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Originally posted by MacStripey:thank you all for your nice words, my friends. Promise to walk on every day

Olof, got a certain book in the mail today, just delivered... a friend will read it out to me page by page, I had a feeling the other day it might bring some inspiration and strength to me to learn from R's story

I feel a lot of pressure now, dammit.

I hope you enjoy the story, to me personally, it's one of those stories that are too extraordinary to come from fiction.

WojBhoy

12 years

Just caught up with everything - Kirsten, you're bloody amazing. Don't know what else to say or even needs to be said. Walk on, lady, walk on. x

MacStripey

12 years

Short update via mobile for the record.

Radiotherapy has begun. After a full MRI scan and CT were done a week ago, the radiologist made a mask of my head, a semi-liquid plastic-like substance that was put around my head, covering face, ears etc completely and then dried and became hard as stone. That mask is now put on my head every day in the clinic, it squeezes the life out of me but it has to be like that to keep my head in place, and then I lie down and in a session of 10 minutes, the computer thingies move around my head and shoot the high frequent radiation into my head, aiming for the remains of the tumour.

I have now 4 sessions behind me,went to the clinic Tuesday to Friday. A 3 hours trip every day,with taxi lift and all.
23 daily sessions are still to come, 27 sessions altogether. Should be finished by the end of April. Fun times. Not. There are side effects of course and I begin to feel the first of them. But it has to be done.

I feel sick, to be true, physically and emotionally. But I made up a simple plan :-) for every 2 sessions that I face Joe get through and finish, I reward myselm with 1 ticket for the next U2 tour...,with 27 sessions, I get 13 gigs and a bonus shirt :-D ;-) see,just be silly enough to get yourself where you wanna be :-) 360¤ had me present for 13 times, why not again... Bring the tour on in 2014 ;-)

Alright,that's it. Keep going here, my u2start family, I'll be back soon. Enjoy these precious days without my nonsense, I'll be back once this part of treatment is done. Walk On :-)

bartajax

12 years

This is probably what everyone is gonna say here but still I want you to know that we all will be thinking of you and all hope and know that you are strong enough to get through this shitty situation once again.

Good luck

And that next tour will come soon enough don't worry about that, I think they are just waiting for you to be fit enough to go to the shows haha.

LikeASong

12 years

I hope to be besides you in a very good part of these 13 shows.

Keep walking on. Much much much love ♥

emiel

12 years

Just heard Yesterday that i have two spots on my Liver it could be innocent but it can also be Cancer ....i was there to here the result of what there gonna do with my Kidney stones but they discoverd this last monday on the echo they made of my kidney's so i also have the illness of Chrohn so there gonna make an endoscopy of my intestines to see what they found there and next Thursday a CT scan to look for Tumours in my Liver ...i hope the best ....And Kirsten Good luck !!!

LikeASong

12 years

Best of lucks emiel, let's hope it's nothing but inoffesive stuff

emiel

12 years

Thanks Sergio!! we will wait and see and hope fore the Best!!!

MacStripey

12 years

Thank you, my friends. Things will be alright and we'll meet on tour :-)

Emiel, that discovery surely is scaring. I understand how you must feel. But believe in the high chance that the spots will be of good nature. It will be alright. Sending all good thoughts your way, will be with you in thought when the CT is due. Keep us updated here if you feel like it (this is not just "my" topic). Much love to you,my friend!! You'll be okay! <3

emiel

12 years

Thanks Kirsten ..i will keep up the updates ....

iTim

12 years