren't for the amazing advances in Medical Science over the last decade or so --so much so that it saved his own life over the past year as cancer reared its ugly head.

God bless you guys, good to be with you enjoying life! :chew

Now, back to the issue at hand -- where is my darned shipping notice?