Highlander and John R..and all those on the DLBCL journey!

Well look at you Trooper56 it is so good to hear from you and wow time has flown past and yes, johnr and myself are still hanging around supporting as best as we can.

Good to see you are doing good and as positive as every but sorry that COVID got past your guard but your well known fighting spirit seen you through.

One of your posts that described your image of what ai look like was used during a talk I did at last years Macmillan Volunteers Awards lol

As you are posting you survived your parachute jump during the D-Day landings commemorations?

Things are well up in the Highlands and we have relatively low COVID cases so have stayed in the lowest level group for months now.

My old mum (91) died a few weeks back so been busy doing the stuff that needs done. She still lived in the house I was born into 65 years back, has lived alone for 25 years, done her own cooking, cleaning and had a stair in the house... honestly she could go up that stair quicker than me at times and she never ever had anyone coming in to help out. I hopping that some of her longevity has been passed onto me.

I do wish you well, a long life and as best as you can a great Christmas and in good Highlander fashion I will raise a Single Malt to you when the bells ring to take in 2021.... so good to hear from you.

Hi Trooper, shame you could not bottle that positivity, you would be a rich man, but you already are with your family and what you do.

I am doing fine thanks, keeping busy supporting the local community near where I live to deal with and get through Covid, as I also run 2 charities since I retired and being able to help someone and make a difference I find rewarding. 

Good to see you are doing well and still enjoying life, long may that last, have a good Christmas and a fantastic new year.

take care

john

This is a fabulous post and just what I needed to hear.  You also made me smile.  I too believe in positive thought and I too am going to kick the unwanted guest out.  It's outstayed its welcome and I'm showing it the door, the back door too.  I need to start.  My impatience to start is overwhelming.   I feel I am healed already and I am truly grateful to my team of healers, not only the medical team but my friends who have been nothing short of exceptional.  With them behind me, I am already healed, just need my unwanted visitor to go quickly now and if it is the coward you say it is, it will make a run for the hills.    Thank you.

Jeez! Ain't time flown by! I'm still parachuting in memory of our WW11 veterans. Pround to have been one of a very few to put British military boots on Dutch soil in memory or Arnhem this year as Covid screwed us big time.

Next year will hopefully be very different with commemorative jumps for Normandy Arnhem and Op Gain (The SAS equivalent of Arnhem)

Very glad to report that DLBC NHL has f****d off..even my consultant believes it's gone for good. 

...Oh and I will defo raise a glass of fine glass of single malt for you as the clock chimes for 2021. And a NEW and better year! 

Take care and all the very best.

TROOPER56

PS. Condolences on you mothers passing. 

HeyJohnR. Thanks for the kind words. If my rambling posts and positive kick arse attitude helps anyone. It's only partly due to me. You and Highlander were truly the shoulders of giants that I had the privilege to stand on, for a while. You lit my blue touch paper and taught me to fly.

Thank you for that...I will NEVER forget the light you shone during my initial gloom!!

1. Happy New Year.

That's the attitude! Remember YOU have a temporary illness, like I did. It's part of you btw so so thank those renegade rouge cells.dont question why they are there. Just thank them for whatever reason they did what they did and once you are mates....ask them to leave!! Sounds crazy I know...but they really are your cells and you made them. 

So no need to piss them off. I told mine to leave, thanked them and told them I was going to deploy weapons of mass destruction..ie CHEMO. 

I was riddled with neoplasmns/tumours...stomach, rib cage, spine, groin and spleen. Late stage with a few months to live. 

I was fascinated not frightened, smiled every time I had CHEMO...and I had no detectable cancer after three sessions of Rchop 

Looking back (I admit I'm possibly mental!) But I enjoyed my joust with cancer.

Not all are so lucky, that life. But day one I accepted Death...then did everything in my power to stay away from it

Happy New Year...and see you on the next one. Drink gallons if water after chemo walk a mile or two every day and excersise

I also will raise a glass or three to you and all the folks on this Community as the bells ring tonight.

Lets look for 2021 to turn the corner on all this craziness of this year and allow us all to move on with this living thing.

I got the latest book in the Ben Hope series written by Scott Mariani for Christmas and often think about you being Ben Hope.

Thank you for this Trooper56.  I love your attitude.  I receive my plan on Monday and yes, it sounds like it will be R-CHOP too.   Can I ask you what psychological tools you used  I too would like to use that approach and have started already.  Brilliant news and I think I will print your reply out and put it up on my notice board near my bed.  Well done!  Please share any information you have on the psychological tools and I'm sure I'll smash this too.

Mike, you are so humble.   You are one amazing and incredible individual.  I am just at the start of my journey and I know that with you and John by my side, in particular, I can't go wrong.  I know there are others on this page who have been amazing too but you two, I call you the Dynamic Duo.  You will have to select which one of you is Batman and which one is Robin.   They are both equally as important as each other and will always be an invincible duo.  I don;t know if you ever saw the episode with Del Boy and Rodney when they were dressed as Batman and Robin.  If you haven't seen it, watch it.   It's hilarious.   

With my eternal and grateful thanks for helping me so far. 

Mina 

Mina