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Ken Stark of the Helios Project needs our help.
40hz:
would urge you not to try to use reason or rationality to analyze how much donations/funding something gets, and especially don't compare the funding of one thing to another or you are likely to get extremely depressed and angry at a world/community.
-mouser (August 22, 2012, 06:40 AM)
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this.
Rover:
As a more constructive comment -- your post was mostly just a quote from the page; if you had made a longer more personal post you would have gotten more personal replies..
-mouser (August 22, 2012, 06:40 AM)
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You're right... I was being lazy. :-[
I guess I click more links and read less body than most.
On a better note, it seems DC'ers are involved, just don't need the kuddos. :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
Rover:
Good News! :D
http://linuxlock.blogspot.ca/2012/08/it-started-with-hopelessness.html
"An Indiegogo account was set up and in a matter of days, over 17K was raised on that page alone. Thomas Knight had also provided a link on his website for people to donate and to date we have 31K banked against my medical costs."
...
"Dr. Scholl has agreed to provide me the life-saving surgery I need, and will work for whatever we raise. I will be given medication to slow and treat the existing cancer, thus buying me time until the surgery can be performed.
I don't know what to say to you...or to Dr. Scholl. Thank you doesn't come close. The only thing I CAN do is thank you and continue doing what I do at Reglue."
:Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
cthorpe:
Just donated. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
40hz:
UPDATE:
I case anybody was wondering how it's going with Ken:
Monday, October 15, 2012
Happy Death Day To Me
Yeah, I know....the title is a bit morbid.
But apt.
8 months ago, a Ear, Nose and Throat specialist gathered Diane, my ex-wife and youngest daughter around him outside my emergency room treatment area and told them simply:
"Take him home and make him comfortable. There's not much more than we can do." Needless to say, this is crushing news for loved ones.
When my ex-wife later pushed him for a more detailed prognosis, he told her, "Eight months on the outside".
Diane, not being one to trust doctors in the first place, demanded a second opinion and soon, Dr. David George, an Oncologist from Texas Oncology had me examined and ordered a battery of tests. This time, the news was a bit better. I was indeed a candidate for radiation and chemo therapy. My treatment began the same day the results came in...a mere 48 hours. Immediate treatment turned out to be the key. I am alive today because of it.
That was 8 months ago, and as a Platinum Member of the Captain Obvious Club, I can report to you that I am indeed, not dead.
Had me or my caretakers taken the initial diagnosis of late stage 4 throat cancer as gospel, I would be.
I've never been one to place any significance on my birthday...It's always seemed a bit arrogant for me to assign any significance to my existence, or the random day my existence came to be.
I do however, acknowledge them now, but more so, I will acknowledge this date as well, from here on in.
It marks the day that I was told I would be dead.
This is an aggressive cancer, a mean, unrelenting son of a bitch, and while I am seemingly getting better and the cancer is due to be surgically and successfully removed from my body, it has a nasty ability to reoccur.
So I take nothing for granted, and every day means I have a chance to make a difference, big or small, some sort of difference.
And on this day, annually, I will choose to remember this specifically.
All-Righty Then...
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