Best wishes for a speedy recovery Wiz....

I bet they'll have you sorted in no time...

I'm sure there'll be no chance of that!!

I see you survived the surgery, then. 

That's the first step, and an important one, to your recovery... not having to pee in a bottle/poo in a pan.  I sadly remember those dreaded things... and how cumbersome, awkward and deadly they were while I was in traction. 

This one this one time I was perched atop the pan and straining to get the job done when the pan just flew out from under me [like somebody had just polished the damned thing] and I ended up with a deposit on the sheet.... and there's me, trying to avoid contact with it by hanging for grim death onto the triangle above the bed and calling out "Nurse... NURSE... NURSE!!!!!!  Luckily, I didn't have to wait long for my deposit to be removed cos they heard the clatter of the bed pan hitting the floor up at the nurses station.

I will admit, I didn't appreciate all the giggles, sniggers and outright laughter from fellow patients and nurses alike, but looking back on it now, it must have been frickin' hilarious.

No surgery yet, just a MRI and a biopsy. Still awaiting the results of the biopsy but it isn't looking good. 4 tumors on my liver, unknown if they are malignant. Please keep the prayers coming, I need all the help I can get.

Hey...wait for the tissue diagnosis before ordering any pine boxes, Wiz. 

Also, what appears as a tumor isn't always one, you know...also, could be another process altogether.

Keep your pecker up, as the English say, and be positive...not easy just now, but you've friends who care, so that's positive, right?

Oh!!  I thought that was the other day.  I got it wrong... AGAIN.

As for ze biopsy, listen to ze doktor, my friend... he knows what he knows, and he knows it well.

Seriously, though, it could be far less serious than you think... or should I say, worried it is.

Well let's hope so, anyway.... like when I had a shadow on the right lung.  The doctor didn't say as much, but sort of indicated that it may have been cancer.  I was worried shitless for three days... being a single dad and only 38 at the time.  What was going to happen to my kids and other questions plagued me day and night... until test some results came back and it turned out that I had a bad case of pleurisy and some antibiotics would clear it up.

Your test results aren't in yet, let's pray they come back like mine did... and are good news, okay.

As for keeping yer pecker up, I'd advise against it in a hospital.  Nurses have some rather ingenious ways of making wayward peckers go down.

Best wishes for you.

Prayers sent. Get well soon.  GOD Bless.

I hope they are speedy with those test results...I know what 'the waiting' is like..

sending positive vibes/thoughts...from Downunder....

stay positive...

..and staying distracted will help....get into a book or some movies to keep your mind occupied so your imagination doesn't keep wandering...

Tell the docs to keep you well supplied with chicken noodle soup. Its a universal cure all. Or so my gramps used to say. Be well my friend. Tons of good vibes headed your way. 

All the best Wiz, prayers coming your way mate . I wish you the best  and hope all goes well

Any news? Hoping it's good! 

I have a follow up appt. on the 14th of Feb. They sent my biopsy to John Hopkins Univ. Waiting for the results to reach my Dr.

 Now I can say that at least some of me attended college.

Lol. I'm donating my body to science....science fiction, that is. I'll scare the crap out of some poor medical student.

No one else wanted it, lol.

Randy, you're in my thoughts and prayers every night. I know how scary it can be waiting for results. I was diagnosed with a cyst on my brain stem (inoperable if I want to live), and 4 years ago I was in the hospital with a major infection in my intestines. I would have died if I hadn't broke down and told my mom to call 911. I almost passed out from the pain. Doc said it was a good thing i came in when I did, another day and I most likely would have died. They hit me with antibiotics from the moment I hit the ER until I walked out the door after being discharged. Had another bout a year later but nowhere near as bad, thank GOD.  Keep your chin up and look on the sunny side of life. Take care and let us know the results. We're all praying for you.

Thank you, SpicyGirl.

It is with a heavy heart that I have to tell you guys this sad news.

I just got off the phone with Randy. His biopsy, sent to Johns Hopkins, came back as cancer.

I was able to spend maybe 30 minutes with him Saturday as he passed through here on his way back to Illinois. He was weak, and frail.

Please send prayers and good thoughts his way.