Brandonf, I'm not a religious person, so I'm going to have to ask the Universe to cut you some slack...sounds like you could use a little. Keep fighting!
Just got out of the hospital late last week. I go in later tonight for a blood transfusion again, but i think that those will be regular for the next several months. I feel a hell of a lot better than I did when I went in on May 21st, had a temp of nearly 104, pulse was over 150 and went straight to the ICU for a few days before they started chopping at me again. Thank you all for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers..ET is a nice place inspite of its bad rap.
Here in a bit I will have something to say about life and keeping on keeping on. I find myself back in the hospital with a strep infection in my hip and leg after having had to have the lymph node in my groin taken out. I have a pretty lenghty surgery again tomorrow and will likely be in the hospital for the next several weeks after having already been here from May 21st to June 18th. I came back in Saturday evening with a temp of 103.8 degrees and pulse near 150 and in terrible pain. Back on the expensive antibiotics (over $1000 a bag for Vancomyicin). Anyway if your feeling bored in a few days feel free to call me, i'll be up for chatting probably after thursday or so. I'm at Mary Greely Medical Center in Ames. Looking at stocks and the indexes here the markets did not act well at all today. Volume the rest of this weak should be fairly light due to the holiday. It's easy to get very pessimistic in a down market, but you really have to keep your eyes out for the opportunities you can find. In addition to making money on the short side, a very weak market is the ideal way to isolate the strongest stocks. Strong stocks will hold fast in the face of a declining market, and very often in the next move up they wil be your leaders. A few outside of the oil groups to keep an eye on include KR, VAR, IHS, MORN, WYE, AFAM, V, SB, LHCG, CHD and WYE. Take care and I'll write again tomorrow if I don't go into surgery too early, and then as soon as I'm able once I'm done.
I want to set this tentatively for Sept 6th using gotomeeting, which I think will allow me to have as many people attend as would like. This will be free, and I also have no upsale. What I would ask is that if you do attend and find it useful please donate $100 or so to Cancer research. Two good ones are St Judes Childrens Hospital and the JohnnyV Foundation.
Brandon: I just came across this thread now, and I want to congratulate you and send my best wishes for everything. RFT