It started for us with the decision to go to a RAM home game, picked the Home Opener vs. the bears.....A week of great beach walks, meeting all kinds of people, football fans and the other type....eating at great establishments, culminating with the trip to the Palace, and it is worth every penny...just a beautiful place, and it's not done yet.
On our return from the game I was set up for a doctor visit.....always dread those things. Within a week or so of the visit I was diagnosed with Cancer...from there it was like WTF....we stayed positive as possible while watching the team go 7-1, through a couple losses and back on track. In the real world we were taking one test after another learning the stage I was in, how much it had worked its way.
It was caught early enough I guess, if that's the right thing to say, because really in my mind early, late it's still there. As my treatments were set up I was still waiting around for the weekends to give me a bit of air and away from never ending mind games, sleep had become a real @#$%&, but Mary was a great grounding spot.
I am now in those treatments and they are winding down, this Super Bowl Run meant so much more then any attempted runs of the past.....as the season continued it offered so much to the both of us. I always wondered if I would ever see the RAMS become champs again while I was still wondering around with my hats, jackets, jerseys on my person.....It has been answered and it is such great thing. Those who get chances to go to these games are lucky, but in retrospect when I get through this and win I am even luckier.
It makes a guy think when he gets something like this, there are some on the board who are going through this, gone through this, lost people from this...
The Parade is tomorrow, what a thing that would be to be at, we will never go to a Super Bowl, but the Parade would be really fun to do.... I have a week more of treatments, do it every effing day, every morning....when it's done we await what's next....Already planning on our game/trip/vacation for next season.....
I'll say one thing I won't offer up my body again for another Super Bowl game/Win.....they'll have to do it on their own next season...LOL.....It really is such a positive thing, a Super Bowl Win for your team when in the real world it's an everyday issue of looking at something straight in the face that can destroy so much. What was worse was the unexpectedness, the initial dealing. The treatment number was 30 but I swear it seems like months......
I'll say something else, in the medical profession the best IMO are those who choose the Cancer Field, everyone in those Wards are easily the kindest, caring individuals in a Hospital, and I pray none of you ever meet them.
I NEVER go into personal issues here or anywhere outside my small circle....I never will again....just had to speak on this year in a different perspective of what I have done in the past.
