Fuck most cancers. I imply, I often don’t know what else to say when a contact reaches out to inform me that one other steel artist is going through off towards that dragon most cancers. But when there’s something I’ve discovered through the years when coping with this type of subject, it’s that the steel neighborhood recurrently rallies collectively to assist out certainly one of their very own.
This time round, we’ve received Carnal Forge bassist Lars Linden staring down the barrel of a fairly severe analysis — colon most cancers that’s unfold to the liver — and he’s received a brand new GoFundMe to assist out. He’s been dwelling with this analysis since April 2023, however solely not too long ago has his docs given him the horrific information that he’s solely received “weeks to months” left on this earth.
Having endured “a number of operations on my colon, which resulted in a stoma, a pouch on my abdomen and a catheter, in addition to the elimination of the principle tumor and 25 cm (9.84 inches) of my colon” and “27 remedies with chemotherapy”, he mentioned he’s been pressured to regulate to this new regular.
And whereas that might be arduous sufficient to cope with, he was additionally advised that the Swedish healthcare system doesn’t have anymore viable therapy choices to contemplate. Seeing as he’s on the younger age of 53 years previous, he’s not prepared to surrender the combat simply but, so he’s arrange a GoFundMe web page to hunt out assist from anybody that may spare some funds to assist him search therapy overseas.
“Sadly, the most cancers, i.e. the liver metastases, has grown and turn out to be extra intensive, and is sadly not operable in the intervening time. There are at present no therapy choices obtainable in our Swedish hospitals that may give me the assistance I so desperately want. My physician mentioned that I ‘ought to come again once I begin to flip yellow, as a result of that’s when the liver is shutting down’. He mentioned that ‘I wouldn’t fear about ache in the long run as a result of you’ll go right into a coma first anyway’. Actually uplifting teaching.”
Nice bedside method, doc…
As of proper now, he’s hoping to hit a objective of kr200,000 ($18282.87), with simply kr17,950 ($1640.89) raised so removed from 28 donations. For those who’d like to assist Linden out, you’ll want to head over to his GoFundMe web page and kick in some funds. Might assist hold this household man and steel head on the planet a short time longer.