Posthole update

[Captain]

Hey got a text from Julie and they are in a hurry up and wait mode.
Guess they are running behind this morning.
Will update when I know more.

[airbud7]

Thanks Cappy

[LJ3]

Yeah but... did she make the poor bastard a brownie?

[Chicken Dinner]

I doubt it. Wimmins got no sense of humor when it comes to health issues.

[Captain]

He is in surgery now. She said no lymph nodes involved. Surgery should take about 4 hours.

[Captain]

And I sorta kinda doubt she made the brownies. I'd ask but don't know her well enough. Don't want to be removed from the " text updates". :D

[quercus alba]

She said no lymph nodes involved.

This is a good thing right?

[Chicken Dinner]

From what little I know, no lymph nodes are an indication that it hasn't spread. Makes sense based on Barry's comment that they thought taking the kidney is all that would be necessary.

[LJ3]

Correct. No lympn nodes means it's likely the cancer is localized. I would imagine he'll still get at least radiation treatments or chemo, maybe both.

[Captain]

Still in surgery and things are going well so far.
No lymph nodes is a good thing. Means it ain't spread.

[Hombre]

Thanks cap

[LJ3]

It'd be funny if the kidney they remove is the one that makes him a bleeding heart liberal :)

[Chicken Dinner]

True story. I've got a buddy whose fiancé had a brain tumor. After the operation, they broke up as she said they cut out the part of her brain that loved him.

[Captain]

Just got this text from Mrs Posthiole.
"Kidney is out! Dr is closing, shouldn't be too much longer Barry is doing great"

[Captain]

True story. I've got a buddy whose fiancé had a brain tumor. After the operation, they broke up as she said they cut out the part of her brain that loved him.

That explains what happened to my first ex-wife. :D

[LJ3]

More likely they removed the part of her brain that prevented her from being able to see. Poor woman prolly shit herself when she saw you for the first time!

[Cards01]

Thanks for the update Cappy

[Captain]

Latest and GREATEST!

"He is out all is good Cancer was only on the outside of the bottom of the kidney not inside and the tube to the bladder was.not involved dr said it was hard to work it out ( not much room) but he was able to get it done should be able to see him in a about an hour"

Oh and Bite me LJ....

[Chicken Dinner]

Great news! Those kidneys are prolly all swelled up from over use for all these years. It's probably good his liver wasn't involved.

[Arty]

Great news!

[LJ3]

BOOM! That's about as good as could be hoped for! Did they take the whole kidney just to be safe?

[Captain]

From what I understand LJ they did. But I've not heard that for sure. I know that was the plan. Unless something changes when they were inside.

[quercus alba]

Little old kidney stones might have alerted him to an early diagnosis of of a potentially life threatening situation. Wonder if the stones were a result of this?

[airbud7]

Great news indeed!...Thanks Cappy!

[jb]

Good New, thanks Cap.

[Buckrub]

Great news.

If they take both, he can have one of mine.

[Hombre]

Awesome news. He'll be back to his cantankerous self in no time!

[Captain]

Little old kidney stones might have alerted him to an early diagnosis of of a potentially life threatening situation. Wonder if the stones were a result of this?

From what Posthole told me the kidney stones were not really a "true" kidney stone. It was actually blood and matter from the cancer drying and moving through his system and they acted like kidney stones. Having the "stones" back to back is why they did the CT scan that found the cancer. I'm sure Posty can explain it much better when he is up to it.

[Thumper]

I talked to him before his surgery and asked the same question. I may not have understood correctly, but I think he said the "stones" were actually dried/hardened blood clots caused by the cancer on the kidney. (Or something like that)

Heck, now that I look, I guess that's actually pretty much what you said.

[DeputyDog]

Awesome news!

[Captain]

Just heard from Mrs. Posthole.
"Last update today , I hope , Barry is back in his room and doing ok he is sleepy (duh) has a little nausea. But otherwise is fine , thanks for all the prayers and well wishes, they are very much appreciated"
I'll try to check in tomorrow midday and update.

