Janet
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:03:27
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Thank you Reece. I can't wait for Jimmy to see these posts. :-)
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:03:45
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marcos69 Beagle I'm working on a donation webpage and paypal now. it should be up this afternoon. Be sure and mention it in the songs forum (if you haven't already). That's where I saw him most. It's up there, thanks again Janet. And again best wishes Jimmyman.
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Beagle
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:04:28
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Janet - how about editing your first post to put the link in it for the donation website?
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:08:11
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Hey, Reece, seeing the "jimmyman" in your address, this is the "Jimmy" I thought it was. His posts were always well thought out and detailed, and his politics were even handed. Really nice guy. So very sad. But you CAN beat this...positive attitude is most important. Yep, if we can keep the donations "off the record", everything will be fine. Later Albert
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Janet
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:09:50
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Reece...done. Yeah, you know him, Albert. :-)
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:12:58
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Done - Donated - Not much - 30 bucks - as I am on unemployment as well I would heed to Albert's advice Beagle - sounds like he has to show he has ZERO funds before he gets the help that will pay for the treatment and then he can take from charitable donations - I think is what Albert was explaining - anyway - it's in my prayers
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marcos69
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:25:10
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Janet, your link is not working. Reece, yours is.
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Beagle
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:26:31
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Mooch4056 Done - Donated - Not much - 30 bucks - as I am on unemployment as well I would heed to Albert's advice Beagle - sounds like he has to show he has ZERO funds before he gets the help that will pay for the treatment and then he can take from charitable donations - I think is what Albert was explaining - anyway - it's in my prayers I will make sure Jimmy knows that he cannot have this money to show as income on any record and he can receive the money when it's best for him and in a manner which is best for his best interest.
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:27:24
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Janet, you tacked on /jimmyman but it is not part of your actual link.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:30:20
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Beagle
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:30:23
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marcos69
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:36:40
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Reece, I'm still having the same problem when It gets to paypal. I cleared my cache and it still didn't work. Could this be a firefox thing? I'll try with explorer.
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Beagle
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:39:21
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it might be. I've had 4 successful donations so far, so I think it works on my end.
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marcos69
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:40:46
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Ima wait til I get home then and try there.
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 16:54:34
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I have to wait until Monday to do my contrib...forgot big bill...
The space you have will always be exceeded in direct proportion to the amount of stuff you have...Thornton's Postulate. Bushpianos
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 17:05:01
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Thanks Janet and everyone else too. This whole thing has been such that it "takes over" in many ways such as mentally, physically, financially etc. Like being "bound". About 2 to 3 months ago it all started with a jaw pain as if it were a tooth. After seeing a dentist it was antibiotics a small amount of pain medicine and "come back in a week". Well for one the pain medication didn't even do anything for the pain at all, or if it did it was so minimal to be of any relief. I could and still can barely open my mouth. I went through I think 3 to 4 dentist trying to get answers and even being treated like I was some sort of "bad person" Just the way the docs acted toward me was bad enough. Maybe it was just bad luck and uncaring dentists. The last one was a little better and said go see such and such Oral Doctor. This whole thing was a "waiting" game. Even with the oral doc it was going to be about a month to even get a consultation and then longer to do anything. The pain had increased to the point of being such that I'd rather die than have to go through this. I ended up in the hospital as I had got to the point of coughing up blood