MDX -1106

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  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    garym said:

    Too funny!!!
    LOL

    MDX-1106
    This is the MDX-1106 thread and I want to wish Foxy good news in the results tomorrow.

    I ordered the MAARS guided imagery program a week ago and I'm itching for it to arrive so that I can get stuck into it. Meanwhile I already have an image I want to share. It's of a cancer survivorship graph.

    Way over to the right, of a heavily right-skewed distribution, sitting on the asymptote, is a fox; even his brush is n SDs above the mean and his snout is jammed right into the narrowest part of the tail (of the graph) and he's gazing intently into the distant future.
  • foxhd
    foxhd Member Posts: 3,181 Member

    MDX-1106
    This is the MDX-1106 thread and I want to wish Foxy good news in the results tomorrow.

    I ordered the MAARS guided imagery program a week ago and I'm itching for it to arrive so that I can get stuck into it. Meanwhile I already have an image I want to share. It's of a cancer survivorship graph.

    Way over to the right, of a heavily right-skewed distribution, sitting on the asymptote, is a fox; even his brush is n SDs above the mean and his snout is jammed right into the narrowest part of the tail (of the graph) and he's gazing intently into the distant future.

    MDX
    Will find out more in the am. I am going to wear big sunglasses to my appointment because my future is gonna be so BRIGHT!!
  • garym
    garym Member Posts: 1,647
    foxhd said:

    MDX
    Will find out more in the am. I am going to wear big sunglasses to my appointment because my future is gonna be so BRIGHT!!

    Bright...
    I expect to see the glow all the way from Michigan. GOOD LUCK!!!
  • foxhd
    foxhd Member Posts: 3,181 Member
    garym said:

    Bright...
    I expect to see the glow all the way from Michigan. GOOD LUCK!!!

    bright
    ..Good thing I copied this, cuz I lost it in submitting it.. Infusion #3 complete. Now the good and the bad. The good. Lung tumors are smaller!..YEA!!..blood work is good!..Yea!!..Now the bad...new lesions in my illiac crest and vertebrae...Boo.....Looked at my pet scans and they were lit up like a Christmas tree... Wrong glow Gary... Weren't there 6 weeks ago. Kind of explains the pain I've had in my hip, chest and back...but, It may also be the massive inflammatory effect from the MDX going nuts on some renegade cells. I'll have another infusion every 3 weeks. Next cat scan is in 6 weeks...I may just wait a little longer before I buy new tires for my truck.

    So, What's new with you guys?
  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    foxhd said:

    bright
    ..Good thing I copied this, cuz I lost it in submitting it.. Infusion #3 complete. Now the good and the bad. The good. Lung tumors are smaller!..YEA!!..blood work is good!..Yea!!..Now the bad...new lesions in my illiac crest and vertebrae...Boo.....Looked at my pet scans and they were lit up like a Christmas tree... Wrong glow Gary... Weren't there 6 weeks ago. Kind of explains the pain I've had in my hip, chest and back...but, It may also be the massive inflammatory effect from the MDX going nuts on some renegade cells. I'll have another infusion every 3 weeks. Next cat scan is in 6 weeks...I may just wait a little longer before I buy new tires for my truck.

    So, What's new with you guys?

    Brilliant!
    Hell, buy the tires Fox - you'll outlast them. The MDX is relentlessly hunting down the enemy wherever it finds them! It's got the lung tumours under control and now it's focusing its sights on other targets.

    My news: not only have I bought green bananas, I traded my car up for a newer model this afternoon. Also played 15 holes at Carnoustie - took just over 2 hours - strong wind blowing and course deserted. Went out on my own and played 14-16 in the dark so couldn't finish all 18. A good number of single putts but I'm not inclined to reveal my other scoring. Conditions difficult and first round since my op. are my excuses (I subscribe to Gary McCord's philosophy that you always have to find anything other than yourself to blame!).

    You and MDX are the team that's going to win the gold.

