Woo, Mo-Fucking Hooo!!!

[puerco-bellies]

My doctor from the V.A. just called and said my catscan/MRI's have been checked and I just have an infarction in my arm-bone. No mass no other scary shit. Last Wednesday and Friday I had been irradiated, scanned, poked and prodded. For the first time in my life I had to talk to an oncologist, and that was not fucking cool. All day today I've been dreading a call saying I'm fucked and just now the phone rang, but with good news. Woot! :woohoo: Woot!

[BarenakedLady]

1. Yay!

:woohoo: :bounce: :toast: :bounce: :woohoo:

[puerco-bellies]

5. Yay indeed!

:party:

[hippywife]

2. Thank goodness!

Very happy for you and Ali. :hug:

[puerco-bellies]

8. She still wondering if my bone will heal/regenerate

Personally right now I don't care.
:hi:

[seemunkee]

3. Great news

Great result. Enjoy life, the sun will seem brighter tomorrow.

[puerco-bellies]

10. I got tons of shit to do.

Since I've been in pain I've not been very productive. Umm, just might toss my board in the van and paddle out. That's how this shit started last December up in Santa Cruz, and it seems like a good way to end it.

[av8rdave]

4. Nice to hear some good news!

Have a cold one...you deserve it!

[puerco-bellies]

11. Orange crush..

No more beer/alkihall for me, for some time now.
:P

[darkstar]

6. Great news.

Hugs for all the stress it's put you through.

:hi:

[puerco-bellies]

15. Yea, mostly from the darker fears in my head.

Ali's said that I should not be so negative when this started to snowball. She was right of course.
:hi:

[lost-in-nj]

23. yanno

I can not believe
you as a Native American

even knows what a dark fear or negative thought is.......
when it comes to physical and spiritual things......

oh.. you have so much and so many... working FOR you

I wish I could learn it!!!!

so so happy


lost

[puerco-bellies]

27. I was supposed to do a sweat the weekend before last, but it was canceled.

And last weekend I was thinking about who should do my healing ceremony. I would use native ways for spiritual strength, and what ever modern chemistry can do empirically. I knew if I got into prayer I could center myself and quite those fears, but I've been a little off balance since last Wednesday.

[lost-in-nj]

32. ok

I knew.... well, that you knew

I would LOVE to do a sweat...
but I have no idea if they let woman do them....
and spiritual strength always helps with physical strength.....

and modern medicine can help........


lost

[puerco-bellies]

34. A private lodge near me (San Pedro) is a womans lodge.

Only women are allowed to pour water (lead the sweat) in the lodge, but it is open to men occasionally. I have had the honor of being fire-tender on a couple of occasions. It is sort of my "home" lodge and I will call the leader and see if I can have a ceremony to offer my thanks there.

[lost-in-nj]

37. awesome

good for you......

lost

sounds amazing

maybe you can give our thanks to...
that our friend is ok......
and will be able to create his art for what we hope will be a long time...

[DarkTirade]

7. Awesome.

Better luck next time bullet. You just got dodged. :P

[puerco-bellies]

16. No shit.

I am lucky, sometimes that's all ya got to be.

[Inchworm]

9. Woohoo!

:party::woohoo::party:

[puerco-bellies]

17. Thanks for teh woo, and the hoo

:woohoo:

[mike_c]

12. excellent news, 'bro....

Man, that must have been some TENSE waiting. Congratulations!

[puerco-bellies]

18. Man, I gotta stop listening to those darker voices in my head.

Now the ones that tell me to blow of work and go surfing..

[graywarrior]

13. Awesome.

Send some of that luck my way, will ya?

[puerco-bellies]

21. On it's way.

With all my being I wish you well.
:hug:

[Ptah]

14. Welcome home

[puerco-bellies]

22. Thanks..

Wow, for a second there all you woohoo smilies synced up and did some precision wooing.
Cool.

[Ptah]

26. Heidi is in charge of the synchronized woohoos.

Ask for the nighthawks.

[puerco-bellies]

28. Cool do you have a picture handy of the underside of one of those

Very cool.

[Ptah]

29. No, I do have Xema's belly if that helps.

[puerco-bellies]

35. Umm, ok.

Why the hell not. :pals:

[SPKrazy]

19. w00t!

that's great news

I hope that your pain gets better but totally rocks that it isn't anything worse!!!!!

:woohoo:

[puerco-bellies]

24. Hell yeah.

The doc said it would not be bright if I did anything physical while I have a lot of pain trying normal range of motion, but right now pain seems like a small thing.

[lost-in-nj]

20. HORRAY!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!11111`

oh that is such good news.....


you have NO idea how happy I am for you

really....

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:


:hug:

lost
ON EDIT:

ALI

he has NO MORE EXCUSES!!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl:

[puerco-bellies]

30. That is the coolist kayak evarh!!

And Ali is all over it!

