Some of you may have noticed our nearly complete absence from the site for the past month. A few of our close IRL friends are aware, but I think it’s time we talked about this to the entire community.
SP spent several weeks in bed with great pain, which she attributed to gallstones. We had an ultrasound done, then a CT scan. The news was not good- she has a rare form of cancer, and it’s Stage 4. She’s been in the hospital ever since, and there have been several complications which aren’t worth going into. WebDom and I have tried to be here at all times to make sure she gets the care she needs when she needs it, splitting shifts while trying to keep our business going. Short-term goal is trying to get her stable enough to transport to Roswell Park, which is a superb cancer center; her oncologist there has a reputation for fast and aggressive treatment, which we think is appropriate.
We are approaching this as aggressively as possible because the world needs SP in it. Her work here is not done. She is an incredible woman, who continually makes the world a better place just by existing — not to mention the other things she *actively* does.
SP is a very private person and didn’t want people to know, but it’s kinda leaked out, and I am sharing this now because at this point, we need a favor:
Prayers. Healing energy. Love.
We can never have too many. If you have a moment, please send some light her way, and let her know she’s loved and needed here. I’m famously not a religious person, but Pascal’s Wager and all that.
SP is truly the love of my life and these are our darkest days. We are comforted by the support and community that you people have sustained.
I wish you both the best, and you know you can count on this community for help should you need it.
Also how am I first? Isn’t that someone else’s job?
My sincerest hopes for the best for you and SP.
I was not crying this whole time … you were crying!
Ok, maybe I was.
I fucking well am.
Me too.
yup
Oh no…I am so devastated to hear this. I will send only my goodest thoughts your way. You guys deserve all the best things and best health.
So sorry to read this. I hope SP will get all the necessary treatment as soon as possible.
Oh, no. Mrs. Animal and I are there for you, if there’s anything we can do to help – anything at all – you know how to reach us.
You have my prayers. Best hope for swift recovery and emotional support for your family.
Prayers incoming.
I’m so sorry. Love to you all.
Oh, that freaking sucks. Not a praying man but I just sent one up to the God I’m familiar with.
Prayers from Nevada
And yet more prayers for healing and comfort from Nevada!
Let us know if there is something we can do. If she would like to receive physical cards in the mail and you are willing to give us a mailing address through ProtonMail, I’m sure a bunch of us would send some.
+1
Ditto
You know how much we all love you both, my dearest friends. You’ll both continue to be in our prayers as you work to get SP healed.
Godspeed!
Old Man, I’m so sorry to hear this. Please rest assured you are all, SP especially, in my thoughts. Please let me know if there’s anything I could do to help. If she’s up for a visit, I might be able to arrange picking up some East Coast Glibs and flying them up there to say ‘hi,’ weather permitting.
Not ready quite yet, but hopefully soon.
You have all the healing energy and love that can be mustered by an aging, cynical agnostic. Mrs. JI has her own radiation therapy starting tomorrow, and I have no doubt that these two remarkable women can kick cancer’s ass.
*crosses fingers for Mrs. Imprudent, too.*
Same. Also for The Bearded Hobbit.
Cancer sucks.
Prayers to everyone affected.
Love and prayers to Mrs JI also.
Oh, damn!
This failed agnostic will be praying for your wife, too.
Good luck.
Got you too.
Mrs. JI has her own radiation therapy starting tomorrow
Damn, sending all good things to Mrs. JI as well. We’ve already been through this twice, hope Mrs. JI and SP have as good a result as we did.
I’m hoping for the best for Mrs. JI as well as SP!
I’m not much a praying sort anymore, but I’ll send some up for these brave ladies.
Best healing thoughts to Mrs, JI
Let’s make it a package deal JI.
Happy thoughts and prayers to Mrs. Imprudent.
Thoughts of healing headed both of y’alls way. kick cancer’s ass once for me, preferably when it’s down, lost my little brother last fall.
Mrs. JI has her own radiation therapy starting tomorrow,
Best wishes.
and I have no doubt that these two remarkable women can kick cancer’s ass.
Yes.
I hope all goes well JI.
Good luck and best wishes.
Fuck Cancer.
And the same for you – if there’s anything we can do to help, let us know.
All the prayers I can muster are going everyone affected by cancer.
I hope things work out for the best.
I’m not much for praying, but I’ll cross my fingers and send happy thoughts your way.
Oh, my goodness. What is there to say but best wishes and all my love and prayers.
*incomprehensible murmuring*
I’m so sorry to hear that. Prayers sent.
So sorry to hear this, but thank you for sharing. You have all the prayers, healing energy, and love I can send, and I’ll do so every day.
Holy shit. So sorry, sending whatever I can your way, just in case the big guy actually is listening.
