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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...

Last post by Alex - May 11, 2026, 07:13:13 AM

Managed to get two games of Bolt Action in this week. The first was a three player with two Soviet armies racing to take Berlin (first one to take the Reichstag). We had two narrow roads (wide enough for two tanks to go side by side, barely) and lots of barricades manned by a mixture of desperate fanatics, veterans and hurriedly conscripted boys plus old men. Our armoured tanks smashed through the defences and we managed to pin down or outright destroy the defenders.

The other was a much smaller affair set during the North African campaign with a small detachment of British troops holding a village which comes under attack from an advance element. The British side is reinforced by a recce patrol. Anyway, the Germans mostly got gunned down in that one, even losing an armoured vehicle despite the defenders lacking any anti-armour weapons.

Things have reached an impasse with Kristi's treatment. The original cancer has been dealt with. The secondary cancer is either gone or more than 99% of the way gone, and they are going to keep giving her the lowest possible dosage of chemo going onwards. On her last scan they found a lump beside her stoma that has been identified as cancerous. Where is it, they don't want to use chemo or radiation therapy to treat it, and surgeons don't want to operate to remove it. It hasn't grown any between the previous two scans, so for the moment they are going to leave it, keep doing scans regularly to see if it starts changing and then take it from there. Kind of feels like she is being left in limbo there, but it is still better than the alternative. I spend a lot of time being very grateful that we aren't under the US health system or something similar. I'd hate to have to rely on a GoFundMe for someone's healthcare, or be at risk of bankruptcy thanks to an illness, although we've not heard anything from either the healthcare company, the debt collector or the insurance company for the treatment Kristi did get over there for some weeks or months now.

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