[at-l] Fwd: from Walkin' Jim Stoltz

[Linda Benschop]

Marsha Lee wrote:
> He touches my heart, this and always.
>
> Thank you for posting Linda.
>
> Marsha
>
> > From: lpatton at fsu.edu
> > To: at-l at backcountry.net
> > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:23:14 -0500
> > Subject: [at-l] Fwd: from Walkin' Jim Stoltz
> >
> > For those who don't get his newsletter...
> > ~~ eArThworm
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Walkin' Jim Stoltz <wildwind at imt.net>
> > Date: Friday, December 28, 2007 4:05 pm
> > Subject: Wild Wind Newsletter #5
> > To: Walkin' Jim Stoltz <wildwind at imt.net>
> > >
> > > GREETINGS FROM WALKIN' JIM
> > >
> > > Hello Friends....
> > > ... ... ...
> > > In November I learned that I had cancer in the lymph nodes on the 
> left side
> > > of my neck. I was feeling fine, but had noticed a lump on my neck 
> and had it
> > > checked out while touring. After finishing up the shows in 
> Sandpoint and
> > > canceling shows in the Seattle area, I went into the hospital in 
> Billings,MT
> > > where I had surgery to remove the tumors in my tonsils and neck.
> > > Unfortunately, the recovery has been complicated by the immune
> > > suppressant drugs I take for my kidney, and I had to be 
> re-admitted to the
> > > hospital foralmost two weeks several days after I was first 
> released. I'm
> > > finally out of the hospital and healing from the surgery, and will 
> start radiation
> > > treatments for the cancer next week in Billings.
> > >
> > > It looks like a tough road for the next couple months, but I am 
> already
> > > looking ahead to performing in the spring, and have high hopes 
> that I'll
> > > be out there singing for the wild places once again. Carol, my office
> > > person,is continuing to schedule for the spring and fall. And 
> believe me,
> > > I'll need the gigs to help pay for the hospital time.
> > >
> > > In the meantime, I've canceled my winter gigs at Lone Mountain Ranch,
> > > and have fallen into a self-preservation mode. I sleep for hours each
> > > day, and have fallen way behind in correspondence. Please accept my
> > > apologies for not responding to your letters or emails right away. 
> I'll get
> > > to it, but it might take me a while.
> > >
> > > Thank you all for your support, and I encourage all of you to take
> > > the time to give thanks for this beautiful life we live, the 
> planet that
> > > sustains us, and the good fortune that touches us each and every day.
> > > Wishing you the VERY BEST for 2008!!!!
> > >
> > > Happy New Year!
> > >
> > > - Walkin' Jim
> >
This is so upsetting.  He looked so good when we saw him at the 
Gathering.  Jan (Dutch Treat), and he, spent hours together playing and 
chatting at the very end of the Gathering, exchanging DVDs.  I also 
bought one of the children's DVDs which I would recommend to anyone with 
children.
Hoping and Praying that he gets thru this.  He is such a wonderful man.

eArThworm, thanks for sharing this.

Hummingbird



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