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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, January 19, 2012Gary Carter’s fight with cancer takes turn for the worse; new tumors found on Hall of Famer’s brain
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1. The Non-Catching Molina (sjs1959) Posted: January 19, 2012 at 03:59 PM (#4040593)God, I can't imagine what a horrible experience that must be for everyone involved.
Best wishes for Carter and his family.
My thoughts are with Gary's friends and family as they deal with this difficult decision.
"Glioblastoma" is one of the worst words one can hear from a doctor.
Yeah. As a medical student I can't say I'm surprised at this news. But I'll be darned if it isn't the saddest thing I've seen so far today. My prayers are with the Carter family, and anybody else inflicted with this terrible disease.
This is obviously bad news. My dad had a cancerous tumor removed from his brain when I was a few months shy of my 14th birthday. He made a pretty good recovery, but doctors discovered another brain tumor about a year later. He died a month after I turned 15.
I was lucky in that he lived with his sister out of state during his final months, so I did not have to physically watch him become a shell of his former self. I did see him a couple of months before he died and while he was still with it and in good spirits, the illness had clearly left its mark on him.
My thoughts are genuinely with Carter's family.
His fight with cancer, and now this news, has been so sad. I can only wish for his ease -- and that he is able to live out the rest of his days on whatever terms he wants, with those he loves. That's what I would want for myself, anyway, so I wish it for him, too.
You know what the funny part about this is? The name "Kimmy Bloomers." But that's it, pretty much.
Best part of that ad was Kruk looking triumphant. Saddest moment was exactly what you described.
The Giants, not as much.
Took a couple times of watching the ad to read all the little signs, and I stared at this one for a moment or two before it hit me to what it was referring. I ended up tearing up/crying for an inning or so because of it ... Ron just looked so pained. That said, it also made me smile for the rest of the game...while everyone else was there for an immediate family member, he was the only one I saw who arguably didn't "have" to be there. My reaction was probably increased by the fact that we were as yet uncertain whether my wife's chemo was going to be effective (it has been very much so, fortunately) --- the thought of quite possibly being in a very similar situation wasn't happy.
Yep. My dad made it not quite three years from his diagnosis, and though he was only 51 when diagnosed, I think we were pretty lucky he lasted that long. It still seems weird to think how much luckier he would have been to have had a stroke like the doctors first thought. I don't know that I could handle going through two brain surgeries plus radiation and chemo like he did, and I sure as hell could not do so like he did without ever complaining. And no matter how unlikely the odds were, there was still a part of me that thought he could be one of the few to last long-term. Getting the call from my parents that there was nothing else they could do and he was going to get hospice care is by far the worst moment of my life. I wish Gary Carter and his family all the best, and if his end is near, I only hope that he has as awesome of a family as I do and can pass in as much peace as possible.
My perfect scenario would be to get rid of everything I own, have someone fly me over the ocean, knock myself out with a massive dose of morphine, then someone can roll me out the door. No service, no memorials, no family waiting outside the door or just basicaly waiting for me to die.
Serious question, are there services similar to a Wedding Planner, but a Death Planner...so the family doesn't have to do anything? They make one phone call and everything they want done gets taken care of without them having to lift a finger. A funeral director doesn't do estate sales...
I have utterly no grasp of how a parent can lose a child at such an age and still carry on. I would be reduced to nothing. I suppose we're all stronger than we think we are, but I don't think I could go on after something like that. Aleksandar Hemon described it as something like having an organ placed in your body whose sole purpose was to secrete misery.
That ad felt like a kick in the balls. Hope for his family.
Reading the number of posters here personally affected by cancer saddens me. This place is supposed to be an escape from reality, not a reminder of its pain. Right now, my mother-in-law is winding down a many year battle with a combination of lukemia and lung cancer with the latter having metastisized. Her family is treasuring these last few weeks or months that we have.
I was actually laid off during the last few weeks of my mother's life and I spent all day with her. I would cook her meals, help her up and down the steps, drive her to doctors appointments and the like. We would sit around all day and talk and watch tv. It was an incredibly sad time, but it was a great time too.
That's what I call a good son. I'm sure that meant the world to your mother at the end.
my sympathies to his family and to all yall whose family members and friends are sick
Better yet would have been Kruk with a sign saying "My Left Nut".
Hey, they say laughter is the best medicine....
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