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Terminus Est
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Jan-22-18, 08:17 AM (EST)
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"Update on dad (cancer, impending death)"
 
   We've taken dad back to the hospital. He's in ICU. There's another hole in his left lung, which is causing his blood ox levels to plummet in spite of him breathing fairly well.

This is secondary to a resurgence of cancer. Over the course of the month and a half he was home, a tumor formed and grew on his neck - on the site of the one he had removed last time - to roughly the size and shape of a lumpy, slightly squashed banana. We're waiting on the results of the biopsy (we should hear something today), but at least one doctor is telling us this is a different, much worse type than before - and that it's been there all along, which makes no sense to me since he's been being treated for cancer for years now.

This doctor has given him anywhere from a day to two weeks to live. There is a slim hope that it's the same type as before, in which case the prognosis is more lenient... but they're still pretty much telling us he won't make it through this one.

I wanted to thank any and everyone who has sent prayers, well-wishes, or donations once again. There is literally no way we can ever hope to repay any of it. Going forward, I don't even know if we're going to be able to afford our regular bills (to say nothing of the final expenses that I am trying so very hard not to think of). From the bottom of my - our - hearts, thank you.

--The Logan family


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death) Gryphonadmin Jan-22-18 1
  RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death) Terminus Est Jan-24-18 2
     RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death) Gryphonadmin Jan-25-18 3
     RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death) VoidRandom Jan-26-18 4
     RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death) jhosmer1 Jan-26-18 5
  cancer sucks Terminus Est Jan-26-18 6
     RE: cancer sucks Mephronmoderator Jan-26-18 7
         RE: cancer sucks JFerio Jan-27-18 9
     RE: cancer sucks BobSchroeck Jan-27-18 8
     RE: cancer sucks Verbena Jan-28-18 10

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Gryphonadmin
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Jan-22-18, 01:54 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death)"
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   Well... shit. I don't have many words for something like that. It's awful. I'm so sorry you all are having to go through that.

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


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Terminus Est
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Jan-24-18, 04:40 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death)"
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   Terminal status confirmed. We just signed a DNRO. The doctor told us the best we can hope for is pneumonia (which he has) and that he'll pass away quietly in his sleep. He... won't likely be waking up to anything like lucidity again.


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Gryphonadmin
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Jan-25-18, 11:36 PM (EST)
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3. "RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death)"
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   >Terminal status confirmed. We just signed a DNRO. The doctor told us
>the best we can hope for is pneumonia (which he has) and that he'll
>pass away quietly in his sleep. He... won't likely be waking up to
>anything like lucidity again.

That bites. I'm so sorry.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.


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VoidRandom
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Jan-26-18, 03:09 AM (EST)
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4. "RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death)"
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   My condolences.

-VR
and Fuck Cancer
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."


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jhosmer1
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Jan-26-18, 07:16 AM (EST)
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5. "RE: Update on dad (cancer, impending death)"
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   I'm so sorry for your family.


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Terminus Est
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Jan-26-18, 09:34 AM (EST)
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6. "cancer sucks"
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   he's gone. 2:30 this morning.


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7. "RE: cancer sucks"
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   I lost my best friend to glioblastoma in October.

I'm terribly sorry for your loss.

--
Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"


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Jan-27-18, 11:45 AM (EST)
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9. "RE: cancer sucks"
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   >I lost my best friend to glioblastoma in October.
>
>I'm terribly sorry for your loss.
>
>--
>Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
>Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
>"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

July for me (something like 25 years, like an uncle, glioblastoma has a very relevant word inside it to combine with colorful metaphors).

Fuck cancer.

And condolences for the losses all around.





Jeffrey 'JFerio' Crouch
'It'll be all right... I think.' - Nene Romanova



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BobSchroeck
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Jan-27-18, 10:48 AM (EST)
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8. "RE: cancer sucks"
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   My condolences, Terminus.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.


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10. "RE: cancer sucks"
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   I'm so sorry. I lost my mom to brain cancer many years ago, so...yeah. Fuck cancer.

------
Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her


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