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To all of you...gentle hugs!!!!
I, too, have tended to be away for some time!!
DEB: I love you, my friend!!! Sending you peaceful energies, hugs, and support!!!
LRF: May your friend find some answers, get treatment she needs, and beat this! Much wishes for that for her...and hugs to you for being so strong for her and being there for her during all of this!!
TOMMI: Bro, I had no idea that you had gone through all of this either!! I am really happy for you that you have a wonderful woman by your side and to go through all of this with you!! Good luck on success of your treatments and do come back and let us know. Love you, bro!!!
PYNK: Good to see you here posting also. Have a wonderful New Year!!
JEANO: You always have so much by way of kind words, hugs, and just general all around support for each and every one of us!! Love you, bro!!
DAPPER: I always look up to you and all the wonderful insight, support, and compassion you have for all of us here!!! Love you, bud!!
Lady: Good luck in your journey and may you get nothing but wonderful news!!

I had quite the scare myself, and was out of my mind for 6 weeks!!! My CT Scan showed "apple core lesion" near splenic flexure! BUT a colonoscopy and a PET scan showed nothing there. How the inital "image" was seen then nothing on follow up will remain a mystery to the oncologist and me I suppose.

I recently had my yearly mammo. I am waiting for stereotactic biopsies of both breasts now. My mammo digital follow up and US shows "clustered microcalcs....BIRADS 4! This puts me in the 80/20 category for DCIS! My odds of these being benign are 80% and being malignant 20%! So, once again, I am "waiting"......waiting"....

I was very blessed last year with a wonderful lady....who has been by my side through all of this!!! We take one day at a time, and I try to live life to the fullest!!

We spent a weekend in a Hilton on the Beach when we found out that I didn't have a return of the colon cancer....and celebrated joyously!!

We have a trip booked to the Caribbean in May. Regardless of the outcome of my biopsies, I aim to go and enjoy that warm, wonderful Caribbean life.

So, like Tommi, I want to soak up life, enjoy my love, and share life with my honey!!! I want to look on my brighter side of things and be around many more years!!!

To each one of you....gentle hugs...and I love each and every one of you.
Thanks for all of your kind words, support, and love throughout the last 3 years!!! May life and live and prosperity be with you each one...Happy New Year!!!