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Hello forum.
I created this thread for two main reasons, the one to sell some of my laser jewelry, the other to ask You for a little help.
As many of you have known for more than a year, I have developed esophageal cancer, which in itself is already a very bad thing.
Considering the atrocious death that three of my family members made after undergoing chemotherapy lately, I decided not to do it, and to rely only on palliative care. Currently the diameter of my esophagus has reduced by about 1/3 of the original diameter and I can no longer feed on solid foods but only on liquid or semi-solid foods (baby food, vegetable soups, fruit smoothies, etc.). Currently I'm under heavy doses of antacids and cortisone, but soon I will also have to rely on patches containing morphine for the pains that will form pretty fast.
Moreover, I will be forced to be fed through a centralized probe feeding, but frankly I would prefer to die first.
A year ago my family doctor told me that my life expectancy varied from a minimum of one year to a maximum of 5 years, but only if I had done chemotherapy. A year has already passed and I'm not doing chemo. I am living every day as if it were the last of my life. Every extra hour that will be given to me will be added as a welcome surprise.
Unfortunately my problems do not stop here: I was already in serious financial difficulties before the arrival of Covid19, but after the arrival of this virus my activity completely closed its doors and now I am in totally bankruptcy. I can no longer pay my house bills if not the essential ones (water, gas, telephone and electricity), but often I have to choose whether to pay the bills or buy food.
Luckily I have a bartender friend who is making me credit for the lunch at midday, and in the evening I am using meal vouchers kindly offered by the municipality of my city and the Italian red cross, but very soon also those little helps will end.
I also had to give up the car, and the few trips I currently make are made exclusively by bicycle.
I know very well the serious problems facing the American people today, between the tragedy of Covid19 and the rampant madness of many people who are destroying statues and monuments, looting shops and assaulting freight trains. Most of the news, the real and uncensored ones , come every day from Youtube and Facebook channels, certainly not from CNN. Unfortunately I'm forced anyway tro try to ask a little help also in this forum, where I spent the most beautiful and creative years of my life, where I met many good people who introduced me to the wonderful world of the lasers and made me a talent in the field of portable lasers near the level of my grandmaster CDBEAM777 !
I will use this perennial thread to try to sell at fair prices most of my collection of lasers, unique and unrepeatable, and at the same time to ask a little financial help to my friends of the forum: even a few dollars given with the heart today would make me so comfortable, to try to live in dignity the last few months that I will have to live on this Earth.
The necessary data will follow, for those who decide to help me in this devastating period.
I hate to give such bad news to some dear friends, you have no idea how much!
With sincerity and affection.
Richard from Padova, Italy.
I created this thread for two main reasons, the one to sell some of my laser jewelry, the other to ask You for a little help.
As many of you have known for more than a year, I have developed esophageal cancer, which in itself is already a very bad thing.
Considering the atrocious death that three of my family members made after undergoing chemotherapy lately, I decided not to do it, and to rely only on palliative care. Currently the diameter of my esophagus has reduced by about 1/3 of the original diameter and I can no longer feed on solid foods but only on liquid or semi-solid foods (baby food, vegetable soups, fruit smoothies, etc.). Currently I'm under heavy doses of antacids and cortisone, but soon I will also have to rely on patches containing morphine for the pains that will form pretty fast.
Moreover, I will be forced to be fed through a centralized probe feeding, but frankly I would prefer to die first.
A year ago my family doctor told me that my life expectancy varied from a minimum of one year to a maximum of 5 years, but only if I had done chemotherapy. A year has already passed and I'm not doing chemo. I am living every day as if it were the last of my life. Every extra hour that will be given to me will be added as a welcome surprise.
Unfortunately my problems do not stop here: I was already in serious financial difficulties before the arrival of Covid19, but after the arrival of this virus my activity completely closed its doors and now I am in totally bankruptcy. I can no longer pay my house bills if not the essential ones (water, gas, telephone and electricity), but often I have to choose whether to pay the bills or buy food.
Luckily I have a bartender friend who is making me credit for the lunch at midday, and in the evening I am using meal vouchers kindly offered by the municipality of my city and the Italian red cross, but very soon also those little helps will end.
I also had to give up the car, and the few trips I currently make are made exclusively by bicycle.
I know very well the serious problems facing the American people today, between the tragedy of Covid19 and the rampant madness of many people who are destroying statues and monuments, looting shops and assaulting freight trains. Most of the news, the real and uncensored ones , come every day from Youtube and Facebook channels, certainly not from CNN. Unfortunately I'm forced anyway tro try to ask a little help also in this forum, where I spent the most beautiful and creative years of my life, where I met many good people who introduced me to the wonderful world of the lasers and made me a talent in the field of portable lasers near the level of my grandmaster CDBEAM777 !
I will use this perennial thread to try to sell at fair prices most of my collection of lasers, unique and unrepeatable, and at the same time to ask a little financial help to my friends of the forum: even a few dollars given with the heart today would make me so comfortable, to try to live in dignity the last few months that I will have to live on this Earth.
The necessary data will follow, for those who decide to help me in this devastating period.
I hate to give such bad news to some dear friends, you have no idea how much!
With sincerity and affection.
Richard from Padova, Italy.
