As I’ve mentioned to you before I really enjoy your aviation posts, and the hints you’ve given about your time in Europe during the war. So I sit here thinking of Martin Marauders (which I really haven’t studied because B-17s and B-24s and Lancasters and Mosquitos get all the press) and the Bob Stevens cartoons about them. And then you pop up with an insightful political post or give an excellent answer to an engineering question. You’re a valuable resource.
Father hated those. The Japanese could see the aluminum bombers on the way back from an attack. Unfortunately for my Father the B-26’s flew over his B-25 airfield and the following Japanese attacked the B-25’s. I’m lucky to be here.
David, I only know you through the internet, but for what it’s worth, your name has always been one of the very few “must click regardless of thread topic” names there are for me. Thank you for your time on these boards.
Good luck, mate. That you are doing things on your terms is somehow of no surprise to me.
I’m sorry to hear of your illness, David. I have always enjoyed reading your posts, and I hope to continue enjoying them for as long as possible! You and your family are in my thoughts.
Would you mind do the community a possible favor by telling us how you found out you had your particular ailment so that others may catch it earlier than you?
I think it might serve a therapeutic as well as beneficial cause.
I don’t even know you, but I will say this: Don’t be scared, death is part of life. There really is something for us after our earthly existence, I know this for a fact. It’s nothing to fear. I do hope and think you might conquer this, so I’ll pray for you and wish you the best.
I had no discernable systems.
I did have what I assumed and what the doctor thought was an enlarged prostate. I had to go to the ER for rapid heart rate and high blood pressure and they took a chest xray. The radiologist noticed something suspicious and called it to my doctor’s attention.
After a bunch of tests, he found and matter of factly said, “I have finally a figured out an answer that satisfies all of the test results. You have a cancer which started somewhere and has spread to your bones.” I didn’t have any reaction, just seemed to be a fact and I guess that hasn’t changed.