Medical update on Bladecutter

[Rick Carson]

Keep fighting jimmi, you got cars to build man.

 

[Riverdawg]

Keep fighting blade. You've got the attitude to lick this. Prayin for ya.

 

[Bladecutter]

Jimmi - I had a strong feeling when you kept referring to your back. Let's pray the chemo/rad takes hold. It's hard to keep a good man down. Keep the faith!

Yeah, fell pretty much in line with my gut. Always felt the back pain was systemic of nervous system.....spine, cord. Figured that the ease up over past month & a 1/2 was due to chemo.
"The car goes where the eyes go"
"Never look at the wall"
*Enzo the Dog* from
The Art of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein......with my Highest recommendation. The story is told by Enzo.
I gotta make the chop happen & get on a track.....I'll make that ****** pull some sideways G!! Bonneville!!
Ultimate fantasy.....Nurburgring!!!!
Scenic runs & then Serious
Bizniss time. Best would be chop bug AND a 68 Coro 4 door been slammed, armed, shoed, braked, irs'd & heated up with aluminum cammer SB!!! (w/ a Daytona roof plug & shortened deck lid)
Dreams are Free......but nothing ever is, without having first been a Dream.

 

[Bladecutter]

Thanks all You Guys for the Kind Words!! Please forgive me for not individually responding @ moment. I'm in between grits wet sanding......graduating to 600 shortly.
Peace On Earth....Trump-ets shall Roar.

 

[GetX'd]

Yeah, fell pretty much in line with my gut. Always felt the back pain was systemic of nervous system.....spine, cord. Figured that the ease up over past month & a 1/2 was due to chemo.
"The car goes where the eyes go"
"Never look at the wall"
*Enzo the Dog* from
The Art of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein......with my Highest recommendation. The story is told by Enzo.
I gotta make the chop happen & get on a track.....I'll make that ****** pull some sideways G!! Bonneville!!
Ultimate fantasy.....Nurburgring!!!!
Scenic runs & then Serious
Bizniss time. Best would be chop bug AND a 68 Coro 4 door been slammed, armed, shoed, braked, irs'd & heated up with aluminum cammer SB!!! (w/ a Daytona roof plug & shortened deck lid)
Dreams are Free......but nothing ever is, without having first been a Dream.

You must be on some pretty good stuff Jimmi - I don't know what the hell youre talking about. I got the first two sentences - after that you're over my head.....

 

[Bladecutter]

You must be on some pretty good stuff Jimmi - I don't know what the hell youre talking about. I got the first two sentences - after that you're over my head.....

Sorry....quotes from a novel came to mind....about how we visualize things,, they can come to pass. Existential ****.
Then I got off on my bucket list of Car Dreams........add my Old Mangusta to the list.

 

[GetX'd]

Sorry....quotes from a novel came to mind....about how we visualize things,, they can come to pass. Existential ****.
Then I got off on my bucket list of Car Dreams........add my Old Mangusta to the list.

You're my bro - just giving you ****. Stay kool my friend....

 

[Bladecutter]

The retaining nut in 1000 grit w/ screws loaded.....Polish in morning.

 

[mmissile]

Keep on.....

 

[Bart K]

Well......the game has changed, up the ante, some new rules. Got my MRI results today. I have cancer in my spine & other bone areas. Yesterday I completed my 3rd chemo cycle, & as it were, the 4th would have been the final, then later surgery. Chemo will continue, radiation treatments will be forthcoming, Oncologist’s office is setting up the radi referral now. Surgery will be postponed until they can burn the cancered areas of my back/bones. Thank God I'm covered & not on the streets. Bottom line is the 2.5 yrs I spent thinking I was pushing kidney stones, not wanting to generate a 50K ER bill on the dole, then the stones turn out to be the calcification breaking off the tumor as it grew.....well reality is I've had cancer that long or longer.......if I would have gone back then, I'd be better off & I wouldn't be digging into the Tax Payer pocket like I am now. 'Luucceey, this gonna get 'spensive"
That was the week that was.

Cancer has seen your chemo and raised spreading to the spine. Time to see cancer's raise and raise back on cancer. Jimi, I am sorry that this cancer is being a pain in the ***, but keep fighting it a day at a time. Your positive attitude has served you well so far and I believe it will continue to do so. I also think those blades you cut are anti-cancer therapy, keep cutting and polishing brother!!!!!

