Holy shit. My life just did a 270º Turn

DanLights

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I feel like expressing my awe with you guys, specially cause many of you I consider my friends and would like you to know what's up with my (new) life. Plus, it's a long story and I want to have to write it down only once instead of explaining to each of you whom I chat with on msn.

So like two months ago my dad went sick, we were sure it was Hepatitis A (the fucking useless medical exams here came positive for it), and after a month of my dad being sick and yellow my mom decided to take him to Caracas (the capital city, best technology, clinics and doctors of the country) to some specialists and to their surprise, it was no hepatitis. It was a Pancreatic tumor. The doctor who discovered the tumor came out of the exam in tears telling my mother that he has 3/4 weeks of life left, my mother was in total shock, but didn't give up.
He was then examined more, and another doctor found out the tumor was operable, and that there was a possibility of it being entirely removed, if that surgery was succesful he could've been cured and nothing happened.

It wasn't that way

Doctor went "oops" when he opened my dad up and noticed the tumor was slightly bigger than he thought, and positioned way too dangerously near a vein, so he decided to do something else and left the tumor (too lazy for medical details) to be treated with therapy (quimio, radio, whatever and however that's written in english).

So, to make a long story short, my dad was born in spain so the social insurance there pays for absolutely everything, plus his family is there and the best doctors and technology for what he needs, so......

I'm moving to A Coruña, Spain by the end of the year. I´m taking nothing but my bass and my girl, a fresh new start in a much better country, I´m glad I´m finally leaving this horrible shithole of a country

Wish me luck!!

Edit: I´m also going to marry my girl so it´s easier to take her with me and she could live and work there. I´m 22, but fuck it I´m more than sure this is what I want
 
Wow man, that's incredible - it's still awful that your Dad has cancer, and all my hopes for successful treatment, but at least something really good is coming out of this! Good luck!
 
Animo hermano, tu padre saldra bien, tu y el necesitan actitud positiva acerca de todo eso, definitivamente el mudarse les hara bien, felicidades si te casas. uno a veces teme al cambio pero creo que lo has tomado muy positivo y es siempre es bueno.

Suerte en tu nueva vida.
 
:OMG:

Man...i have no words....

All i can say is stay positive and good luck.

Changing your life in such sort notice isn't the easiest thing to do...
but i can feel you are determine to do so...and thus why you're gonna succeed.:kickass:

Again best of luck:)
 
I remember Caracas Venezuela from some Rainbow 6 game.


Tom Clancy hates South America.



Sucks about your Dad though, my pops had prostate cancer a while back, he's tip top now but it makes for yet another thing to worry about in my crappy genetic lineage.

Although they say that masturbating reduces the risk of prostate cancer, which pretty much makes me immortal.

Jokes aside, just be positive and not in a depressing hospice nurse kind of way.
 
thanks guys! Overlord gracias, y si yo no temo a este cambio prefiero verlo como algo positivo! tu vives en españa? que parte?

bekanor, yeah I played that game where there was Caracas, Venezuela in it. I hate Venezuela too, not all south america (Colombia´s a beautiful and very organized country)

Anyways, thanks all of you, and yeah I´m not deppressed at all, just a bit shocked (you would be too) but taking the change for good, already working with my cousin who lives there and has a pop-rock band to help me find a job and hopefully meet some music people over there
 
I wish you all the best in your new beginning in Spain. It's really nice that you have a girl that loves you enough to follow you there.
I also hope your dad recovers from this illness... I've heard pancreatic cancer is one of the worst types of cancer.

Btw...isn't that a 180ºturn?...or at least 90º... :)
 
My sympathies dude.

Cancer runs in my mother's side of my family, so I've had my fair share of experience with that.

My grandmother passed away from ovarian cancer, and my grandfather had a brain tumor when he passed. It wasn't the #1 cause of his death, but it definitely contributed to it. My mother is also a breast cancer survivor. Cancer is a nasty bitch and is tough to deal with...so I hope everything goes well with your father!

Good for you, for making a change! I feel that I am going to make a pretty drastic change soon in my life. I hate my job and am sick of NJ. I was recently in Europe and spent a lot of time in Munich. I met a nice Bavarian chick who is coming here in a couple months to visit again. We connected well. I'm thinking of getting a work visa in Germany and spending a couple of months there to clear my head and experience a different environment for a while.

I'm 24, so the time to do this type of shit is now! I just hate when people tell me it's impossible, a stupid idea, whatever. That seems to be kind of common in middle-middle class America. We are taught to have a good work ethic but oftentimes aren't taught to actually have dreams, take some real chances, any of that.

Ok, rant over. Hopefully I didn't ramble too much! lol

-Joe
 
Cool dude. Good luck! You got a cutie pie girl that will make cutie pie wife. ;)

Sorry about your dad. Messed up with the doctors thing. Hope all goes well for him!

Keep on keeping on!