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Bud Baker

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  1. Good stuff. I would just add that I think the best way to exercise regularly is to find an activity that you really like. For me, it's cycling. For many people, it's an activity they can do with a friend or group of friends. I think you just have to try things until you find what you really like.

    I don't think you can overstate the benefits of exercise.

  2. Good evening, everyone!

    It was great seeing LCSC people that I had met last year and meeting new ones this year. Very, very cool!

    Janet is right, it's hard to describe how great it all was. I'm still digesting all of what happened. Like Alan, I didn't get to talk to nearly everyone. I was enjoying visiting with the ones I had met so much that I didn't make myself take time to introduce myself to everyone else. I must do better next time.

  3. Good afternoon, everyone!

    There isn't much going on in my neck of the woods. My shoulder keeps getting steadily worse and my orthopedic consult is still a couple of weeks away. I'm hoping the surgery wait isn't long.

    I've still been managing to ride. Rose and I have quite a few miles on the new tandem already.

    Sara, good luck with your new treatment. I hope it works great for you. I'm looking forward to seeing you and everyone else in DC.

    Here's sending positive thoughts for KW Judy. I hope she's better soon.

  4. Sorry to hear that you're having such a hard time with the chemo, Judy. The Gemzar (gemcitabine) gave me such a headache that they did an MRI on my head to make sure the cancer hadn't spread there, so you're not the only one who's headache made them think twice. Hang in there. I hope it gets easier.

  5. I had three rounds of it. It gave me a headache on chemo day, and I always felt really feeble the next day, but it never knocked me down nearly as much or nearly as long as cisplatin did.

  6. Good afternoon everyone!

    It's another 80 degree afternoon here, but windier than the last couple of days.

    Rose and I did just over 39 miles in the club ride this morning. Rose came home and crashed for a couple of hours, so it's safe to say the hills wore her out.......LOL.

    I enjoyed last night's support group, but not the drive home. I was doing 70 mph on I-35W when I hit a ladder that was laying in the middle of the road. By the time I got stopped, this is what my left rear tire looked like.

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  7. Good afternoon, everyone!

    It was another beautiful day here, with a high in the low 80's. Someone tell me how this happened: We had a drought for the entire year last year while I was working 45 hours a week, and now that I'm not working at all, the lakes are staying flooded to the point that the fishing is no good.

    I'm thinking I'll make a trip to Lake Cleburne on Wednesday. It's a small lake that's only about 25 miles from here. It's not as flooded as most lakes around here, and the water there tends to clear up quicker, so I'm going to see if I can find any crappie.

    Rose and I did our second ride on the new tandem today, and tomorrow morning, we're going to do a club ride. The Rusty Chain Gang, which is mostly older riders in the Fort Worth Bicycling Association club, has Tuesday rides that start just six miles from our house, so we're going to ride to the start and join them tomorrow.

    Rose has only been back riding for a couple of months, and I know there are at least a few hills that are tougher than anything we've tried since she's been riding again, so wish us luck on the ride.

    It's time for me to get ready for this month's support group meeting. Katie needs at least one energetic attendee to harass her, so that will be my job.

    Have a great evening, all!

  8. So sorry to read this update, Judy. But you're case has been far from the norm for lung cancer cases all along, and I'm sending positive thoughts that you will fool them all once again, and do well with your upcoming treatment.

    The doctor's advice to get your affairs in order is wise, no doubt. Even with my stage 2 diagnosis, I did that in short order. But nothing says you can't end up hanging around for a long time after your affairs are in order, and I'm going to be a big cheerleader for that happening.

  9. Good evening, everyone!

    We survived the storms here, though every porta-potty stop on today's bike ride had to be bypassed because they had all blown over. :|

    Rose and I did 26 miles on the tandem today. It will likely be our last ride on that bike. I'm headed to Oklahoma City tomorrow to pick up a nicer tandem. It's a RANS Screamer.

    Eric, the 200k was great, but I was a seriously tired camper afterward. The only two other riders who showed up were both strong riders, we started out with too fast a pace for me against a howling headwind, I burned too many matches early, and by the end of the ride I was just turning the pedals and trying to keep moving.

    I finished the 127.8 miles in 8:40, a good 200k time for me. At my winter weight and in my winter shape, that's too fast for me, and I was feeling it for a few days.

    Have a great evening, all!

  10. Good evening, everyone!

    Good old chemo. I forgot how much fun it was. MI Judy, after I was already finished with chemo, I had a couple of inches of vein on my left arm harden and really hurt. I mentioned it to my primary doctor during my 6 month checkup. He took one look at it and said, "Chemo".

    It turns out that another advantage of a port is that it puts the chemo in a bigger vein near your heart, where it gets dispersed very quickly, so doesn't just sit there and fry a vein like it can in your arm. Yours will heal, but it will take a little while.

    Isn't cisplatin lovely? It seems to have to many ways to get you. For me, it was nerve damage. I got severe pain in my toes after the second round. Gabapentin relieved the pain, but I knew the nerve damage it was doing could be permanent. It's the biggest reason I ended my chemo after three rounds, rather than the four the onc wanted to do.

    I still get pain from my toes on long bike rides, ever since my chemo. Putting pressure on pedals for long rides can bother your feet anyway, and I guess it's worse if you have nerve damage too. But that seems to be the only long term issue I have from it, so I guess I'm lucky.

    Here's a photo of what white crappie from Lake Benbrook look like at spawning time. I caught these today. The male is at the top of the photo and the female on the bottom. The bobber and jig shown are what I caught them on. Notice how dark the male is. That only happens at spawning time. I called this photo: Benbrook soul mates, who got rudely interrupted today.

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  11. Good evening, everyone!

    Hang in there, MI Judy. You're starting your chemo about a month later than I did 4 years ago. I never did get nausea, but the cisplatin really knocked me for a loop. I had days where I stayed pretty much out of it all day. The gemcitabine gave me headaches. Not much fun, I do recall.

    I had a good cooking week. I made baked parmesan crappie on Monday. It was the best baked crappie recipe we've tried. I finally got whole wheat bread to come out good in Rose's breadmaker for the first time yesterday. And today, I made a vegetarian gumbo that was surprisingly good. I'm going to make a good housewife yet.

    Tomorrow, I'm off to do a 200k ride, the first in a couple of months. Hopefully, my back and shoulder will hold up ok. Guess I'll turn the lights out for today.

    **CLICK**

  12. Janet, I've never had a port, so I can't answer your questions. I have to wonder, though, just how much the "that's just the way we've always done it" factor comes into play.

    I've never had real pain from the contrast, just the feeling that I'm on fire.

  13. KW Judy, glad you're feeling better today, and hope tomorrow will be much better.

    Eric, here's the bride and groom, along with the bride's daughter, my granddaughter.

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    And here are Rose and I, sitting with good friends.

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