I had my left kidney taken out a couple of years ago, due to a tumour. A couple of months ago my GP sent me for a blood test and then it all started happening. Turns out that the cancer which the surgeons thought had all gone with the kidney has metastasised and I now have stage 4 lung cancer. I've been told I have years rather than months, but last week I saw the oncologist and she said there's something going on with the liver. I've been on a drug called Panopazip which attacks cancer cells, but also gets stuck in to the normal white cells. She took me off the drugs for two weeks to see how it goes and hopefully it will have settled down a bit.

I'm still working on Wadebridge and have started to get a bit of a move on as I'd like to get it to a stage where I can put some decent pic's of it on the forum, so watch out for my progress.

 

Hi  Pete,thanks for replying.I don't know what to say really,you've certainly had your run of bad luck and I wish you well with your treatment.
I look forward to seeing Wadebridge progress and plenty of pictures please.

Kind regards

Alan.

Keep your positive attitude mate and all the best with the treatments.

Thanks Alan & John. I know some people are born worriers and they can't change, so I consider myself lucky that I'm not one of them. I've only just started the scenery and when things look a bit better I'll post those pic's

Sorry to hear about you health problems Pete, looking forward to seeing some pictures.


Ed

Thanks, Ed. I'll take some pic's when I've done a bit more on the scenery.

I feel for you Pete - it must be tough for you and yours and saying "chin up" just doesn't suffice.

I know the other members will join me in wishing you the very best of luck with whatever treatment they can offer and lets hope it can hold it at bay for as long as is humanly possible.

Do keep us informed.
 

Hi Pete, you always manage to handle the good and not so good news with your usual frank honesty. This time you caught me unaware, as few of us more mature gentlemen like to think how we might handle the realisation that what we have will be the death of us. Black humour apart, I no longer fear reaching life’s final destination, but I’m not yet asking if we’re almost there yet and neither should you.

I sincerely hope you are still a great distance away and as you know, you have work to do, so enjoy building Wadebridge, as we’re watching and waiting for updates.

I’m not ready for scenery yet myself (still busy learning how to build locomotives) and indeed have much to learn with scenic work, so will be watching how you set about things.

My very best wishes,

Bill

 

Pete and Bill,

Thanks for the well wishes. I'm not panicking Mr Mainwaring… not yet anyway. You all ready know that it's a slow growing type and that we're talking years rather than months.

I don't mind a bit of black humour and think it actually helps if you can laugh about these things. As the song go's: Always look on the bright side of life.

I've just received a bag of 4mm static grass, so hope to make a bit more scenery. Onwards and upwards, or in my case down to the heat.

Hi Peter,
Pleased to hear you are coping with what life has thrown at you.  

best wishes

Thanks Dave,

Plenty worse off than me.

peterm said

Thanks Dave,

Plenty worse off than me.

From “Post #287,707”, 6th May 2023, 11:45 PM

and that is how I looked at it when my hip was giving me grief & other slight medical hiccups and I took solace in the fact that there are many far younger than me ( over 81) with worse problems.

Yep, no point worrying, just makes things worse.

While I've got you Sol: I can't post resized photo's using JPEG or GIF. I wrote to Petermac, but he might not have seen it yet, so I'd appreciate it if you could help.
 

 Peter, this will be the first time i have tried to load a photo since the new forum so let us see this back side view of a new panel ,goes

now to find the icon that allows me to u pload photos


I found it under attachments & put in the middle of a sentence   139 KB  600 x  261 pixels

I will have to try more but no doubt Ed  or  Rick  will correct me

Thanks Ron. I'll try that later.

Hi Pete,

most sorry to learn about your unfortunate news and I can only echo all the support in all the comments above.

Best wishes,

Colin

Thanks Colin.

Sol said

 Peter, this will be the first time i have tried to load a photo since the new forum so let us see this back side view of a new panel ,goes

now to find the icon that allows me to u pload photos


I found it under attachments & put in the middle of a sentence   139 KB  600 x  261 pixels

I will have to try more but no doubt Ed  or  Rick  will correct me

From “Post #287,713”, 7th May 2023, 7:39 AM

Tried that, Ron, but it still wouldn't work.

Hullo Pete,
Don't often post these days, but could not miss saying that I hope the doctors keep control of it and wish you all the very best for the future.

Doug

Thanks Doug,

Thanks. The cancer care people are really good, and I couldn't wish for better. In fact I've just thought to say that I spoke to a specialist about going private at great expense, and he said it would make no difference. There's new separate building dedicated to cancer care at the hospital and I feel well looked after.