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Dan Haggerty AKA "Grizzly Adams" passed away this morning from cancer. He was 74.Damn, what is it with cancer in 2016? Wish him the best!
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Dan Haggerty AKA "Grizzly Adams" passed away this morning from cancer. He was 74.Damn, what is it with cancer in 2016? Wish him the best!
Based on what Deus posted earlier in the thread Mort has a 30-50% chance of beating it.Wish him and his family well. I had a good friend that passed last year after being diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer. He lived 3 months. He never smoked or used any tobacco products. Prior to the diagnosis, he was very active. we went running everyday up til about 2 years ago.
There better not be one negative comment in this entire thread.
Yeah. Hopefully. But I think those survival rates apply after a nasty set of treatments that entail cutting out part of the poor guy's throat.Survival rates:
Survival rates for laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers by stage
God willing, he'll beat the thing.
I hope he recovers. Hated what he did with deflategate but this is sad news
When I read of a high profile guy like this being diagnosed with an advanced stage cancer or any illness, I wonder what kind of medical care he was receiving over the years.Throat cancer can also be due to reflux and that is very prevalent in the U.S. Our neighbor was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer three years ago and didn't smoke either. He is miraculously cancer free and doing well so we can hope Mort has a similar recovery.
IMO, anyone whose seen the sheer brutality of what cancer can do would never wish such a thing on anyone. On kind of a weird tangential note, the common internet terminology of drinking and tastings someone's tears confounds me. Most anyone whose actually tasted someone's tears was probably consoling another through some tragic or excruciating experience. There are few things I can think of that are more intimate and less appropriate to the intended meaning.I opened this thread expecting the worst, but got the best. I like most of us will never forgive him for his part in the Brady smear. But I wish him well in his fight against cancer. I want him at 100% when he goes to testify and be deposed in Brady's defamation suit (I hope).
BTW- At least to this part of the thread, we have proven to be a pretty classy group of fans. Happy to be one of you
Holy ****, guy.Don't give a ****. If he dies or lives. I won't bat an eyelash. Too many horrible human beings in this world. Don't expect me to give them my sympathies.
Very well said and for those of us that have experienced this through the sad tears of friends or family, the saying really annoys me. It is often said by people who have no compassion, which is terrible as it is one of the strongest human traits...it is often passed off as a joke but in the end it says the most about the content of the posters character...IMO, anyone whose seen the sheer brutality of what cancer can do would never wish such a thing on anyone. On kind of a weird tangential note, the common internet terminology of drinking and tastings someone's tears confounds me. Most anyone whose actually tasted someone's tears was probably consoling another through some tragic or excruciating experience. There are few things I can think of that are more intimate and less appropriate to the intended meaning.
There are different types of reflux-Some with atypical symptoms like mine. Just had an endoscopy-Thankfully, no damage here. Totally agree with what you said.When I read of a high profile guy like this being diagnosed with an advanced stage cancer or any illness, I wonder what kind of medical care he was receiving over the years.
For all of you out there, if you have acid reflux (and, if you have it, you know you have it) and are downing Tums or some other OTC antacid like it's going out of style, get your sorry butts to a good GI doctor, get an endoscopy and take it from there.
Believe me, I know from my own experience. I had an endoscopy about 15 years ago, which my doctor asked me to get on what he called a "hunch," after I told him I had acid reflux and was taking a lot of Tums. The test showed early signs of damage (but nothing even close to malignant yet). He put me on medication, the damage was reversed in about a year and I get an endoscopy every three years just to be sure.
Do it!
Holy ****, guy.