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[Guest greatness]

I hope you are doing better

 

Just to bump this post to let you know that we are thinking of you~~~

[Boston Guy]

I've been around here long enough that I can call this place my cyber-home. Like most homes, it is cyber-warm and cyber-fuzzy (try those terms on your analyst).

 

Suffice it to say that it's like many places I have been recently, where I have chosen to share with friends and associates, quietly and without fanfare and only when I felt it right to do so, that I have been treated for the past several months for non-hodgkins lymphoma.

 

For a political junkie Democrat like me, it doesn't get much better - Jackie O and I have something in common.

 

But I jest.

 

I am fighting a battle which doesn't give one good odds. The good news is, it was discovered early, and medical advances since Jackie O's passing have made it much less of a death sentence.

 

I share this not to draw attention or sympathy; rather I think our Baby Boom Generation needs to come to terms with aging and death, and to talk about it open and honestly. I just want to do my part in that regard. Death, after all, is a part of life, and as one buddy recently reminded me, "We don't get out of this alive."

 

Now.

 

Lest anyone here thinks I plan to become Daddy's Mr. Rogers, they can guess again. :-) I plan to be just as obstreperous as ever, hurling what I think are deserved personal insults against insufferable meatheads. But, going forward, it's important that I emphasize that, despite fierce disagreements, I bear no one here anything but endless good will. :-) After all, it's my cyber-home.

 

I visited the Message Center tonight for the first time in a long time. When I saw your post, I wanted to log in so I could offer my best wishes to you for success in your battle with this disease. The process of actually logging in was far more complicated than I thought -- there's a new message center, I'd forgotten my password, I forgotten the email address assigned to my ID, when I finally remembered it, the email address no longer existed, etc., etc. Walking through those details, I finally was able to once again don BG's cloak, at least for a little while.

 

I do wish you all the best, of course. I wish you success in your battle with cancer and I also hope that you are able to maintain your fighting spirit through good times and bad. I believe that attitude makes a very large difference in one's progress toward recovery and the obstreperous among us tend to do much better than those who simply lie back and accept whatever comes.

 

Best of luck.

 

BG

[Guest ryan2552]

I am fighting a battle which doesn't give one good odds.

 

You're a tough thug ... don't ever stop fighting.

[Guest DuchessIvanaKizznhugg]

Still burning brightly......

 

So for myself and many others who share this opinion, I tell you NCM there is a candle in the window for you here. We will burn it bright so as to guide you back home. Grateful for your return.

 

http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae139/DuchessIvanaKizznhugg/watermark.jpg

[+ purplekow]

I hope you are reading these posts and getting better all the time.

[MsGuy]

I hope you are reading these posts and getting better all the time.

 

My wishes also.

[best hotel]

.......be well ....and please know how much you are appreciated here

[+ glutes]

Sending good thoughts and prayers your way ncm...

[Guest greatness]

same here

 

Hope you recover soon...

 

Sending good thoughts and prayers your way ncm...

[Guest greatness]

well

 

Kittie in Brothers and Sisters was diagnosed with nonhodgkins lymphoma on last week's episode. As soon as I heard lymphoma on TV, you occurred in my mind. I hope you are doing better. You are in our thoughts..

[+ purplekow]

I am always a bit apprehensive when this thread is renewed and the poster is not ncm. I anticipate and then am relieved when I find it is another poster thinking of ncm and how he is doing. I want to add my thoughts here for your recovery. So I hope you have a full and rapid recovery and return to us here. Once here, I promise to disagree with one of your political posts and as a result to beg you to leave.

[Guest greatness]

Josh Groban - Don't give up (You are loved)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izJyz64Tvdc

 

It has been 4 weeks since we heard from you... I hope you are doing well..

 

Here is a song for you and everybody who can't sleep tonight..

 

Don't give up

It's just the weight of the world

When your heart's heavy

I...I will lift it for you

 

Don't give up

Because you want to be heard

If silence keeps you

I...I will break it for you

 

Everybody wants to be understood

Well I can hear you

Everybody wants to be loved

Don't give up

Because you are loved

 

Don't give up

It's just the hurt that you hide

When you're lost inside

I...I will be there to find you

 

Don't give up

Because you want to burn bright

If darkness blinds you

I...I will shine to guide you

 

Everybody wants to be understood

Well I can hear you

Everybody wants to be loved

Don't give up

Because you are loved

 

You are loved

Don't give up

It's just the weight of the world

Don't give up

Every one needs to be heard

You are loved

[Guest greatness]

I wonder how ncm is doing?

