Paul LeClair

david4 said:
<snip> I don't feel I belong here as I had to sell my Laverda ...
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Wrong!  Stuff that, David!  Once a Laverda man, always a Laverda man.  You don't need to still own one to 'belong' here.

All the best

Craig
 
Dellortoman said:
Ditto, re my brother Bob. In Bob's case it was very aggressive - less than 3 weeks from diagnosis to funeral. Good luck to anyone fighting this bastard of a disease.

 
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Shaeza Cam! That's horrendous. Three weeks! We got a few years out of my brother. It was actually diagnosed 5 years earlier and a dud kidney removed. Said they got it all, end of story ... until it went into the other kidney and everywhere else. Not enough monitoring.
 
If its bad enough to kill you you are better off going quick. Its 100% about quality of life. Been though this and lingering with low quality of life is something I don't want to be arround again if possible. Bluntly it ends up being about toilets. Its a bloody roller coaster I am happy to be off. I wish the best for all that board it. Its a cunt of a thing
 
david4 said:
Hello Paul
I too,  do not know you, but have read and enjoyed your posts, I don't feel I belong here as I had to sell my Laverda due to the effects of the dreaded C , I do however look in now and then as enjoyed my ownership and still admire  Laverdas.
I was diagnosed with multiple organ cancer 18 months ago, my cancer has no happy ending, after 22 doses of chemo the  doctors decided I was more at risk of Covid than the cancer, so since March I have had no treatment, feel great, never thought I would again. I know this is only a temporary situation but am living life to the full, had my first hangover in two years this week, who ever thought you could enjoy a hangover! I am lucky that my treatment is funded by a research company and the NHS (god  bless them) at ? 9k a go I could never have funded it myself, the downside of this is they are chomping at the bit to get back on the trial.

I try and live by the Can in Cancer, even when I feel at my most shit, if you have you're head around it the rest follows, I love being on my bike more than anything , its difficult to get cancer out of your head but riding a bike seems to do it.

All the best, its difficult sometimes to stay positive, a work colleague recently asked me if I was still fighting the cancer, I told him that was the job of the doctors, I was just the reluctant host and every week politely asking it to fuck off!
Give it no respect, just crack on.
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Hi David

brought tears reading your words. Good on you, the "can" in cancer. I cared for my late wife through 6 and a half years of treatment for stage 4 metastasized breast cancer. Doctors told her at diagnosis she "had 6 months..." She lived well during her treatment process, six and a half  years, six years  beyond the opinion of the medical profession, and we lived well as a family. My youngest, now 28, was ten when she died. Serious illness affects everyone in the life of the person with the illness. Trying to be strong for those around you can be as good for you as it can be for them.

I am all too aware that the pancreatic cancer that has been cut out of me is a nasty disease that may appear elsewhere in my body at any time, or it may not. Totally outside of my control, so I am going forward on the theory that everything is fine.  I am working hard at living the best life I can for myself and my family, as it seems you are. As you say, we all should just crack on...

Best Regards
Paul LeClair
 
Paul
Strange how cancer often affects both sides in a marriage, we have been the same, you have already earned one medal for valour, time to do it again, when I started with my treatment other patients in the chemo ward used to say "good luck with your treatment" I used to think luck had nothing to do with it, this is a medical procedure, but I now think luck is the biggest factor.
A cancer diagnosis is grim but the relationships with family and friends change, not always for the better, I have a couple of old friends that no longer have anything to do with me, having said that I have had some incredibly uplifting experiences, I tell people exactly how I feel and what I am going through, it helps get it off my shoulders.

So I wish you all the luck in the world with your treatment.

On the ever more uplifting subject of motorcycles, I had to sell my SF as it was just to heavy,  replaced it with a moto guzzi le mans mk1, lower centre of gravity so just a bit easier to manoeuvre, its a nice bike but hasn't got that brick shit house feel that a Laverda has, looks nice in the garage next to my SS though.
 
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