Roll Call

RockChalkinTexas 0

He shot that deer in Winchester, Kansas at our oldest friends' place.
This is the evolution of the She Shed:

BShark

nuleafjhawk

@RockChalkinTexas-0 Hey! I've been to the Bluebonnet Cafe 50 times! My dad lived in Marble Falls and Horseshoe Bay for many years!

RockChalkinTexas 0

@BShark Yup. When we lived in Leavenworth, our best friends bought 50 acres outside of Winchester off 134th Street and are still there. They have horses. It seemed like another world from Leavenworth in 1975 and lots of parties at the pond, fishing and his brother had another plot off of 92 by Springdale. Mike would go every winter to hunt with the two of them.

RockChalkinTexas 0

@nuleafjhawk Bet you they still have the same menu that you last saw! They added on a back room. How 'bout them pies when you first come in!!! I go to do my lab work in Marble Falls just so I can eat there after.

BShark

@RockChalkinTexas-0 We had quite a bit of excess land. But it became a burden more than anything. Paying taxes on it, and we were in a bad agreement with some farmers from before I was born. Sold it quite a ways back. Definitely took some losses in the 2008 recession but at the time safe stock plays seemed smart. In hindsight, would have been better to do anything else with the money.

nuleafjhawk

@RockChalkinTexas-0 LOL. The pies are fantastic. I love the vibe of the place, like going back in time - in a good way. It's probably been 15 years since I've been there

bskeet

Just getting back on the site after about a month. My excuse for my absence is like others... I lost my dad on May 3. At 91, he had plenty of good years and was probably more ready than the rest of us.

He complained of pain (more than normal) in March and April. My mom had a lot of tests lined up. But when he collapsed in his bathroom on April 22 they found his pelvis had a fracture that had been there for a while... and they found lots of lesions, which had weakened the bone. They accelerated the tests and found his skeleton riddled with metastases. Turned out to be advanced metastatic prostate cancer, which is what I was diagnosed with 10 years ago.

How, you ask, did my dad's rapidly rising PSA (7.7 in 2023 to 288, a few days before he died) go undetected?? Apparently his urologist decided it was ok to stop testing his PSA in 2023. By the time his cancer was discovered from the scans, he was dead before the biopsy results came back.

The moral of the story is: GUYS, get your PSA checked regularly and DON'T let a doctor talk you out of it. They are cheap. There is no good reason to not track PSA.

My cancer was not caught early because of a recommendation by the US Preventable Services Task Force ruling in 2012 advising against routine PSA screening for all men. The USPSTF significantly changed its prostate cancer screening guidelines in May 2018. Too late for me and many other men across this country. The harm is incalculable. Still, I've been fortunate to manage it for nearly 10 years with the amazing medical care at a Cancer Center of Excellence.

crimsonblu22

@bskeet I'm sorry about your dad! I'm glad you have yours under control. It seems we all have a lot going on. There are some nice KU fans on here that care about each other.

approxinfinity

@bskeet man thats a lot. Glad you shared, and Im sorry about your dad. I had no idea about any of that. It makes me marvel at the people i already admire online when I then realize all the other stuff they are dealing with.