    By the way, have you tried the other tip - of hitting the back button in your browser - you may find you've not actually lost your post and can keep repeating the exercise [that word again - sorry Limelife50 :) ] until it goes in ok.
  • foxhd
    foxhd Member Posts: 3,181 Member

    Brilliant!
    Hell, buy the tires Fox - you'll outlast them. The MDX is relentlessly hunting down the enemy wherever it finds them! It's got the lung tumours under control and now it's focusing its sights on other targets.

    My news: not only have I bought green bananas, I traded my car up for a newer model this afternoon. Also played 15 holes at Carnoustie - took just over 2 hours - strong wind blowing and course deserted. Went out on my own and played 14-16 in the dark so couldn't finish all 18. A good number of single putts but I'm not inclined to reveal my other scoring. Conditions difficult and first round since my op. are my excuses (I subscribe to Gary McCord's philosophy that you always have to find anything other than yourself to blame!).

    You and MDX are the team that's going to win the gold.

    By the way, have you tried the other tip - of hitting the back button in your browser - you may find you've not actually lost your post and can keep repeating the exercise [that word again - sorry Limelife50 :) ] until it goes in ok.

    Reading back a little you mention being of english and welsh with irish thrown in there. My mother was welsh and father irish. Her name was Welsh, his Driscoll. Her side migrated to Pittsburgh to work in the steel industry. His side came through Canada as fur traders.
  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    foxhd said:

    Reading back a little you mention being of english and welsh with irish thrown in there. My mother was welsh and father irish. Her name was Welsh, his Driscoll. Her side migrated to Pittsburgh to work in the steel industry. His side came through Canada as fur traders.

    Ancestors
    How interesting - we're a couple of mongrels then. Talking of Canada, a soldier on my paternal grandfather's line seems to have led Wolfe's squad in the scaling of the Heights of Abraham but try as I may I don't seem to be able to unearth any contemporary accounts to verify this.
  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    foxhd said:

    Reading back a little you mention being of english and welsh with irish thrown in there. My mother was welsh and father irish. Her name was Welsh, his Driscoll. Her side migrated to Pittsburgh to work in the steel industry. His side came through Canada as fur traders.

    Ancestors
    How interesting - we're a couple of mongrels then. Talking of Canada, a soldier on my paternal grandfather's line seems to have led Wolfe's squad in the scaling of the Heights of Abraham but try as I may I don't seem to be able to unearth any contemporary accounts to verify this.

    Just heard my urologist has rescheduled and I'll be seeing him a week earlier - suits me fine - might as well get the news sooner so I can plan accordingly.
  • foxhd
    foxhd Member Posts: 3,181 Member

    Ancestors
    How interesting - we're a couple of mongrels then. Talking of Canada, a soldier on my paternal grandfather's line seems to have led Wolfe's squad in the scaling of the Heights of Abraham but try as I may I don't seem to be able to unearth any contemporary accounts to verify this.

    Just heard my urologist has rescheduled and I'll be seeing him a week earlier - suits me fine - might as well get the news sooner so I can plan accordingly.

    ancestors
    Unfortunately I have a small family and know little else about anyone else that fell from the tree. I may be a Fox now but that was because my father was adopted and we lost the Driscoll name. Ma Fox had cousins named Wolf. Gee, who'd be surprised by that?
  • garym
    garym Member Posts: 1,647
    foxhd said:

    bright
    ..Good thing I copied this, cuz I lost it in submitting it.. Infusion #3 complete. Now the good and the bad. The good. Lung tumors are smaller!..YEA!!..blood work is good!..Yea!!..Now the bad...new lesions in my illiac crest and vertebrae...Boo.....Looked at my pet scans and they were lit up like a Christmas tree... Wrong glow Gary... Weren't there 6 weeks ago. Kind of explains the pain I've had in my hip, chest and back...but, It may also be the massive inflammatory effect from the MDX going nuts on some renegade cells. I'll have another infusion every 3 weeks. Next cat scan is in 6 weeks...I may just wait a little longer before I buy new tires for my truck.

