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UTProf said:
I really don't like hearing this but maybe I need to... He had a siezure a few months ago out of the blue and that's when they ran an EEG and did other imaging - nothing came up then. His cancer was supposed to be on his kidney and it was in a really great spot as far as removal goes (kinda hanging off). It was also very slow growing. I don't know what is going on with his liver because his hospice nurse's notes don't match what I was told. I don't want to switch him out of hospice for no reason because he really does need the services it provides and the last time I had to do that they even took away his walker and it took longer than it should have to get him back on service but I also feel like something more than just liver failure is going on. I'm honestly ***** terrified.
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Don't remember if I've given you this before, sorry if you've seen it. My mother died of breast cancer at 46, so I pay attention when I see these things.

https://www.mycancerstory.rocks/sin...-your-life-how-to-change-your-own-perspective

He's 5 years NED remission from widely metastasized small cell lung cancer. Unheard of. His story and protocol are now getting attention from a number of research universities.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
I saw plenty of people with black hats, black jackets, black shirts with orange lettering. Not to mention the branded black camping chairs, tarps, tents, grills etc etc for tailgating.

When we were Adidas there was the classic black Adidas tracksuit with the three white stripes that was just branded with a small orange power T. Adidas had a ton of black UT apparel.
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Exactly .My wife still has the heavy lined nylon black to the waist coat with the three white stripes from the shoulder down the arms with the Power T and Adidas emblems stitched on the front from 20+ years ago. Still in great shape and sharp looking. We both still have the black gloves with the Power T stitched in.

Was it "new age" with Adidas back then?
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
We rolled Mizzou, found ourselves ranked in the top25 and top10 in important statistics, have awesome alt jerseys revealed, get an awesome Volnation dark mode theme, and we're double digit favorites over the cocks. We smoke SCar, how do we keep it rolling into Ole Miss?

One of the best couple weeks to be a Vol fan in a while!
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I mean a recruiting commitment would be nice. Or is that being unreasonably greedy? I hear such things happen this time of year.
 
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SSVol said:
Don't remember if I've given you this before, sorry if you've seen it. My mother died of breast cancer at 46, so I pay attention when I see these things.

https://www.mycancerstory.rocks/sin...-your-life-how-to-change-your-own-perspective

He's 5 years NED remission from widely metastasized small cell lung cancer. Unheard of. His story and protocol are now getting attention from a number of research universities.
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Thank you and thank you as well @butchna. I will definitely take a look.
 
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@butchna did you ever have to go through her not recognizing you or thinking you were someone else? That's the part that's killing me. Right now, he thinks I'm someone else -- someone hired to care for him and he keeps begging me to find me.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
We rolled Mizzou, found ourselves ranked in the top25 and top10 in important statistics, have awesome alt jerseys revealed, get an awesome Volnation dark mode theme, and we're double digit favorites over the cocks. We smoke SCar, how do we keep it rolling into Ole Miss?

One of the best couple weeks to be a Vol fan in a while!
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Night game, sellout crowd of 102,455, Kiffin coaches our opponent, chance to start season 5-2…that should be plenty.
 
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UTProf said:
I really don't like hearing this but maybe I need to... He had a siezure a few months ago out of the blue and that's when they ran an EEG and did other imaging - nothing came up then. His cancer was supposed to be on his kidney and it was in a really great spot as far as removal goes (kinda hanging off). It was also very slow growing. I don't know what is going on with his liver because his hospice nurse's notes don't match what I was told. I don't want to switch him out of hospice for no reason because he really does need the services it provides and the last time I had to do that they even took away his walker and it took longer than it should have to get him back on service but I also feel like something more than just liver failure is going on. I'm honestly ***** terrified.

ETA: FWIW, his father died of both bone and lung cancer. He had 2 separate types rather than one that had spread. It took him extremely quickly. We found out when his hip just shattered on him one day while he was walking. He said he heard a pop and then just couldn't walk. After that, I was calling and trying to set up appointments for chemo but they wouldn't give him chemo unless he could walk. He was much further along when he was diagnosed but he died before we ever got a chance to take him to his first appointment.

OH is on year 2 since the diagnosis and prior to that seizure his hospice service was talking about graduating him because they felt he was no longer sick enough for them. In fact, they released him to palliative in July of this year (that didn't work out tho due to insurance and he wound up with a different hospice service).
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Some similarities to my wife’s story but several differences. Tho it ended badly for my wife there’s no one size fits all for every case. I’ll never believe that miracles only happen to others. Otherwise we’d never hear about them. I’ll pray for him and remember to take care of yourself. I forgot that and almost followed her.
 
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UTProf said:
@butchna did you ever have to go through her not recognizing you or thinking you were someone else? That's the part that's killing me. Right now, he thinks I'm someone else -- someone hired to care for him and he keeps begging me to find me.
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She basically had a stroke two months before her death and that made her unable to walk or sit up regularly. She mostly stayed cognizant the first month but it was rapidly advancing confusion and I’ll never forgive myself for going along with her sister and agreeing to the targeted radiation. Remain convinced that fried what she had left to fight with. At the very end she couldn’t communicate. The brain is so vulnerable. It’s amazing what strong individuals can muster after it’s injured.
 
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Devo182 said:
Yup. Pro sports are way different than college.