[Redstone]

25. You especially don't want any problems in your arm, not now that you've just discovered

what a talented jewelry maker you are.

Allow me to honor your happiness. I'm going out right now to offer some tobacco and salt to the Four Winds in appreciation.

Redstone

[puerco-bellies]

31. Thank you Redstone.

And all your relations.

[mwdem]

33. Great news!!!

I'm so glad it's not the worst case scenario. I do talk to an oncologist every 6 months, but that's okay with me (B.C., doing great now). Get that infection under control, and get your website up soon. I'd love to but some jewelry from you. You can also pm me as to what you are selling now. Let me know. :hi:

[puerco-bellies]

36. I will go see the osteo-oncolo-dude in six months

Just to double check. I have to get that site up and you can bet I'll let you and everybody else know when I finally do!!

[Redstone]

40. You need any help with your website, let me know.

You can send me a PM, and I'll give you my e-mail address.

I do that stuff for a living, but would offer you any help I could at no charge, of course.

Redstone

[Redstone]

39. May I offer you a bit of advice, as a former professional custom jeweler, and owner

of several jewelry stores (in other words, I know what I'm talking about)?

"Puerco-Bellies'" workmanship, from what I've seen, is absolutely first-class.

Not to disparage anyone, but in a field as large as that of Southwestern Indian silver-and-turquoise jewelry, there will obviously be a wide range of workmanship and quality available. Much of it, like any other product, will be on the lower end of the craftsmanship and quality scale. That's just the way things are in any marketplace.

But if you're looking for "truth" in Southwestern Indian jewelry, in that you want something made by a craftsman who genuinely beleives in his craft, and has the talent to produce quality pieces that reflect that dedication to the craft, you need not search any farther than our own Puerco Bellies.

That's a kind of long-winded way for me to tell you what you already know about his workmansip and talent. I just went on and on like that in the hope that other DUers would see my post and, because of it, look into his work.

He really is good. And the information you posted about your own situation was damn good to hear, as well.

Redstone

[mwdem]

41. Thanks, Redstone!

I've always been careful about my purchases in S.W. jewelry, and art. I appreciate your input, as always. We'll all be fine, I'm sure.

[puerco-bellies]

42. There is no better praise then from that of one's peers.

I am grateful for your complement Redstone. Especially since from what I've read over the years you do not say things lightly.
P-b

[TK421]

38. Congratulations!!!! That must have been a load off your shoulders

I'm sure :D

[puerco-bellies]

44. It really was

Especially since this came from left field. It all started from a shoulder injury from surfing and for a month we (doctors and I) thought it was a tendon thing.

[crim son]

43. Thrilled for you, puerco-bellies.

I'm familiar with that kind of relief. Woohoo is right! :bounce: :woohoo:

[KitchenWitch]

45. That is fantastic news

How do they treat that?

I am toasting your good news with root beer! :toast:

[puerco-bellies]

46. Umm.. don't know yet.

That is Ali's question. I have a PT rehab appointment in a few weeks and will get some answers then. The infarction (Dead tissue) is contained to the inside of the bone and not the surface/structural part. It is caused by loss of blood supply but they are stumped as to why.

When it occurred I felt something tear in my shoulder so the when is a known thing. The what and why are the questions.

I cracked open a celebratory Orange Crush, I finished my IBC's last night.
:toast:

[KitchenWitch]

48. I hope the necrosis is tightly limited

and that PT and other therapies get you out of pain and heal your shoulder.

:hug:

I had my left hip replaced because of extensive necrotic tissue.

[puerco-bellies]

49. What I've read on infarctions is that they occur mostly near joints.

Hips and knees are most common. Do you know the cause of the necrosis? On second thought I'm PM'ing you.

[buzzard]

52. KW tell me about this I have a bum ankle from AVN I don't know how to proceed it seems that many

solutions only lead to bad outcomes in the long term. For now I am limping.

[KitchenWitch]

53. I really do not know

In my case, the AVN was so extensive that I required a joint replacement. Not sure what they can do for ankles. That's one for the orthodocs.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. Cheers to you!

:toast::toast::toast:
Make that three cheers!
:hug::hug::hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

50. My dear puerco-bellies!

Sorry I'm so late to your party, sweetie!

But I was out tonight...

I'm thrilled to hear your great news!

Good healing to you...

And we need to talk...there's a wedding to plan, and photograph!

:hug:

[puerco-bellies]

51. Yes we do.

I called the printer this afternoon and we will get the invites back Thursday and send them out shortly afterwards.

[Heidi]

54. I'm very, very happy to

wake up to this wonderful news. Will keep the white candle burning -- in celebration. Love to you and Ali, p-b. :hug: :hug: