Here's to a better 2019...

Robert Herndon said:
A splendid view....your home has a happy look. I wish I lived ckose enough to stop by. Tha big window needs a bird feeder. I can enhoy watching them for hours.....
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We have a bird feeder in a tree in the garden right outside! And some nesting boxes in a couple of trees a bit further away. Last spring there was a great fight going on between a pair of blue tits and pied flycatchers over one of them. The pied flycatchers won. We spend a lot of time watching the birds. My wife keeps a book where we note down all the different species that visit us.:D
 
Gahr said:
We have a bird feeder in a tree in the garden right outside! And some nesting boxes in a couple of trees a bit further away. Last spring there was a great fight going on between a pair of blue tits and pied flycatchers over one of them. The pied flycatchers won. We spend a lot of time watching the birds. My wife keeps a book where we note down all the different species that visit us.:D
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I could waste hours by that fireplace telling and listening to stories....
 
Robert Herndon said:
I could waste hours by that fireplace telling and listening to stories....
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The open firepladce is not in use, in fact it would be illegal to use it in a few months. But there is a modern fireplace a little to the left which we use a lot when it is cold. It works for storytelling as well! The open fireplace is just used for storing firewood.:)
 
This is GREAT NEWS Gahr!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy to hear about your Wife!!! and happy for you, to see you are on the mend!! And your new home is very welcoming. Wishing you all the best in 2019.
 
Wow! I just read through this thread. I must have missed it in December. Tell her she has folks in the USA thinking of her . With my wife going through some really rough health problems for many years, I can relate. One thing you HAVE to do is get healthy and stay healthy! You are going to be the glue that holds it all together for quite some time.
No matter how busy you get, don't forget to spend as much time together as possible. It will be time well spent and will mean the world to her.
 
flatrockmobile said:
Wow! I just read through this thread. I must have missed it in December. Tell her she has folks in the USA thinking of her . With my wife going through some really rough health problems for many years, I can relate. One thing you HAVE to do is get healthy and stay healthy! You are going to be the glue that holds it all together for quite some time.
No matter how busy you get, don't forget to spend as much time together as possible. It will be time well spent and will mean the world to her.
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Thanks. Actually my own injury, as much as it has and does suck, did in many ways come at a convenient time. I have stayed at home through some of the roughest patches, and this has been really good for my youngest kid, and also helped my wife at the time when she was at her weakest because of her treatments. I hope your wife is doing well.
 
Gahr said:
Thanks. Actually my own injury, as much as it has and does suck, did in many ways come at a convenient time. I have stayed at home through some of the roughest patches, and this has been really good for my youngest kid, and also helped my wife at the time when she was at her weakest because of her treatments. I hope your wife is doing well.
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Thanks Gahr. She's improving but very slowly from the 2nd major surgery in 3 months, all a holdover from issues which started in 1998 and has continued since. Surgeon recently used the term "Swiss Cheese" in his description of her abdominal wall.
 
flatrockmobile said:
Thanks Gahr. She's improving but very slowly from the 2nd major surgery in 3 months, all a holdover from issues which started in 1998 and has continued since. Surgeon recently used the term "Swiss Cheese" in his description of her abdominal wall.
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Ouch! Swiss cheese is something you want to EAT, not BE...
 
I too, missed this thread until a few minutes ago. In a funny way, I'm glad I did miss it till now. If I had read this thread when it started almost 2 1/2 months ago, I would have been a bit depressed for those 2 1/2 months due to what is happening to you and your family. Since it was only today that I was educated on your sh!tty 2018, I was only depressed for a few minutes until I read your most recent posts. Hallelujah, and hoping you and your wife continues to improve on health and financial circumstances... :cheers:

Your ankle: You must have really torn up some ligaments pretty bad... OUCH!

No royalties? WTF?
 
Good news Gahr, health is the most important thing, because without it, not much else matters. Good way to start in 2019!
 
I just saw this thread for the first time, and am very happy for you, your wife, and your family to hear that your wife is cancer free.

Hope that 2019 keeps getting better!
 
Sorry I missed this thread before, although seems as the English tend to offer some kind of soft humour as a release during times of great difficulty (usually misunderstood by all non-English - although Norwegians and Danes seem to be closest in understanding it), perhaps best that I didn't see this thread until last night, then spent a bit of time thinking it over.

You're obviously a great bloke, very popular here, so it's uneasy hearing about your suffering, especially when it relates to your close family, your loved ones. The flip side, to some extent, is that you have those loved ones; a lovely wife and children. Sometimes, going through the hubbub of life, we can forget what is most important to us, but certainly not in your case, their importance must have been reinforced to you daily this past year in a most visceral way.

It's wonderful to hear that your wife's condition has significantly improved (although some way to go, no doubt some ups and downs to come - mostly ups) and your children are in the clear. You live in one of the most beautiful spots (I've travelled lots over the years and Bergen is just about the most liveable place I'm aware of (well, maybe Lake Como if you have a few tens of millions spare...)), you brew top tier beer and drink it, you make lovely music - you have talents and a Gibson SG junior.

