11-20-2010, 06:04 AM
Some of you may know Wayne Bennion and his partner Bob Demers from their travels to the island and Wayne's participation on PunaWeb. Wayne asked me to let you know that his husband Bob passed away this week. If you know Wayne I am sure he'd appreciate hearing from you. He provided me with the following:
"I'm sorry to inform you that Bob died this week. It's a pretty long story, but he got a diagnosis of stage 4 adenocarcinoma, primary unknown. He had had 4 bags of chemo, 2 on Monday, 1 on Wed, then 1 the following Wed. A week plus after that...
Bob got a very severe pain in the gut Saturday morning which took us to the ER after the strongest pain pills we had in the house didn't work. Sunday morning he had surgery that corrected the immediate problem, but complications in the ICU, probably caused by his being so weak from chemo, ensued. Tuesday afternoon we were able to get the breathing tube out and he could speak some. He seemed to be sleeping comfortably (at last!) that night, but he was completely nonresponsive the next morning. We put the breathing tube back in at the urgings of one of the doctors, but then a CT scan of his brain was done, and it was clear he had already left us. After family arrived that afternoon, we took the tube back out and waited for the end, which came around 6:00 am Thursday."
-Blake
http://www.theboysgreatescape.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/Blakeyboy1
"I'm sorry to inform you that Bob died this week. It's a pretty long story, but he got a diagnosis of stage 4 adenocarcinoma, primary unknown. He had had 4 bags of chemo, 2 on Monday, 1 on Wed, then 1 the following Wed. A week plus after that...
Bob got a very severe pain in the gut Saturday morning which took us to the ER after the strongest pain pills we had in the house didn't work. Sunday morning he had surgery that corrected the immediate problem, but complications in the ICU, probably caused by his being so weak from chemo, ensued. Tuesday afternoon we were able to get the breathing tube out and he could speak some. He seemed to be sleeping comfortably (at last!) that night, but he was completely nonresponsive the next morning. We put the breathing tube back in at the urgings of one of the doctors, but then a CT scan of his brain was done, and it was clear he had already left us. After family arrived that afternoon, we took the tube back out and waited for the end, which came around 6:00 am Thursday."
-Blake
http://www.theboysgreatescape.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/Blakeyboy1