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Fuck Cancer!

d'Kong76 Jul 17 2016 09:33 AM

Got a Sunday morning jolt this morning, my goddaughter's father has a big lump in his neck and it's not good. He's having surgery on Friday. He's in the best shape of all us homies and he gets dealt the C-card first. It's fucked up! Fuck cancer...

themetfairy Jul 17 2016 01:52 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

So sorry Kase. The best of good vibes for successful surgery and a speedy and full recovery!

G-Fafif Jul 17 2016 03:00 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Having now lost two parents to cancer, it is my most fervent wish nobody else knows from it. All the best to your homey, Kase.

Rockin' Doc Jul 17 2016 07:12 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Cancer Sucks! aI hope all goes well with the upcoming surgery for your god-daughter's father. I pray for the day when cancer is eradicated.

d'Kong76 Jul 18 2016 04:44 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Thanks, peoples! He had a PET-scan today and on Friday they're gonna take out his tonsils and the lump. I imagine there will be a chemo and/or radiation treat- ment after that. Did I mention Fuck Cancer?

cooby Jul 21 2016 12:14 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

:(

Ashie62 Aug 05 2016 05:51 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

We can hope and pray.

smg58 Aug 06 2016 08:58 AM Re: Fuck Cancer!

I'm so sorry, but hoping for the best.

d'Kong76 Aug 08 2016 10:31 AM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Thanks everyone. Talked to him yesterday and he's feeling better some. Tonsil removal in middle aged people is very painful. They removed a section of his tongue and something on his face in addition to the lump thing. Surgeon is confident that they got everything early and he'll be starting radiation treatments shortly. Going to see him next weekend and can't wait to slap a big bear hug on him.

themetfairy Aug 08 2016 12:48 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Great news! Please give him our best when you see him.

Rockin' Doc Aug 08 2016 07:48 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Glad to hear that all went well and he is on the road to recovery.

d'Kong76 Jan 24 2017 06:32 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

The intersphere is exploding with wonderful cancer-free news!

Ashie62 Jan 24 2017 07:57 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Best news in a long time.

metsmarathon Feb 13 2017 10:50 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

fuck cancer hard with a big fucking fuckstick. there's a sweet little 7-year old boy that minimm grew up with in day care, who was recently diagnosed. it doesn't sound good, but y'know, hope and pray for the best. Its scary though, and i cannot imagine what he and his family could possibly be going through. the kid is a massive ny rangers fan, and such a great kid. is there a chance that any among you might have an in with the rangers so that this kid could get a chance to meet his heroes?

Edgy MD Feb 24 2017 07:50 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

We ran low on funds in the middle of a recording series a few months back. My wife tends to disappear from the studio for months at a time, and when she returns, our engineer and guitarist is our best friend all over again. A labrador retriever of a man—excited to see you because your his best friend, whoever you are, and that track you just cut is my favorite track, whatever it is. But now we're stunned to get the news second-hand through other musicians that he's pretty much on the clock. They found a growth in his esophagus and after a few rounds of chemo told him there was nothing to be done, to go home and get his affairs in order. We're calling every musician in town stupidly hoping that one of them has the story different. We're going to go in and make some music next week (the studio is in the basement), because we have to go see him, but it's hard to just swing by with no more pretext than, "We just stopped in to see you because you're dying and that sucks and we hate ourselves for not seeing more of you." He's a great guitarist, and a lot of his guitars were custom made by Danny Gatton, a legendary DC-area guitarist and luther who made axes for legends like Stevie Ray Vaughn and Steve Earl and Lonnie Mack, before dying himself 20 years ago. These guitars were museum pieces but he left them laying around and let me fool around with them in the studio and let people who used the studio all play them. We don't know what to play, but music is what brought us together and that beats thinking about what's tearing us apart. Here's a track he's playing some sweet and searing Allman Brothers-type lead on. [youtube:88b7kebr]bJ5o8Waq73o[/youtube:88b7kebr]

themetfairy Feb 24 2017 08:06 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

So sorry to hear that :(

Rockin' Doc Feb 25 2017 08:21 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Sorry to hear about your friend. One of the things that really sucks about getting older is that gatherings of family and friends use to be for graduations and wedding, but now later in life most of them are due to funerals. I'm tired of funerals. Beautiful song with some fine guitar work. Cancer truly sucks.

Ashie62 Feb 26 2017 07:09 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

"Condolences" are barely enough.

Edgy MD Apr 11 2017 10:51 AM Re: Fuck Cancer!

We barely got to see Dave when we went in to record. We even brought him some world-famous crabcakes from the world-famous crabcake place down the block from him. We were told we had to use the back door because they were keeping his house as germ free as possible, and he was zonked on painkillers and so, physically unable to even say hi. So we worked on the track, hoping a window of lucidity might open up sometime in the afternoon. After a few hours, we snuck upstairs, greeted his emaciated self on the couch as best as we could, he replied as friendly as he could, barely able to open his eyes, and then apologized, saying that he's so unable to sleep in general, that he couldn't afford to give up this zonk he was on. We said we loved him and snuck out quietly. He apparently got the crabcakes, because sent a text three about hours later with one word: YUM :) I'll take it. But geez. Last visits, if that's what this was, don't always work out like they do in the movies.

smg58 Apr 11 2017 12:39 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

I did the "last visit" about this time a year ago. If you get a smile -- even by text, after the fact -- you take it. The magic wand hasn't been invented yet, so you do what you can, and you take solace that it's appreciated. I know how sad this is, and you have my condolences (and so does your friend).

Edgy MD Jun 11 2017 06:43 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Thanks for your kind thoughts, folks. Dave moved on to eternity this afternoon.

Rockin' Doc Jun 12 2017 07:42 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Sorry to here of your friends passing. My condolences.

Ashie62 Jun 15 2017 06:18 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

My condolences.

Edgy MD Jul 04 2017 10:08 AM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Thanks, he rocked. I feel guilty for eyeing some of his old guitarz. Here's my Uncle Jim today, survivor of polio and asskicker of two different insidious forms of cancer, showing impressive form as he takes Independence Day first pitch honors at the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs game.

Ashie62 Jul 05 2017 08:47 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

A very brave man.

d'Kong76 Sep 27 2017 04:21 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Good friend of ours is getting a double mastectomy tomorrow. Runs in the family, it's low stage, and they feel it's the best course of action and she's cool with it. If anyone can kick cancer's ass, it's Lisa.

cooby Oct 01 2017 06:17 AM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Best wishes to Lisa!

themetfairy Oct 01 2017 09:23 AM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Good vibes to her!

d'Kong76 Oct 01 2017 09:35 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Surgery was pushed to this Tues, thanks and will post good news.

d'Kong76 Oct 03 2017 07:36 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Over ten hours of surgery; all is well according to group-text updates.

MFS62 Oct 05 2017 08:08 AM Re: Fuck Cancer!

d'Kong76 wrote: Over ten hours of surgery; all is well according to group-text updates. Good to hear that. :) Later

d'Kong76 Oct 05 2017 10:31 AM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Thanks! We are blessed to have a lot of long-time friends and she's one of the nicest and most-loved one of the bunch.

themetfairy Oct 07 2017 05:50 PM Re: Fuck Cancer!

Glad to hear the good news!