Grew up watching Rice and Young and loved the niners. Also enjoyed Helton so I became a Rockies fan.

Haven't spent more than a week of my life in those 2 cities combined. Meanwhile there are EPL/La Liga fans all over America.

It's just different.
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Yeah, was a Steelers fan early on cause that's who my dad liked. Then Peyton came up and I became a Colts fan was also a big Randy Moss fan so loved the Vikings. Then Oilers moved to Nashville and I switched to the Titans and that's been my only allegiance once Peyton retired. Although I am a fan of the Saints cause Kamara & Calloway.

NBA usually a fan of players. First was Shaq (so Magic) then he went to LA so Lakers fan and I always was a fan of D-Wade from his Marquette days so when they got Shaq was an easy switch. I pull for Memphis but they've never had a player I really like. Currently I'm a fan of Luka & Curry, but not a big enough NBA fan to tune in more than casually until the playoffs hit. Honestly at this point until Lebron is out of the game it's just not been as fun to watch, seems like any topic turns back to him.

Baseball I was an early Yankees fan, mainly because it was the team I liked using in All-Star Baseball 2000 for the N64. Have never really kept up with baseball though.

NHL it's the Predators.
 
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ionaVOL said:
I'll play. Have a few on my mind that I haven't found or tried yet (allocated), but these have been my favorite so far that I have been able to pretty regularly get my hands

OF 1920 (or basically anything from OF - can't find the 100 proof rye anywhere lately)
Makers Mark 46/MM101/MM Cask Strength
Michters Rye
4 Roses single barrel
JD single barrel rye and the barrel proof
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Love 46 and have OF 1910. Need to try the rest. My liquor store we just got in the 4 roses store pick. Straight fire
 
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Devo182 said:
Between jersey and website color palette talk, guess I just don't get it. Maybe being color blind is a blessing.

Now...who has watched some USCjr games? Have 2 questions.

1) how are they forcing so many turnovers? Pressure? Great secondary play? Being thrown gifts?

2) Doty - what does he do well? What does he do poorly?

Hardly know a thing about this USCjr squad, but they seem to have a feisty defense and anemic offense.
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Mostly gifts.

1. Kentucky, East Carolina, & Troy QBs are top 25 in the country in INTs each has thrown at least 5.
2. TBD their OL hasn't looked great even against weaker opponents so he's not shown much of anything. He's thus far a sub 60% passer and has just 20 rushing yards, but he's also not been 100% yet either.
 
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butchna said:
Some similarities to my wife’s story but several differences. Tho it ended badly for my wife there’s no one size fits all for every case. I’ll never believe that miracles only happen to others. Otherwise we’d never hear about them. I’ll pray for him and remember to take care of yourself. I forgot that and almost followed her.
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Thank you and OH has been a bit of a medical wonder himself (thank you for reminding of it). He beat heart failure and cardiomyopathy back when we were in grad school. With that he went from won't make it through the night and needs a new heart to perfectly fine with a few years of coreg. And when he first went in with all this they refused to even consider operating because they said he'd die. He got well enough for another doctor to recommend his case be revisited (he couldn't believe it was the same patient as the prior chart). So I know miracles can and do happen even in the gravest of circumstances. He's done it enough that my step-dad has joked that he has 9 lives because we've seen him go to the absolute brink so many times and then surprise us all.

I understand too well what you mean about self-care and that's I think the line that the hospice nurse thinks I'm dancing on and I probably am. Right now, everything is 24/7 to me and it's exhausting physically and mentally. They encouraged me to do a 5 day respite and I told them I didn't think it would help him. They said it probably wouldn't but that it would probably help me. At first I was an absolute no on that under any circumstances but now I'm more of a 'no' because I think sending him to what amounts to a nursing home in a town where I know there's a COVID problem and our last hospice nurse's mother died of COVID in one of those homes is a death sentence for someone who is already compromised. Hospice doesn't give COVID shots (they give flu shot but not COVID) and when he was finally eligible to get one he hasn't been physically well enough to go out to get it. If the new meds they gave him start to work (it's only been one day), I hope to be able to get him vacc'd.

Thanks for the prayers and for just letting me vent some of this. That in and of itself helps me a ton.
 
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UTProf said:
Thank you and thank you as well @butchna. I will definitely take a look.
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My experience is much like @butchna, the change was very quick for my father. Went from some confusion to a seizure then rapid deterioration. My Dad did not know me once his condition progressed. Definitely some of the hardest days of my life. Prayers for you to receive a different outcome.
 
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butchna said:
She basically had a stroke two months before her death and that made her unable to walk or sit up regularly. She mostly stayed cognizant the first month but it was rapidly advancing confusion and I’ll never forgive myself for going along with her sister and agreeing to the targeted radiation. Remain convinced that fried what she had left to fight with. At the very end she couldn’t communicate. The brain is so vulnerable. It’s amazing what strong individuals can muster after it’s injured.
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There's a lot I'll probably never forgive myself for. I don't think you can be a caregiver to someone you love and not feel like you've failed in some way. It's always going to be something. I've never felt more helpless and I absolutely despise the fact that when it comes right down to it there's not much I can do to fix things. I'm so very sorry you had to experience all of that first hand.
 
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If someone that's a not a member of the family buys a house for you and your family, is that a violation? I know it's a stupid question, but just curious.
 
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