My good friend Dave is currently battling 5 types of cancer and has been given a year or 2 to live, since he has told me this new I have been trying to help him enjoy his life as much as possible...See Dave's an ex millionaire, he's probably got about less than a million left after all the hospital bills,legals fees and everything thing else...Dave's last name is Butner, his family owns Butner, North Carolina...the entire city. He's also a rock n roll star now playing with the Jerry Garcia Band (the remaining members of the Grateful Dead) a world champion speed skier ( first man to go 130 mph on ski's ) a stunt man ( this dudes got more metal holding him together than robocop from tumbling down mountains, flipping cars over on stunt jumps, motorcycle stunts gone wrong etc etc)
Now Dave wants to buy a $500,000 tour bus and go on the road with the Grateful Dead reunion tour and party till he dies..GHe's got some wild stories about doing acid in the desert on indian reservations and around the world tours.
Dave owns a 41ft limo that would embarass a standard limo, it has a 47" flatscreen in the back, real fuckin clean pimpmobile. He has a Grand Pyrenees dog, its one of the biggest dogs in the fuckin world ....looks like a damn baby polar bear..
I've known Dave for a few years now and its really fucked up watching him die slowly, Cancer is some ugly shit to deal with...especially seeing it first hand. We take for granted the ability to walk on our own, to simply take a shit without praying and screaming. Dave is a normally energetic and wild guy, but this cancer has sucked the life out of him...with only a year to live he quit all cancer drugs and its too late for chemo, he does some acupuncture but thats about it. I guess if you have one year left, would you want to spend it feeling like shit to gain a few more months of suffering?
Dave smoked about an ounce a week of weed, i've tried getting him on edibles and they did help, he just doesnt like eating sometimes, cancer will steal you appetite and make it so you cant eat for days, sometimes all he can do is get down a PB&J sandwich...then again the other night we spent $80 on shrimp and friedn em up and ate like kings (the guy at the market said he never sold that much shrimp to one person lol)
Daves leaving for Colorado this week, he lives there and i really hope he makes ti back to cali, its taken him 4 months to get strong enough to make it home..i hope he comes back because i really like hanging out with him and helpin him when I can...it also keeps me humble about life and shows me how lucky I am to be alive and have all i do.
Tonight Im smokin a fat one for dave..
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