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When I was 20 years old I walked diagonally across Wyoming in a straight line.

Stomp, as in Becky's story, lol. A man walked into a book store and asked the attendant, where is your self help section. She said, I can't tell you, that would defeat the purpose of the section.

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Go big Kevin....

Wow Eric, your comments about us not being forceful enough in our own advocacy strikes a raw note with me as well. I've been thinking the same thing lately and especially since this month is breast awareness month and it gets a huge amount of attention. I just can't help but think, how do we find major spokespersons for us like there are for breasts. Yes Eric the concentrator makes the oxygen that I breath from room air and I am on 6 liters all of the time. I can't go anywhere without considering do I have enough bottle oxygen to get through whatever the occasion may be. When we went out of town this spring I had to take the concentrator with us so that i could stay overnight. The machine weighs 66 lbs and is about the size of a medium suitcase. Latest reports from my doctors are still that the damage in my lungs will heal but may take up to 10 years to do so. All I have to do is stay alive for it to happen. Welp ya'll have a good day and still praying our east coasters are weathering the storms well. Donny

Just stopped by to see if Judy in Jersey is here. Hopefully they are ok in all of the rain. Looks awfully nasty there. Hopefully Randy is ok too and all others on the east coast. We have been in the 80s everyday here lately, even a few 90s. Have set a few new record highs but looking forward to some rain this weekend. I think I may be healing a little bit, not going to run out and do anything stupid but would love to have a bit of feeling better. Yesterday we had a short power outage that kinda freaked me out. My concentrator just shut down and I wasn't getting any air and didn't know why. I didn't realize the power had gone off. Guess I should make sure my generator is always ready to go just in case. Have a whole day all. See you soon. Donny

Wow cool Randy, I can almost smell the bread. Baked goods are my biggest passion, foodwise. I just love everything baked. Fresh bread could keep me alive and cinnamon rolls would make me willing to forget I ever knew what sex was. I am surprised I'm not 250 lbs.Thanks for sharing, story was nicely done as well. Donny

Now that I've gotten the hang of this it's really not too challenging to put these on here. It makes me sad that I can't even play this well anymore due to my lack of stamina but it makes me glad that I did record a lot of music when I was able. Goes to show we never know what the future holds for us, live in the day so we can have the memories to hold on to. This is a song written by Janis Ian back in the 70s and I fell in love with it when I heard it so I learned it. Janis Ians, Light A Light http://www.muziboo.com/dahknee/music/light-a-light/

Painfully hilarious....

Thank you for nice comments. A lot of songs have always seemed to describe my life. Yesterday has fit me too many times, but I still love the song.

I am able to sit up a little longer the last couple days so I am attempting to learn a bit more about my computer. Soooo. I learned how to upload some of my basement music. This was recorded in 2001 in my basement on a cheap Yamaha multi-track cassette recorder. Then it was downloaded to my computer to use some computer softwear to attempt to clean it up, (lose some fidelity), then it was converted to WAV format to record to CD, (lost more fidelity). Now it had to be converted to MP3 in order to upload to the internet, (lose more fidelity). So the final result is rather muddy but it's here so enjoy if you can. Donny Fogle performing The Beatle's Nowhere Man. http://www.muziboo.com/dahknee/music/nowhere-man/

I was assuming she meant JUST a hat and gloves, with ear-rings and maybe a bracelet. Typical man thing, guess I just don't understand accessorizing.

Okay, went to infectious disease specialist and he isn't going to continue IV antibiotics, they didn't seem to do anything but I might get a little better over the next couple weeks. Going to schedule an appointment with Pulmonologist and have another bronchoscopy just to try to get a pinpoint on what is causing this recurring inflammation in my lungs. Talking about mega doses of stearoids to try to knock the inflammation down, also going to start on Zanax and try to get a handle on the panic attacks I have when I can't breathe. Maybe if I can calm down some the panic won't cause the breathing to worsen. Terrible vicious cycle. Struggle for breath, panic, struggle more, panic more, it reminds of the times that I drowned when I was young. My older brother saved my life twice when I was drowning, kept lying to him and saying I knew how to swim, I didn't. Anyway have a great weekend all. Donny

Another trip to the ER, I think I just worry too much when I can't breathe. Spent 7 hours, still have a bit of infection going on, seeing infectious disease specialist tomorrow morning. They did A contrast CT scan and chest Ex-Rays, they are ugly but still not showing any sign of cancer so there is a bit of good news in it all. Also learned how to become overall more calm and have less stress. Dr Oz says we need to finish all the things we've started and haven't finished. Starting tomorrow morning I'm going to finish a bottle of Zinfandel, a half bottle of Tequila, A box of Oreos, and maybe a box of chocolates. That oughta help. Talk to ya all later. Donny

Got up at 4:00 am to go to hospital for IV antibiotics. By the time we were through it was almost 8, I hate hospital wait a minute philosophy, they have the longest minutes in the world. Have to go back in a little bit and do it again, grrrrrrrrrr. Ducks unlimited is purty strong around here too as well as the Elk Foundation. My former employer is an avid hunter as are most of the employees, he has a large trophy room as his display room. Company sells and installs heating and air cond. equipment, doesn't display that boring stuff just dead animals. But in his defense it is by far the best company I have ever worked for as far as taking care of employees and customer care and business ethics. I'd love to see more companies operate as does Sheet Metal Specialties. He carried me on the company insurance as long as was possible under the rules of insurance in our state and paid all of my expenses for a very long time. Saved me over a half million dollars in doing so. How's that for being treated well? Sorry for the rant but he deserves my praise, plus he is also just an all around good guy. Anyway, feeling a bit better today so will be grateful for any improvement. Talk at you all later. Donny

