RE: Rob Sekeris

asked that I update the list RE: His status. His quote: "They are done wit= h tests". He is pretty much taking it one day at a time and has accepted th= e enivitable. He also indicated he wants to sell his stuff at a reasonable = price. Based on his comments such as he has $3-$4,000 worth of router bits,= 2 HP, CNC router, camera equipment, various woodworking equipment, compute= r equipment, software, etc. Somebody is going to get a fair deal. Lew

Not a great place to be. There but by the grace of God...

-------------------------------------------- As in terminal.

They have quit giving him tests.

As he said, hospice hasn't showed up yet.

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----------------------------------------------- As far as I know, nothing had been posted other that cards to the hospital web site a couple of weeks ago.

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--------------------------------------------------- It came as a surprise to me.

He had led me to believe he was gaining on it before today.

He asked me to post to the list which is what I did.

Lew

Very sad, he did me a huge favour a couple years ago, just out of the kindness of his heart. I will try and get in touch with him tomorrow.

About two weeks ago Angela, Rob's wife, asked, and for obvious reason, that any information not be made public until their daughter's first college exams were over, which was last Saturday.

Our fellow wRec'er Dave (Upscale) just sent Rob a Festool hat. This was received on Tuesday of this week from Angela (some of which I have redacted):

"Karl, would you be so kind as to let Dave know the hat arrived this morning and Rob hasn't taken it off since. It meant so very, very much to him to receive some snail mail from his Wrec friend... Please know how much all his Wrec friends mean to him."

Angela previously said she didn't mind giving their snail mail address out to friends wanting to send Rob wishes (obviously not wise to post on UseNet) so, if you don't have it already, any wRec'er who would like to do that, you can send me, Dave, or possibly Han, an email, as Han has probably been in closer contact with the family and situation than most of us.

This from Angela just a few minutes ago (I've munged the email addy slightly, but you can figure it out).

"Rob hasn't been able to focus at all to check email, Facebook or the wreck.

However, you could share my email address angelasekerisgmail.com and I could read him the messages when he is awake and alert enough. I think he would really like that a lot.

Someone from the Wrec called yesterday and he happened to be having one of his best days in some time (sadly today is quite the opposite). Rob liked that he had called and I heard Rob tell him that he wished he had better news to tell him, but the reports are not good and that he thinks he'll make it to Christmas but the jury is still out on New Years and that it isn't what he would have chosen had he a choice, but we all have to go sometime. That pretty much sums up the current status of things, in Rob's own words, so you could share that with the group.

Yesterday he was talking about the songs he wants played at his funeral and he would like Linda's "Let Him Go Gently". As you know we use both versions at both of Rob's parents funerals last year. I can not believe we are here again ;(( "

This is one absolutely strong and amazing, but heartsore woman ... if you see fit, and can grant her above wish, please do so.

Thanks ...

Swingman wrote in news:RcednZ6OqfYusk7NnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

I have been in contact with Angela somewhat. Yes, Rob is terminal. He did beat most of his cancer, and has outlasted the disease for an absolutely remarkably long time (over a year since diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer). Unfortunately, remnants of his cancer are now killing him in ways I can't go into (i.e. don't understand). Obviously Angela is heartbroken, but Rob seems to be handling it. I don't know the daughter other than from photos on FB, but she seemed very devoted to Rob. I haven't personally spoken to Rob in a very long time. I am waiting for a messgae from Angela to call, since Rob has really very bad ups and downs, and sleeps a lot. I didn't know about the tools etc, although I had been quietly wondering. And yes I have his address.