I wish to apologize to everyone

[Tuck]

My prayer for you Dave:

Dear Lord, please give Dave and his family and friends strength and wisdom in dealing with this cancer. Please comfort them with Your presence as they move forward in this battle. I hope that You provide his family with all the resources (financial, medical, emotional, etc,) they will need. I thank You for how many, seemingly, strangers here at HF have already pledged their prayers, good wishes, and support. May we all find our part/role in showing more support and grace as group of hammock hangers for those in need among us. In Your name I humbly pray, Amen.

-Tuck

[AppalachianHammock]

Here's hoping you get well soon brother.

[Corpus]

Smoke and prayers.

[jons4real]

Praying for you brother, I know its scary.

[2Trees]

Pleomorphic changes of Bacteria, Viruses, and Fungi.... leads to cancer. Please everyone, take the time to check out these links and what can be done to cure ourselves without radiation, pills, obamacare, etc... Do your own research. Look into the magnetic healing started by Tesla, Dr. Robert Beck, and Dr. Hulda Clark.


http://www.rense.com/general95/bacmicro.html

http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/pleomorphism.htm

http://www.cardstonmed.com/pleomorph...-diseases.html

[PappyAmos]

Prayers sent your way Dave. We're all with you.

Pappy

[Sailor]

Dave...more prayers your way. I believe this hammock community is, in its way, a hammock church...a nondenominational communion of folks who care for each other. I'm sure all the notes to you make the point. We all listen for the bell, and when someone else hears it, we are reminded about it. The doc's are good, getting better, and we are all with you, all the way. Its our shared hike.

[DeRozea]

My prayers are with you and your family.

[IRONFISH45]

Hey, Dave, All the people ahead of me have said everything I might have said. I was DOA ten years ago. No one expected me to survive. I did, I am here I enjoy my life with a new zest.

Part of how I survived was that I fight, I argue and I am tenacious. I listened to what the doctor's told me, I used my prior knowledge, I thought everything through. I used my own judgement on what was best for me. I became very serious about what I chose to eat. I only eat fresh, natural food. I stay away from sodium, I eat only natural food absolutely no preservatives.

I worked for Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I know that the clients attitude is all important. You have many friends who will be sending you positive thoughts and prayers, so get to work on your recovery, knowledge is power, learn everything you are able to absorb. Treatment for your type of Cancer has improved steadily over the past years. You can fight, we will all support you.

Take care of yourself first then your family next is your business. You have to do whatever needs to be done for yourself first so you can take care of the other important things in life.

[ceiliazul]

I've found inspiration from another cyclist, a real man by the name of Bob Breedlove.

He used to say, "It's another day in paradise." It's a mantra I try to remember when things get tough.

He died doing what he loved, which was apparently punishing himself in an ultracycling event with no equal: RAAM. After that tragedy, many stories came out about people he touched. I particularly like this one from Paris-Brest-Paris (a world famous 750 miles endurance race):

Bob showed up in Paris with his longtime support crew; a brand new Calfee tandem painted in red, white, and blue and cases of Spizz, the liquid diet he lived on for long rides. It was a traveling endurance circus radiating this unlikely mix of confidence, good will, and sheer silliness that was Bob's unique style. We laughed and joked across France. At one of the final control points, Bob stopped a Swedish woman rider who was in the process of turning in her number, abandoning the race.

"What are you doing?" he asked with that big smile of his.

"I'm finished with PBP," she announced, sounding angry and relieved.

Bob nodded. "Sure. Hey, what's your favorite 100-kilometer training ride back home? An easy one."

This exhausted woman stared at Bob as if he were mad, but then he gave her that grin and she described a beautiful ride of rolling hills near her home.

"Fine," Bob nodded. "So that's the ride you're going to do today. Forget about PBP. All you do is get on your bike and ride that ride in your head. You can handle that ride any day, right?"

She stared and then started to smile, if only a little. "That's all you have to do today," Bob said gently. "Just ride that little 100k ride you love. Easy as pie."

Later that day, back at the finish outside of Paris, I saw her hug Bob and burst into tears.

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Best Wishes, Lost Biker.