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About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone

Many of us have come to know Patrick Malone (Lugnut) as a friendly, helpful, knowledgeable and kind individual. He is a frequent and enthusiastic contributor to our analog discussion forum. He has initiated only 17 threads, but responded to 559 threads. I would guess that many, if not most, of us can recall a time when Pat replied with helpful advice to a question we posted or helped us track down a rare recording. I have come to love Pat as a friend, and to respect him as a man, and I suspect many of you share those feelings.

Today I write to share difficult news with you. Pat has been diagnosed with an aggressive stomach cancer. It has yet to be determined whether surgery will even be worth it. If surgery is performed, most or all of the stomach will be removed, and Pat would face a difficult and long post-op period in the hospital. The medical course is still uncertain, but will be determined soon. Whatever is decided, it will not be easy or pleasant.

Something may be planned in the future to assist the family. For now, Pat could use some of the friendship he so often and willingly showed us. You can email Pat at: lugnut50@msn.com. You can also mail cards, letters ... or whatever. You may email me for Pat's mailing address. My email is: pfrumkin1@comcast.net.

I hope to spend a few days with Pat in Idaho or Nebraska (from which he hails) soon. Between this news, my legal work, getting ready for family arriving for the holidays, Audio Intelligent, and trying to make plans to visit Pat, my head is spinning. If you email me and I don't respond, please understand that I am not ignoring you, but rather simply do not have time to reply.

Pat may or may not have time to respond to posts here, to emails, or to cards mailed to him. But he has asked me to convey to each and every one of you that he has cherished your friendship, your comradery, and sharing our common hobby on this great website.

As we prepare for our holiday season celebrations, and look forward to -- as we should -- enjoying this time of year, I ask that you keep Pat and his family in mind ... and softly offer up, in quiet moments in the still of night and early morning, prayers for Pat and his family. God bless.

Warmest regards to all,
Paul Frumkin
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jdodmead
257 posts
 
Pat,
Where are you? Still recovering from the little ones? We need an update. Hope things are good.

Jeff
lugnut
1,190 posts
 
You guys are so darned faithful. Thank you. I was going to hold off on posting to this thread until after my doctor's visit tomorrow. Honestly, I know that my current chemo is no longer working. I'm not feeling well at all considering how good I have felt the last couple of months. Eating is becoming a pretty big issue. I'm uncomfortable if I don't eat and more uncomfortable if I do. I will post again tomorrow and let you know what plan of attack is going to happen. For sure, whatever it is will be brutal compared to the Taxol that has given me very few side effects. I am thankful that it has worked longer than anticipated. Enough of this.....

Yesterday I went up in that WWI bi-plane ride that Barb bought for me. Nice Father's Day gift! We went about twenty minutes north of where I live and proceeded to do some "maneuvers", he he. It's a cool ride in more ways than one. I then was given the opportunity to drive the thing. Hey, I'm telling you guys that I could take off and land it without any lessons at all. No kidding. I flew it back toward town and actually found my house and circled it. Stick and throttle is all you need unless you are on the ground and then you need to do the peddle thing. It was a good time and my grandson enjoyed watching me get in, go up and come back down. He was impressed. I'd post a photo if I knew how.

We ate at the airport grill. I've eaten at several small airports and all of them serve a very good meal at a cheap price. I did pay a hefty price all day and unfortunately we had committed to going to a late day barbeque. I could only eat a few bites there and this was about ten hours after eating a small breakfast at the airport.

Jeff, I know how hard it is to put down a long time pet. Sorry about your loss. We had to put down Paco, one of our cats that was 18 years old due to liver failure. He was a sweet guy. With no claws and very few teeth he was the protector of our back yard whenever any stray puss wandered in.

J.D., at this point IF it took having my pee pee fall off for a cure, I'd let that sucker rip. Rest assured, it's still there and it still works, he he.

Larry, the Airy 3 is wonderful. I suppose my system would respond to the UNIverse too but I'm as happy as a clam with this cartridge. It is just so smooth. For whatever reason, I prefer the silver wire versions of the ZYX line. It's going to be interesting to hear it after a few weeks and I'll let you guys know what my final impression is. You can count on it.

Hey, keep your fingers crossed that the oncologist has another bullet to load. I'll let you know tomorrow. Thanks for thinking of me.
speedball
86 posts
 
Hi Patrick,
Going up in a Bi-plane sounds like a blast!

I just saw one fly over the other day and they sure are easy to spot with the double wings.

............Pat
mark_1
1 posts
 
I just happened upon this by looking at the latest forum threads. Lugnut Hang in there man, my friend has stage 4 colon cancer and he is beating it!! My prayers go out to you and your family.
tobias
1,534 posts
 
Patrick, thanks for another wonderful post. I'll be watching for news. I wish you all the very best... more than I can say, since this is your thread and I'm shy. I love biplanes myself, and now one day I'll take a ride in one thanks to you.
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