Just in case......

[Jim Nilsen]

I am going in for surgery to remove a lymphnode in my neck and it is supposed to be a routine outpatient surgery. With all of the blunders they make these days I just wanted to let you guys know that it's possible the Cormaro could need a new owner :attn: if they screw up.


I expect all to go as planned and I won't know for a day or so if it is cancerous or not but the doc says it is a normal thing to happen to people as they get my age and nothing to worry about.

I should be back on with stitches later tonight or tommorow morning to let you know how it went.

Thanks for being the best bunch of car guys a man could ever know and if they take me out and there is a car guy heaven I am hopeful to be standing in line behind Phil Hill and if they only let me catch a glimpes of it and come back I will tell you all about it.

:cheers:

[derekf]

Best of luck on your surgery, Jim.

[jy211]

Good luck! Dibs on the car! :seizure:

[Bishop73]

Good luck to you.

[BA.]

good luck in there Jim!!

[cheapthrillz]

Make sure they don't take anything they're not supposed to! Good luck man.

[rob07002]

Best of luck Jim and a speedy recovery.

[trapin]

Good luck Jim.

[TPI Monte SS]

Good luck Jim, hope to see you back here quickly!

[6'9"Witha69]

Good luck!

[Jim Nilsen]

I want to thank you all for thinking of me. The doctor actually initialed the area they had to prep so they didn't make a mistake:twothumbs.
It all went as good as it could have, I feel pretty good for having a 4 in. cut in my neck. He took out more than just the lymphnode ,it was a few other pieces too. He started out with the words " what you have is treatable but it is cancerous and what is left can be finished off with radiation treatments"

So I still am having a positive attitude about it and will take it as it comes. I have a friend that had the same treatments with throat cancer and she is doing well and it hasn't returned.:fingersx:

I get some time off to work on the car and I am well insured so I am not going to get stressed out about it. I can lift up to 10lbs right now and the brake lines and fuel lines fit into the category along with a few other things so I will have plenty to do to keep my mind in the right place. I actually believe it will motivate me even more to get it done sooner. I don't have time to worry about the little stuff now and some of the big things too, just the priorities.

Thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers .

Jim

[rob07002]

Glad to hear the proceedure went well. Stay positive and things will work out.

[Scott Parkhurst]

good to hear all is well Jim! Nothing wrong with some time to turn wrenches either!

[SatisTraction]

glad you made it back :)

stay positive and keep us posted.

[Martin71RS]

Wow, had not seen this thread....good to know things will probably be all right!!
Now use the time to get the cormaro on the road and enjoy it......
(it would be about time Jim ;-)
regards,
Martin

[Jim Nilsen]

Wow, had not seen this thread....good to know things will probably be all right!!
Now use the time to get the cormaro on the road and enjoy it......
(it would be about time Jim ;-)
regards,
Martin

Hey Martin, you are absolutely right about it being time !
Thanks for thinking of me and as soon as the doc gets this tube out of my neck I have some tubing going in my car, being hooked up is what the car needs and if the doc can make me work with something like plastic and tape I'm certain that what I can do to the Cormaro will look better :yeah: .

I have a completely different way of looking at my life now and just showing up with a car that runs is an appearance that will be better than it being everything I wanted it to be. A few flaws here and there will be just as much fun and less to worry about.

Thanks to everyone who has been thinking of me and may the horsepower be with us all .

[bigvegan]

Glad to hear you made it through surgery!

Once you get the tube out of your neck, can you use it as windshield wiper fluid tube / something non-mission critical? Talk about personalizing the car. (You could name the car MALIGNANT, because in addition to the cancer description, it also means "Showing great malevolence, disposed to do evil" (American Heritage Dictionary) which is a pretty cool description of a PT car.)

Good luck with the treatments, keep us posted!

[Jim Nilsen]

Glad to hear you made it through surgery!

Once you get the tube out of your neck, can you use it as windshield wiper fluid tube / something non-mission critical? Talk about personalizing the car. (You could name the car MALIGNANT, because in addition to the cancer description, it also means "Showing great malevolence, disposed to do evil" (American Heritage Dictionary) which is a pretty cool description of a PT car.)

