Cancer SUCKS

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  • The Wanderer finds his resting-place...

    RIPARIG Robert, and thank you @Ariel for your care.
  • <No words. I just don't have them>

    <votive>
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Very sorry to hear that - one of the Ship's gentlemen.

    May he rest in peace and rise in glory. :cry:
  • Oh how sad!
    Rest in peace Robert Armin.
    No more fear or pain, just perpetual light and calm
  • Rest in peace Robert.
  • bassobasso Shipmate
    So we've lost The Wanderer and Rossweisse at the same time. How Wagnerian. I think they'd both have appreciated the juxtaposition.
  • Doc Tor wrote: »
    Well, crap.
    That pretty much sums it up. I was afraid this is what I’d find then I saw how many new posts were in this thread.

    I’m glad his suffering is done, but I shall miss him very much.

    I’ll post again the prayer I posted at Rossweisse’s death. They fit Robert Armin, too.


    O God,
    before whom generations rise and pass away,
    we praise you for all your servants
    who, having lived this life in faith,
    now live eternally with you.

    Especially we thank you for your servant The Wanderer/Robert Armin,
    whose baptism is now complete in death.
    We praise you for the gift of his life,
    for all in him that was good and kind and faithful,
    for the grace you gave him,
    that kindled in him the love of your dear name,
    and enabled him to serve you faithfully.

    We thank you that for him death is past and pain ended,
    and that he has now entered the joy you have prepared;
    through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    Amen.

  • If I recall correctly Robert's first name was Hugh and it was under that name he first boarded the ship. There are a few ship names I recall from the previous millennium. His is one.
  • Nick Tamen wrote: »
    ... We thank you that for him death is past and pain ended,
    and that he has now entered the joy you have prepared;
    through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    Amen.
    Amen
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    @Nick Tamen‘s prayer is also the prayer of my heart 🕯.
  • I am so sorry to hear this, but glad for @Robert Armin. As I say at some funerals, our grief is not for Robert/Hugh, for he is safe with God. Our grief is for ourselves, for we shall miss him.

  • Jengie Jon wrote: »
    If I recall correctly Robert's first name was Hugh and it was under that name he first boarded the ship. There are a few ship names I recall from the previous millennium. His is one.

    Huw, actually.
  • AdrienneAdrienne Shipmate Posts: 12
    So sorry to hear this - Rest in Peace Robert Armin
  • Tears and 'Ohhhhhh' and 'Damn'. More tears.
  • There's now a dedicated thread of remembrance in All Saints for Robert.
  • Farewell, @Robert Armin and thank you for your wise words @Cathscats.
  • Wordless. Robert, may you rest in peace and rise in glory. 🕯
  • SpikeSpike Admin Emeritus
    Ariel wrote: »
    Would it be all right to ask everybody what those names were? I may find myself mourning for more than one (virtual) person, as it were.

    For some time he was The Wanderer, before changing to Robert Armin.
    Before that he posted under his real name of Huw
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    :heartbreak: We'll miss you. Peace be with you, Robert Armin.
  • So very sorry to hear this and yet thankful he is free of pain. May light perpetual shine upon him.
  • Oh... I liked Robert Armin (Huw) and will miss his kindness and gentle humour. I'll cherish his great comment just a few weeks ago about funeral music - he wanted 'The Arrival of The Queen of Sheba". I've been chuckling over that happy memory of him and retelling it ever since.

    Thanks to Ariel for caring for him (and us).
  • Since we're in Hell, I feel free to say, as we would in a certain corner of Canada, "Well, fuck me..." Talk about a week that sucks in a year that sucks.
  • What Pangolin said, multiplied by 50. Fucking fucked-up cancer.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Doc Tor wrote: »
    Well, crap.
    That pretty much sums it up. I was afraid this is what I’d find then I saw how many new posts were in this thread.

    I’m glad his suffering is done, but I shall miss him very much.

