Norm Hitzges Reveals Bladder Cancer Diagnosis

Bladder cancer is very treatable with a very high survival rate, if caught early. Most bladder cancer only invades the lining of the bladder where it is easy to remove and treat. The article doesn't say what stage or type it is but I hope they got it early before it spread to surrounding tissue. Bladder cancer is scary but not a death sentence. As I posted a few days ago in another thread I had a cancerous bladder tumor removed 2 years ago, but it was very low grade. One treatment of chemo through a catheter and I was good to go. Norm has a better than 70% chance of living a normal life until something else takes him, 95% if they got it early.

Getting old sucks. Too many things you never had to worry about before start knocking on your door asking to come in. Sometimes they don't ask.
 
Creeper said:
Bladder cancer is very treatable with a very high survival rate, if caught early. Most bladder cancer only invades the lining of the bladder where it is easy to remove and treat. The article doesn't say what stage or type it is but I hope they got it early before it spread to surrounding tissue. Bladder cancer is scary but not a death sentence. As I posted a few days ago in another thread I had a cancerous bladder tumor removed 2 years ago, but it was very low grade. One treatment of chemo through a catheter and I was good to go. Norm has a better than 70% chance of living a normal life until something else takes him, 95% if they got it early.

Getting old sucks. Too many things you never had to worry about before start knocking on your door asking to come in. Sometimes they don't ask.
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Your right, Creeper -- getting old surely isn't for sissies, without doubt. It's a struggle in so many ways.

Here's hoping that Norm recovers fully from his bladder cancer. I have always enjoyed his broadcasts.
 
Norm is very good at certain things, but is poor at other things.
Like how dare you have a different opinion than him when you call in to his show, he is, or used to be, as I have not listened to him too much the past few years. But he was quick to hang up on you, then berate you for 5 minutes and go on a rant.

he is very good at his 5 plays that shaped the game segment. The show has gone way down hill since they added several people on his show. It is like the time wasters of McDowel with him and Sturm, when it came time to talk Cowboys, he always talked other crap for half the segment first.

so now they do the same thing on Norms show. Last time I listened was after the draft. Norm was to give his analysis.
Donny, from the time wasters, as they now pit him on with Norm. Said, as he learned this from Dan McDowel, well first I want to say...then the entire segment went on about NOTHING. Have not listened since.

so I stopped listening.
I used to listen all the time during TC and the season. It have not listened at all this TC.
The morning Musers do nothing but put down the team, much like many on here. LOL. Not sure if they are still that way.

I guess it is time to try to listen again since the season is 2 weeks away. See how it is.
Same for the Fan. Time to tune in.
Used to listen all the time when I worked. Could put on headphones, sit at desk, and work. Now since retired, I don’t listen as often to any show.
 
jazzcat22 said:
Norm is very good at certain things, but is poor at other things.
Like how dare you have a different opinion than him when you call in to his show, he is, or used to be, as I have not listened to him too much the past few years. But he was quick to hang up on you, then berate you for 5 minutes and go on a rant.

he is very good at his 5 plays that shaped the game segment. The show has gone way down hill since they added several people on his show. It is like the time wasters of McDowel with him and Sturm, when it came time to talk Cowboys, he always talked other crap for half the segment first.

so now they do the same thing on Norms show. Last time I listened was after the draft. Norm was to give his analysis.
Donny, from the time wasters, as they now pit him on with Norm. Said, as he learned this from Dan McDowel, well first I want to say...then the entire segment went on about NOTHING. Have not listened since.

so I stopped listening.
I used to listen all the time during TC and the season. It have not listened at all this TC.
The morning Musers do nothing but put down the team, much like many on here. LOL. Not sure if they are still that way.

I guess it is time to try to listen again since the season is 2 weeks away. See how it is.
Same for the Fan. Time to tune in.
Used to listen all the time when I worked. Could put on headphones, sit at desk, and work. Now since retired, I don’t listen as often to any show.
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Jazzy, to each his own I guess. I’m on the other extreme in that I love not only Norm but all the Ticket guys like Bob Sturm, Dan McDowell, Donovan Lewis, Corby Davidson, Craig Miller, George Dunham, and Mike Rhyner when he was there.

