@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Dude. This thread is brutal.
Props for how you’ve handled this. Fuck Cancer. |
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M AH - ch ain saw
Join Date: May 2004
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This thread continues to bring bad news. I am sorry to read it. Keep being you.
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: State of Flux
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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We're all thinking about you.
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Antimatter Man
Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
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🎊 Happy New Year.🍾🎉🎇
2018 and I’m still kicking 🏉!!! ha ha!! I had a lengthy, detailed post describing some of the ups and downs of treatment in the last few months, but my iPad ate it returning from another page submit form (during the latest iOS update me thinks)... Adblocking Safari seems to lose the plot remembering Forum login details Oh well, better to keep the short version anyway... less bleak, in a thread already full of buzzkill, LOL Want to play Bad news Good news? I’ll go first. Bad news )
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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Happy new year!
And although there’s not much else to say it includes this: each chapter of your saga has inspired me to get on with good and useful things in my own finite life. You’ve been dealt a hard hand and played it with courage and grace. I think we’ve all marvelled at that. Do not go gentle into that good night. And in the meantime, here’s to pain control and the internet! … engrossed in such factional acts as dreaming different dreams. |
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9" monochrome
Join Date: May 2004
Location: 🇦🇺
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Happy New Year!
Dorian - you write beautifully, but ‘Burb... the way you conduct yourself is an inspiration. My thoughts and prayers are with you mate - may the pain meds do their thing and your strength and spirit keep true. |
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On Pacific time
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Moderator's Pub
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Dorian and Mac+ have spoken so well for all of us. I too feel inspired by you to fill each day with meaningful and heartfelt activities and thoughts in pursuit of well-considered goals. Thank you ever so much for that impulse. You may never know how many lives you've changed for the better by your courage and your example. In turn, I hope our intensely positive good wishes feed into and support your strength, both mental and physical. I'm also sending a massive hug along via UPS, so when you see that brown truck pulling up at the curb, you'll know what to expect. I wish you the very best. |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: UK's most densely packed city. It's not London...
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When I attend seminars where brilliant scientist speak to the inevitability of cancer's return, and yet throw themselves back onto the draining task of finding better ways of fighting it, I see only some of what it must be like to be the patient that must find reserves upon reserves of survival. There are some wild things happening in the field these days, including, as I heard yesterday, turning cancer cells into factories for immunotherapies that act against themselves. But for all of the promise of progress, it doesn't encapsulate the experience of the here and now. It doesn't capture the patient fighting against their body, their pain, and the abject and open bleakness of all of our finite reality. Yet you manage all of this with an amazing amount of grace and humor, curious. I am glad that your pain is being managed, and I hope that your continued sunrises find you unbending and present. May the THC see you well!
All the best! |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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We love you 'Burb.
Even if we only check in occasionally you're a part of our lives. Seize Life! <3 ... |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: State of Flux
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Happy New Year, 'burb.
Thanks for the update -- we've been hoping! I wish there was better news. Dorian and Mac+ have put well my (I imagine everyone here) thoughts and wishes. Luckily I haven't had to confront a cancer story during my lifetime. While we are mere internet acquaintances, I have been moved by your responses to this saga - the research, the hope, the bravery, the levity. 'burbs you are one of those people who truly make the world a more interesting, warmer place. |
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Came across this thread from somewhere else and notice that 'burb's last post was over two years ago.
Man, that's nuts and I can't imagine that there's much good news behind that, besides the fact that he no longer has to battle this. There are few places where I've kept a very long term presence online, and I'm sure that's probably the case with almost everyone, but it still sucks when people are no longer around. I haven't really dealt much with people leaving because of death, but it's crazy to see this still. Hopefully you're off enjoying things 'burb, wherever that may be. No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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Thank you for posting about 'Burb. I think of him every time our Space thread pops up, and must also assume that he passed. Not a lot of closure when internet friends disappear. We should all hope to be remembered with fondness when we are gone.
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Space Pirate
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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We don't know enough about 'Burb to add him to the "Tribute" page we have for LoCash, but it sure would be neat.
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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Tell you what, Drew. If it turns out that his ones and zeroes have been deleted, he'll get added. And I'll rename the page to something more … appropriate.
Anyone know his IRL name? - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Well, this is… oof.
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@kk@pennytucker.social
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I've thought about leaving a note for my wife/daughter/etc.. for after I pass to post on whatever social media/websites that I'm currently using that I'm no longer around. Obviously, that would require some updating as the time passes, but I think it would be a good thing overall to do. Kind of creepy to write it out now, but I also have a note about passwords, banks, etc.. that are there "just in case" so I could just add to that.
No more Twitter. It's Mastodon now. |
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"A blind, deaf, comatose, lobotomy patient could feel my anger!" - Darth Baras twitter ; amateur photographer ; fanfiction writer ; roleplayer and worldbuilder |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Would that be an iWill?
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*AD SPACE FOR SALE*
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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I've often thought about how to go about things like this. I dont have a significant other, so things like the code to my safe, phone password, computer password, business account passwords (family business), simple things like key codes to my house, house cameras, ect. There's a lot of stuff these days that I/we take for granted that have passwords that people could probably never get access to if we passed away.
Does anyone have a good plan for this? I've always looked for advice. Die young and save yourself.... @yontsey |
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Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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Get a safe deposit box and chuck everything in there. Then leave a convenient note in a file cabinet. Anoint someone you trust with power of attorney, and with a death certificate they will be able to gain access.
- AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I have a very trusting relationship with my wife so have have power of attorney for each other. We also share the same 1Password account so we have access to all the same sites for each other. Most cases this isn't a problem but cause do we need two Lowes accounts? No, but places like here where we want individual identities we have a login saved with my name and one with her name. This means we have two entries, but if I am gone she can still login and let my friends know.
We also went to the extent to have an Estate Plan drawn up. This doesn't have my password in it and the hope is that my wife and I both not die at the same time (plane crash kind of thing) so the kids will be able to get access if needed. Really though, an old school Safe deposit box is great for this kind of thing. Put the password in there along with official copies of your death documents and give access limited PoA to the one who needs access with the death cert. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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skates=grafs
Join Date: May 2005
Location: New York
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I haven't been on AN in a long time, but today this thread popped into my head. I'm so sorry to see that burb has likely passed on. :-(
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