Hey Doug as we've discussed, it a shock to the system. I had believed that once you quit all the damage you did smoking reversed itself, well not all of that is true, the silicia at the top of your lungs where the smoke stays the longest gets destroyed first.  I'll do more research but damn I thought those cleaned and repaired themselves.  It is true that the tar you slowly cough out and absorb, but I was in shock, and the surgeon was really mifffed that I didn't bring the wife with me.  Oh well, she is in it for the full ride, I offered her a get out of jail card and she refused to take it ;p  I was reading the other cancer stage 4 thread here and I had a panic attack just reading it, I had to disconnect and get offline.  As I progress down this new road I'll read more of what he has to say in the coming weeks.  I hope no one else here gets this, but if so, I hope you can catch it stage 1 or 2.  Yesterday when I had a stomach virus I thought I was having trouble with the kemo port, it feels like a pacemaker under the skin, no port to it, they just run a needle into it every trip to the chemo.  Smart.  Now I think I'll going to go try solid food for a chance. I loaded up with a beef roast Sun nite and woke up to the worst cramps imaginable Mon morning, day and night!  Cheers mate, thanks for stopping by.

Rich

heheh, funny picture ;D  I'm doing great today, back to my pre cancer cough.  Funny how it went from once in the morning to several times an hour.  Just have to wait for chemo to shrink these buggers. From the test results on my chart it looks like I have 3 major and 3 minor ones now, I really can't wait to get the kemo underway and start killing these suckers.  I wonder if it will fix or aggravate my original skin rash that was the reason for finding this?  Nah, I don't have that kind of luck ;p Thanks sweetie.

Rich

Dee, is this how you picture my mother looking at me?  I'm having the dangest time putting pics on this new forum, I copied the image from facebook and pasted it here, nothing from photobucked worked.  I think I walked off our 3mile hill that day and was at my aunts dirty house and she had to pick me up after work ;p

Rich (lexx0) said:

Dee, is this how you picture my mother looking at me?

Absolutely on target LOL.

(((Hugs)))

p.s. It's real easy  if you are using a laptop or pc you can insert photos directly from your computer by placing your cursor in the post  where you want the photo to go

1. Click on the "Insert a image or photo" icon (Checkout screen shot below)

2. Click on "From my computer"

3. Find your photo

4. Click "Open"

If you uploaded a large image, it will be resized automatically.* You may see the image go from large to small as it uploads and is processed. This image of me took up almost the entire screen and the system resized it and I made it even smaller by clicking on the photo resize corner arrow.

Dee at 26

Thanks sweetie, my, my, my, you are stunning in that picture.  Ok let me try this then, peeps wanted to see my puppy and chico:

Wow, that was too easy, I have not spent enough time here.  Dee I love you, hope my mothers' glare made your day. Hehe, you had me pegged from day one. There is an ornery streak that runs through me that must come out in text, your are who you are  :D

Hey Rich,

That photo of you and your mom is priceless.  After much sighing that was the kind of look I had on my face after one of your "let's test Dee" episodes.  You were not alone...........your buddy Wayne got plenty of those looks too.

The thing is Rich you never took it too far, was never disrespectful to me as a Moderator or to the Forum family.

Much love.

Dee

Oh I know, I know the difference between respect and my mother slapping me up the side of the head. Its just the way our males are.  Those eyebrows on the giraffe are how I wink at women, I'll tug at the wives' strings until I get a rise, but oh my God, never wanted to upset anyone ever, I do push limits, but love people more than my ego.  Really the only time I really got 'modded' was when I was first quit I posted an avatar of a gun to the head, quit or suicide, I thought it was a joke but someone didn't like it.  Another time I called a friend darling and that caused an uproar, sorry Austrian lady, we southern gents use all kinds of endearing terms.  I guess the rest of what you saw I never did, well, cause I'm Rich and your Dee ;D  Thanks for your kind words.

Rich

ps, you'd probably never believe I've been admin/moderator on 4 different forums since 2004.  I've dealt with alot of really angry people, but this forum is different, even I was unprepared for anger that lies under the surface, I dealt with the nasty in your face outbursts.  I know I am much improved thought :D  Not hiding any cigs 'just in case' you know, they have all been blown up or creatively destroyed, now if I could get wife to quit ;p

Looking good Dee!!

Now they tell us that the cilia at the top of the lungs get destroyed.  I can believe it but was under the impression that what happened was that they were covered in tar and whatnot.  Once covered they could not move back and forth, cleaning up the pathways.  But when we quit, slowly but surely they start recovering and moving again, cleaning up the mess.  

To be honest, after I quit I never coughed up much junk so maybe it's still all there... on the other hand, I still jog and play volleyball so who knows what's going on.