Official Off-Topic VT Thread

[sparko]

Thinking about ya man .. Hope it all works out

 

[hunzworth]

Wasnt on yesterday, Hope everything is alright 46. thoughts and prayers buddy.

 

[robV703]

All the best to you and your family 46.

 

[Sleepy T]

Thoughts and prayers with and your fam 46.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Thanks guys for the kind words thoughts and prayers. This has been a very trying weekend.

On Thursday night late, my Dad called me very concerned. He is a physician so when he is concerned, I am very concerned. My mother was very jaundice, and it was completely out of the blue. SHe had been kind of tired but fine. Hell, I had seen her a week previous for my father's birthday party.

Well she went into the hospital on Friday morning for a battery of tests and she had a mass on her pancreas that was blocking her bile duct. In most cases (>95%) a mass on the head of the pancreas is pancreatic cancer. I am sure most of you know this but pancreatic cancer is a really really bad cancer to get (not that any is good, but this one is especially deadly and fast). Needless to say we were all shocked and a wreck. In fact, she was probably the most stable of us but that's just the way she is.

She had a stent put in to open the bile duct early Satuday morning and the doctor said the tumor was very small and we caught it pretty damn early compared to most people. One of the things that makes pancreatic cancer so deadly is that it does not show symptoms until it is too late. Thank God for the blockage of the duct which caused the jaundice and get us looking.

Well, she is going to Georgetown Medical Center ASAP this week for another endoscopy and a biopsy of the tumor. We will know much more about her prognosis and whether or not it is operable then.
Hopefully it is operable and hopefully it is the slow growing type. If so, she will have a Whipple operation which is very long and invasive (doctor told us, next to a liver transplant the most extensive surgery that is done) so it will be a tough row to hoe, but she is a tough lady. This is what we are praying for.

My Mom is the quiet kind type that made sure you had cards in the mailbox for every holiday. She was also the biggest football fan you would ever meet. She used to take me to all of my practices and games since my Dad was on call alot. She also would text me all game long during Hokie and Redskin games. She and I used to go to Carlisle to see the Redskins training camp when I was just a kid. She, my father, my sister and I are very close and she means the world to both of us so I am very saddened and concerned for both of hem right now. I am a positive guy though, so i am praying and hoping for the best. She has had a few other bad medical issues earlier in her life and beat them though, so if anyone can, she can. I needed to talk it out and figured this was a good place for that because I don't have to put on a tough face or sugar coat anything.

Once again, I appreciate the thoughts and prayers and I am going to stay positive and just do whatever I can for them. I appreciate the sounding board as well.

Much love to all of y'all.

 

[wildturkey]

Hope everything goes well. You know everyone here supports you.

 

[hunzworth]

Hope everything goes well. You know everyone here supports you.

this^. 46 you and your family will be in my prayers.

 

[hokiegrad]

We'll keep praying, 46. Hang in there.

 

[757Hokie83]

damn 46, my thoughts are with you and your family, hoping for the best

 

[HoHumHokie]

Your family is in our thoughts. Best of luck during these procedures.

 

[jeffro151]

 

[hokiegrad]

good read. That site is awesome. No idea Pomeroy was a VT grad.
Ken Pomeroy, basketball analytics, Virginia Tech: Ken Pomeroy's tempo-free stats all the rage in college basketball - dailypress.com

 

[NickVT10]

Taking dodgeball to a whole new level

 

[HoHumHokie]

Taking dodgeball to a whole new level

 

[wildturkey]

Thanks to whoever cleaned up all the stickies. Now I don't have to scroll to see new topics!

 

[hoosrise]

46 - prayers given. Talk to your dad about MD Anderson Clinic in Houston. It's that good, and I have some friends and family members who've done Massey @ VCU, Duke, UVA ... and MD Anderson is a whole another deal. Best in the country, by far in my opinion. Good luck, man. Lost both parents to C, so I'd like to hear about another that beats it back.

 

[Chrish1023]

remember this guy?

A Reputation Rebuilt: Former Prep Star's Uncommon Road To The Cusp Of The NFL | ThePostGame

 

[HoHumHokie]

remember this guy?

A Reputation Rebuilt: Former Prep Star's Uncommon Road To The Cusp Of The NFL | ThePostGame

There is a California University of Pennsylvania?

Lalich should have went to UCLA out of high school so he could play beer pong with the coaches.

 

[VTscores]

VT headed to the ACC Wrestling championships this weekend. Broadcast on ESPN3.

Hokies head to College Park for ACC Championships

 

[VTscores]

... and with a top 10 ranking -- they finished seventh for the season.

Hokies finish seventh in national poll