He's alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good morning, flight simmers!
I received the most wonderful news this morning....and I will post for all!
Hello my friend, I am so very sorry my convalescence kept me far away from any access to a connected pc, so that I could keep you updated about my health. I received your letter, thank you very much!
OK, surgery went well, but the lab test about the tissues removed revealed the tumors (yes, I have two.....) are not THAT benign. So, another intervention called "Gamma Knife", performed with a laser machine, from what I could understand, was mandatory. This second operation went well, too. But then I had to choose a place for a convalescence period and arrange for cycles of chemio and radio therapies.
My fiancée is a a pharmacist, so she stepped forward and had me transferred from the hospital in Milano to her home. In this way she could provide assistance and medicines faster than at my home in the middle of the hills....
Alas! she hasn't a pc connected to the Net, so I disappeared from the world.
Slowly, July, August and September went by, in the middle of September I started all post-surgery therapies in the hospital of Cremona, only 12 miles from her home, another reason why I stayed over there for such a long time.
Last week I completed the first cycle of therapies and now I have to wait for another two three months before going for control exams like magnetic Resonance and such to check if the remaining tumor has reduced its size or, hopefully gone altogether.
I am on a sort of R&R from the hospital and was told to get plenty of rest and recover fully.
I feel good enough, I did not suffer all of the side effects radio and chemical therapies normally induce in people. Phsycologically I am fighting back, like a good fighter pilot should, as much as I can.
Let me tell just this: I was able to return home, do all the winter preparation chores around my house, like starting the heating and clean-tuneup my wood-burning stoves.
Thank God I have plenty of leftover firewood from previous years! I would have not had enough strength to replenish my stores otherwise! Moreover, I CAN DRIVE my car and I move around as if nothing ever happened!
I hope you can get this update and, since I elected to return to my job two or three times a week, I'll be able to take care of my e-mail as well.
I hope your family, your spouse and your kids are all doing well, as well as your health problems were taken care of as well.
Until next time, take care my friend, Best wishes, PLeas update all our SOH friends that surgery went well and I am slowly recovering, thank you!
Your friend, Stefano "Kelti"