 

Does anybody know? I guess he had hired a lot of escorts so they must know how he is doing if they bother to check on him... I hope he is fine.. Here is a song for you NCM. I pray that you are recovering...

 

Flower Duet..

 

Sous le dôme épais

Où le blanc jasmin

À la rose s’assemble

Sur la rive en fleurs,

Riant au matin

Viens, descendons ensemble.

Doucement glissons de son flot charmant

Suivons le courant fuyant

Dans l’onde frémissante

D’une main nonchalante

Viens, gagnons le bord,

Où la source dort et

L’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.

 

Sous le dôme épais

Où le blanc jasmin,

Ah! descendons

Ensemble!

 

Sous le dôme épais

Où le blanc jasmin

À la rose s’assemble

Sur la rive en fleurs,

Riant au matin

Viens, descendons ensemble.

 

Doucement glissons de son flot charmant

Suivons le courant fuyant

Dans l’onde frémissante

D’une main nonchalante

Viens, gagnons le bord,

Où la source dort et

L’oiseau, l’oiseau chante.

 

Sous le dôme épais

Où le blanc jasmin,

Ah! descendons

Ensemble!

 

 

Under the thick dome where the white jasmine

With the roses entwined together

On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning

Let us descend together!

Gently floating on its charming risings,

On the river’s current

On the shining waves,

One hand reaches,

Reaches for the bank,

Where the spring sleeps,

And the bird, the bird sings.

 

Under the thick dome where the white jasmine

Ah! calling us

Together!

 

Under the thick dome where white jasmine

With the roses entwined together

On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning

Let us descend together!

 

Gently floating on its charming risings,

On the river’s current

On the shining waves,

One hand reaches,

Reaches for the bank,

Where the spring sleeps,

And the bird, the bird sings.

 

Under the thick dome where the white jasmine

Ah! calling us

Together!

 

 

[+ purplekow]

Hope all is well with you NCM and that for this Thanksgiving you were surrounded by friends and family.

[Guest DuchessIvanaKizznhugg]

Warm thoughts for you......

 

http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae139/DuchessIvanaKizznhugg/watermark.jpg

 

Candle is still burning brightly, NCM, in anticipation of your return.

I hope your Thanksgiving was a peaceful one, and that you are comfortable and well-cared for

[Guest Wetnwildbear]

Thanks for Bringing this back to the top of the board

 

Thanks to whoever bumped this back to the top of the board.

 

I was on vacation when NCM posted and missed this totally.

 

 

HEY NCM - I hope you are out there reading this - Over the years we have traded

 

many a snarky quip and shared some laughs - I greatly appreciate your

 

passion and humor and hope you use both of those powerful weapons to fight your disease.

 

 

Just think of your Cancer as Rush Limpballs/Glenn Beck/Bill O'Reilly/Norm Coleman/

Newt Gingrich/James Dobson/Anne Coulter/Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin all Rolled into

one - THEN - KICK THE SHIT Out of it - and Come Back and Play with us soon!

 

Hopefully some of the many working guys you've helped are looking out for you and at the LEAST keep up your spirits or some other parts . . .

 

Best Wishes

 

WILD

[Steven_Draker]

ncm2169 has deceased

 

REST IN PEACE

[+ purplekow]

I am truly saddened by this news. Our community was richer for his participation and if his actions in this forum were an example of the manner in which he handled his life apart from here, I am sure he left this world a better place for his being. Steven if you know of a charity which may have held special importance to ncm2169, please post it. My best thoughts go out to his friends and family and I hope they find comfort.

[+ purplekow]

Rip

[Guest zipperzone]

ncm2169 has deceased

 

REST IN PEACE

[/color]

 

That is sad news indeed. I was hopeful, and I guess convinced, that he would beat this. It was over so soon........ truly frightening.

[seaboy4hire]

ncm2169 has deceased

 

REST IN PEACE

[/color]

 

NCM and I traded words but I hope his family is holding up. It is always sad when a guy leaves. Remember no one is ever promised tomorrow.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[+ ArVaGuy]

ncm2169 has deceased

 

REST IN PEACE

 

I am sorry to hear of this sad news.

[Guest greatness]

Rip

 

I pray that he rest in peace. Yeah please do Steven.

 

Steven if you know of a charity which may have held special importance to ncm2169, please post it. My best thoughts go out to his friends and family and I hope they find comfort.

[KMEM]

NCM and I crossed swords a few times here on the MB. We also continued by private email. I never personally wished him any thing but good wishes. May he RIP.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[+ g56whiz]

In the stillness of this morning I hear the tolling of John Donne's bell.

 

RIP nmc2169