Hi everyone,
Sorry we have been away from this forum for awhile. Lynn's 40 year old younger Sister commited suicide on her 40th b-day in July of 2011. It was from alcohol and depression even thou she had every thing she could want and money was not a problem. We think it was because her Son and Daughter were both off to college and they were her life commitment and felt useless after they went off to school. Lynn in turn got depressed and did not want to ride her trike as much. Then in April of 2012 Lynn had emergency surgery to have her Gall Bladder taken out. Then our lovely 40 year old neighbor which was like a Daughter to us got killed in a farm accident when a loaded hay wagon flipped and crushed her on July 6, 2012. She left 4 young beautiful girls who are like our Grandchildren because we never had kids so they were treated as such.
Now between the on going pains of having her GB removed and Leslie dying she was even more not into riding. This from some one that rode 8,000 miles a year before all this. Now to top this all off I was getting a kidney stone type of pain in November of 2012. After a CT scan they found out that it was an enlarged Lymph node almost 3" in diameter and the main Cancer tumor was in my left testicle. That one was very small and went undetected until it was found by an ultrasound. I was diagnosed with Stage 3B Testicular Cancer at 59 years old and this is more common in guys half my age. I went through 9 weeks of Chemo starting the first week of 2013 and after the last treatment I ended up in the hospital. They ended up giving me blood transfusions because I was checking out physically and mentally and lost all hope to living. Things turned out better after the one week hospital stay. Then on April 1st I had my first operation to remove the left testical. Then on May 1st I was in for a 12 hour surgery to take out the enlarged Lymph Node which shrank down to 1" in diameter from the chemo.
http://tcrc.acor.org/rplnd.html
I am now in recovery mode which will take atleast 4 months and on long term disability at the rate of half my pay. I am hoping to atleast be able to ride Lynn's trike by this Fall. I lost 30 pounds of muscle mass through all of this. I am now thinking of having my 1999 Dyna Wide Glide triked with a Frankenstien kit. We are selling Lynn's beautiful FXD and I may just sell my 1999 DWG and buy a newer Fatbob and Frankenstien it instead ;-)
BTW ..... as of right now I am Cancer free. Cancer marker was 1300 in the beginning and now down to 2.2 and anything under 6 is normal. So for the rest of my life I will just be checked every 6 months or so.
Rob ......
Sorry we have been away from this forum for awhile. Lynn's 40 year old younger Sister commited suicide on her 40th b-day in July of 2011. It was from alcohol and depression even thou she had every thing she could want and money was not a problem. We think it was because her Son and Daughter were both off to college and they were her life commitment and felt useless after they went off to school. Lynn in turn got depressed and did not want to ride her trike as much. Then in April of 2012 Lynn had emergency surgery to have her Gall Bladder taken out. Then our lovely 40 year old neighbor which was like a Daughter to us got killed in a farm accident when a loaded hay wagon flipped and crushed her on July 6, 2012. She left 4 young beautiful girls who are like our Grandchildren because we never had kids so they were treated as such.
Now between the on going pains of having her GB removed and Leslie dying she was even more not into riding. This from some one that rode 8,000 miles a year before all this. Now to top this all off I was getting a kidney stone type of pain in November of 2012. After a CT scan they found out that it was an enlarged Lymph node almost 3" in diameter and the main Cancer tumor was in my left testicle. That one was very small and went undetected until it was found by an ultrasound. I was diagnosed with Stage 3B Testicular Cancer at 59 years old and this is more common in guys half my age. I went through 9 weeks of Chemo starting the first week of 2013 and after the last treatment I ended up in the hospital. They ended up giving me blood transfusions because I was checking out physically and mentally and lost all hope to living. Things turned out better after the one week hospital stay. Then on April 1st I had my first operation to remove the left testical. Then on May 1st I was in for a 12 hour surgery to take out the enlarged Lymph Node which shrank down to 1" in diameter from the chemo.
http://tcrc.acor.org/rplnd.html
I am now in recovery mode which will take atleast 4 months and on long term disability at the rate of half my pay. I am hoping to atleast be able to ride Lynn's trike by this Fall. I lost 30 pounds of muscle mass through all of this. I am now thinking of having my 1999 Dyna Wide Glide triked with a Frankenstien kit. We are selling Lynn's beautiful FXD and I may just sell my 1999 DWG and buy a newer Fatbob and Frankenstien it instead ;-)
BTW ..... as of right now I am Cancer free. Cancer marker was 1300 in the beginning and now down to 2.2 and anything under 6 is normal. So for the rest of my life I will just be checked every 6 months or so.
Rob ......
