Bob
Yes, it has been a while since I posted and I sort of gave up on this for a while but I have to post now. There is no other more appropriate place for this.
This post is for Bob (
misoconfused / sunvines)
I was up late catching up on people's facebook statuses only to discover one about a memorial for Bob, I went to his page and discovered the status I missed four days ago. He lost his battle with brain cancer after being diagnosed with it for about a year and a half.
I met him a few years ago, like many of my live journal friends, through a live journal community I used to post in frequently. We were never super close but we communicated a lot through lj and were e-pals. I knew him since 2002/2003.
I used to have a live journal icon with a miniature guide hose that said "My Little Pony" and he and I would gush over how cute they were. We also connected over the fact that our birthdays were close. Mine July 3 1987, his was July 4, 1987. He once sent me a birthday card and mentioned kiddnapping cuddles (the guide horse that was in my user icon)
I was looking at his journal and saw he replied to one of my comments with this audio clip: http://odeo.com/episodes/22448446-…
I read that book last year, shortly after he recommended it to me but I never told him that I read it.
When I first learned that he had a brain tumor, I cried. It just upset me so much, at that point in time we started communicating less, it just saddened me that it was happening to him. To place myself in his shoes.. I just couldn't. I couldn't imagine what he was going through or what his family felt. He had some hard times already between being displaced from Tulane during Hurricane Katrina, his family moving and having financial issues. He was a tough cookie.
What was so incredible about Bob during his battle was that while he updated about what he was going through, he maintained his sense of humor and always looked on the positive side of things, even if it the situation wasn't looking good. He didn't want sympathy, he didn't want pity. He really was so brave and it was almost as if he undermined his own strength.
Death is really hard. It's difficult no matter what. I'm just so saddened by learning of his passing. He will certainly be missed.
This post is for Bob (
misoconfused / sunvines) I was up late catching up on people's facebook statuses only to discover one about a memorial for Bob, I went to his page and discovered the status I missed four days ago. He lost his battle with brain cancer after being diagnosed with it for about a year and a half.
I met him a few years ago, like many of my live journal friends, through a live journal community I used to post in frequently. We were never super close but we communicated a lot through lj and were e-pals. I knew him since 2002/2003.
I used to have a live journal icon with a miniature guide hose that said "My Little Pony" and he and I would gush over how cute they were. We also connected over the fact that our birthdays were close. Mine July 3 1987, his was July 4, 1987. He once sent me a birthday card and mentioned kiddnapping cuddles (the guide horse that was in my user icon)
I was looking at his journal and saw he replied to one of my comments with this audio clip: http://odeo.com/episodes/22448446-…
I read that book last year, shortly after he recommended it to me but I never told him that I read it.
When I first learned that he had a brain tumor, I cried. It just upset me so much, at that point in time we started communicating less, it just saddened me that it was happening to him. To place myself in his shoes.. I just couldn't. I couldn't imagine what he was going through or what his family felt. He had some hard times already between being displaced from Tulane during Hurricane Katrina, his family moving and having financial issues. He was a tough cookie.
What was so incredible about Bob during his battle was that while he updated about what he was going through, he maintained his sense of humor and always looked on the positive side of things, even if it the situation wasn't looking good. He didn't want sympathy, he didn't want pity. He really was so brave and it was almost as if he undermined his own strength.
Death is really hard. It's difficult no matter what. I'm just so saddened by learning of his passing. He will certainly be missed.
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