Sorry to hear this, praying for you all.
Thanks for letting us know old man. I’ll send my best wishes and my have my better half send her prayers.
Sending you all my best positive waves.
“We are approaching this as aggressively as possible because the world needs SP in it. Her work here is not done. She is an incredible woman, who continually makes the world a better place just by existing”
From what I have seen from SP here and on the Zoom. I fully agree.
Yep definitely in my top 10 of amazing people I get to talk to
Sending love to SP.
I’m so sorry and sending my best wishes.
Keeping you and yours in my prayers.
Happy thoughts and prayers for SP.
Happy thoughts for SP and everyone else going through cancer, chemo, etc.
Damn
I will provide everything I can in the requested manner. I am so sorry for your troubles.
I like not this news 🙁
My first thought was “Roswell Park is right down the road from me, I should see if there’s anything I can do while they’re here”. Then I checked. Turns out “Right down the road” was “other end of the thruway in a city I don’t know”.
Still, if there’s anything I can do, let me know. Otherwise, you still have my thoughts and prayers.
I actually used to be close by, but of course, I’ve moved so am of no help now.
I used to live within walking distance.
Too much bad news in this world.
Best thoughts to SP, as well as you and WebDom, OMWC.
Positive thoughts as well for Mrs. JI & Hobbit.
Be well, the lot of you.
She’s got it, whatever she needs. Prayers, spells, koans, throat singing (OK, maybe not that one), human sacrifice. It’s all on the table.
You cannot have this one. Fuck right off to whence you came, Death. She’s needed here, now.
Oh no. I’ll keep sending positive vibes, and anything else that could help.
Best wishes and godspeed
Thinking every good thought in this year of hell.
Best wishes and thoughts for SP.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting SP and she’s a wonderful person. She was also very patient and encouraging with my initial articles way back when.
I don’t often comment, but this post is a definite exception.
All thoughts and prayers are coming your way.
That said, if there is any kind of material help you need, I would be happy to donate some coin. This place is the only place I can go online and retain any semblance of sanity. I can never hope to repay those who have made this site possible. Please be ok SP.
I’m not crying. You’re crying.
We’ll be keeping you in our thoughts. Godspeed.
Aw shit.
Lost both my Mom and her sister to liver cancer. I loathe that disease.
If there’s anything we can do, including a GoF*ckMe† drive, please let us all know. I’m a lapsed Baptist, but don’t have a problem with asking the Alpha Kahuna of Everything for a favour.
†Assuming, of course, that “cancer treatment and expenses” is still on the list of GoF*ckMe’s “double secret approved” reasons to hold a fundraiser. Ya never know these days.
May we help you lessen this pain, and eventually share some joy.
So sorry to hear this. Thoughts and prayers to all of you.
Sorry Old Man. If a prayer from this sinful Catholic will help I’ll send a few
Prayers for you, your family and SP.
May you all find the strength to get through this difficult time.
Best wishes.
OMG so sorry but lapsed Catholic prayers incoming.
Sending prayers your way, OMWC.
I had a bad feeling. Very sorry to hear the news.
You got it.
Sorry to hear. Will pray for SP (and family).
You have all of my best meager as it is. May SP find quick and full healing.
The world definitely needs SP, we all do. As ever, if there’s anything I can do to help, please let me know.
So sorry to hear this. Thoughts and prayers for you all.
OM and SP,
A year ago you sent me a gift that made me laugh and cheered me up when I needed it the most. I wish there was some magic I could do that would have the same result.
We’re here for you as you have been here for us and what all the others have said.
Thoughts and prayers to you both.
I saw the post about your cancer. I hope for the best for you.
Thank you. I had my biopsy today and, while the results won’t be in for a few days, the doctor said it looked “encouraging”,
Great to hear that news, Hobbit.
That’s been the case for Mrs. JI – ever since “cancer” was said, every step along the way has been about as good as could be hoped for.
Excellent!
And thank you, to all, for your best wishes.
So sorry to hear this. Praying for all of you.
I’m so sorry… I’m praying for you.
I am sending my prayers along with all the positive energy I can muster for you and WebDom and SP.
I don’t curse often, but fucking fuck fuck. That fucking sucks. I’ll try to clean up my language before sending a prayer.
Obviously late relative to everyone else, but was stuck in a class and just read this.
Not eloquent and too much of a lurker to claim camaraderie — but prayers and best wishes to you, SP and WebDom. I only know her through your observations and her writings here, but I think the world would be a bit dimmer if we lose her — obviously worse for y’all.
Prayers and love for all of you. The world is a better place with SP in it, let’s keep her with us for many years to come.
If there’s any way I can help as a physician and someone who is battling cancer myself, please let me know.