Hey all, back amongst the living again. Went to ER Sunday morning and was admitted for pneumonia again. Came home Wed. afternoon and have to go back twice daily for IV antibiotics. Lungs are just very badly beat up and as my infectious control doc says, I live on a very narrow fencepost separating healthy from sick, it's real easy to fall off. Talk to y'all later. Donny

Cool here, 48 now on it's way to 70 for a high... I love it.. Been having some really hard days again, waking up in the midst of the night and can't breathe, coughing like crazy, my throat is very very raw. It's really frustrating to have one or two fairly decent days and then 6 or 10 days of real misery. Just back and forth. Still trying to enjoy the good days and be grateful to just wake up. Have a great day all. Donny

Funniest part of that story is that it's true. Just happened recently.

Politically Correct Solution ....... Wyoming Coyote Problem The Sierra Club and the U.S.. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to the Wyoming ranchers for controlling the coyote population. It seems that after years of the ranchers using the tried and true method of shooting or trapping the predators, the Sierra Club had a "more humane" solution to this issue. What they were proposing was for the animals to be captured alive. The males would then be castrated and let loose again. Therefore the population would be controlled by this method. All of the ranchers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes. Finally, an old fellow in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said; "Son, I don't think you understand our problem here", "These coyotes ain't ****in' our sheep - they're eatin' 'em!" You should have been there to hear the roar of laughter in that room. The meeting never really got back on track.......

I took my wife camping for her very first time. It was fit to be shown on comedy central. I put a lot of effort into it and had camp set up and all the major part of the job done before she even came to the mountain with me. I bought very expensive New York strips, baked potatoes, corn on cobs, all the fixings and that was the only part of the weekend that went well. It started to rain late in the afternoon and we ended up trapped in my small tent, shortly after we went to bed my half of the air mattress went flat. It got about dark as 2 midnights inside a jug and she was afraid. If she had driven herself she would have left. I was so exhausted from all that I had done I slept through her sitting there crying and wanting to leave but being afraid. I finally woke up and tried to comfort her and we ended up sitting in the car, by about 5 AM I was tearing down camp and trying desperately to come up with something I could do to salvage this weekend and my new relationship. Obviously I succeeded because she is my wife but gees it ended up being quite a struggle. Ahhhh to have funny memories that we survived, thank God.. Thanks for the reminder. Donny

Morning, can't seem to say anything lately. Today I have to say way way cool Judy, any day without pain is a vacation. I went into the ER a few years ago thinking I was having a stroke or something, intense pain. Instead I was diagnosed with lung cancer with no symptoms of it. The pain magically went away and hasn't came back. I just believe God works in very mysterious ways. By the way Judy you can expect a couple more days of 90s that should get there tomorrow or so. Sposed to be near 100 here today after an overnight low of 45. We've even had freeze warnings in the higher elevations, but our higher elevations are about ten thousand feet. Bud, I do admire you, just saying 100 mile bike ride makes me start coughing, especially in near 100 degree temps. You are the man.. Well it has been a week since the doc brought up the possibility of a stent for my lung, don't have much hope for that. He also told me that after a lung has been collapsed for so long the chance of it returning to a healthy working organ can be very slim so I haven't been unrealistically hopeful for it anyway. I am still NED so I can have hope and try to enjoy life as it is. Going to a lunch group in a couple weeks with a bunch of high school folks I haven't seen in 40 yrs or so. Our 40th class reunion is next summer and I'm really looking forward to it. I've probably connected with at least 25 to 30 people from high school on facebook. Welp guess I'll get off here for now. I usually pop in several times a day and keep up on whats going on so at least I don't feel like I am completely in the dark. I just need to turn on my light a little more often... See y'all later.. Donny

I do hope you hear something today Judy in MI, glad you've landed somewhere for a little bit Judy in OH, I can't say enough about how much you are appreciated Katie, we love you. Keep it up Bud and a tackle business sounds right up your alley for a retirement endevour Bud. And last but not least, I'm still NED, today my onc. and pulmos are going to discuss the possibility of maybe putting a stint into my right lung and then try to reinflate it to see if I can get a little help in the breathing department. Good thoughts and actions today all. Donny

Wow, good news Ned, hugs Judys, Libby, Lily John, Heck i'd like to hug everyone. I been feeling really crappy again the last few days. I just don't know what's going on. I see my oncologist tomorrow for the results of my PET/CT, I'm pretty confident it will be clear I just think all of this damn inflammation is why I can't breathe. I just hope for the best for all of us. Donny

Morning, glad I'm not the only one around here who makes mistakes occasionally. Kisses anyone? Happy VJ day. I apparently woke up on the right side of the bed this morning, for me the top is always the right side. Waking up is such a bonus anyway. Yesterday I sat and watched a squirrel through the window drinking Max's water and stealing pieces of his food. Max just laid in the shade and completely ignored it. Today we gave the squirrel his own water dish and going to buy him some peanuts, maybe get him semi- tamed, I love to watch the little animals, not birds so much but animals yes. Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Think I will. Donny