    So, What's new with you guys?

    Sounds like the right glow to me...
    Logic tells me that if it is working in one area it is working in all and these new bursts are just an extension of the MDX search and destroy mission. I don't believe that this is the last set of tires you will need, go for it. Can you decipher this;

    FLUAWLH,

    Gary
  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    garym said:

    Sounds like the right glow to me...
    Logic tells me that if it is working in one area it is working in all and these new bursts are just an extension of the MDX search and destroy mission. I don't believe that this is the last set of tires you will need, go for it. Can you decipher this;

    FLUAWLH,

    Gary

    Agreed
    I believe I can Gary - and so do I!

    Talking of glowing, I've just had lunch (now eating like a medium-sized horse and regaining lost weight) after a really enjoyable 18 holes at a cold but brilliantly sunny Carnoustie. The Course was very quiet and we went round in 2 3/4 hours. I shot 45 out, 38 back which guaranteed me a good appetite.
  • garym
    garym Member Posts: 1,647

    Agreed
    I believe I can Gary - and so do I!

    Talking of glowing, I've just had lunch (now eating like a medium-sized horse and regaining lost weight) after a really enjoyable 18 holes at a cold but brilliantly sunny Carnoustie. The Course was very quiet and we went round in 2 3/4 hours. I shot 45 out, 38 back which guaranteed me a good appetite.

    Too easy huh?...
    T,

    I can't express how happy just knowing that you are back out on the course makes me, you must feel like doing cartwheels, but I advise against it!! With scores like that however I'm going to start negotiating for strokes now just in case fate brings us together sometime in the next 30 years or so. I envy that you are able to play, the weather here has been crazy lately, rain one day and snow the next, probably won't get out until March.

    Keep em straight,

    Gary
  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    garym said:

    Too easy huh?...
    T,

    I can't express how happy just knowing that you are back out on the course makes me, you must feel like doing cartwheels, but I advise against it!! With scores like that however I'm going to start negotiating for strokes now just in case fate brings us together sometime in the next 30 years or so. I envy that you are able to play, the weather here has been crazy lately, rain one day and snow the next, probably won't get out until March.

    Keep em straight,

    Gary

    Nae sweat
    as they say hereabouts. It's the winter course tees and greens [and mats :-( ] and the conditions were great. It sounds like you're having something like scottish weather - 4 seasons in one day - I reckon we usually get ours in roughly half day units. It's -2C here now and was when we teed off but warmed up a treat during the round - my new pic. shows how nice it got (my garden and adjacent fairway bathed in afternoon sunshine with light reflected off the lake we look over). I've notified our winter league organiser I'll be in the match on Sunday and that will be me back to 4 rounds a week (always assuming!).

    I'm due to get the bottom line on Thursday and a little anxious about how my Wife will take it (she'll be with me). I wasn't much bothered when I got the dx (which I'd guessed as likely) and not too concerned about the wait, the surgery or the recovery, all of which were helped no end by joining the club here. It was all fairly predictable. I'm apprehensive now, though, because I realise the chips are down. It's extraordinary to think that I may be told that the best guess is that I have a few months to live or maybe thirty years. The consoling factor is that it will only be a well-informed guess and we never know what the future holds anyway. My intention is to make it AT LEAST 30 YEARS and I aim to fulfil the golfer's dream of shooting my age. That, as you know, is usually achieved not by getting a brilliant score but by living long enough for age to engulf handicap! It would be nice to achieve it soon by a devastating score but I'll be happy to settle for the other way of doing it!
  • garym
    garym Member Posts: 1,647

    Nae sweat
    as they say hereabouts. It's the winter course tees and greens [and mats :-( ] and the conditions were great. It sounds like you're having something like scottish weather - 4 seasons in one day - I reckon we usually get ours in roughly half day units. It's -2C here now and was when we teed off but warmed up a treat during the round - my new pic. shows how nice it got (my garden and adjacent fairway bathed in afternoon sunshine with light reflected off the lake we look over). I've notified our winter league organiser I'll be in the match on Sunday and that will be me back to 4 rounds a week (always assuming!).

