BS: Another biopsy

Subject: BS: Another biopsy
From: kendall
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 06:33 AM

Here we go again. I'm scheduled for another biopsy this morning. Monday mornings are bad enough without this crap!

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: artbrooks
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 06:55 AM

Knock wood

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: maeve
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 07:09 AM

Don't make me drive down there.

m

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 07:13 AM

Hope its all Good News mate

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 07:13 AM

((((hugs))))

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Tinker
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 07:45 AM

Just keep taking care of yourself.... Monday or not.... You've got another backrub I'm trying to delilver.......

Hugs

tinekr

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 08:29 AM

Poor Jacqui. The Captain has been fasting since last night and can't have his coffee this morning.

Be a good boy and maybe you'll get a lobster roll for dinner.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 08:47 AM

Good luck, bud!

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 08:47 AM

Geeziz........How bad is that? Rolled by a lobster...........What's next? Mugged by a gang of clams? Stuck up by a squid?

Listen up......I have nothing but good feelings about this. It ain't time to cover up your antique car yet..............


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 09:20 AM

!!!KENDALL!!!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: GUEST,guest_olddude
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 09:27 AM

Be well my friend, listen to Spaw !

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: open mike
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 11:07 AM

wishing for a good outcome for you on this...

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 11:21 AM

The best of news to you, Cap'n.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: folk1e
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 11:27 AM

Got my biopsy results back this week ......... it was a lump but they do not know what caused it, other than it WASN'T CANCER! suddenly life looks better.
I hope it does for you too!

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 12:32 PM

Good news folk1e.

I'm just back home for a while before going to pick Kendall up from surgery. Lobster is cooling in preparation for the lobster roll he will be having for lunch. He deserves it.

We didn't get a call last week to let us know what time his surgery would be - I wasn't too well and didn't think about it until it was too late and no-one was answering phones over the weekend. As a result we were up before 6.00am and at the surgical unit at 7.00am, only to be told that his surgery was scheduled for 9.40am. Bear in mind - no coffee, no breakfast this morning. Anyway, we came back home for a while, I took the dog to the beach and Kendall sat and watched 60 minutes and fumed.

Back to the unit for 8.30. Sat in the waiting room for about 30 minutes and then were called in. Lovely nurse looked after us, got Kendall into regulation hospital outfit - gown and socks, but no hat this time, checked his vitals and put the IV in his arm.

We then waited, and waited. About 10.30 Kendall asked when he would be going in - nurse went away and came back to say that the first surgery on his consultant's list, which was scheduled for an hour and a half, had hit complications and that it would be another hour or so before they could get to Kendall. We decided to reschedule as Kendall by this time was changing from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde. IV came out, Kendall got dressed and then nurse came back in to say that the consultant was insisting that this biopsy be done today.

Back into hospital gear, IV back in, and at that point Kendall sent me off to buy the promised lobster while he waited and fumed.

That's it for now - I've cooked his lobster and put a pot of coffee ready to go on. Once I've pulled the poor crustacean apart I'll head back to the unti to wait.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 12:41 PM

The "poor crustacean'? Tear him apart? Surely, surely, Jacqui, that is an extreme response? You knew he was crusty before you married him...

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 01:05 PM

Yes - but take away his coffee and breakfast and it goes WAY past crusty!

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 01:09 PM

Just remember your own words about the Great Spirit, Kendalldarlin' and I'll be backing you up with thank givings from Colorado for a complete and immediate healing with no need for any more of this stuff!

luvyaBOTH,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 01:29 PM

No love for the poor lobster, kat?

Good news, Jacqui.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 02:41 PM

Update.

We just got back and he's sitting in his recliner with his lobster rolls and a cup of regular coffee to hand. Seamus is giving him his undivided attention, at least until the lobster is all gone. Kendall has his remote close by and, apart from feeling a bit woozy, all is right with his world at the moment.

The consultant called me - they got a couple of good samples and we should get the results by the end of the week.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: maeve
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 02:44 PM

Thank you, Jacqui. Hugs to you both and a pat for Seamus.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 03:03 PM

And a lobster claw (meat not shell) for Seamus too.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 03:04 PM

Me too. End of the week! Wow! That's fast. Keeping fingers and toes crossed here.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 03:32 PM

May the Great Good Spirit manifest pure and healthy cells for Kendall in all ways. This or something better for the highest good of all concerned. So mote it be!

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Deckman
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 04:00 PM

Hang in there Captain ... bob

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 04:07 PM

Kendall
I Hope things go well.
I will be going for my 4th attempt at a biopsy soon.
I know you are eating lobsters, but I sure as hell hope you don't get crabs :-)
Les

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 04:26 PM

End of the week? You're at the wrong place! Karen is a Senior Lead Histotech at Mt. Carmel (4 hospitals in Columbus) and that lab processes biopsies really fast......Full series, not just frozens.   Anything submitted today by 8 PM is ready for a pathologist (on their desk and ready to read) tomorrow morning at 9AM. They're one of the very few labs that operates a full staff night shift to get the majority of the production work done.