Good luck with the treatments, keep us posted!


That thought brings whole new meaning to " Spare body parts"

I am most certain I can save money on the gas tank vent tube if I use the one off of my neck :lmao:

[Motown 454]

Good Luck Jim and keep smilling, its the best thing you can do right now for youself But just incase what year was that car? Good luck. Sweet car !

[70 Chevelle]

Glad to hear the surgery went well Jim. kick that thing in the ass

[Nessumsar]

Gas tank vent tube, awesome!

Good to hear everything went well, my mom had Breast Cancer two years ago; they found it early and it hasn't returned. So I hope the same goes for you too!

[MrQuick]

Good to hear your ok Jim....congradulations on your new blow off valve.

[Jim Nilsen]

The tube is out of my neck now and before I could even see what was going on, it and the squeeze suction bulb that was conveinently graduated in CC's was in the bio-hazard container that is sealed and not retrievable by the nurse of the doctor. So that vent tube idea is down and out. I was even going to use the vacuum bulb as a brake bleeding resevior because it had a convenient strap to place where you need it. I should have asked for it before it got pulled out of me.

I am also finally not in need of the pain pills now and it has my mind in a much better state. I had dreams that were beyond imagination yet vividly real in content as to make me get up and not want to go to sleep for awhile. Those same pills also lowered my self discipline and had me making comments that percieved to be within the step of grey areas that at the time would seem humorous and allowable to me but were not to possible others, so I hope I didn't offend anyone. If so I am sorry. If some of you found it entertaining or educational it would be a plus for me as my sense of humor can be very underlying in the words I usually use. I use a lot of restraint on some of the post you guys set up.

Now it is on to the chemo therapy and radiation doctors from what my doctor told me. He started talking about feeding tubes and I really didn't like where he was going with the future for me as he had told me this was treatable. He just wasn't specific and was in one of those grey areas I usually find words to get people to either sound like idiots or deceptive liars to themselves so as not to expose themselves to the real truth. I knew when he started to get defensive and pass the buck on some issues he claimed aren't related, like my hands going numb yet he doesn't have any explanation as to what caused the cancer. My hands didn't go numb before the operation so I consider it related and he does not. I will find out where he stands on it the next visit we have even if it makes him uncomfortable. It's my life he is dealing with and normal successful procedure or experimenting with ?, I want to know which one it is and his competancy level to maintain his beliefs.

If anyone knows of someone that has been helped in a better way than the options I have from these people please speak up. I am open to second opinions and more. Any good safe cures I have seen so far that actually work are in other countries right now and will be 6 to 10 yrs before they are allowed to be used here if they are ever allowed to be used.

I am keeping my spirits up but when they act like they are just muddling through this like a beginner tuning a car I get a little nervous. I don't need a parts remover to tell me that I am going to need new parts ,I need someone who knows what it is and is really the cause and the cure.

I have a really good idea what the cause is and when I told my brother yesterday and a friend that is in the medical field they both thought it would be hard to prove. Then my brother opened up his email and in one of them someone had put in a link that showed people putting four cell phones on a table all facing each other circling some kernels of popcorn, they call all of the cell phones at once and after a short time [the phones hadn't finished ringing and moved to taking messages yet]the kernels all pop and I mean pop. Orville Redenbacher would be proud of the unpopped kernels that weren't there, they all went up. I actually wonder if the phones would keep popping more if they would have been answered and more popcorn put in the circle?
Beware of cell phones and use speaker as often as possible, I never did and the phone was always right where the mass grew and was removed from. I usually only talked for a minute or so but once in awhile I would have a conversation that would last 30 min. or so and occasionally an hour but my overall minutes of use is not that much. I have never been sick until now, I am talking ,no colds,flus,or any other typical stuff most people get. I always had the jambed finger ,twisted ankle, impact stuff . I hadn't missed a day sick in many many years until now and I still have nother symptoms except this cancer. So if you have a twitch you never had before or some numbness ,get yourself checked out so you have a record of it!