and blood just randomly running from my nose. The hospital gave me blood transfusions, checked my stomach for ulcers and such and my stomach was O.K.. During all this time I'm still in horrible pain as they give me some sort of mild pain medication. I'm telling them the whole time that my "jaw" is where all this extreme pain is. Even the "outside" of my jaw is swollen. After about 3 days they said your being released, go see a dentist "we don't do that type of "work here". I located an oral surgeon in Nashville about 50 miles away. they put me to sleep and extracted my jaw tooth. At this point it was a question of if the "tooth" had caused the problem or if it was more severe such as cancer. They then sent me to an oncologist who is now in charge of finding out what my condition is. He sent me to a neurologist and the result was cancer. He took a biopsy and the results are not yet in as to the type or stage I'm in. He said it was a large tumor and said that surgery was not an option. He said that treatment for pain was a next step and that getting feeling back on the left side of my tongue would not happen. Radiation and chemo would be the next steps and also cat and pet scans are needed to see what is going on and if this cancer has spread. So meanwhile that is where things stand at the moment. It shouldn't have taken all this time find this out but it did. Having no job and couldn't work if I did has it's own ramifications. So it's one day at a time right now. My desire and motivation to work on music and be active on the forums here is low as the pain is so strong that (even on medication) the way I'm feeling is not up to it. Then the question of "whether I'll ever sing again" is another question because it's hard enough to even be understandable when I speak. This also makes trying to eat very difficult with all the limitations. (If) that turns out to be the case then my music life as I knew it will be changed. I haven't yet tried to do a vocal track so I don't yet know "how much" this lack of feeling in my tongue will do as far as that goes. What I do know is that at this time my music is on standby least as far as vocs go. And also my writing, playing, comments etc on the forums is limited because I just don't feel well. Thank you all "so much" for your support, concern, prayers etc. That means a lot to me to have the type friends you all are.
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marcos69
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 17:14:56
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Really sorry to hear all of that Jimmy. i hope everything works out ok for you.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 17:33:44
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Stay strong Jimmy, Your experience sounds about normal for our current health care system... your gonna have to press hard to get the help you need. I say... do what ever it takes to get the doctors attention. There's too many holes in the system precisely because we don't have system. :-( Searching out people that will take the time to help, and inspiring them to work as a team should be you 100% priority. all the best, mike
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 17:38:30
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Jimmy, this is just one of those things meant to test you. Keep your head up and try and stay positive pal. To my fellow forum members: I understand times are difficult for alot of folks these days, but this is one of those times when even a little bit will go a long ways. Give what you can, no matter how little. There are enough of us to make a big difference for a fellow musician and friend. Randy
http://www.soundclick.com/riprorenband The music biz is a cruel and shallow money trench,a plastic hallway where thieves & pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. Hunter S. Thompson
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 17:54:01
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marcos69 Reece, I'm still having the same problem when It gets to paypal. I cleared my cache and it still didn't work. Could this be a firefox thing? I'll try with explorer. It gave me trouble too Mark. I put the amount, entered Paypal info and when I clicked it cleared, I re-entered amount clicked again and it opened another window for Paypal info again and took that. Reece if it gets out of hand with the transaction fee PM me.
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trimph1
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 17:56:54
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The space you have will always be exceeded in direct proportion to the amount of stuff you have...Thornton's Postulate. Bushpianos
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Beagle
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 18:20:34
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Jimmy - good to hear from you. it sounds difficult, but stay strong. Michael - what browser are you using? and I shouldn't have a problem matching funds, but I will PM you if I do!
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Janet
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 19:02:31
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Thank you for posting it there, Barry. You're from London? My husband's from Kitchener.
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trimph1
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 19:04:37
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I'm actually just to the north of London near a little town called Atwood...