    I'm due to get the bottom line on Thursday and a little anxious about how my Wife will take it (she'll be with me). I wasn't much bothered when I got the dx (which I'd guessed as likely) and not too concerned about the wait, the surgery or the recovery, all of which were helped no end by joining the club here. It was all fairly predictable. I'm apprehensive now, though, because I realise the chips are down. It's extraordinary to think that I may be told that the best guess is that I have a few months to live or maybe thirty years. The consoling factor is that it will only be a well-informed guess and we never know what the future holds anyway. My intention is to make it AT LEAST 30 YEARS and I aim to fulfil the golfer's dream of shooting my age. That, as you know, is usually achieved not by getting a brilliant score but by living long enough for age to engulf handicap! It would be nice to achieve it soon by a devastating score but I'll be happy to settle for the other way of doing it!

    Do me a favor...
    Give your wife an extra hug and tell her it comes from across the pond. Its been my experience that the fairer sex is is far stronger than we give them credit for and in most cases stronger than us. If your research has shown anything its that it is impossible to predict when the reaper will come or for how long he'll hang around before helping us board that final train. You are well prepared to comfort your wife if needed.

    Good luck on Thursday,

    Gary
  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    garym said:

    Do me a favor...
    Give your wife an extra hug and tell her it comes from across the pond. Its been my experience that the fairer sex is is far stronger than we give them credit for and in most cases stronger than us. If your research has shown anything its that it is impossible to predict when the reaper will come or for how long he'll hang around before helping us board that final train. You are well prepared to comfort your wife if needed.

    Good luck on Thursday,

    Gary

    Distaff superiority
    Thanks Gary. What you say is absolutely right. Moreover you can help me a bit more. My Wife is exceptionally clever and I need your help to get my head round the following problem: Delighted with a golf match win yesterday (new picture is me on the 4th tee) I floated the idea that if the Consul ....... mail just arrived and includes the MAARS program - yippee, can't wait and will let you know what I think of it ...... tant says I'm likely to live more than 12 months, my Wife might like to spring me the new Taylor Made R11s driver.

    She countered with the analysis that she ought to buy me one if the Consultant says I won't last for 12 months - it will be a consolation prize for the bad news; if however he says otherwise I won't need the consolation and the fact that I'm not getting a new driver will be a reminder that the prognosis is better and the continuing lack of it will be emblematic of a brighter future. Now, bearing in mind that my Wife is, among other things, a qualified and experienced clinical psychologist and someone with a wicked sense of humour, do you think I'm being out-maneouvred here?!

    The post also contains letter of confirmation of my appointment on Thursday so I'm even happier that the MAARS material has arrived before then. I've been briefly in correspondence with Gerald White the past few days and it's very apparent to me that he's the real deal - highly intelligent, a hard scientist but a lateral thinker, open to new ideas and admirably independent-minded. It inspires confidence in his program which, as he wisely stresses, is complementary to treatment by the medics, not an alternative/substitute, so more anon.
  • garym
    garym Member Posts: 1,647

    Distaff superiority
    Thanks Gary. What you say is absolutely right. Moreover you can help me a bit more. My Wife is exceptionally clever and I need your help to get my head round the following problem: Delighted with a golf match win yesterday (new picture is me on the 4th tee) I floated the idea that if the Consul ....... mail just arrived and includes the MAARS program - yippee, can't wait and will let you know what I think of it ...... tant says I'm likely to live more than 12 months, my Wife might like to spring me the new Taylor Made R11s driver.

    She countered with the analysis that she ought to buy me one if the Consultant says I won't last for 12 months - it will be a consolation prize for the bad news; if however he says otherwise I won't need the consolation and the fact that I'm not getting a new driver will be a reminder that the prognosis is better and the continuing lack of it will be emblematic of a brighter future. Now, bearing in mind that my Wife is, among other things, a qualified and experienced clinical psychologist and someone with a wicked sense of humour, do you think I'm being out-maneouvred here?!

