5 years, wow, where did the time go?

I owe some apologies to everyone for not posting as much and for taking as long to post this. on 9/14 it will be my 5 year resection anniversary (and as an aside, it’s also the 5 year anniversary of the Big Four (Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and METALLICA) playing at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. I asked the doc if I could go after the surgery and he suggested that it probably wouldn’t be a good idea… ). I flew to NY with my daughter on 8/9/16 and had an office visit with Dr. Jarnagin to review all of my films. I wrote the following on FB on 8/11 which was the day before my 21st wedding anniversary. Life is good, lucky to be here!!

“Cancer? What Cancer?? I’m sitting here in NY at my inlaws on the 26th floor balcony in the North Shore Towers overlooking the golf course and Grand Central Parkway typing this with the utmost humility and sincere gratitude for everyone who has supported me, said prayers, good thoughts, positive comments online, and everything else that has transpired over the past 5 years. As you know, cancer in 2011, it came back in May 2015 and we did more chemo and maybe, just maybe, some holistic medicinal herbs here and there.… I had 3 scans over the past 6-9 months and all said “No evidence of disease”. All of my doctors in Florida said they don’t think I have any more cancer. I decided to take a trip to Sloan Kettering and see my surgeon, Dr. Bill Jarnagin, who did my original surgery. It’s official from multiple sources, I DON’T HAVE ANY MORE CANCER IN ME!!!! I’m running with that for sure!! That being said, Sydney Hampton and I are going to go to see Matilda on broadway tonite and are headed to the city shortly to hit a few museums along the way. Again, thank you to everyone, and mean this with more sincerity that can ever be expressed. Support and positivity are absolutely necessary when anyone goes through this. Any negativity is not going to help at all. Until the next post!!!!”

Of course, thanks goes out to this great community of people who are going through the same thing. Fight the good fight, always be positive! There’s no place for negativity, it doesn’t help anything and puts you in a bad mood also. Best of luck to everyone.
Derin