So there you guys have it. I will keep you all posted and thanks for all of your support.
:cheers:

[derekf]

Believe I read somewhere a refutation of the cell phone popcorn thing, but I couldn't tell you where. Wasn't that big a deal to me since I've never owned a cell phone.

[bigvegan]

http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp

Cell phones can't cook eggs or pop popcorn.

That doesn't mean they don't cause cancer, just that you can't add them to your kitchen appliances just yet.

Good luck with the treatments!

Your doc's in a tough place. Cancer's completely unpredictable, and even oncologists know very little about the cause of most cancers (http://www.emedicinehealth.com/lymphoma/page2_em.htm), so he's probably just trying to manage your expectations. With something like this, it's probably best to prepare for the worst, and then feel relief when it's not as bad as you'd planned for.

As for the numbness, is this relevant?
http://oreilly.com/medical/lymphoma/news/late.html#numb
"Numbness, tingling, or pain in the hands or feet--peripheral neuropathy--may persist for months or years following treatment with vincristine or cisplatin. There is no treatment yet for this disorder, although pain management techniques may help."

Keep us posted. We're all hoping you beat this thing!

[minendrews68]

Glad everything went well Jim, I'll keep you in my prayers...
You know, it just seems that with all the miracles doctors do now with cloning, stem cell replacement, etc they could find a cure for cancer and the common cold. But then I guess if they did a lot of people that make and distribute the medicines would be out of a job huh?

[Jim Nilsen]

Glad everything went well Jim, I'll keep you in my prayers...
You know, it just seems that with all the miracles doctors do now with cloning, stem cell replacement, etc they could find a cure for cancer and the common cold. But then I guess if they did a lot of people that make and distribute the medicines would be out of a job huh?

Thanks for the prayers and I will keep doing my best to have a positive attitude.

They wouldn't be out of a job, they would just have to make an honest living. There would still be preventative medicine and the same doctors looking at you but the results would be completely different. Instead of pain and suffering there would be good days and even better days when you woke up everyday. I always thought of dentist as the smartest doctors, they also usually have the nicer boats! Now it is plastic surgeons that have the higher status. You would actually think that they would rather have healthy people coming to see them to stay that way instead of diseased and crippled people that spread anxiety and infections.

Thanks

[Jim Nilsen]

http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp

Cell phones can't cook eggs or pop popcorn.

That doesn't mean they don't cause cancer, just that you can't add them to your kitchen appliances just yet.

Good luck with the treatments!

Your doc's in a tough place. Cancer's completely unpredictable, and even oncologists know very little about the cause of most cancers (http://www.emedicinehealth.com/lymphoma/page2_em.htm), so he's probably just trying to manage your expectations. With something like this, it's probably best to prepare for the worst, and then feel relief when it's not as bad as you'd planned for.

As for the numbness, is this relevant?
http://oreilly.com/medical/lymphoma/news/late.html#numb
"Numbness, tingling, or pain in the hands or feet--peripheral neuropathy--may persist for months or years following treatment with vincristine or cisplatin. There is no treatment yet for this disorder, although pain management techniques may help."

Keep us posted. We're all hoping you beat this thing!

Thanks for the good thoughts and the links along with good ol understanding and insight.

I know my doc is in a bad position and he is doing his best, but it is a lot like you and I taking a car in to get fixed compared to someone who knows nothing about cars. Treat me with a Higher level of respect and intelligence when I describe the problem, i just might be right and save you a lot of research and time. Communication is key in solving problems. Understanding what someone means with a word is something that each person has to be speaking the same language and most of us these days have a media blurred understanding of so many words that to commuicate and understand the problem in the same way is almost impossible these days. I tend to take things in an exact place to draw the line when I see things, that way the differential of thoughts can categorize a more defined sense of the problem.

