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Nope! Moraine Lake; Banff National Park, Alberta; Canada

Yes! I restored my old ticker as it was years ago - thanks!!

Well; not to be mean but I hope it really sucked when you realized what you'd done and all those promises you had made to yourself were broken. The only positive thing is that you are still here and willing to quit again. If you don't learn a lesson from what happened then you're bound to repeat it at some point down the road. It's very important to learn a lesson from any failed attempt. That's the only way you can correct/avoid it in future! Where did you get the smoking material? I thought did you said you'd got rid of it all back in early May? Did you not do that and actually take the time to go buy more? If that's the case then it wasn't just a temporary, fleeting impulse thing; it was something deeper that needs to be corrected before you'll ever be able to quit permanently. You KNOW you can do it @Pilgrim ! You did it for three months then threw all that hard work and emotional turmoil out the window and now that was all just a wasted effort - what a shame😖 Anyone & everyone CAN quit but only those that are truly comitted to having a smoke free future and permanent freedom from an addiction running their lives actually achieve that transition. You simply have to want to be free of your addiction more than you want to continue to smoke! It really does boil down to that. I hope that YOU are now ready to make that life changing commitment!

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He has never mentioned any medication other than what he told me yesterday if I end up with this persistent cough issue (which I hope I don't ). We'll see what happens after I'm done I suppose.

This is not dinner but an after dinner dessert. This time of year where I live it's peach season and there's a ton of local peach farms all around this area. I'm not a particular fan of eating just a peach but one of my fav desserts is BBQ'ed peaches. Just cut the peach in half, pit it then sprinkle some cinniman powder on the open halves and throw them on the Barbie for8-10 mins; just long enough to soften them and get a few grill marks on 'em. Then serve them on a plate with a scoop of vanilla ice cream drizzled with a lttile real maple syrup. The end result is truly a delectable delite Juices from the peach caramelized, melting ice cream and just a hint of the maple syrup. Yum-yum! The outer skin of the peach slides right off once the peach is cooked👌

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As @Cbdave and others have mentioned as well, I'm lucky to have had this caught in it's very early stages which gives me the best chance possible to beat it. A bunch of things more or less fell into place to allow that to happen ... it's wasn't good planning on my part other than I have been getting yearly CT Scans of my lungs ever since they were free of charge for me. I'm feeling pretty good about the chances of this particular cancerous nodule being fried by the radiation but will have to wait 3 months or so to be sure. That kind of pisses me off but that's the way it is so ... I think what my overall concern going forward is will I get more nodules appearing on my future CT Scans? Is it the kind of thing where once you have one, it's a signal that others may be on the way as well? Then again, maybe I'm just over thinking this. Hard not to I suppose 🤔

This song was based on an actual murder that occured in a bar in St. Louis on Christmas night 1895. Two men by the names of Lee Shelton (nick name Stag Lee) and William (Billy) Lyons were drinking tohgether and got into a heated arguement. The arguement got physical when Billy Lyons stole a brand new Stetson hat off Shelton's head! Lee Shelton pulled out a gun and shot Billy then left the bar. Billy Lyons died the next morning from his injuries and 'Stag Lee' Shelton was arrested and charged with murder for which he spent 25 years in prison.

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Had my 6th radiartion session today. Only 1 left next Monday. No terrible effects so far tonight, although I still feel a little dozier than normal from session 5. I was pretty disappointed though with my meeting with the Oncology Doc after my session today. I thought he would give me some sort of indication on how things were going but Nope! He wasn't willing to say anything basically when I asked him how things were looking. He simply said that after the radiation treatments stop, the radiation keeps working in your body for up to 3 months afterward so he will schedule a CT Scan for around 3 months from now and then we will have a telephone meting to reviw the results of what he sees on that CT Scan. He did say that he hopes to see a blackened nodule with a bit of lung tissue scarring around it. ie: he would consider that a successful killing of the cancerous tissue. He also warned me that at some point in that 3 month period I may develope a persistant cough and if that happens I should call him (his office) and he will perscribe a 10 day regime of Prednisone that should take care of that. Great! Something else to watch out for 🙄 I asked him how I would know it wasn't just a cold due to the changing seasons as that can be a real issue going into autumn. He said ..."You'll know!" Oh my, that sounds ominous😶 I'll just hope I don't have to find out!