Ya know, sometimes I think we take your battle for granted. Granted, it’s been so long now and you’ve been largely nonchalant about it in your comments.
You’re a tough son a bitch, I’ll definitely give you that.
So sorry to hear this, stay strong and I will hold good thoughts for you and your family.
Praying for you, SP. I am not on the site very much anymore because I’m usually on Discord, but I love you all and am really praying that the specialist will be able to help you make a full recovery. You guys are the heart of the Glibs!
God damn it, this is devastating news. I lost both parents to cancer. You have my thoughts and prayers for SP’s recovery.
This is much worse news than anything coming out of DC. Likewise OM, I am not one who believes in prayers, but positive attitudes can help. If you and WebDom remain strong for her (with all of Glibdom behind you), a good outcome can be had.
I’m so sorry to hear this. Obviously, I hope for nothing more than SP’s full and speedy recovery. She’ll be in my prayers. If there’s anything I can do beyond the usual thoughts and prayers, like I’m sure everyone else here, just let me know.
Prayers, hope and love from Montana.
You and SP are in my prayers. And it’s Lent, about the only time of year I get religous, so you’ve got that going for you.
They can turn off the gravity, any world that would inflict this on you 3, and Mrs. Imprudent, and Mrs. Hobbit, and Dr. Anacreon, sucks enough to keep us all down.
My sincerest, deepest, best wishes and greatest hope for you all.
Sorry to hear this. All the best to SP and the others dealing with medical issues. I’ll give a hearty Fuck cancer! too just in case it helps.
This lurker, sometimes commenter, lapsed baptist, is also sending love, hugs and prayer; and all other froms of good wishes.
Best wishes and kindest regards. May the ladys recovery be swift.
Oh, and if you need help with the healthcare system, just let me know. You’ve got my email.
fuckaduck
Whatever my heathen hopes and wishes are good for, I offer to you and yours.
Prayers to SP. Prayers to WebDom. Prayers to OMWC. Prayers for all three combined and everyone here needing a positive thought.
I will keep SP in my prayers.
Good luck, SP, Webdom, Old Man. We’re all counting on you.
I’m not particularly religious either, but I’ll be keeping SP in my thoughts as well.
As others have said earlier, if the prayers of an agnostic (also a lapsed Presbyterian and lapsed Unitarian Universalist – if the latter is possible) have any weight, then SP and family – and all others here who are battling cancer in themselves or in their loved ones – have mine, sincere and heartfelt. I think I’ve mentioned at some point that the “c-word” lurks in the back of the anxiety closet at Chez GT/TT, but so far we have been very lucky and the threat is not immediate. ::knocks wood::
SP is the very first Glib I met IRL, along with Annoyed Nomad and (finally!) my homey Tres. I want the opportunity to meet her again, so I really must insist that she recover as quickly as possible because I owe her a lovely vegetarian lunch. ::gentle hug::
Oh god. Sending the best of wishes to all of you. And I’ll keep SP in my thoughts. Sorry for not having been around for a while, but know you guys are on my mind.
-V
You have my love.
Prayers up for you all! I’m so sorry to hear about this.
also fuck cancer
Being a fish out of water almost everywhere I go and then finding this place filled with fellow land fish. Thanks, guys and especially SP. I’m gutted to hear this news. Best wishes and all the good vibes I can send you and the old man.
This is just horrible. Horrible. I will pray, attempt witchcraft, sell my soul down at the crossroads, whatever I can possibly do. This place has kept me sane even after I slowed down on the commenting. Only her and you all could possibly have gotten me through the last few years as intact as I think I am. I am willing this aggressive treatment to work with every ounce of energy I have.
Truth
I’m so sorry. Praying for you all.
rage against
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck! My meagre thoughts and prayers are directed your way. SP, you have always been a kind and generous host (and person). I have to get ready for work now but I’ll be thinking of you and yours. Godspeed!
I have a pic of this I took driving past it, but this one’s off the internet.
Dunno what happened. Try this.
Say it loud, say it proud!
I’m praying for you SP, and for OMWC, WebDom, Juris Imprudent and his wife, and any other Glibs that are hurting I pray loving and healing arms are wrapped around all of you. God bless you all.
My prayers generally go up like pure lead, but SP, Hobbit, JI and all the rest of us who are going through tough times have all of mine and any healing energy that I have.
You have my prayers, SP and OMWC. I will keep you in my thoughts.
@OMWC. I sent an email to SP’s business address.
She isn’t able to do emails at the moment, but I’ll see if WebDom can get in there. Thanks, Mike, you’re a gem.
Prayer sent. I had the fortune to talk with SP very briefly during one of the few zooms I joined. Best wishes to the three of you.
Best wishes and good vibes.
