Hey y'all!
As many of you who follow my Facebook feed already know, I was diagnosed with cancer on February 23rd. My cancer is very aggressive, and spread from stage one to stage three in two months. Roughly the same time as I was formally diagnosed, I had recently succeeded in getting my fish tank set back up for the first time since 2013. I lamented this fact in my post about my cancer because I found it ironic that as soon as my tank was set back up, something happened that would prevent me from stocking it with more monster fish.
Cut to a few months later. I've had my surgery, I've lost 40 pounds, I'm hopped up on pain pills, and I'm starting to be someone functional as a human being again. My wife suddenly and randomly INSISTS that I have to ride with her to go do some errands. I found this curious, but I was just happy to get out of the house. Things got strange when we got to the FedEx depot, a place we never have a reason to go. Things got REALLY strange when she insisted on going in without me.
NSFW, language warning (forgive me, I was pretty hopped up on pain pills lol)
I'm not sure if the vids will work since they're hosted on Facebook.
As it turns out, a coalition of my friends, wonderful people from the fish and reptile communities, got together to try to ease a cancer patient's struggle to heal. They succeeded wildly! I need to (once again) thank everyone involved with this:
neoprodigy
,
Aw3s0m3
,
E
Estarego8
,
Gr8KarmaSF
,
Oddball
, Laura, Laura, Eugene, Nick, Heather, Keith, my wife Serena, and last but not least Lexi, the hyperactive little lady who organized the whole thing. 
Here's the result of this endeavor, a new arowana from Aquascape and a new flash zebra catfish from Discus Origins.
And the jur; it came skinny like this....
...But after a few weeks, it's grown an inch and has fattened up nicely.
All in all, this was one of the best surprises of my life. I can't express to y'all how happy this whole deal has made me. This has literally changed my life, and makes the pain of the surgery and treatment worth it.
As many of you who follow my Facebook feed already know, I was diagnosed with cancer on February 23rd. My cancer is very aggressive, and spread from stage one to stage three in two months. Roughly the same time as I was formally diagnosed, I had recently succeeded in getting my fish tank set back up for the first time since 2013. I lamented this fact in my post about my cancer because I found it ironic that as soon as my tank was set back up, something happened that would prevent me from stocking it with more monster fish.
Cut to a few months later. I've had my surgery, I've lost 40 pounds, I'm hopped up on pain pills, and I'm starting to be someone functional as a human being again. My wife suddenly and randomly INSISTS that I have to ride with her to go do some errands. I found this curious, but I was just happy to get out of the house. Things got strange when we got to the FedEx depot, a place we never have a reason to go. Things got REALLY strange when she insisted on going in without me.
NSFW, language warning (forgive me, I was pretty hopped up on pain pills lol)
I'm not sure if the vids will work since they're hosted on Facebook.
As it turns out, a coalition of my friends, wonderful people from the fish and reptile communities, got together to try to ease a cancer patient's struggle to heal. They succeeded wildly! I need to (once again) thank everyone involved with this:
neoprodigy
,
Aw3s0m3
,
E
Estarego8
,
Gr8KarmaSF
,
Oddball
, Laura, Laura, Eugene, Nick, Heather, Keith, my wife Serena, and last but not least Lexi, the hyperactive little lady who organized the whole thing. Here's the result of this endeavor, a new arowana from Aquascape and a new flash zebra catfish from Discus Origins.
And the jur; it came skinny like this....
...But after a few weeks, it's grown an inch and has fattened up nicely.
All in all, this was one of the best surprises of my life. I can't express to y'all how happy this whole deal has made me.
This has literally changed my life, and makes the pain of the surgery and treatment worth it. 
