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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 17, 2022 18:17:43 GMT -5
Jesus, @mrp, I’m so sorry for all of you.
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Post by foxley on Nov 17, 2022 18:44:11 GMT -5
So sorry for your loss, @mrp.
When I was at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, I worked in the unit which complied kidney disease statistics. It is an insidious condition and you can lose 90% of your kidney function before any symptoms start to show, by which time it is far to late for any effective treatment. It made me very conscious of my own kidney health, and I would urge any of my fellow CCFers to get regular checks, especially if you are diabetic.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 17, 2022 21:37:43 GMT -5
My condolences. It was ultimately kidney issues that took my mother, and it was very rapid.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 17, 2022 21:51:03 GMT -5
RIP to Robert Clary, the actor best known for playing Corporal LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes, who passed yesterday. He was 96. -M Hogan's Heroes was an after school staple when I was growing up. Clary was a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp where he was imprisoned in his late teens. In our neck of the woods, it was in the early evening, in the slot between the evening news and the start of network prime time. Loved that show and Clary always rebutted critics who attacked it, especially when they equated the POW camp to a concentration camp. I recall seeing him on a talk show, like Merv Griffin or Mike Douglas, talking about Holocaust deniers and his own experiences. Of his family members who were taken to the camps, he was the only survivor; but, after he was liberated, he found out that 3 of his siblings had avoided the camps and were still alive. He took part in a documentary, The Last Laugh, about the shows that were put on, in some of the camps and healing through humor. Here he speaks of some of his experiences.... About being liberated and returning to Paris..... |
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Post by berkley on Nov 18, 2022 0:37:26 GMT -5
sorry for your loss mrp
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 18, 2022 2:46:31 GMT -5
Very sorry to her this, mrp.
My father and aunt both died of kidney failure, and my brother was diagnosed with kidney cancer had his kidney removed this summer. It sucks.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 18, 2022 7:25:25 GMT -5
Terrible. Sorry mrp.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2022 10:26:17 GMT -5
I’m sorry to read that, mrp.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 18, 2022 11:37:01 GMT -5
Sorry for your loss MRP.
My mother in law (my wife's biological mother) suffered the same thing. Chronic back pain (but it really was back pain unlike Chris) and lots and lots of pain pills over the many years. The boys were very young, this was around 15 years ago, and my wife got the call to come see her because it was getting close. Her kidneys were failing and there was nothing to be done that would help her. So my wife rushed to her mother's side. I had to stay with the boys as they were too young to be able to see her, even if my wife would want them to see her like that.
My wife and I met on the internet in 1999. After only about 4 months I ask her to marry me. Both our parents thought we were crazy. I drove to Oklahoma to get her and bring her back to St. Louis where we were going to live. My wife said her mother told her before she left that she didn't think it would work and expected her (my wife) to be back home in a year. She said when you get to 25 years you can tell me I told you so. When my wife was talking to her as she was dying she said to my wife "you can tell me you told me so". We had only been married about 5 years at that point that she said that.
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Post by Calidore on Nov 18, 2022 23:31:00 GMT -5
Sympathy to you and the family for your loss, @mrp.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 19, 2022 2:36:48 GMT -5
Sorry to hear the sad news, @mrp. Condolences to you and your family.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 20, 2022 17:30:12 GMT -5
I'm truly sorry for your loss, @mrp . My sister suffered from chronic back pain for the last ten years of her life, which led her to depend on heavy painkillers and to have a completely scrambled sleep cycle (when she managed to sleep, that is, because of the pain)... Those opioids really wreck one's system.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 23, 2022 6:03:51 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 23, 2022 11:55:35 GMT -5
Artist Vic Carrabotta who did a lot of work at Atlas-era Marvel as well as at Lev Gleason and Fiction House in the 50s has passed at age 93. He had a story in Journey Into Mystery #1.  |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 23, 2022 12:43:18 GMT -5
British guitar great Wilko Johnson has died at 75.  I've never been much of a fan of Dr. Feelgood or any of Wilko's other musical projects, to be honest, but his crazed performances on TV back in the 70s really fascinated me as a little kid. You really couldn't help but notice him, with his jerky, manic, roving stage movements, which were at once eye-catching, slightly comedic, and genuinely threatening -- he always completely owned any stage he was on. And he always came across as a good guy in interviews too. A massive influence on countless British punk, post-punk and indie/alternative guitar players, he will certainly be missed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63728503 |
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