 

[NJRR]

Hey BC- Your work is awesome. So is your writing, some pretty creative stuff though sometimes disjointed. You should write a book !!!! You're an artist in the true sense of the word. Hang in there bro !!!!

 

[Bladecutter]

Thanks again You Guys!
Nuvite & Microfibres. If I don't have both,, I don't polish til I do.
In my time I've run a pretty good gauntlet of the different make & type(chemical cut/mechanical cut)polishes on market. The buck stopped when I came across Nuvite. It is a 5 grit polishing system, though I only use the last 2, C & S grade. The C grade with proper technique can cut out 400 wet sanding scratches....slightly gritty. The S is very creamy finisher of which only sparing amounts do the final trick.
Microfibre is softer than chamois ....they are wonder towels.
The Nuvite system is under license to mfg. by Douglas Aircraft. This is Douglas's 'In House' system for newly Mfg'd airframe components.


I mean that Douglas granted Nuvite the license......it is Douglas's formulas.

 

[Cranky]

Sorry....quotes from a novel came to mind....about how we visualize things,, they can come to pass. Existential ****.
Then I got off on my bucket list of Car Dreams........add my Old Mangusta to the list.

Existential ****....is it really ****?? And we all have dreams and bucket lists. Some of us get a long time to try and fulfill them and some of us don't. Figured I'd never live this long after some of my hard playing, working and doing really stoooopid stuff but did get to do a lot and for that I'm grateful. There are still things I want to do but the money isn't quite there anymore for some of it. Here lately I'm trying to reduce the 'stuff' that's in the shop. My wife thinks I'm going to 'go' before she does (isn't that usually the case?) and doesn't want to deal with it all and I don't blame her but it will also bring in some money in when she has to do the estate sale and she knows how to do those. On the other hand, selling some of it now means more in my pocket to try and put what I am calling my last car together. It's about time since I've had the dang thing for 27 years! Man, I got to hand it to ya. I've never had to deal with any kind of cancer (except for some skin crap) but have been around several who have. Not sure I could deal with it without staying drunk most of the time. Used to do that a lot but not anymore. Hang with this and give it hell!

You must be on some pretty good stuff Jimmi - I don't know what the hell youre talking about. I got the first two sentences - after that you're over my head.....

I got it....either I read it or dreamed it lol. When in jr high I read everything that was in the library that had anything to do with cars and then some. Cars were my escape from all the jocks and crocks that were in the red neck school I attended back then. It's amazing what's available to read nowadays!

 

[Bladecutter]

Polished w/ polished screws loaded. On to the next piece in the tree. This retaining nut was pretty beat up old part, that had been used for tooling. So it's still flawed,,,,. tried to clean it up w/o making a career out of it.

 

[BeeKool]

Dreams are Free......but nothing ever is, without having first been a Dream.

Right on!

 

[coloradodave]

Read the book. Loved it and passed it on to a few friends. A real jewel.... Keeping good thoughts for you, Blade.

 

[mmissile]

Polished w/ polished screws loaded. On to the next piece in the tree. This retaining nut was pretty beat up old part, that had been used for tooling. So it's still flawed,,,,. tried to clean it up w/o making a career out of it.

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Beautiful!!

 

[BeeKool]

Went out to eat tonight with my brother. It was his 40th b-day. I got my S7 out to check on FBBO. I was reading a post from Bladecutter. I looked up and saw this-

 

[multimopes]

Blade,
I just came across this and it depressed the hell out of me. The last time I was on a thread with you was earlier last year and I viewed you playing some guitar riffs on some amp you built and then goofing with you about that spider and scorpion thread. That was in December. All along I had no idea that you were going through all this. Damn, I feel like an idiot. All I can say is I am really sorry but from what I am seeing, your attitude will defeat it all. Remember, it is mind over matter! I have seen enough miracles that I know that it's true. You can will yourself well and with all the support from here I know that you will make it. God bless you and may your recovery be swift and painless!

 

[snakeoil24]

Blade, here to help! I was Stage 4 Colorectal cancer 14 years ago. It came back a year later in the Lung. I went thru all the treatments and I am here today. Hang very tuff. You can beat this. Private message anytime you want to talk.