[BarryBobPosthole]

or maybe I'll update myself! hey y'all! Every day is gonna get better from here on out. can't tell you how much I appreciate you all. here's the update I got from the surgeon about 8 last night.
the kidney was removed laproscopically so I'll have less of a hill to climb from a pain perspective. on morphine every three hours for now and its staying ahead of it pretty well. i've slept off and on all the time since surgery but I'm going to try to dtay awake for a few hours starting now. he didn't have to take any lymph nodes or the adrenal glands or anything adjacent to the kidney as the cancer was confined to the kidney. that's good news. he wants me today on my feet and possibly home tomorrow. scans every three months for a year and then twice a year for five. normal life expectancy if there's no reccurence. i think chances of that are about 80%. best possible thing I could hope for and I think those odds increase as time goes by. pathology report in about a week and he'll know more then.
sorry for the jibber jabber writing. Sister Morphine is giving me technicolor dreams and has diminished my typing skills it seems.
more when I can!

BKB

[Arty]

Not sure it's the moriphine. That's typical posthole jibber jabber!

Glad you are doing well!

[Chicken Dinner]

You sound pretty coherent for a pumphead. Good to hear from you!

[airbud7]

yea Barry good to hear from you!....Glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been...you'll be up and fishing in no time!

[Thumper]

It sounds like you'll be home eating kidney bean salad in no time! ;)

Sounds like everything went smooth as silk, but take my advice and get OUT of there the second you get the chance. Hospitals are the nastiest places on earth and the longer you're there, the easier it is to end up with something you didn't arrive there with! Trust me on that one!

Glad all went well and you're on the mend. Get home so you can get back to your SD'ing! ;)

[Cards01]

Great news!! Be up and around in short order!!

[Captain]

Damn, I was enjoying talking to Mrs. Posthole and now YOU show back up..... ;)
Man it's good to see you checking in.
And just so you know, your sister morphine typing is still better than your brother likker typing. :D
I guess they are waiting on the path report to decide if you are going to do any chemo or radiation?

[quercus alba]

If he starts preaching and voting republican we'll know that there was a little lobotomy work done as well

Glad it went well Barry. Wont be long Julie will have you working in her flower beds

[BarryBobPosthole]

Larke, no chemo or radiation is the word. it was that contained. besides, chemo don't work on this cancer.

BKB

[LJ3]

That fantastic news BBP! You had my whole family pulling for ya and my mother-in-law engaged her extremely catholic prayer circle... which is basically like the pope performing your actual surgery.

[Captain]

You prolly told them you didn't want Chemo so you would not loose that ponytail... :D
I was wondering what a bald Posthole would look like! :D
I'm so glad you don't have to take that stuff. Chemo all but killed Cheryl, literally. She all but left this world on that stuff.

[BarryBobPosthole]

same thing with chemo when my Mom had it for lymphoma.

Len, say thanks for me!

BKB

[HideHunter]

^^^^^ like ^^^^^^

[Buckrub]

or maybe I'll update myself! hey y'all! Every day is gonna get better from here on out. can't tell you how much I appreciate you all. here's the update I got from the surgeon about 8 last night.
the kidney was removed laproscopically so I'll have less of a hill to climb from a pain perspective. on morphine every three hours for now and its staying ahead of it pretty well. i've slept off and on all the time since surgery but I'm going to try to dtay awake for a few hours starting now. he didn't have to take any lymph nodes or the adrenal glands or anything adjacent to the kidney as the cancer was confined to the kidney. that's good news. he wants me today on my feet and possibly home tomorrow. scans every three months for a year and then twice a year for five. normal life expectancy if there's no reccurence. i think chances of that are about 80%. best possible thing I could hope for and I think those odds increase as time goes by. pathology report in about a week and he'll know more then.
sorry for the jibber jabber writing. Sister Morphine is giving me technicolor dreams and has diminished my typing skills it seems.
more when I can!

BKB

Really good news, considering.....

[Big Muddy]

That's great news, Phole....prayer DOES work, especially GH prayers !!!

I thought about you, this morning....decided to do some bream fishing for a change, and caught about a 2 foot long stringer-full of huge bull bream.

