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Name: David

Birthday: August 2

Gender: Male

Status: Married

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Religion: Christian/Catholic

Location:
NORTH ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts
United States

School:
B.S. Business Admin - Northeastern Univ.

Work:
Vietnam Vet.
Institutional Food Sales Distribution

My Websites:
www.angelfire.com/ma/shannonsweb
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/shannonsweb/Penny/Penny.html

Quote:
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Klondike Solitaire	302
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Skeeball	170
Backgammon	167

About Me

I am 66 and have spent the last year and a half fighting Hodgkins Lymphoma with Chemotherapy, radiation, and just this past June "High Dose Chemotherapy" followed by a stemcell transplant using my own stem cells. If God is willing, I will go into total remission and be able to be a mentor to some other person afflicted with that disease simply to offer an ear and to help push him/her through the treatments, especially if he/she hits that point of wanting to pull the plug. Been there - done that. I would say that the toughest thing to deal with concerning the chemotherapy is the neuropathy it has caused. Sometimes the pain and discomfort are very difficult. I suppose I am lucky in a way because it has affected both feet (mainly the toes) and just the left hand and fingertips). I do experience some numbness in the right hand and fingertips but not has heavily as my left hand.

Interests:

Golf, driving, playing my accordion, barbershop harmony, online games, and helping others where an opportunity to do so presents itself.

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August 2, 2008

Hi Folks,

Not only is today my Birthday, but yesterday, I had another PET Scan, which showed NO remainder of the Cancer I have been fighting over the past year and a half. Even though there is always a chance of it coming back, the Stem Cell transplant I just went through in June hopefully will prevent that re-occurance from happening.

It isn't over though -- as soon as I am well enough to withstand an operation, I have to go back into Brigham and Women's Hospital here in Boston for an operation to repair an Abdominal Aeortic Aneurysm that I have also been walking around with for over a year and a half.

Otherwise referred to as a AAA it has grown to over 6 centimeters and is at the point it is near bursting which could prove fatal. Harvey Corman, who just passed away had his burst about six months ago, but the were able to operate and save his life, but it was complications from that surgery that took his life in June of this year. So, I guess it is something I shouldn't ignore. Isn't maturing a great experience --- all I want to do is golf. But I keep going from one sand trap into another.

At least I have my groups here at AARP and my regular online friends.

Dave Cashel

Added: August 2, 2008
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