    The post also contains letter of confirmation of my appointment on Thursday so I'm even happier that the MAARS material has arrived before then. I've been briefly in correspondence with Gerald White the past few days and it's very apparent to me that he's the real deal - highly intelligent, a hard scientist but a lateral thinker, open to new ideas and admirably independent-minded. It inspires confidence in his program which, as he wisely stresses, is complementary to treatment by the medics, not an alternative/substitute, so more anon.

    Distaff superiority...
    I look forward to your perspective on MAARS and hope it proves to be the ultimate in mind over matter. Regarding your more immediate problem, it sounds as though you've met your match, but after you get the GOOD news, just buy the R11 for her and then borrow it as needed. My wife and I buy things "for each other" in this manner quite often, it makes for great fun and conversation like "When did I buy you that?" or "Don't you remember when you bought me this?". Good luck.
  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    garym said:

    Distaff superiority...
    I look forward to your perspective on MAARS and hope it proves to be the ultimate in mind over matter. Regarding your more immediate problem, it sounds as though you've met your match, but after you get the GOOD news, just buy the R11 for her and then borrow it as needed. My wife and I buy things "for each other" in this manner quite often, it makes for great fun and conversation like "When did I buy you that?" or "Don't you remember when you bought me this?". Good luck.

    Distaff superiority
    Funnily enough Gary, we do just the same! Thanks for reminding me - that really IS the correct solution.

    Re MAARS, I've begun reading the book. You could go into a bookstore and pick up a picaresque novel or a social history treatise and find it less engaging than this. I'm a slow reader (years of close textual analysis in lit crit and philosophy and later intensive study of case law have made me overly meticulous) so it may be a little while before I can give you a properly considered opinion.

    Played Carnoustie this morning. Hovering above freezing, dampish, with a biting wind blowing - good Scottish golfing weather. Yesterday I played the entire round in shirtsleeves but not so today. After ten holes we got a brief stinging hailstorm, followed by strengthening wind and then rain-showers. You know how impossible it is to explain the pleasure to non-golfers. Pin positions were evil and the course (full greens and most pins at the very back) played unbelievably long. After being in around ten bunkers there was no chance of even breaking a hundred. Are you under snow yet?
  • garym
    garym Member Posts: 1,647

    Distaff superiority
    Funnily enough Gary, we do just the same! Thanks for reminding me - that really IS the correct solution.

    Re MAARS, I've begun reading the book. You could go into a bookstore and pick up a picaresque novel or a social history treatise and find it less engaging than this. I'm a slow reader (years of close textual analysis in lit crit and philosophy and later intensive study of case law have made me overly meticulous) so it may be a little while before I can give you a properly considered opinion.

    Played Carnoustie this morning. Hovering above freezing, dampish, with a biting wind blowing - good Scottish golfing weather. Yesterday I played the entire round in shirtsleeves but not so today. After ten holes we got a brief stinging hailstorm, followed by strengthening wind and then rain-showers. You know how impossible it is to explain the pleasure to non-golfers. Pin positions were evil and the course (full greens and most pins at the very back) played unbelievably long. After being in around ten bunkers there was no chance of even breaking a hundred. Are you under snow yet?

    Weird weather...
    We still have snow, but the temp is supposed to be near 50F today, so... This has been one of the strangest winters I can remember with temps fluctuating from today's high down into single digits only days ago with rain or snow on most days depending on the temp. The weather in West Michigan is normally unpredictable due to the proximity of Lake Michigan, but this has been a weird winter so far. We'll likely get hammered in February.
  • Texas_wedge
    Texas_wedge Member Posts: 2,798
    garym said:

    Weird weather...
    We still have snow, but the temp is supposed to be near 50F today, so... This has been one of the strangest winters I can remember with temps fluctuating from today's high down into single digits only days ago with rain or snow on most days depending on the temp. The weather in West Michigan is normally unpredictable due to the proximity of Lake Michigan, but this has been a weird winter so far. We'll likely get hammered in February.

