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  • Katie10485
    Katie10485 Member Posts: 41
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    Congrats and thank you

    Congratulations on hitting the three year mark.  thank you for always being so helpful and kind to me and so many others on here.  You are an inspiration and a source of peace when it seems like the world is spinning out of control! 

  • Laralyn
    Laralyn Member Posts: 532
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    Congratulations!

    Glad to hear and see you doing so well! Three years does feel significant, doesn't it? :-)

  • donfoo
    donfoo Member Posts: 1,771 Member
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    You've arrived...

    Three is BIG, you cross the unofficial cured finish line. The docs, conservative as they are, still make you wait another two years to give you the medal but I hand them out at 3!

    Congrats!

  • Grandmax4
    Grandmax4 Member Posts: 723
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    Thanks & Congratulations

    I am so thankful I came across CSN  when I did...feeling alone and like I was the only living the H&N nightmare, I discovered many was walking the same path~~you don't know how many times, I've snorted my coffee thru my nose, laughing at something you've said...for this i thank you, and wish you many, many more Neds... 

  • scarytimes
    scarytimes Member Posts: 16
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    Thank you!

    Matt, You provide good information and I can't thank you (and the others) enough for helping me move through this ordeal with my brother. He's just had his first NED. I pray he'll be just like you!!!

    Happiness and health always, Nicci

  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,722 Member
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    Katie10485 said:

    Congrats and thank you

    Congratulations on hitting the three year mark.  thank you for always being so helpful and kind to me and so many others on here.  You are an inspiration and a source of peace when it seems like the world is spinning out of control! 

    nice to hear

    Thank you Katie, you are very kind with your words.

    I hope you and yours are doing well.

    Matt

  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,722 Member
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    Laralyn said:

    Congratulations!

    Glad to hear and see you doing so well! Three years does feel significant, doesn't it? :-)

    3 years flew by

    Laralyn,

    One new thing 3 years post has earned me is a pill caddy to hold all my medications, no one warned me about that.  I guess the blood pressure and thyroid are simple enough to deal with.

    Matt

  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,722 Member
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    donfoo said:

    You've arrived...

    Three is BIG, you cross the unofficial cured finish line. The docs, conservative as they are, still make you wait another two years to give you the medal but I hand them out at 3!

    Congrats!

    next stop Don's Place

    You are a wise one Don, do you mind if I hold you to your 3 year belief (I like it).

    Matt

  • debbiejeanne
    debbiejeanne Member Posts: 3,102 Member
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    Duggie88 said:

    Matt

    I can't call the burail plot guy back he hung up on me and this was before caller ID.

    Funny you should mention union joke because I kinda fought my battle living by one. About 20 years ago the owner of a company I was working for was in an room beside the drivers room where we use to take breaks throughout the day. He always used intimidation to get his point across and I think he always looked at me as a challenge. I came into the room waved Hi as he watched through the glass and sat down, 5 minutes later he came storming out of the room yelling how long are you going to sit there go out a get in your truck and make me some money. I calmly sat there and reponded I'm a Teamster and I still have 20 minutes left on my 10 minute break. He got so furious the Human Resource Manager had to come out and force him back into the room, she later pleaded with me to never piss him off like that again.

    When I started my battle  with cancer and quite a few times during one of the  things that drove me was F..K cancer I still have 20 minutes left on my 10 minute break.

    As you know to fight this beast it takes dedication and you have to reach down and pull out inner strength you never dreamt you had. Matt you and others on this great site have a unique ability to give the fighters and their caregivers afterall they are fighters by association, that little push forward towards the finish line that can seem far off in the distance.

    By the way the President of that company I worked for, his wife fired him for sleeping where he wasn't supposed to. I look forward to seeing him in the street someday so I can tell him it's a shame he wasn't a Teamster, I could have fought for his job back.

    Time to live out my next interesting day........I look forward to every one of them

          Jeff

     

     

    jeff, you are also one of the

    jeff, you are also one of the great ones here.  i just love your stories.  like Matt, you always make me laugh.  i hope you run into him very soon and can say that.  i'm laughing just thinking about it.  i also laughed picturing him being forced out of the room when you p'd him off.  i wish i could have been there and witnessed that.  you have made my day, you usually do.  thanks jeff for being jeff the teamster!

    God bless you,

    dj

  • PJ47
    PJ47 Member Posts: 376
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    May the force continue to be with you

    Love your comments Matt and you always make me laugh.

    I will be glad when I make it to my 2 year anniversary Dec 27th this year.

    Guess I have faith as I totally forgot my R/O follow up last month, but knew I had my ENT follow up in 6 more weeks in May and did not panic amazingly enough.

    Happy anniversary,

    PJ

  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,722 Member
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    Grandmax4 said:

    Thanks & Congratulations

    I am so thankful I came across CSN  when I did...feeling alone and like I was the only living the H&N nightmare, I discovered many was walking the same path~~you don't know how many times, I've snorted my coffee thru my nose, laughing at something you've said...for this i thank you, and wish you many, many more Neds... 

    I need a snort of coffee

    Granma times four,

    Just to know I helped you snort coffee reminds me I can sneeze carrots.

    Matt

  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,722 Member
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    scarytimes said:

    Thank you!

    Matt, You provide good information and I can't thank you (and the others) enough for helping me move through this ordeal with my brother. He's just had his first NED. I pray he'll be just like you!!!

    Happiness and health always, Nicci

    Thank you too!

    Nicci,

    Congratulations on your brothers first of many NED.

    Matt

  • Duggie88
    Duggie88 Member Posts: 760 Member
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    CivilMatt said:

    I need a snort of coffee

    Granma times four,

    Just to know I helped you snort coffee reminds me I can sneeze carrots.

    Matt

    Matt

    Snorting coffee and sneezing some carrots with Matt sounds like fun. My memory is old but I think you're in Oregon and the closest I will get (on the ground) this year will be Denver in November we could freak some people out. I plan on planting some carrots today with great anticipation.

    Enjoy the day Matt

          Jeff

  • Roar
    Roar Member Posts: 269 Member
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    You are one of the cornerstones of this room

    congratulations - you are a true warrior And mentor. You always know the right things to say- this room wouldn't be the same without you wit humor and experience to all the newbies and veterans alike. I hope your journey/ battle continue to go well for you. Thank you for all your inspriration 

    Ralph 

  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,722 Member
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    Roar said:

    You are one of the cornerstones of this room

    congratulations - you are a true warrior And mentor. You always know the right things to say- this room wouldn't be the same without you wit humor and experience to all the newbies and veterans alike. I hope your journey/ battle continue to go well for you. Thank you for all your inspriration 

    Ralph 

    one of many

    Thanks Ralph, that is very kind of you to say.

    There was a room full of H&N specialists already here and ready to help when I came a knocking.  We all have something to offer.

    Keep moving forward.

    Matt

  • katenorwood
    katenorwood Member Posts: 1,912
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    Matt

    We're NORMAL the rest of the world is  the 'abi-group !  I'm closing in on the 4 yr mark come Dec. '15.  I don't post as much as I should on site, but the bus mates I had  as the wheels turned round and round kept me moving in the right direction.  You, and many other's continue to inspire the newbies...and in my eyes you're all rock stars.  Continued NED wished forever dear Matt....and as in a previous post above (may the force be with you !)  Hugs sent !  Katie 

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