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About Me

You can call me AJ or Archigos1, I'm a Retired Veteran of the US Navy that happens to be Disabled and living in Upstate New York.

In January 2007 I was diagnosed with Cancer and underwent months of Chemotherapy treatments. The Chemo had the usual effects of making me ill all the time, all my hair fell out, my immune system went to hell, but most importantly shrank and killed the tumor. In August 2007 they removed a (US) golf ball size tumor out of my neck. (42.68mm)

At the beginning of 2008 my health started to ‘go downhill’ even more and the doctors figured out that the Chemo weakened the bones in my back and messed up some of my vertebrae and spinal cord. (My T5, T6, L2, L3, L4, L5 are shot and the spinal cord is pinched.) I apparently had congenital spinal issues that were undiagnosed at the time, which explains the more adverse than normal results from the Chemo. More and more, days would go by where I either couldn’t get out of bed at all or be in so much pain I could only get two or three feet at a time before it got unbearable.

Since I had extremely limited mobility I attended Online College and received 2 Associate Degrees in 2011. I've carried a handful of odd tech jobs giving support in many communities ever since.

  1. Pronounced "Arch" "E" "go" and the 'S' is silent. ↩