At this point, life is on the up, my friend, and you deserve that, so take every moment and enjoy it.

It must have been very depressing for your good Lady, so going back to work, just a day here and there, being with friends and colleagues, putting the treatments behind her, which can be incredible dehumanizing, and finding her self and inner happiness again will certainly bring more smiles around your home. The drugs and treatment must have had a terrible unbalancing affect on her, so it'll take time until she's back to herself. For you, the same; the psychological affects and the chemical imbalances due to the emotional and physical uproar is incredibly energy sapping and can lead to depression if you're not careful. Watch some UK Parliament over the few weeks, their idiocy should give you a few laughs.

Anyways, get well, keep well, and my best wishes go to you and your family.

Have a fantastic 2019.
 
Dont know how I missed this, as several of us did.
Sorry to hear of your family's misfortune..... seems I say this way too often.

I am so happy for you, to hear things are better rather than worse.
My prayers and positive thoughts / Mojo to you and yours.

For me it is too big to think in terms of a whole year.
Have a good day, one day at a time; they add up.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
Sorry I missed this thread before, although seems as the English tend to offer some kind of soft humour as a release during times of great difficulty (usually misunderstood by all non-English - although Norwegians and Danes seem to be closest in understanding it), perhaps best that I didn't see this thread until last night, then spent a bit of time thinking it over.

You're obviously a great bloke, very popular here, so it's uneasy hearing about your suffering, especially when it relates to your close family, your loved ones. The flip side, to some extent, is that you have those loved ones; a lovely wife and children. Sometimes, going through the hubbub of life, we can forget what is most important to us, but certainly not in your case, their importance must have been reinforced to you daily this past year in a most visceral way.

It's wonderful to hear that your wife's condition has significantly improved (although some way to go, no doubt some ups and downs to come - mostly ups) and your children are in the clear. You live in one of the most beautiful spots (I've travelled lots over the years and Bergen is just about the most liveable place I'm aware of (well, maybe Lake Como if you have a few tens of millions spare...)), you brew top tier beer and drink it, you make lovely music - you have talents and a Gibson SG junior.

At this point, life is on the up, my friend, and you deserve that, so take every moment and enjoy it.

It must have been very depressing for your good Lady, so going back to work, just a day here and there, being with friends and colleagues, putting the treatments behind her, which can be incredible dehumanizing, and finding her self and inner happiness again will certainly bring more smiles around your home. The drugs and treatment must have had a terrible unbalancing affect on her, so it'll take time until she's back to herself. For you, the same; the psychological affects and the chemical imbalances due to the emotional and physical uproar is incredibly energy sapping and can lead to depression if you're not careful. Watch some UK Parliament over the few weeks, their idiocy should give you a few laughs.

Anyways, get well, keep well, and my best wishes go to you and your family.

Have a fantastic 2019.
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Thanks for your kind words, Grumpy.

The English humor simply cannot be topped. One of my colleagues is English, from Basingstoke, and his sense of humor has been a great relief for me during these past months. He is an intelligent bloke, and has a way of putting things into perspective that is simply wonderful. There are a couple of other British guys working in the craft beer industry in town as well, an English sales guy from a different brewery and a brewer at a local brewpub who's from Northern Ireland (not sure if he considers himself British or Irish, really...), and when they get together it is quite simply completely intriguing to observe them.

I am a lucky guy, really. Lots of people go through tough times, but at least I have people I love and who love me back, our personal economy and social system makes it possible for us to lose a not insignificant part of our income and still get by without any real problems, and we have friends and colleagues who care about us.

I experienced something quite wonderful at work today. I told my colleagues about my wife being cancer free on Friday. I was not at work myself, so I posted the news in a private Facebook group for the guys at the brewery. Two of our sales reps were out at an event in a bar in town on Saturday, where lots of people from the local craft beer and home brewing community were in attendance. They were hanging with a group of people whom I know fairly well, and they told them the good news. This brought tears to the eyes of several of the bearded beer drinkers present, they all cheered and raised their glasses to my wife's health. This really hit me pretty hard when one of our reps told me today. It humbles me that all these people care about me and my family. I could not hold back my own tears when I heard. Small things like this are really the truly great things in life.
 
jtcnj said:
Dont know how I missed this, as several of us did.
Sorry to hear of your family's misfortune..... seems I say this way too often.

I am so happy for you, to hear things are better rather than worse.
My prayers and positive thoughts / Mojo to you and yours.

For me it is too big to think in terms of a whole year.
Have a good day, one day at a time; they add up.
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Thank you.

One day at a time is the way to go. I try to plan for the future, but I do my living in the present. When I'm old I want to be able to look back at a life where I know I enjoyed every possible moment and spent as little time as possible worrying about the future. This has been hard to do this past year, but focusing on what has been good in the present has helped me get through some pretty dark days.

Although we will be living in the shadow of a possible return of cancer for quite a long time, things are looking up. The sun has been out for a couple of days, and it even looks like I will finally be getting that raise after all.
 
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