Digit

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:19 pm

Thanks Charlie, next thing is to see my grandson start to crawl. I missed a lot with my own kids 'cos I thought a career was important. Sometimes wisdom only comes with age.

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:29 pm

I thank God for this Digit. Great news. May it get better each day!

Cheers!

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:38 pm

Thanks Monk, the future looks somewhat brighter I think.

AD · Post by AD » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:48 pm

Hi Roy...

I just became aware of your unpleasant adventure when the topic "Digit" popped into the top spot. That's great news about the latest evaluation, though! You'll probably be fine, as long as a hospital doesn't kill you. My dad's brother had prostate cancer for years, didn't actually bother him, and he died in his eighties pretty much just as the result of being old (often hard to avoid).

I wish you the best of luck and many more years!

Alan

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:07 pm

Thanks AD. Over here leaving the tumour alone is one option that is applied under certain circumstances. In my case they suggest otherwise. The reason is my age, 66, also my general level of activity and health suggests that I should live long enough for the tumour to become more serious in later years, when infirmity would preclude some options.
In addition, I hope that my experience can be used by local charities to boost the confidence of local sufferers in the belief that it is not an automatic death sentence and have volunteered my time to that end.
Time for some pay back!

Frank Harrist · Post by **Frank Harrist** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:21 pm

Great news, Roy. I think what you're doing, volunteering to help others is also great. I think you're a good dude and I wish you all the best. Keep us posted on your progress and know that you are in our thoughts.

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:43 pm

Time for another warm beer, Roy!

Make it two.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:50 pm

No Min. Couple of glasses of wine. Dunno why it has shrunk but who the Hell cares?

You gonna tell us what you got upto in Vegas?

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:26 pm

Not much. We mainly went because my wife won the trip and we were able to take it when Lewis Black was performing.

Did take a day trip to Lake Mead and cruise out to the Hoover Dam.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:32 pm

Just as long as you both enjoyed it Min. Ain't retirement wonderful?
We should do it at age twenty I reckon.

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:34 pm

Retirement is spectacular.

Frank Harrist · Post by **Frank Harrist** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:05 pm

I'm retired (AKA unemployed) right now. I'm 48. I'm bored as hell!

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:22 am

When I was coming upto retirement age the wife and I sold an 18C coaching inn and moved to a small timber building. Think POW hut, which it what it had been.
We inherited a half acre garden? untouched for a generation, no electricity, no mains drainage, no hot or cold water.
I started my own business to help pay for the work, all of which we did ourselves, then when I retired we started on the garden.
Work was never as hard as retirement Frank! Nor as rewarding.

Post by **Minimalist** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:31 am

Yeah, the big advantage of retirement is that you don't have to work for an idiot any more.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:40 am

I thought I'd worked for all of them Min!
I was night shift manager at a plastics plant some years ago and the Work's Director made it very clear that he was less than satisfied with my efforts.
I suggested that 'if he could do any better---'.
So the following night he presented me with a complete written breakdown of how I should work the shift, complete to any breakdowns occuring between 23.00 and midnight!

I leave my response to your imagination!
Oh, and by the way, he was fired!