Someone please tell me how they prep the popcorn to do the trick with the cell phones. If it is a trick . The people I saw doing it in those videos did not look like magicians or people who would commit fraud but it is possible to see it that way if you want to.I do know it is a video and that they can be edited and chopped, if these are then these people should be in hollywood. With so many people wanting to see things their way I really observe way more than the average person and usually see things just for what they are. I have been told by many that I see things they hadn't even noticed that were obvious after I pointed it out. Good problem solvers are just as good at listening as they are at seeing. one more note about the possibilities of being able to do the popcorn thing is about frequency in itself. There is a bandwidth that has to be taken into account along with the actual know frquency that the corn has.
This analisys has to be looked at also from a quantum physics level and not a basic standard science physics level. If the frequencies are not the correct ones to coincide the results will be nothing, if the frequencies are close to exact there will be a correlation of something. What that something is has to do with the amount of energy involved. I want to make it clear that the equations of quantum physics and standard physics do not intertwine, there is a missing part that scientist are still looking for. However ,it wasn't until we began quantum physics that we were able to come up with many answers and solutions that we have today. Just take a look at depleted uranium weapons and how they work and you will get the info I am refering to. Also think of the singer who can break a glass with their voice and the correct frequency along with volume. When varibles can cause failure it can really help to either prove or disprove anything. I sure can't break a glass with my voice but I have made more than one woman get extremely excited to see me just by hearing me talk. Now that's a reaction I would think or hope you guys can relate to, and if you can't then silence probably gets you further than talking !

I will keep trying to bring my words and observations to be the same as my doctors so that he can really understand better what is going on with ME. I am sure we will have some good conversations if he really wants to understand and just doesn't think he already knows everything that is going on with my situatuation. I believe that both of our goals is for me to get better.

If you were to all see where I hold my phone and then see where the mass they removed from my neck is and the feeling in my hands you would put it together by association like a bruise to where you got hit. The numbness is something like nothing I can find the right words to describe but I am looking. Think of it like when you squeeze a healthy bit of your arm and the feeling isn't painful but you feel it, now I hurt your arm and then touch it. Your arm at that area is much more sensitive and when I touch it with less pressure you now feel pain instead of just a touch. With the numbness in my hands I am getting two different signals to my pain receptors, one is the feeling like you are describing from the operation and I know what that is from past experience. The other numbness that that I feel when I use my phone now, and it is the same when I held a friends phone to talk to another friend is something that is like a radiant pressure build up that to put it in another way to describe it is like when the sun first shines on your skin and it starts to warm up and then it gets hot. Not that I am getting hotter but that I can feel something that goes away just as soon as I put the phone down just like when you take the sun out of the equation. I feel what is happening to me and if this description gets you to understanding what I am saying better let me know, I am trying my hardest to find the way to communicate what I am feeling to my doctor so he will have a better understanding of what I am telling him.

Thanks for your thoughts and listening with an open heart and an open mind.

[Jim Nilsen]

Believe I read somewhere a refutation of the cell phone popcorn thing, but I couldn't tell you where. Wasn't that big a deal to me since I've never owned a cell phone.

I believe I read and remember people saying that funny cars and top fuel would never be able to do over 300mph, then they put on taller slicks and blew it right out of reality. I still couldn't hardly believe when I READ about it and it wasn't until I REALLY SAW it that it was still almost UNBELIEVABLE but it was truly a fact and toally AWESOME. All from blowing a tire up a little more out of proportion.

I remember when they first came out with portable phones and read that they had to have sheiding to keep the radio wave from the user and then later read that those waves might cause cancer. But then I only read that and now they rufute it like you say. But a cell phone is not just a cell phone, it is a tracking device. Now I just can't stop thinking that they would care more about tracking me than potentially giving me cancer , Do you?

From where I am right now, Don't get a cell phone. You just might be keeping yourself from having to read about your cancer on your very own medical paperwork like me.

Thanks for responding , I need all of the thoughts and insight I can get.

[BonzoHansen]

How did I miss this? Huh. Jim, you'll be fine. You have to be, you owe it to your car. :)

Hang in there buddy.

[Part Time]

Wishing you good health. You have the right attitude.

[Jim Nilsen]

I saw the radiologist yesterday and he has 33 to 35 treatment appointments coming my way. Five days a weak with weekends off.

With all of the appointments I have had recently the one they told me I had cancer was so far the only big dis-:jawdrop: appointment.

They even get your dentist invloved with flouride treatments for your teeth because you will have a loss in saliva production which affects your teeth.

I see the oncologist on Monday to set up chemo treatments.

When this is all over the phrase more fun than going to the dentist will probably not apply.

I will start the treatments around the end of the month so i have a couple of weeks to eat the things I really like and then it goes downhill to a liquid diet and if it doesn't go well a feeding tube. The doc said that in 15 years only one man has ever made it through with no weight loss or problem and that he was the total exception to the rule. Good thing for me people have been telling me I am the exception to the rule most of my life, so I am hoping to keep up the normal standard for myself through the end:fingersx:

I'll keep you all posted and thanks for being there, it really helps and when I will have a hard time talking I will at least be able to type to you guys with no problems.

Jim

[Motown 454]

Jim keep the faith The treatments are tuff but they usually work well.
God's speed

[showa]

http://www.cancure.org/hoxsey_clinic.htm
http://www.acidalkalinediet.com/foodchart.php

The first is start you thinking of alternatives to include stem cell.....It IS avaiable in Mexico, Germany, etc....

The second is to change your diet NOW...Get the acidic value of your body as LOW as possible...Cancer can not grow in an alkaline emviroment....Throw your microwave out the door, it kills all the nutrients in the food.....

Good luck, build up your immune system as much as possible because radiation kills good/badcells both.....

Sorry not best links but I was hurrying....I believe in a lot of natural supplementation and/or treatment vs big drug company run hospitals....

Don't give up...

Kurt

[Jim Nilsen]

http://www.cancure.org/hoxsey_clinic.htm
http://www.acidalkalinediet.com/foodchart.php

The first is start you thinking of alternatives to include stem cell.....It IS avaiable in Mexico, Germany, etc....

The second is to change your diet NOW...Get the acidic value of your body as LOW as possible...Cancer can not grow in an alkaline emviroment....Throw your microwave out the door, it kills all the nutrients in the food.....

Good luck, build up your immune system as much as possible because radiation kills good/badcells both.....

Sorry not best links but I was hurrying....I believe in a lot of natural supplementation and/or treatment vs big drug company run hospitals....

Don't give up...

Kurt

Thanks Kurt for those links. They led me in a different direction to look. That direction is a totally different group of links that actually have research and facts that would wake up an entire country if disclosed to everyone. People just have to have it close to them or be them when it comes to referring a situation in the 3rd party and that is the only thing seperating them, just good ole "it isn't effecting me so what are you talking about" ?

If most people knew that they are only looking at 2 places in line ahead them before they checkout for good they would panic like they lost their checkbook and have no way to pay cash !!!. At the store you always look at it as," it's not long now and this will be over with and I'm out of here". When it's your own life with no future you wish the line was a heck of a lot longer with a new checkout person and a whole lot of check writers with arthritis and carpal tunnel !!


Thanks again. Jim

[MrQuick]

Best of luck Jim, we all hope the best for you.


vince

[Jim Nilsen]

Hey everyone, I saw the oncologist yesterday and he was more informative and more open to the questions I asked,or maybe I had better questions after the shock wore off.

He says the exact name for my cancer is Squamous cell carcenoma of the neck.

He raised the level of my condition and also has thoughts of new experimental trial stuff if I pass the requirements?

I would go for a ride in an experimental car but an experimental drug?

Well there it is !! More to think about if I'm approved to even make the decision. Any personal experiences with this type of research decision would be helpful.

Thanks and I will keep you all posted.

I have Wyatt Erp ( the radiologists to shoot right through me) and Doc Holiday ( to give me the medicine) and they want to meet this Squamous Carcinoma gang at the OK Corral and I am invited as a walk on character in the shootout and the hotel room scenes ,I survive and live ,then leave walking into the sunset.

Jim