The space you have will always be exceeded in direct proportion to the amount of stuff you have...Thornton's Postulate. Bushpianos
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 19:17:10
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gamblerschoice As most of you know, I have gone through this very thing myself just recently. I want to get this post in early as a word of caution concerning the collection of money. This is in no way meant as a political statement, but as a warning based on real life experiences. So, let's look at the basics, and make sure we have the facts clear from the start, "i"s dotted, "t"s crossed, as stated above.' I don't know who Jimmy is, I think I know, and if I am correct, he is a U.S. citizen. Which is a plus, if you give me a minute to explain. The notes that he has no job or insurance is also a positive in a situation like this. With no job and no insurance, he is elligible for (a) charity and (b) disability....but he has to maintain a total lack of funding in order to remain elligile. In the states, he must be taken care of. Doctors are required to treat him, and hospitals also must treat him, regardless of ability to pay. The first step is to apply for temporary disability. Make sure that there are no moneys in any accounts that he can access. The disability for myself got held up several times while we jumped through the hoops set before us, but in the end, once we discovered that I had $600 too much in an IRA account, we were able to get "Medical Assistance" which is the Medicaid Access card, which will cover everything including perscriptions at 100%. But that first $600 had to be withdrawn and spent on medical bills, with reciepts to prove it, the penalty to the IRS was waved, but that was just the bank being nice. The reasoning for this precaution is that, the money you set aside for him, while well intended, may actually hurt him by giving him access to money that is not enough to pay the huge bills he will see, at the same time delaying or negating the Medicaid help which can really help, and destroying the charity help that doctors and hospitals are willing to provide. Everything must go through the hoops correctly. Get the donations thing working, it will help, but keep it off to the side until he has his medical assistance established... On the disease side, it appears from the limited information in Janet's post, Jimmy waited much longer than I did before getting help. For whatever reasons, he was already having trouble eating and large amounts of pain. For myself, the pain level was moderate, extra strength over the counter tylenol every three hours, needing them sooner, maybe every two hours...you know something is wrong. But I was able eat, that was a big plus, since the body was still relatively strong when treatment started. With out getting into details, research has led us to find that this type of throat cancer is growing, more than 30,000 new cases every year over the amount of the previous years. Most are in the same area, and respond very well to radiation and chemo. It is a brutal treatment plan, but it works. Good luck, Jimmy. Positive attitude is very important...you can beat this, many people beat it every year. Stay strong, and if you want to talk to someone who has just gone through the treatment, call me @ 814-266-1603, or albertsekely@yahoo.com I am home and available every day. Later Albert Janet, Reece- There's some sage advice here from Albert, and I got pretty much the same story from my SO, Sue, who has a disabled daughter, and has been thru the 'hoops' more than a few times. Hopefully, Jimmy has a close family member or friend who can do some of the 'legwork' so far as medicare/medicaid/charity go. Preferrably someone in the same state, as the laws/guidelines may differ from one to the next. He'll need an advocate, and probably a healthcare proxy if he doesn't already have one. It is so sad to hear these stories, and my heart and prayers go out to Jimmy, Albert, Garry Kiosk and our other brothers and sisters who have had to endure or are enduring such trials and hardships. I'll be donating too, but Albert's comments about segregating those funds are spot on.
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Janet
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 19:20:18
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trimph1 I'm actually just to the north of London near a little town called Atwood... Haven't heard of that one, but I love Ontario. A little too cold for me, but otherwise it's a wonderful place with lots of wonderful people. :-)
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spacey
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 20:18:43
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Beagle Jimmy - good to hear from you. it sounds difficult, but stay strong. Michael - what browser are you using? and I shouldn't have a problem matching funds, but I will PM you if I do! I started trying Mozilla a few weeks back because sites flag me as IE6 but my PC says IE8...
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Beagle
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 20:27:37
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spacey Beagle Jimmy - good to hear from you. it sounds difficult, but stay strong. Michael - what browser are you using? and I shouldn't have a problem matching funds, but I will PM you if I do! I started trying Mozilla a few weeks back because sites flag me as IE6 but my PC says IE8... That's odd! has everyone been able to get it to work now using one browser or another? if you can't get it to work, you can always go directly to paypal and send money to reecebain at sbclobal dot net - just make sure you put "for Jimmy" or something similar in the comments.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 20:32:43
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firefox 3.6.13 seemed to work easy as pie
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marcos69
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Re:Our good friend Jimmy
2011/01/28 20:38:05
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I keep getting this error: We cannot process this transaction because there is a problem with the PayPal email address supplied by the seller. Please contact the seller to resolve the problem. If this payment is for an eBay listing, you can contact the seller via the "Ask Seller a Question" link on the listing page. When you have the correct email address, payment can be made at www.paypal.com. I'll just use your email address Reece.
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