Lance (well, his GF) expecting #4

[Selkie]

Uni-baller! LOL. Thanks for the levity, K. This thread needed it.

[Grog]

well, in that case, he can have kids. what a relief!

Well it's not that simple.

My brother had bone cancer as a child and the heavy-duty chemotherapy treatments he was served back then have made him pretty much sterile. It's not all about the balls.

This being said, my brother - who didn't want to have children of his own - eventually got a vasectomy to make sure no "miracles" would happen to him. Before that, his partner was on birth control.

[Possegal]

I enjoy reading the pages of the people who ride the livestrong challenge. Some are very personalized and it is very touching and often funny to read them. My favorite from last year was a guy that had a very large team and even had founded a non-profit. He too was a testicular cancer survivor and his page had a picture of him and Lance at the dinner the night before the ride. The title was "It's all fun and games until someone loses a nut". Cracked me up!!

[snapdragen]

I enjoy reading the pages of the people who ride the livestrong challenge. Some are very personalized and it is very touching and often funny to read them. My favorite from last year was a guy that had a very large team and even had founded a non-profit. He too was a testicular cancer survivor and his page had a picture of him and Lance at the dinner the night before the ride. The title was "It's all fun and games until someone loses a nut". Cracked me up!!

I have a friend who is a survivor, he'll say things like "I'd give my left nut....oh wait, I already did!"

[bmccasland]

Way back when, I worked in a hospital Radiololgy dept. We had a patient that was a repeat customer for CTs to monitor treatment of his testicular cancer. He'd had surgeries, chemo, etc., anyway, he was having yet another CT one afternoon I was working, to see if the cancer had spread, or if they had caught it. If it didn't spread, he was confident he'd live, and he was going to propose to his lady friend, if it had metatisized, he said he wouldn't put her through that. Lady friend had been with him all along, like she was going to ditch him? Anyway, the Radiologist was a very happy man to give him the results, and patient proposed then and there in the waiting room.

She said Yes.

[Biciclista]

Well it's not that simple.

My brother had bone cancer as a child and the heavy-duty chemotherapy treatments he was served back then have made him pretty much sterile. It's not all about the balls.

This being said, my brother - who didn't want to have children of his own - eventually got a vasectomy to make sure no "miracles" would happen to him. Before that, his partner was on birth control.

well, if he had NO balls, it would be one h@ll of a miracle. that was MY point.

[salsabike]

Way back when, I worked in a hospital Radiololgy dept. We had a patient that was a repeat customer for CTs to monitor treatment of his testicular cancer. He'd had surgeries, chemo, etc., anyway, he was having yet another CT one afternoon I was working, to see if the cancer had spread, or if they had caught it. If it didn't spread, he was confident he'd live, and he was going to propose to his lady friend, if it had metatisized, he said he wouldn't put her through that. Lady friend had been with him all along, like she was going to ditch him? Anyway, the Radiologist was a very happy man to give him the results, and patient proposed then and there in the waiting room.

She said Yes.

Great story!

[Miranda]

This is the first I've read this thread and I gotta say it's been very entertaining. Is this what y'all do when it's too cold to get out and ride yer bike?

Yes... and reciting something I once read on TE, posts about "food and emotional issues"...

Not being able to pedal your brains out at will outdoors does seem to affect the above.

[MauiRockHopper]

If I were diagnosed with cancer I wouldn't feel so enthused to potentially pass that gene onto a child. But maybe there's a chance he'd create another cycling hero.

[Grog]

well, if he had NO balls, it would be one h@ll of a miracle. that was MY point.

Indeed it would be a tough one.



Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[salsabike]

If I were diagnosed with cancer I wouldn't feel so enthused to potentially pass that gene onto a child. But maybe there's a chance he'd create another cycling hero.

It's my understanding that most cancers are not thought of as being caused by inheritable genetic characteristics. Some few are strongly connected to genes; some to random mutations, which are not inherited; some from human activities; some are thought to have viral origins. They really still don't know much about what causes cancer. There are quite a lot of people with cancer who have children, and all parties end up doing quite well.

[Irulan]

OK, I promised some inclement weather pix:

1. the county send a loader to clean out the culdesac I live on, this pile is at least 7' high...



2. View out of one of our windows:


3. putting the snow thrower to good use:


It did warm up today and melt a lot, but more is coming....

[Dogmama]

OK, I promised some inclement weather pix:

It did warm up today and melt a lot, but more is comoing....

I feel like a total weenie for whining about 30 degrees today...

Oh wait, that is a thread highjack.

Oh wait, no it isn't. I mentioned "weenie"

[jobob]

[salsabike]

I feel like a total weenie for whining about 30 degrees today...

Oh wait, that is a thread highjack.

Oh wait, no it isn't. I mentioned "weenie"

THAT was funny.