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Hey all you QoL posters smelling the flowers in California and Hawaii, we’re still enjoying winter here in Colorado!

Every day I ski is the best day of my life! Being in the mountains makes my spirit soar, and communing with the trees and the snow and the wind makes me feel part of something timeless.

It’s important to stay hydrated at altitude, and our COVID protocol is to not pass the beer anymore but to always have a collapsible cup on hand. That’s me who’s all grey. My skiing ability has been my measure of recovery from chemo, I started out in January like a wobbly newborn calf, but now my hemoglobin and much strength has recovered to what it was before, and I’m really enjoying being out there.

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dockam profile image
dockam

Awesome my Brother with QoL to each his own, or more like: youtu.be/p8Ojjn35kP8

That's a wonderful pic, QoL is to bring out smiles and chase away the Blues

Love that QoL posts are more common now, save the doom and gloom for the old grumpy men

Live on

Fight on

Qol on

Ski on

Randy

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TeleGuy in reply todockam

Thanks for being a pioneer in these posts. I am surprised by the response and had no idea that people really like to hear about our various extracurricular antics!

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dockam in reply toTeleGuy

Oh, it's been my pleasureDoing and posting QoL lifts my mood too

QoL on Brother 💙

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Spyder54

Agree. Love the Mountains. Have lived in Ski Towns 6 of my 69 years. Speaking of hydration, I guess the ADT2 flurry of pharmacology must create dehydration because last Winter in a house we rented at 9,200’ elev, I had the only case of Altitude Sickness ever. Extreme. Ended up in ER in Denver with all kinds of crazy symptoms, after vomiting at least 15 times. But…..2 days later, we still had the house rented for a week. Went back up, and got in 2 glorius days of navy blue sky’s. Back on skiis after boarding past 25 years. Love the silence in the trees. It is a magical time.

I will have to pick up a collapsible cup= genius!

Best to you and yours, Mike

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TeleGuy in reply toSpyder54

That sounds intense! It’s strange that it can just come out of nowhere, even for us who are acclimated to altitude! Glad that you recovered quickly and could get some runs in!

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Kaliber

sounds like a great trip skiing , sounds like you had a lot of fun. That’s what QOLing is all about brother. Keep up the good work. Thanks for posting your inspirational trip.

😁😁😁

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TeleGuy in reply toKaliber

You are an inspiration as you truck along with all those bone Mets! I hope I can still live life fully when I get there.

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Kaliber in reply toTeleGuy

❤️❤️❤️

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CharlieBC

I'm pretty sure we'll have a 4th of July snowball fight in the Rockies this year.

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kreg001

I went to HS in Idaho Springs. When the snow came the school day stretched except for Thursday when we left school at 11. Loveland had $2 lift tickets for us. Great times. What areas do you ski?

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TeleGuy in reply tokreg001

I live in Boulder and Eldora is just 35 minutes up the canyon. My friend just texted me "do you want to go up?" and an hour later we're skiing. It's just the ticket as it's not a big commitment to the I-70 traffic. ADT has limited what I can do, we usually do a trip to Aspen or Telluride at some point during the winter but not the last two.

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Carlosbach

Inspirational TG. Enjoy those runs, and all that goes with them.

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j-o-h-n

Kaliber

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Kaliber may refer to:

"Take your pick - only one allowed"

1. Kaliber (product), a low-alcohol pale lager from Guinness Brewery. See Guinness Brewery#Products

2. Kaliber (band), Danish rap band

3. Kaliber, a stage name used by Swedish DJ and producer John Dahlbäck

4. Pepp & Kaliber, musical collaborative duo between John Dahlbäck and Jesper Dahlbäck

5. Kaliber 44, Polish hip hop band

You know I can be a pain in the a$$.

j-o-h-n <===<<< Senior management is about to spike my spikes....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Sunday 04/09/2023 5:37 PM DST

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Boywonder56 in reply toj-o-h-n

Kaliper.....the device that applies pressure to me wheels ....to keep me from driving off a fn cliff....

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j-o-h-n in reply toBoywonder56

Yep, that's the brakes...........

j-o-h-n <===<<< Senior management is about to spike my spikes....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Tuesday 04/11/2023 11:54 AM DST

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CAMPSOUPS

Wozer. I cant relate but that interesting

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Gl448

People enjoy snow? Weird! 😆

You look great, congrats on bouncing back from chemo in time to enjoy the slopes!

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Boywonder56 in reply toGl448

I used to REALLY enjoy snow in the 70'sThat devils powder........

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Zengal79

Keep getting out there! Love these posts.

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Boywonder56

My qol is much better in the montains of new mexico....than the swamp that is houston.....as i sit in the research waiting rm...just driving here to the oncs office is enough to make me want to quit the trial.....oh yeah i just remeber im getting 15 k worth of erleada evry month...and its kept me going for 5+ yrs....the ying and yang of life.....after eligard shit....i mean shit friday ... its happy trails back to cnc ranch....7800 ft of enchantment

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