Ed,
Thanks for the shout out! Glad something I posted helped somebody. That clogging from a Foley can be deadly.
I'm also having to cath every single time I go during the day and I use the condom catheters every night. Now that I have CPAP machine, I'm just a mess of tubes going all directions. LOL! It's true but I don't care. I sleep all night AND now that I got the CPAP machine, my wife can sleep all night too!
That there is what I call a "GOOD THING"!
I think that shell you put up is really cool! I bet Duke gets a big smile from that one too.
Hope that throat cancer thing is a thing of the past. They found a lump on my thyroid when I got the PET scan after getting my recurrence diagnosis. Sure was glad it turned out to be a cyst. My surgeon (uro) had a specialist come in and scan that and it was benign. Saved me a trip!
You said a lot of great stuff, including the part about EVERYBODY that posts on this site making a difference. You and everyone who shares their story (from initial diagnosis through treatment and beyond) makes the HUGE difference and makes this site so very valuable.
I know there are lots of folks out there that read these posts and don't post themselves. To those folks I say, please share your story. Just like reading other posts here helps you sometimes, your story could help others. You never know what story will be the one that somebody out there can relate to.
I miss Leah alot also. He helped me tremendously way, way back. As did Pat and Cynthia and Jack and Betsie Mae and well...everybody.
Mike