[Hammarlund] W8DBF Has Left The Stage -

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:09:10 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Duane,

Our thoughts and prayers go with you.  If you are in
God's hands, you are in good hands indeed.  We wish
you a speedy recovery and God's greatest blessings.

73 de Gary
WA1TJB
--- "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 	
> As announced during the Sunday July 13th HCI 20
> meter Net, I am leaving all
> things Hallicrafters, vintage, SWL and pretty much
> everything else, 
> indefinitely	
> 	
> If any of you encounter a problem with any list I
> currently administrate, please
> contact Al Waller, K3TKJ, at: [email protected] He will
> be handling things until
> return. 	
> 	
> Briefly, i went for a routine doctor's visit a week
> ago today. It was time for
> my annual physical anyhow, so while I was there I
> had the blood work done. 	
> 	
> The next day the doctor called and told me that he
> wanted me in the hospital
> immediately for a three unit, (pint) transfusion. I
> was stunned. My hemoglobin
> was 6.8, less than half of normal. Everything to do
> with Iron was a mile below
> the bottom of the scale. Such as Iron from 35-150,
> mine was 7. Additional blood
> tests showed the only thing wrong with my blood, was
> almost no Iron. Hence, the
> bone marrow uses Iron to produce hemoglobin, and I
> had no Iron. What hemoglobin
> was stored in reserve in the liver had been used up.
> I was alive, he was not
> sure why, but running on less than the fumes from an
> empty gas tank.        	
> 	
> Then he totally knocked me off the chair when he
> told me the probable cause was
> advanced colon cancer. I had not had any signs of
> blood in the urine or stool,
> and the urine test showed none whatsoever. 	
> 	
> Tomorrow morning I am in the hospital for a
> transfusion. Then more blood work.
> Then I am in the hospital for colon, stomach and
> other intrusive tests. The
> normal six to eight week waiting period is being
> waived, as he figures I won't
> be alive by then. 	
> 	
> That is a brief overview of what has happened to
> cause me to put my life on
> hold. I hope there is not a SK sale in my near
> future and I hope I will survive
> whatever is going on inside me. Frankly, right now,
> my future is hour by hour.
> Why am I still home? Well, first I had to get some
> areas of my life taken care
> of in the event I could not manage them myself and
> second because I am too
> blasted determined to continue on and pretend this
> is not really happening. But
> if I get any weaker, I won't be here, so it is time
> to put my life in God's
> hands, do what the doctor says and try to think
> positive thoughts. I am not yet
> ready to write Frogzilla's last chapter! 	
> 	
> Keep the Hallicrafters, and other vintage tube gear,
> glowing for me and keep
> this list active, productive and peaceful. If there
> is any way to be on the air
> Wednesday night, I will be there! If it is possible
> to do the Saturday and
> Sunday Nets, I will be there! But if I am not there,
> I hope that one or two of
> you will step up to the plate and pinch hit for me
> as NCS. 	
> 	
> Keep the HCI web site furnished with material and
> help the Web Master Fred
> Mooney, KA1DGL, keep it going. Fred and I have
> carried the web site on our
> shoulders through thick and thin. Craig Carter has
> done a marvelous job handling
> the 'forsale-swap' area the past year and a half.
> (thank you Craig!) Whether I
> go on, or not, I want the HCI concept, the HCI Nets
> and the HCI web site to
> survive. So please keep those things that still go
> glow in the night lit.  	
> 	
> I will not be answering e-mail for a while, but if I
> am able, I will be reading
> it. If I have the strength, I 'may' answer a few now
> and then.   	
> 	
> Take care my friends, thank you for everything over
> the years, keep Frogzilla
> out of the Sport's Illustrated swim suit photo
> sessions, keep those Halli's lit
> and God willing, I shall return. 	
> 	
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF/W9WZE	
> [email protected]   	
> 
> 
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