    Weird weather
    Likewise. At Carnoustie this morning we noticed the snow on the Sidlaw Hills, just north of Dundee and reckon it's bound to reach us in the next few days. We're told to expect around -10C fairly soon. However, it's difficult to feel hard done by when you read items like this, which is the situation in eastern Europe right now:

    "BELGRADE, SERBIA — Rescue helicopters evacuated dozens of people from snow-blocked villages in Serbia and Bosnia and air-lifted in emergency food and medicine as a severe cold spell kept Eastern Europe in its icy grip.

    The death toll from the cold rose to 79 on Wednesday and emergency crews worked overtime as temperatures sank to minus 32.5 C (minus 26.5 F) in some areas.

    Parts of the Black Sea froze near the Romanian coastline and the rare show fell on Croatian islands in the Adriatic Sea. In Bulgaria, 16 towns recorded their lowest temperatures since records started 100 years ago.

    In central Serbia, choppers pulled out 12 people, including nine who went to a funeral but then could not get back over icy, snow-choked roads. Two more people froze to death in the snow and two others are missing, bringing that nation's death toll to five.

    "The situation is dramatic, the snow is up to five meters (16 1/2 feet) high in some areas, you can only see rooftops," said Dr. Milorad Dramacanin, who participated in the helicopter evacuations.

    And some of us complain about it being chilly on the golf course - it helps to keep a sense of proportion.

    On a lighter note, talking of mortality, I had to think of Rae, and her golf resort friends re-assigning her assets, when my golf partner turned to me with a grin this morning, while walking down the fairway, and said "I was telling D. [his Wife] last night that I might be acquiring an R11 driver soon. She said "How come?" and I said "I'd rather not say at the moment!" " As Rae said: "It's great friends like that.."
  • foxhd
    foxhd Member Posts: 3,181 Member

    Weird weather
    Likewise. At Carnoustie this morning we noticed the snow on the Sidlaw Hills, just north of Dundee and reckon it's bound to reach us in the next few days. We're told to expect around -10C fairly soon. However, it's difficult to feel hard done by when you read items like this, which is the situation in eastern Europe right now:

    "BELGRADE, SERBIA — Rescue helicopters evacuated dozens of people from snow-blocked villages in Serbia and Bosnia and air-lifted in emergency food and medicine as a severe cold spell kept Eastern Europe in its icy grip.

    The death toll from the cold rose to 79 on Wednesday and emergency crews worked overtime as temperatures sank to minus 32.5 C (minus 26.5 F) in some areas.

    Parts of the Black Sea froze near the Romanian coastline and the rare show fell on Croatian islands in the Adriatic Sea. In Bulgaria, 16 towns recorded their lowest temperatures since records started 100 years ago.

    In central Serbia, choppers pulled out 12 people, including nine who went to a funeral but then could not get back over icy, snow-choked roads. Two more people froze to death in the snow and two others are missing, bringing that nation's death toll to five.

    "The situation is dramatic, the snow is up to five meters (16 1/2 feet) high in some areas, you can only see rooftops," said Dr. Milorad Dramacanin, who participated in the helicopter evacuations.

    And some of us complain about it being chilly on the golf course - it helps to keep a sense of proportion.

    On a lighter note, talking of mortality, I had to think of Rae, and her golf resort friends re-assigning her assets, when my golf partner turned to me with a grin this morning, while walking down the fairway, and said "I was telling D. [his Wife] last night that I might be acquiring an R11 driver soon. She said "How come?" and I said "I'd rather not say at the moment!" " As Rae said: "It's great friends like that.."

    Weather
    ..and to think, I went out riding my motorcycle today in New England...It hit the low 60's.
    from last year being the worst on record to this year being the easiest..Amazing!