Prayers inbound.
Damn, that’s terrible,. Sending you guys prayers and good wishes.
Sorry to hear the bad news SP, and wishing you the best during the tough road ahead.
I don’t comment much, but I’ve been reading the posts and comment sections in the late evening since the beginning of this site. One thing I noticed early on was that when someone was having a bad day or life event, you would often pop in and leave that person a word of encouragement. That told me a lot about the kind of person you are IRL.
Hopefully all the positive vibes help you going forward. Stay strong and try to keep a positive attitude.
Also, best wishes to all the Glibs above who are going through cancer.
This sucks. I’m so sorry. I know a lot of cancer survivors though, so don’t give up hope.
As this is a family of a sort and you are an important part of my life, I am in shock just as everyone else is. I feel so helpless, knowing you are going through this. My mind is a jumbled blur… We will pray for you. For healing. For peace. For wisdom.
In my brief interactions with SP, one thing that always stuck out was that seemed to genuinely care about the strange folk who have gathered on this site. We need more SP’s around, not fewer. So, for what it’s worth from me, wishing nothing but the best.
True. She was a tremendous help with editing my one and only article. She even was gracious enough to reveal her real life first name to me once. I’ll always be grateful for that.
Same here 🙂
Except I got to edit my own single article 🙂 🙂
Awful to hear. Sorry. I wish you strength and all you need in this fight and come out on top.
Best wishes to SP and you for a positive outcome, and to everyone else who is dealing with the shitty aspects of life right now.
I’m sorry to hear this, best wishes and prayers to SP.
So, sorry about this. Horrible news.
We are praying for all here.
Is there a fund for expenses?
Love and prayers from me, too, SP. I hope you kick cancer’s ass so hard it comes out as recnac.
Every last bit of love and all of my rare prayers for you both. Anything within my limited means that can help is there for you both.
Don
My prayers and best wishes are with you. Please stay strong.
Best wishes to you both.
Fuck cancer.
Praying for you both.
I started tearing up reading this. I am sorry to hear this news.
I am praying for you SP (and OMWC and WebDom).
I shouldn’t have read the comments or been surprised. I’m crying like an elderly baby. You misfits are wonderful.
You know we all care for you. <3
OMWC, I was in your shoes about 3 years ago. Words fail to express what I’m feeling. The whole gang of misfits is pulling for the whole family.
This is a good community full of good people. Our people. We share your pain. Let us know if we can help in any way.
Sending positive energy her way. Keep your chin up and stay positive and strong.
I hate when bad things happen to good people. Shit.
I dunno what to say. Kinda stunned. Never met you folks in real life but you’ve been grand. I hope she, and the others here who have it, kick it and get better soon.
Been away for a while because of work but this has blown me away. You’re in our prayers.
Uffda. I’m so sorry to hear this.
I’m at a loss for what to say.
“Uffda” kind of covers it, Holiness.
I am just standing by to help however I can.
Me too. If either Mrs. Animal or I (or both) can help by boarding a plane and flying down there, rest assured we will.
@Swiss, sent you a message on the forums that I seem to keep forgetting exist.
Damn, this news just sucks. You are all in my prayers for sure OMWC.
I was so shocked to read your news. What a mitzvah you’ve done for all of us too-local types all around the world.
Like everyone here, I am stunned to learn of this shocking news, SP. Add me to that list of everyone sending love and light and sincerest good wishes on SP’s well-being.
All my best to SP, OMWC and WebDom during this trying time.
Damn, what a terrible turn of events. Wishing and hoping for the best outcome for your family.
I’m very sorry to hear this, and I am rooting for not only SP (we share a letter!) but at least one other person on this thread who has described a similar bad situation. I’ve never met anyone on this board personally, and have participated in only one Zoom with the group when COVIDiocy first started out, but you all are real good eggs. Be well, everyone.
I posted in the regular thread, but I guess I should post here too. Although I’m generally terrible at knowing what to say at times like this. I’m neither a priest nor a pediatric oncologist.
Although I’m very sorry and deeply saddened by this news, I am not without hope. You might not share my faith, but I offer you mine.
SP is indeed loved and needed here, and for she has done, deserves the finest care possible. I pray for her, and wish the best for her and her family.
Fuck cancer.
Prayers. Healing energy. Love.
All are coming your way!!!!
All my best to your family.
God bless, SP. Praying for a swift recovery.
Just stopped by to check in and say hi. But fuck. Get better SP and my love to you, OMWC, and WebDom.
Update: After six weeks, she was released from our local hospital from the treatment of various complications, and is at home resting in semi-comfort. Next step is the oncologist’s magic potions.
We remain grateful and sincerely touched by everyone’s support, concern, and love.
Hurrah!
Time to cry.