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Regret to report...
My blogging will be light in the next week, and maybe the week thereafter. I've been diagnosed with bladder cancer. The doc took out the four tumors, but they proved to be high grade and thus almost certain to recur, at about 4-5 year intervals, 10% chance of fatality each time. The solution is to remove the bladder and make a new one out of small intestine tissue. That'll be done Tuesday at noon local, and I'll be in the hospital for 1-3 weeks. They do have high speed internet, but I'll be out of it for a while.
UPDATE: I'll be at University Medical Center, 1501 N. Campbell, Tucson 85724.
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Oh, Dave, I am so sorry to hear that! You're in my thoughts, for a fast and complete recovery.
Turk
I wish you a speedy and total recovery!
Best wishes, David.
You will in our prayers.
God speed and best wishes for a rapid recovery....
PeterT
Get well soon! Do what they nurses tell you to ;)
Dave, You'll be in my prayers. Doc
You are in my prayers for a full and rapid recovery.
Here is to a complete and speedy recovery. Your readers will all be pulling for you.
I wish you a complete and speedy recovery Mister Hardy. I hope you are able to continue this blog for many years to come.
Hals und bein bruch,Herr David.
Best of luck. Get well soonest.
Good Luck!
I am very sorry to hear this. For whatever it's worth from someone you don't even know, good luck and good health.
Prayers and best wishes for a speedy recovery and as much comfort as modern medicine and God's grace can provide...
Sorry to hear about this David. I pray that everything will go well.
Best wishes David. You're in our prayers.
Very sorry to hear this. I wish you the best for a speedy, pain-free and permanent recovery.
Crap, what a terrible thing. I wish you the best first in your surgery and then, in the years after that, in medical progress to help things go even more smoothly than your current most optimistic scenario.
I will pray for a complete recovery.
Mike J.
You're gonna come through this, Dave. With modern surgical techniques, skilled surgeons, and a bag full of pain killers, you're gonna come through this!
That's unwelcome news, but it sounds like you are in good hands. I wish you all the best, and hope you bounce back rapidly and completely. -M.
Our prayers are with you...
Speedy recovery!
Dave Laden
We'll be praying for you, too.
David, My thoughts and prayers are with you. May all go well and you have a complete and speedy recovery.
You're in my prayers. God Bless.
Calgunners offer our best wishes, Dave - I know you'll tough it out and be OK.
It was an honor to meet you at the NRA convention post-legal conference reception (I was the tall CGF guy along with CGFer Gene Hoffman).
Bill Wiese
San Jose CA
Dave:
I can only echo what has already been said. Please recover quickly. We need people like you.
Matt
Will be praying for your full and speedy recover.
Dave,
Sorry to hear this and I wish you the best.
David,
My concerns and thoughts are with you. I wish you the best and hope for a full and speedy recovery.
Hoping and praying for a speedy return to good health, Counselor. We need you.
Get well soon.
Dammit.
Take heart, though; things are a hell of a lot better than they used to be. My ex had cancer when we were married, and a while after the divorce it showed back up again, had already metastasized before they found it; she beat it then, too, and is still around.
Get well soon, buddy.
I'm so very sorry to hear that. You'll be in my prayers. I hope you recover as best possible.
God bless you, and we'll be praying for a speedy recovery!
I wish you Godspeed to a complete remission. My mom was diagnosed with bladder cancer 13 years ago, had the surgery, and was announced officially in "remission" five years later, after no reoccurrence.
And let me say once again that I greatly appreciate your fine work on Arms and the Law!
Best of luck!
Best wishes and prayers to you.
Best of luck and get well soon.
All the best to you, hang in there, positive thoughts and prayers coming you way...
Best wishes.
Best wishes for a great outcome.
Maybe you could send your dirty no good bladder to Obama with the note: "I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, and here's proof - my empty bladder."
Or maybe you could get your bladder tanned and turned into a holster. It'll be a first.
Oh yeah, hospital beds are a freaking nightmare to sleep on, so maybe you should find a couple of cute nurses to give you a rub down every night and to make sure the equipment that is associated with your bladder still works. :)
God's speed to a full recovery. God works in strange ways. My prays will be with you as you go through this time.
Chuck
Sorry to hear. Best wishes for a speedy recovery
Good luck Dave, our Prayers are with you
Gerry
Ft Collins, Co
My thoughts & prayers are with you David. God Bless.