From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V10 #212 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Thursday, November 10 2005 Volume 10 : Number 212 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: OT, Way,,,,,,,, OT ["Steve O'Hearn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:53:04 -0500 From: "Steve O'Hearn" Subject: RE: OT, Way,,,,,,,, OT Tom - I'm floored by your email. I don't know anything else to say. After having seen your posts to this list for so long, it blows my mind to realize that I've seen so many other posts of yours without having any idea you were dealing with this. Did I miss something - had you mentioned this before to any of us on this list? - - Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of tom > & kelly > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:20 AM > To: basia@smoe.org > Subject: OT, Way,,,,,,,, OT > > > > Well, I guess i qualify for the sickest person on the list. 14 months > ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 ( it only goes to 5) colon cancer > which has metastasized (spread) to my liver and my lungs. Uhhh....I > heard once that 95 percent of people who are at that stage do not > even last one year. Sounds pretty f*ckin' serious. I have had about > (guessing) 15 to 25 Gallons of Chemical therapy, 6 CT scans and > hundreds of needle pokes. All this at 43. My pluming still works > fine, I still have 90 percent of my hair and my energy level is good. > Right now I receive chemo therapy every two weeks and my side effects > have been minimal although I do like sweets more now. > People react in different ways to cancer, about seven different ways, > ranging from the guardian angle who will do anything for you ( that > would be my wife) to the person who says "I can't handle this, I'm > out of here." Realize that when you ever are around someone who has a > disease you could be in their shoe's tomorrow. > Heart disease and cancer (I hate to say this) maybe in your future or > someone you know. The numbers are unbelievable. Insurance is very > important in todays world. For example, Do you watch CBS Television, > ever seen the advertisement for "Neulasta" a white blood cell > booster, it is $3500 a shot and my particular chemo drugs every two > weeks are over $15,000! > So now I am retired at 43 and all day long I can do what ever I want > (as long as it is OK with my wife) > The past year has brought in to my mind some weird sh*t. My muse was > ripped from my body and music just lost all its appeal. I didn't use > any of my recording equipment or play or anything. It was like being > color blind. Music seemed stupid and temporary, a thirty year waste > of time. Now it is coming back and I have 5 new songs and I am > building a double sized novelty guitar for charity, unless I like it > too much. It is a 1959 danelectro double cut away with creme colored > body and a scarlet oversized peace sign on the front and a halftone > picture of Kylie Minogue on the back that can only be recognized if > you are standing about 20 feet away because of the dot size. > > > ENOUGH ABOUT CANCER............... > > On Topic > > We just spent two weeks in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. This > was about a month ago. We were official "Leaf Peepers" and the fall > colors in New England......... Ahhhh. > In Bar Harbor Maine on Main street there is a small record store, > nothing that great there except while picking through the bins I > looked up and there was a picture of Danny and Basia and the record > store owner, back stage somewhere probably the 1990 or 1994 tour. I > have a picture of it I'll post it. What a surprise! > > > Tom Neill ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V10 #212 ****************************