sackrat opened this issue on Jul 11, 2010 · 23 posts
sackrat posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 2:50 PM
Hello guys,.......despite all odds, I'm still alive. The doctors around here are baffed as to why, but here I am . Have been looking around the galleries and I'm very pleased to see some of the old timers are still around, Gonna try posting some stuff in a day or so(haven't even touched a computer in abouit 5 months or so),...........See ya'all soon.
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Rayraz posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 2:54 PM
heyyy welcome back! sometimes its a good thing when the docs got it wrong right?
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Quest posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 4:36 PM
Glad to hear the good news Sackrat. Many doctors today are reluctant and some have even stopped giving the statistical odds because people are different and often don’t correlate to the laboratory scheme of things. What’s more, some people unfortunately live out the supposed remainder of their lives in a state of depression and despair and feeling unproductive after receiving the dire odds. But fact of the matter is that while we put our lives on a holding pattern as a result, we may still succumb to some other serendipitous and swift illness or tragic accident in the interim. I’ve known people having been ill and given such prognostic odds that are still alive and well many years later and some have actually outlived their younger prognosticating doctors. Such should be your fate my friend. Welcome back!
airflamesred posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 5:17 PM
Good news Sackrat
Ang25 posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 6:17 PM
Welcome back!
tom271 posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 7:57 PM
Welcome back..
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skiwillgee posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 8:41 PM
Great news and great to hear from you. I have been wondering how things were going for you in your absence.
DAM3D posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 11:10 PM
Great to see you back around Sackrat!
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Thandaluz posted Sun, 11 July 2010 at 11:13 PM
Friend, welcome back..
kiwi_gg posted Mon, 12 July 2010 at 1:09 AM
Good to hear from you again. Welcome back.
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AnnieD posted Mon, 12 July 2010 at 2:13 AM
Hey...welcome back!!
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TheBryster posted Mon, 12 July 2010 at 3:35 AM Forum Moderator
Outstanding. Welcome back!
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ThunderStone posted Mon, 12 July 2010 at 6:03 AM
Welcome back and it's great to see you posting again.
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bobbystahr posted Mon, 12 July 2010 at 12:09 PM
Wow...having not seen you posting I was assuming the worst, good to see you've baffled the docs and hope you continue to...look forward to seeing a render or 2 soon.. ...
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grafikeer posted Mon, 12 July 2010 at 9:57 PM
Glad to hear the news...look forward to new works!
electroglyph posted Tue, 13 July 2010 at 6:27 AM
My grandfather got mustard gassed in WWI. He was shipped stateside and immediately put in the "kick-off ward" of Sparks’s hospital. Doctors assumed many injuries were fatal and had a special area for the dying. Every three or four days a new soldier would be put in the bed next to his only to die and be replaced by another. This went on for about a month. He asked the nurse, “When is the doctor coming?” She always replied. “He can’t do anything for you. Don’t you know you’re going to die?” The Spanish flu was rampant. Nurses and doctors got sick as well. They sort of lost track of how many months he spent in the kick-off ward.
Finally he had enough. He started forcing himself to raise his arms, then his legs, and then sit up. Finally the day came when he stood up just long enough to pass out and fall back on the bed. He kept setting himself small goals. The day came when he could walk to the door of the room and back, then down the hall and back. One day he was going to go out the front door to a little soda stand. The nurse at the desk said,”Where do you think you are going? Don’t you know you’re going to die?” Well if I live five minutes more I’m going to get me a Coca-Cola!
Eventually he left the hospital against doctor’s orders. It cost him a medical discharge. He went to Arizona where he met and married my grandmother. He worked as a grocer till he was 81 and lived to be 86 when he had a heart attack splitting an oak tree he sawed up by hand.
He used to tell me this story. At the end he’d get this mischievous twinkle in his eye and say,” And all those doctors who told me I was going to die? They’re all dead now!”
Rayraz posted Tue, 13 July 2010 at 7:45 AM
@electro wow thats one good story! what an adventure.. not the most fun adventure to be in thou i bet :-/
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sackrat posted Wed, 14 July 2010 at 3:17 PM
Thanks guys ! Tumor has just stopped growing, Docs don't know why, it just stopped. Devine intervention maybe ?! ?Go google hepatocellular carcinoma. Everything says 3 -6 months.
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Analog-X64 posted Wed, 14 July 2010 at 7:18 PM
Glad to see you back.
FergerMeister posted Thu, 15 July 2010 at 1:28 AM
I do not know you but welcome back anyway, I am new. ;-)
erosiaart posted Thu, 15 July 2010 at 10:52 PM
Sakcrat!! Am I gald to have you back.
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Electro..your grand dad was one determined man to fight for his life.. it's stories like this that gives up hope when things are down,,
UVDan posted Fri, 16 July 2010 at 3:48 AM Forum Moderator
So glad to see you back. It is truly hard to keep a good man down.
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dyret posted Sat, 17 July 2010 at 10:02 AM
wow! im so very happy. welcome back!