Going AWOL for a while.

[bigguy]

Looks like I'm going to be AWOL for a few weeks. The details can be found in the last entry on my blog, which will also be on hiatus for a few weeks. I'm looking forward to getting past this and getting back on line, then back on the road. You guys ride safe.
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[Charlie McCready]

Bigguy, read your blog, here's wishing you the best in your battle. I'll be watching for you to return here and let us all know you have won.

[Slick]

Our good wishes are with you from Jupiter-

[DarkMeister]

Best of luck with that. You seem to be facing it with the right mind-set. 

Just saw your blog for the first time. Absolutely awesome reading!

[old2soon]

Enjoyed yer blog. All of us here need the mind floss now and then. I will be praying for you and the Doctors that will be working on you. Raining at my place as i post this-but need a few things from H/F. Thats about 90 miles one way. Get your self better and get back in the saddle soonest. Somebody here said it so i can't take credit for it. Gettin old ain't fot wimps. RIDE SAFE BRO.

[R J]

Thoughts and Prayers headed your way from Iowa as  we speak, until you are healed and back on the road.     
 
Wishing you the best of luck and that the surgeons hands are calm and collected.

[9Ball]

Prayers will be with you for a successful surgery and complete, quick recovery.

Keep us updated when you are able...

[PAVALKER]

Best wishes for you.  Hope it all works out for the best.

[laserpat]

Heal quickly and get back in the wind 

[bigguy]

Our good wishes are with you from Jupiter-

WOW! And here I thought Dag was a long distance member.  

Thanks guys for all of your support. I especially appreciate the stories about others who have gone though this and done so well so quickly. Just a few short weeks ago I'd never heard of such a thing.

[big d]

keep your head up and stay possitive.  prayers are comming to ya from western ny. hope you can make inzane next year since it will be in your back yard.

[Stude]

 Recover fast my friend 

[solo1]

Big Guy, I too had bladder cancer. Mine was not aggressive and they performed simple surgery and left the bladder in place.  11 years of checkups and things are still ok.

I will be praying for you and the surgeons.  Things will work out. 

Wayne, Solo1

[Popeye]

Best of luck to you.  Hope al goes well and you are back riding as soon as the Doc gives his blessing.

[Skinhead]

Best of luck and I hope it works out for you.  I have a friend that just completed surgery, but I'm not sure if he got the bag or a new bladder, I need to follow up.

[dubsider]

stay strong and heal fast.
prayers sent.

[Valkahuna]

Best of luck and a safe & successfull surgery, and then a complete and quick recovery! 

Prayers for you from Connecticut.

I have read and enjoyed your blog, and look forward to you starting it back up again.

[bg]

prayers from Michigan for you my friend.

[highcountry]

BG, hope you have a successful surgery and a quick recovery. 

My neighbor is also having bladder surgery on Oct 12.  He is having the option where his bladder is removed and the ureters are replumbed to an outlet in his side and a tube is run down to a bag strapped to his ankle.

[bigguy]

I got home yesterday (Tuesday) about 4:30 pm. I can't lift anything. I'm still so sore it was all I could do to drag my cut up carcass into the house, which left it to Mrs. Sharon to do EVERY thing else. So, as I basically sat on the couch watching TV, still using my hands to delicately hold in my innards at every deep breath or cough, Sharon spent the rest of the evening hauling in stuff from the car getting supper and cleaning up what messes the cats had left.
We'd left them with sufficient litter pans, food and water to hold out for the 7 to 10 days we'd expected to be gone. One of them had managed to dart unseen through the door to our bedroom, which we closed to keep off limits, as we left. This rotund ball of gray stripped fur goes by the ridiculous nom de plume Skinny Minnie. It has been many years since she could fit in her prom dress. I'd taken to calling her Fatty Patty, however Mrs Sharon nixed that name. So even as we watch her waddle down the hall, as wide or tall as she is long, we still call her Skinny Minnie.
It's amazing how she can get that much fat moving so fast so quickly, but she can. And of course she picked the worst possible time to do it, dashing unseen, through a door that would remain closed for the next seven days.
As we opened the bedroom door, headed for blessed slumber, a much more svelte Skinny Minnie zipped between our legs in a mad dash to the feeder and water dish. It became quickly obvious that we would not be sleeping in our bed this night.
Settling down in the guest bedroom, I lay in bed with the Yorkie friends who'd been keeping had returned a few hours earlier. We have a rug topped with towels on the bed, that are his bed. Sharon finished her chores and came to bed. Leaving her and the Yorkie, I went to the bathroom to start swapping and cleaning the various bags and tubes that will be my constant companions for the next 4 weeks. Just as I was finishing up, I heard a distressed, 'Oh no! BINKY!" I guess there was just too much change and too much excitement for that little bladder. Sharon had stepped out of bed for just a second to grab another blanket. Binky stepped off his bed for some other business. On to the second guest bedroom, and our third bed for the night. Thus passed our first evening home.

[The Anvil]

Damn, welcome home man! 

Heal up quick!

[old2soon]

Soon as you said FAT cat locked up fer 7 days-lets just say it gonna take a bit to get rid of dat particular mental picature. Get yer self better soonest. So you are trying to say you just might look like sumpin close to a Rube Goldberg  invention thingy kinda sorta?? Get healed and when ya duz-RIDE SAFE.

[highcountry]

Prayers from Colorado for a successful surgery and quick recovery.