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alohaetalohaet Posts: 454
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Just wanted to let everyone know my new situation. Those of you who were real kind and thoughtful during my cancer back in Sept I would like to thank you. You all gave me a lot of encouragement and desire to get better fast. My Chemotherapy is finally over and I should start regaining my strength and start feeling stronger. I retired on Jan 20th and have since moved to Casselberry, Florida from Hawaii (boy do I miss Hawaii). I hope to start again collecting and completing the 1961-62 Fleer Basketball Set in PSA 8 grade.

Thanks again for all your support. Those of you over 50 get yourself checked out for Colon Cancer, the earlier it is found the better chance of a full recovery. Glad to be back in the fold again.

Alohaet image
email address: alohaet@hotmail.com

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  • kadokakidkadokakid Posts: 426 ✭✭
    Best wishes and welcome back.

    I'll be praying for you.

    Peace

    Doug
    Trying to complete 1970 psa set.
    45% complete.
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Great News, Ed !!!

    What do you miss about Hawaii?

    What is better about Florida?
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • gosteelersgosteelers Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭
    Welcome back, Ed!
  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭
    Great to hear Ed!

    A speedy recovery moving forward!
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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great to have you back Ed! My prayers are with you.

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  • alohaetalohaet Posts: 454
    storm, I miss the perfect weather in Hawaii. Very seldom does it get into the 90's or dip below 60. I arrived in Florida and was 48 degrees in the morning and I thought I was freezing to death. LOL. Florida does have so much more to offer in the way of retail choices(lower prices) and places you can go. But I was in Hawaii for 24 years and also stationed there back in 1965 with the 25th Infantry Division. I really felt comfortable there. I liked the different ethnic groups and the vast variety of people. Florida also has that too.

    Moved to Florida to be close to my son and his family. He got real concerned when I had my operation and stated he felt I should be closer to family should I have relapse. I am very fortunate to have a son & daughter who care so much. I stayed with my son until I got my own place. My car just arrived today from Hawaii and it's good have my own wheels again ($1,930 to ship from Hawaii to Orlando).

    Here is a list of 61-61 Fleer Basketball Set cards I need. If anyone has any in PSA 8 grade feel free to email me.
    1,2,3,5,6,8,11,15,21,27,28,33,34,36,39,40,43,44,46,49,55,56,65 and 66.

    Thanks guys for the warm reception and prayers.

    Ed
    email address: alohaet@hotmail.com
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Congrats on getting through your condition. Florida ain't that bad.

    Lee
  • Ladder7Ladder7 Posts: 1,221 ✭
    Welcome back Ed. Try to make it over to Port Canaveral during launch day. There are a few fine eating establishments on the water. Great food, people, music, happy hours and especially the views.
    some cards
  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭
    ed,
    great to hear the good news. image


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



    1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
  • DaBigHurtDaBigHurt Posts: 1,066 ✭✭
    Glad to hear you're doing better, Alohaet.

    Moving to Hawaii to Florida must be a big adjustment. Not many authentic Hawaiian restaurants, but plenty of Denny's and IHOP in your area. image
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    GO MARLINS! Home of the best fans in baseball!!
  • JasP24JasP24 Posts: 4,645 ✭✭✭
    Ed,

    Great to have you back in the loop...

    In case anyone has forgotten, Ed used to own the #1 All-Time Receiver Set on the Football Registry. It was a masterpiece before he had to break it up.

    Best of luck!
    Jason

    I'm here to question, not to inspire or build up. To live how I want, as I see fit,
    according to my values and my needs. Nothing holds dominion over me, I stand alone as the ruler of my life.
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Ed- Great to hear you're doing better and are close to family. Best wishes for your continued speedy recovery!
    Anthony

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • RobbyRobby Posts: 675 ✭✭✭
    Ed ..............Glad to hear everything turned out ok ! Hope you have a speedy recovery ! Great advice about having a Colon test done ! Colon cancer is one of the most easier kinds of cancer to treat , if caught early ! Just retired myself , at age 55 from the Postal Service after 33 years of being a mailman ! Always dreaded having the Colon test done , but did it two weeks ago ! Nothing to it ! Sorry I can't help you out on the Fleer Basketball ! ........... Robbie
    Collect 1964 Topps Baseball
    1963 Fleer
    Lou Brock Master Set
  • alohaetalohaet Posts: 454
    Robbie, I am a Federal Gov't retiree and must switch medical plans. My current HMO(Kaiser) is not located in Florida. I checked some medical plans and was surprised that I can join the Postal Union and sign up for the APWU health plan. Are you in that plan or a different one? Looking for a good plan to switch to here in Florida. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

    Ed
    email address: alohaet@hotmail.com
  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭

    Great news! Welcome back.