The thing I love about the Ticket is unlike 105.3, “The Fan”, the Ticket guys aren’t butt kissing homers, sucking up to the Jones family. They praise the Cowboys when it’s earned, (including the Jones boys) but they also aren’t afraid to call them out either. I don’t like the homer, “never is heard a discouraging word” stuff you usually get from Mickey “Jones” Spagnola, Brad Sham, and others on the Fan.

Norm Hitzges is certainly opinionated but few are as prepared with stats, trends and history. As a cancer survivor myself, wishing Norm a great fight and a speedy recovery.
 
Bullflop said:
Your right, Creeper -- getting old surely isn't for sissies, without doubt. It's a struggle in so many ways.

Here's hoping that Norm recovers fully from his bladder cancer. I have always enjoyed his broadcasts.
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Yeah..

Getting old and watching the old guard of reporters change.

Damned depressing.

Norm to me always had 'real' out of the box observations to start his broadcasts.

I seem to recall he used to have a 5pm radio show he did as you drove home from work.

I miss Verne Lundquist. Miss Blackie Sherrod.

On Sunday mornings as a kid, I would run and get the newspaper, scan the comics, and pull out the Cowboys section and read what Sherrod had to say about that days game.

I would then slip that section back in and hand it all back to my dad and watch him start reading at the breakfast table.

I would see him start reading Sherrod's column and I would say something about what Sherrod would be talking about before dad would read it.

Then he would peer over the paper and say "Well you know, Mr. Sherrod says exactly that in this piece right here.."

I would say "yep. "He's right".

And we would drift off to watch the pregame taking the newspapers with us.

Newspapers. Have not read one since I bought my first computer back in '85. Then a laptop then a Smartphone.

Times how they change, huh?
 
Redball Express said:
Yeah..

Getting old and watching the old guard of reporters change.

Damned depressing.

Norm to me always had 'real' out of the box observations to start his broadcasts.

I seem to recall he used to have a 5pm radio show he did as you drove home from work.

I miss Verne Lundquist. Miss Blackie Sherrod.

On Sunday mornings as a kid, I would run and get the newspaper, scan the comics, and pull out the Cowboys section and read what Sherrod had to say about that days game.

I would then slip that section back in and hand it all back to my dad and watch him start reading at the breakfast table.

I would see him start reading Sherrod's column and I would say something about what Sherrod would be talking about before dad would read it.

Then he would peer over the paper and say "Well you know, Mr. Sherrod says exactly that in this piece right here.."

I would say "yep. "He's right".

And we would drift off to watch the pregame taking the newspapers with us.

Newspapers. Have not read one since I bought my first computer back in '85. Then a laptop then a Smartphone.

Times how they change, huh?
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You're right about the newspapers being something of a remnant of the past. I worked for the San Antonio Light Newspaper for 32 years as a printer before they shut down. Of course, they were replaced by the S.A. Express as our lone major newspaper publication. 'Twas the good old days for sure! :D
 
Bullflop said:
You're right about the newspapers being something of a remnant of the past. I worked for the San Antonio Light Newspaper for 32 years as a printer before they shut down. Of course, they were replaced by the S.A. Express as our lone major newspaper publication. 'Twas the good old days for sure! :D
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That's an interesting line of work.

I bet THAT has come and gone big-time, huh?

So did you work with the inks and typesetter?

I always thought it must have been a fun job seeing news first and 'stop the presses' and redoing headlines before anybody else knew about it had to be special if you were into it.

Also always thought about what it would be like to be a real newspaper reporter.

Clark Kent..right?
 
Bullflop said:
You're right about the newspapers being something of a remnant of the past. I worked for the San Antonio Light Newspaper for 32 years as a printer before they shut down. Of course, they were replaced by the S.A. Express as our lone major newspaper publication. 'Twas the good old days for sure! :D
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Lived in Helotes for a few year Bullflop, we might have crossed paths in an HEB...:D
 
Redball Express said:
That's an interesting line of work.

I bet THAT has come and gone big-time, huh?

So did you work with the inks and typesetter?

I always thought it must have been a fun job seeing news first and 'stop the presses' and redoing headlines before anybody else knew about it had to be special if you were into it.

Also always thought about what it would be like to be a real newspaper reporter.