Anyway, I'm holding my best thoughts for all to be well and I am so sorry you were rolled by a lobster. Say, ask Sinsull how many miles you travelled huh?

Spaww

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 04:40 PM

My biopsy results were to take "a week to ten days" and I didn't get a call. I got an appointment... 16 days.

Hmmmm... I have frozen lobster. Bought some of the stuff in the vacuum plastic on sale. FAR better than the canned stuff because there is much less water and salt.

Maybe that is sommat I could do "now".

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: sing4peace
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 06:30 PM

thinking of you both tonight.
Sending light......................>
JK

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 06:32 PM

All the best from this neck of the woods.

Lucky Kendall at only being coffee-deprived for a matter of hours (too damned many, I know!) -- Tom's last coffee was an after dinner Lebanese coffee the evening before his Oct. 20th cancer surgery.

Sigh. Believe me, Jacqui, I understand.

Hugs to both of you.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 06:43 PM

Well... that's what the ENT says...

As fer me... no tea? No gnu. I'll have me tea.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 07:56 PM

Me thinks that the Capt'n is going to extremes here to come up with new material for next year's Getaway... I mean, I like the hunting story just fine...

Ya'll take care and ol' hillbilly thinking good thoughts fir ya'll...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Nov 09 - 08:13 PM

Hoping for the best.

Lobster ain't bad, followed with a glass of Jack Daniels.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 12:10 AM

& good wishes from me, too to Kendall & the other Catters awaiting biopsy results

hugs to you all (& families)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: KT
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 12:32 AM

Well that's a heckofa way to spend your Monday. I'm glad you had it done today, though, instead of having to reschedule!   Sending good thoughts & a wholelottaluv to both of you from way up north!
KT

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 02:46 AM

Kendall and Jacqui

here is me.... thinking at thee

good stuff all ways, always

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: kendall
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 05:35 AM

Oh well, a Lobster roll, coffee, my recliner and remote, 60 minutes and a steak dinner on top of a string of apologies from the surgeon in person, it don't get much better. Maybe he just doesn't want to appear in my next book. (Seriously, he is a hellofafine guy.) The delay wasn't even his fault.

Thanks to every one of you. Dan, it's so good to have you back. Please stay.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 07:30 AM

I hope he stays too Kendall but what kind of example are you setting allowing yourself to get rolled by a freakin' lobster and probably mugged by clams as well. Aren't you into the concealed carry thing? Man, if I were you, I'd be shooting every one of those little freaks!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 08:15 AM

Well Jacqui will give you "Lob-St-A" when you are sick. But if you don't stay well I am driving down, getting Spaw and we will come up after we eat every spicy burrito we can find ... so stay well or else!

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 08:18 AM

I'm concerned about my dad, but I'm also concerned about Gnu. CANNED lobster??? Oh the humanity!

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 08:55 AM

Ah gnu! That is pathetic!

I wonder if Canada will allow for lobsters shipped across the border? I know they allow well behaved gnus to cross the border. Then you could meet a real lobster. Kendall might even hypnotize one for you.

I will explain how many miles you have travelled when we are face to face, Kendall. It's a Spaw thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: gnu
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 12:24 PM

No, no, no, no, no!!!

Frozen lobster is for when the shops are closed.... you know, in an emergency.

We get fine lobster here, albeit more exspensive. And, I have hypnotized them as well. Even clams.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 12:29 PM

for you, Kendall...you can either eat him or wrestle him or make up a story about him.


"The largest lobster on record, according to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records, is 44 pounds, 6 ounces, 3 feet 6 inches from the end of tail fan to tip of largest claw. The oldest lobster on record is believed to be around 100 years old. Since the only way to judge a lobsters age is by it's size, any figure relevant to the age of a lobster is just a guess. There's no way to really tell. It is believed that they could live as long as 150 years. But no one knows for sure."

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 02:27 PM

gnu hypnotizes clams?

nice to see the cameo appearance by olddude

Kendall - hope you enjoyed the steak dinner and that you are keeping calm.

Stress is evil poisonous stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: kendall
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 02:43 PM

Spaw, I don't waste bullets on Lobsters, I just pop them into a pot of boiling water. After I hypnotize them of course. They don't feel a thing. Well, if they do they never let on.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: gnu
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 03:15 PM

Depends which way ya dump em, Kendall. Head first, when they wave, ya can't see it.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Severn
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 03:29 PM

Best wishes from Laurel, MD for the best Opsy results money can buy. You aren't quite ready to go pushin' up Opsy Daisies for a good while yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 04:14 PM

I dunno' Kendall.....I saw a Gary Larson picture where the lobster was struggling against the pot and screaming, "AUNTIE EM!!! AUNTIE EM!!!!"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: open mike
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 04:30 PM

here's to a good report!!

all we have here in inland california is crawdads...
i did do a crawfish boil party for a Swedish summer party

but it is just not the same...

Subject: RE: BS: Another biopsy
From: Maryrrf
Date: 10 Nov 09 - 07:13 PM

Hope everything turns out well, Cap'n!