    Show off some of those 61-62 Fleers when you can.
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ed - Glad to have you back!
    Mike
    Bosox1976
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's great to have you back Ed! image

    Two things are probably better in Florida...

    1. Easier to get to showsimage
    2. Get your ebay winnings quickerimage


    Steve
  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    Ed,

    glad to hear you're doing well. Stay in touch!

    your friend,

    Josh
  • OnlypsahockeyOnlypsahockey Posts: 1,479 ✭✭
    Very good news indeed. Glad to hear all is well.

    All the best to you, Bob C.
    57 Topps (83%) 7.61
    61 Topps (100%) 7.96
    62 Parkhurst (100%) 8.70
    63 Topps (100%) 7.96
    63 York WB's (50%) 8.52
    68 Topps (39%) 8.54
    69 Topps (3%) 9.00
    69 OPC (83%) 8.21
    71 Topps (100%) 9.21 #1 A.T.F.
    72 Topps (100%) 9.39
    73 Topps (13%) 9.35
    74 OPC WHA (95%) 8.57
    75 Topps (50%) 9.23
    77 OPC WHA (86%) 8.62 #1 A.T.F.
    88 Topps (5%) 10.00
  • envoy98envoy98 Posts: 4,000 ✭✭
    Glad to hear you're doing well. Very best wishes!

    -Josh
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    BigCrumbs! I made over $250 last year!
  • bhl2359bhl2359 Posts: 420 ✭
    From Gainesville, let me also welcome you to Florida, Ed.

    One good thing about Florida: no state income tax!
  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    Welcome back Ed !

    Very nice to hear youre on the right road and getting stronger, best of luck image
    "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
    -- Yogi Berra

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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    welcome to florida, Ed! glad youre doing better
    ·p_A·
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    Casselberry?? I grew up in Altamonte Springs. Welcome to the neighborhood! Im glad to hear everything is going well. Nothing better
    than family, no matter where it is you live.

    Take care of yourself and if you need some directions let me know! LOL

    Kevin
  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    Hi Ed,
    Welcome to the mainland again. I'm glad to hear you're doing well.
    Staying close to your family is very important for your well-being.
    Stay positive and thanks for the advice about getting checkups.
    It's important for all us guys to get the checkups when the time comes and not to ignore doing it.

    Good luck on your '61 Fleer Basketball set. I'm working on that one too. Great set with lot's of rookies.

    Take care,

    Rich
  • alohaetalohaet Posts: 454
    WOW! Thanks for all the nice comments. I have been here in Florida for about 4 weeks now and have been pleasantly surprised. Everyone I have encountered so far has been very helpful and courteous. Maybe I will get to attend some card shows in the future. I now need to get all my address updated. First time I have moved in 24 years and I don't want to go through it again. I will be unpacking for weeks. LOL.

    Thanks again to all.

    Edimage
    email address: alohaet@hotmail.com
  • AlanAllenAlanAllen Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭
    Welcome back Ed, I'm glad to hear things are looking up.

    Joe
    No such details will spoil my plans...
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Welcome back and wishing you the best image
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Good to hear that things are looking up. Hopefully it will be cheaper for you to live in FLA., thus more money for cards.