    I’ll post again the prayer I posted at Rossweisse’s death. They fit Robert Armin, too.


    O God,
    before whom generations rise and pass away,
    we praise you for all your servants
    who, having lived this life in faith,
    now live eternally with you.

    Especially we thank you for your servant The Wanderer/Robert Armin,
    whose baptism is now complete in death.
    We praise you for the gift of his life,
    for all in him that was good and kind and faithful,
    for the grace you gave him,
    that kindled in him the love of your dear name,
    and enabled him to serve you faithfully.

    We thank you that for him death is past and pain ended,
    and that he has now entered the joy you have prepared;
    through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    Amen.

    Amen from us as well
  • Rest easy, Huw.

    And cancer? Fuck you to the fucking depths of fucking hell you fucker.
  • GalilitGalilit Shipmate
    edited December 2020
    Amen to that from me too
  • and me
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    And me!
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    :rage: :+1:
  • Yes indeed. And thank you @Nick Tamen for the beautiful prayer and to @Ariel for being the Ship's connection to Robert. May light perpetual shine upon him.*

    *and it sucks that all I have to do is type "may" and predictive text fills in the whole sentence.
  • Peace Robert. Prayers ongoing.
    Prayers for those we hear of, and those we don't, those caring and those grieving.
    My thanks for this community of care.

    And fuck cancer.
  • Miss a day visiting here and, oh dear, another shipmate gone; I am so sorry to hear it. one whose posts always seemed to me to reflect a sensitive and very thoughtful person.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    More tears. This stinks.
    We will miss Robert so much.
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    RIP Robert.
  • Lisa's hair has started to fall out, but she is putting a brave face on it. Her next infusion is Dec 10th.
    Just heard (yesterday) that one of the best, kindest and most modest fellows in our society (of antique modellers, since you ask) has died - quickly - of pancreatic cancer. Which is nasty. What a bugger! I shall miss him at our meetings. Please pray for the repose of Peter. Lord have mercy.

    So that's three this week. 2020 is turning into a very bad year ....
  • NenyaNenya Shipmate
    I'm so sorry. Prayers for Lisa, and for Peter and those who love him.

    Grim grim grim.
  • Losing your hair must be horrible, but I hope Lisa has the same sort of experience as the niece of a friend - when she'd finished with the chemo and her hair grew back it was wavier than it had been before, and had a new coppery glint to it. She was delighted!
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    Grim, indeed! 🕯
  • Bless you Margaret, that's lovely! Lisa has a selection of wigs ...
  • For Lisa and for Peter.
  • How is everyone doing? Continued prayers for all who have posted here.
  • indeed
  • Lisa is having her second chemo dose today. They are reducing the steroid dose to try to prevent or at least ameliorate the horrid week-long depressive episode she experienced after the first time.
    Love, thanks and prayers to and for all here.
  • NenyaNenya Shipmate
    Thinking of Lisa; I hope this round of chemo is less traumatic.
  • Steroids do help you survive the chemo.
    I found they made me hyper and aggressive (still me but worse in my less attractive traits). I went down to half-doses to try to get the best of the drug's strenghtening effects without the psychological side-effects. It worked well right till the very end when I had to take the full dose again.
    So I hope it works for her.
    Prayers ascending
  • My thanks to all of you who pray here. Lisa had her second chemo infusion on Friday. This went well. The oncologist reduced the steroids so (thus far) Lisa has had no depressive episode, and she slept for fifteen hours. The oncologist has also cancelled the session she was going to have Christmas Eve.

    In Lisa (and her church's parlance) PTL! So the family is in good spirits, but we won't be able to visit.

    My gratitude to all and especially to Our Lord for you all.
  • Good News, may it continue. RockyRoger.
  • Prayers ascending ... it's a long road, I know
  • My sister, R, has just been diagnosed with cancer and admitted to an oncology ward. Could folks please join with me in praying for her and for A and Z (their actual initials!), family members who live in the same village and are rather frazzled with worry?
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