[Captain]

Now some good fried bream are as close to manna from Heaven as it gets. (Well that and boiled peanuts) :D

[Arty]

(Well that and boiled peanuts) :D

Riding through SC tonight and every damn gas station off the interstate has those nasty things...

[BarryBobPosthole]

I've seen the GH prayers work too many times to deny it.

I talked to the Doc today and all I had to do was walk every hour and a half, pee and fart, and he said he'd cut my orders to go home. I accomplished all three (although the fart hurt like hell to push out). I'm off the morphine and have managed the pain on Narco whatever that is. I feel so much better, although it hurts like hell to laugh, cough, or generally move around. But that'll be better soon too so I ain't complaining.

BKB

[airbud7]

hahahaha^ You crazy Barry^....Glad to have you back!....Don't eat no beans!

[Captain]

Riding through SC tonight and every damn gas station off the interstate has those nasty things...

What the hell you doing in SC?
You got your passport boy!
They will lock your ass up for talking smack about boiled peanuts in SC.
Ain't you got no leanin'

[Arty]

What the hell you doing in SC? You got your passport boy! They will lock your ass up for talking smack about boiled peanuts in SC. Ain't you got no leanin' I've had to drop your name 3 times now ... :)

We headed to Charleston to take off on a big ole boat to the Bahamas! The whole fam damily.
This car is staring to smell like postholes forced out farts!

[BarryBobPosthole]

No banana hammock pics on Facebook please. You might set my recovery back a week.

BKB

[Arty]

No banana hammock pics on Facebook please. You might set my recovery back a week. BKB I'll see what I can do.... But no promises!

[Chicken Dinner]

No banana hammock pics on Facebook please. You might set my recovery back a week. BKB

Now you're going to have to do it. A speedo at a minimum.

[Captain]

No banana hammock pics on Facebook please. You might set my recovery back a week. BKB

Unless they are of your pretty wife. Then they are OK.
We need no spandex G-string pics of you....

[Chicken Dinner]

RT earlier this summer at the beach...

[Arty]

Here I am scratching up pennies and dimes to take the family on vacation and I can't catch a break with you dufes.

[Big Muddy]

Now some good fried bream are as close to manna from Heaven as it gets. (Well that and boiled peanuts) :D

These were some good fighters, Cap....gonna be even better "eaters". ;)

7365

7366

[Chicken Dinner]

Focus here BM. Focus. We're trying to see if we can't get Barry to pop a stitch here and you keep trying to pull thus back to an outdoors site.

[Captain]

Looking good Muddy.
Those are some fun to catch...

[Captain]

7367

7368

[Big Muddy]

Focus here BM. Focus. We're trying to see if we can't get Barry to pop a stitch here and you keep trying to pull thus back to an outdoors site.

He'll pop a stitch even quicker, thinking about gettin' outta that hell-hole, and into a fishin' boat. ;)

[Bwana]

Been away for a bit but very glad to hear you are on the mend Posthole!

[BarryBobPosthole]

The doc is writing my discharge order as we speak! Woo Hoo!
BKB

[Cards01]

Good deal. I know you will be glad to get out of there.

[River1]

Great news. One more step in the right direction. It's just crazy that you get to go home already. I'll be waiting for you to get released to go fishing.. I'm itching to get a kayak on some of those pits that you and Keith have access to.

[airbud7]

Wow that was Fast!....Heck it takes longer to get a transmission swapped out than that....Good Deal Barry!

[Thumper]

Some guys have all the luck! I went in on a Wednesday and was supposed to go home on Friday. I didn't get out'ta there 'til two months later! :(

Great news Postie ... wishing you a quick recovery! (just take it easy and follow the doctors orders)

[Chicken Dinner]

Way to go Barry. Now, you can use those homeopathic pain relievers...

[BarryBobPosthole]

:bj

[Big Muddy]

Just curious....how much does a kidney weigh???....if you had a big heavy one, you just lost some weight, without even trying. ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

I lost twelve pounds since last Wednesday. Not sure how much of that was kidney and tumor.

BKB

[johnboy]

Just got back from a week in the boonies with no cell service so glad to hear that you made out all right and are on the mend. And yeah, we caught some fish!