  • FabfrankFabfrank Posts: 2,312
    Hi Ed. Welcome back. Coincidentally, I was thinking of you the other day and had mentioned you in another thread. I'm glad you're feeling better. I was surprised about the move though. I know how much you love Hawaii. Although I'm about 10-15 years from retirement, my wife haunts me... I mean suggests, that we retire to Hawaii.
    Maybe next year on or annual family pilgrimage to Disney, we can get together. Take care and keep in touch my friend.
    Baseball is my Pastime, Football is my Passion
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭
    welcome back!!!
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,103 ✭✭✭
    Glad to hear you are doing well,

    I am a cancer survivor myself. 3.5 years remission for me. When I got off of chemo I tried to do too much so take your time and starting slowly. I see that you are over 50 (I am 35) so your recovery may take just a bit longer.

    I know what made me feel better was the ability to eat Ice Cream after my stomach calmed down. Go have a frozen cutard on me.

    Take care

    Troy
  • alohaetalohaet Posts: 454
    Troy, I have to agree the recovery will take longer than I expected. But fortunately for me I am retired and can take my time. You were way too young to have cancer and I am glad you are well and feeling better.image Stay healthy.

    Ed
    email address: alohaet@hotmail.com
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    Ed - glad to hear that you are feeling better and things are going well for you - and welcome back!
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  • DeutscherGeistDeutscherGeist Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭✭
    Hello Ed,

    I remember when you first announced this. I am happy about hearing the good news. You have great children for them to want you nearby. Enjoy that!

    Your chemo must have gone without complications and the cancer was not as widespread. Unfortunately, my father has had numerous infections and that delayed and postponed alot of the chemo. He was on chemo before you were and now it is just being postponed till he recovers. He had pneumonia just recently and recovered from that--very close call. Anyway, I live with my father and mother and we are caring for him as much as we can directly. I postponed my own pursuit of a doctoral dissertation so I can be here with my parents and run their rental property business for them. I am a part-time lecturer at a university, but no way near a full time tenure track position because I lack a PhD. This is a situation where family takes precedence over my career aspirations in an immediate way. Cancer does a lot to disrupt not only the life of an individual, but also the family that is around him.

    The best thing you can do now is continue to eat healthy (high fiber diet and lots of anti-oxident rich fruits and berries) and exercise, which can include brisk walks in the neighborhood. Do only as much as you can. With a healthy body, you will do much better should a relapse occur (I hope you won't have it, but keep your body strong). Keep collecting cards and enjoy other hobbies. Spend holidays with your children's families and have periodic get-to-togethers.
    "So many of our DREAMS at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we SUMMON THE WILL they soon become INEVITABLE "- Christopher Reeve

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  • alohaetalohaet Posts: 454
    DeutscherGeist, I am so sorry to hear about your father. One thing I learned while taking Chemotherapy was, here are alot of people who were much worst than I am. There would be about a dozen of us in the room receiving our individual treatments and I could see that I should be thankful my cancer was not as servere as some of them. You are doing the right thing looking after your father and believe me he really appreciates it. From a fathers point of view he is saying to himself, "I must have done something right for my children to care so much for me." PHD or not he looks at you with with loving eyes and so thankful that your heart is so big and full of love for him. Degrees aside you have made your father very proud. I sure wish your father well and hope his condition vastly improves.

    Thanks you for the good advice about staying active and a healthy living style, you are so right.

    Good luck, Ed
    email address: alohaet@hotmail.com
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    Welcome back Ed!

    I lived in Altamonte Springs a few years ago. You're moving to an area of Florida that is exploding right now. Half those stores on the 436 weren't there a year ago. There is a Topps HTA store there on the 436 (at least it was) in Casselberry. They deal mostly in comics/MTG/pokemon etc, but last time I was there they had a pretty good selection of sports as well.

    Good thing about Florida as mentioned by someone else--no state income tax.

    Also, you are a stones throw from Lakeland, Kissimmee and Winter Haven (spring training for the Tigers, Astros and Indians)

    And the Orlando Magic are somewhat accessible at their training facility right off the I-4.

    Bad thing about Florida--Too many damn tourists.
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    DeutscherGeist I feel for you!! My mother in the late 70s was diagnosed with cancer, she was given about 6 months to live. They tried chemo anyways, she went from about 160 lbs down to less than 100 lbs. She passed away about 8 months after learning she had it. I always told myself that they better give me good odds before I go through chemo after what I saw it did to her.
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