Rallying Support for Rain City (cancer diagnosis)

[swimmingwiththefishes]

Hi everyone,

Jon Pulice, who you will know from this forum as Rain City, has recently been diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma.

He will be in hospital for at least 3-6 months receiving chemotherapy treatment and unable to work during that time.

To ease the financial stress, his brother Matt has organized a gofundme to raise the cash to see Jon and his family through this difficult time.

I've been asked by Jon's family to share the link in this forum in case anyone would like to contribute to the effort.

Click HERE

 

[IronNoggin]

Jon - I wish you all the best in your upcoming battle.
You are strong, and you will kick this things butt Buddy!

Pulling for you over here...

Cheers,
Matt

 

[Hardy Guy]

Give cancer a swift kick in the nards. Stay strong..... folks here are wishing you the best.

 

[SpringFever2359]

I echo the previous comments, you got this!!

 

[kingblazer84]

You can beat this big papa huge time! @Rain City

 

[Sea Chaser]

Stay strong brother , kick the $hit out of this as those fish will be anticipating your comeback !

 

[Skins88]

You got this RC!

 

[ab1752]

This is great, I was hoping someone was going to put this up to lend them a hand at this **** time. The last thing they need to worry about is cash right now so pass the hat for one of our own classics.

Cheers Jon!

 

[Stizzla]

Best wishes to a quick recovery for you and your beautiful family buddy!
We love you!

 

[MikePA]

Sorry to hear what you’re going through, wish you all the best!

 

[SpringVelocity]

Really sorry to hear this. Wishing you a quick recovery.

 

[Bifmalibu]

Terrible news! Wishing you a speedy recovery!

 

[Corey_lax]

F#ckcancer. You got this Jon.

 

[TMan]

I'm pulling for you and your family and wishing nothing but the best for you.

 

[ClintR]

Best wishes and speedy recovery. Your an ace and will fight through this.

 

[Squire]

Stay positive and beat this thing; you have a lot of folks pulling for you.

 

[Pineapple Express]

Hoping you kick cancer's butt @Rain City

 

[Rain City]

Thanks so much guys for all the support. It's been a pretty wild few weeks to say the least. I've been admitted in hospital since the 11th but the toughest part by far was the week prior to that making trip after trip to the emergency in agonizing pain. Everyone said it before me and now I can stand in that same camp of ADVOCATE FOR YOURSELF. I've been experiencing back pain for years but this felt different. And then different turned into excruciating. Even my GP was trying to get the hospital to just order a damn MRI. but they kept drugging me up and sending me home with instructions to do yoga and physio. A grown man gets dragged by two paramedics into hospital screaming and they figured it was just plain old back pain. If it weren't for the one final doctor that decided to actually figure out what was wrong, I would have lost out on critical hours that have turned out to be potentially life saving.

The cancer I have is a Burkitt's Lymphoma. The pain I was/am experiencing is from a lump in my bone marrow pushing up against a nerve in my sacrum. This caused the nerve to fire off all kinds of tightening and spasms and cramps all the way from my mid back down into my feet. Nothing I did would stop the pain, there was no relief. As the pain meds have been dialed in, I've been able to function again in relative ease. Im stuck to a bunch of bags 24/7 while I undergo three to four cycles of chemotherapy at VGH. Each cycle is around 21-28 days. So that'll all be while admitted in hospital, and then the doctor figures I'll continue at BC Cancer as an outpatient for a few months after that. Fingers crossed I get make it through all of that.

I'll be packing the boat up for the season so I look forward to hearing all your reports. I hope I don't become one of those guys that's always on here posting stuff

 

[Pineapple Express]

As a back pain sufferer myself that sounds excruciating. I sincerely hope that the chemo is effective and you recover from this quickly! Good luck @Rain City

 

[Aces]

Thanks so much guys for all the support. It's been a pretty wild few weeks to say the least. I've been admitted in hospital since the 11th but the toughest part by far was the week prior to that making trip after trip to the emergency in agonizing pain. Everyone said it before me and now I can stand in that same camp of ADVOCATE FOR YOURSELF. I've been experiencing back pain for years but this felt different. And then different turned into excruciating. Even my GP was trying to get the hospital to just order a damn MRI. but they kept drugging me up and sending me home with instructions to do yoga and physio. A grown man gets dragged by two paramedics into hospital screaming and they figured it was just plain old back pain. If it weren't for the one final doctor that decided to actually figure out what was wrong, I would have lost out on critical hours that have turned out to be potentially life saving.

The cancer I have is a Burkitt's Lymphoma. The pain I was/am experiencing is from a lump in my bone marrow pushing up against a nerve in my sacrum. This caused the nerve to fire off all kinds of tightening and spasms and cramps an the way from my mid back down into my feet. Nothing I did would stop the pain, there was no relief. As the pain meds have been dialed in, I've been able to function again in relative ease. Im stuck to a bunch of bags 24/7 while I undergo three to four cycles of chemotherapy at VGH. Each cycle is around 21-28 days. So that'll all be while admitted in hospital, and then the doctor figures I'll continue at BC Cancer as an outpatient for a few months after that. Fingers crossed I get make it through all of that.

I'll be packing the boat up for the season so I look forward to hearing all your reports. I hope I don't become one of those guys that's always on here posting stuff

Don’t be afraid to ask for help packing up your boat