Clark Kent..right?
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It was the only job I'd ever had, whereby I didn't mind going to work in the least. As you might know, the S.A. Light sold out to the Express News, due to the fact that their profits weren't any longer able to be supported by two newspapers in San Antonio.

I worked in six different phases of a printer's apprenticeship before becoming a journeyman printer in 5.5 years, instead of the normal six, which was normally required of most others. I felt privileged to have been fortunate enough to be there.

I worked long and hard as a "galley boy," a hot metal ad compositor, a proofreader, an intertype operator, a teletype operator and a page makeup man in the very last phase of my apprenticeship, before arriving at a full journeyman's status. In January of 1993, we closed operations.

It was a rewarding career and one that I often dream of at night. It became so inbred in my mind and nature that it's simply a part of what I am and have been. I can honestly lay claim to "having printer's ink in my blood." 32 years spent in one career will do that to a guy! ;)
 
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Bullflop said:
It was the only job I'd ever had, whereby I didn't mind going to work in the least. As you might know, the S.A. Light sold out to the Express News, due to the fact that their profits weren't any longer able to be supported by two newspapers in San Antonio.

I worked in six different phases of a printer's apprenticeship before becoming a journeyman printer in 5.5 years, instead of the normal six, which was normally required of most others. I felt privileged to have been fortunate enough to be there.

I worked long and hard as a "galley boy," a hot metal ad compositor, a proofreader, an intertype operator, a teletype operator and a page makeup man in the very last phase of my apprenticeship, before arriving at a full journeyman's status. In January of 1993, we closed operations.

It was a rewarding career and one that I often dream of at night. It became so inbred in my mind and nature that it's simply a part of what I am and have been. I can honestly lay claim to "having printer's ink in my blood." 32 years spent in one career will do that to a guy! ;)
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I so enjoyed that anthology, bro.

What a story to read. My God..the hours.

My only exposure to printing was I worked for an artist once who hired me to photograph on big negatives of 8x10 a bunch of his artwork.

He would then take the artwork and make T-Shirts and sell them at auto races. I went with him to print some of the first runs.
I watched as they did what is called silk screen printing I think.

They would lay down the colors one at a time on the garment until it was done then dry it and it was ready.

The smell of the ink was interesting and the printer guys got ink all over themselves.

Back and forth the screens would be placed, ink poured then applied by a type of squeegie that spread the ink.

Maybe not exactly what you did but it was really physical and you had to prepare and some were incorrect and would get tossed.

I easily realized the printing process was not for amatures.

Thanx for the share.
 
Redball Express said:
I so enjoyed that anthology, bro.
What a story to read. My God..the hours.
My only exposure to printing was I worked for an artist once who hired me to photograph on big negatives of 8x10 a bunch of his artwork.
He would then take the artwork and make T-Shirts and sell them at auto races. I went with him to print some of the first runs.
I watched as they did what is called silk screen printing I think. They would lay down the colors one at a time on the garment until it was done then dry it and it was ready.
The smell of the ink was interesting and the printer guys got ink all over themselves.
Back and forth the screens would be placed, ink poured then applied by a type of squeegie that spread the ink.
Maybe not exactly what you did but it was really physical and you had to prepare and some were incorrect and would get tossed.
I easily realized the printing process was not for amatures.
Thanx for the share.
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Mods please remove this duplicated post. Thanx.
 
Creeper said:
Bladder cancer is very treatable with a very high survival rate, if caught early. Most bladder cancer only invades the lining of the bladder where it is easy to remove and treat. The article doesn't say what stage or type it is but I hope they got it early before it spread to surrounding tissue. Bladder cancer is scary but not a death sentence. As I posted a few days ago in another thread I had a cancerous bladder tumor removed 2 years ago, but it was very low grade. One treatment of chemo through a catheter and I was good to go. Norm has a better than 70% chance of living a normal life until something else takes him, 95% if they got it early.

Getting old sucks. Too many things you never had to worry about before start knocking on your door asking to come in. Sometimes they don't ask.
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Good feedback to have. Thank you. Let’s all hope that Norm’s was caught early and he is getting the best treatment possible.

And glad you pulled through it well Creeper.
 
I can't believe this guy has so many fans. I've never thought he was anything special in his line of work. At times I've even thought of him as a bit of a jerk. Even so, I hate to hear he has received that diagnosis. I wish him a full recovery.
 
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