[at-l] Fwd: from Walkin' Jim Stoltz

[Linda Patton]

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----- Original Message -----
From: Walkin' Jim Stoltz <wildwind at imt.net>
Date: Friday, December 28, 2007 4:05 pm
Subject: Wild Wind Newsletter #5
To: Walkin' Jim Stoltz <wildwind at imt.net>
>
>                GREETINGS FROM WALKIN' JIM  
> 
> Hello Friends....  
> ... ... ...
> In November I learned that I had cancer in the lymph nodes on the left side
> of my neck. I was feeling fine, but had noticed a lump on my neck and had it
> checked out while touring.  After finishing up the shows in Sandpoint and
> canceling shows in the Seattle area, I went into the hospital in Billings,MT 
> where I had surgery to remove the tumors in my tonsils and neck.
> Unfortunately, the recovery has been complicated by the immune 
> suppressant drugs I take for my kidney, and I had to be re-admitted to the 
> hospital foralmost two weeks several days after I was first released.  I'm 
> finally out of the hospital and healing from the surgery, and will start radiation
> treatments for the cancer next week in Billings.  
> 
> It looks like a tough road for the next couple months, but I am already
> looking ahead to performing in the spring, and have high hopes that I'll 
> be out there singing for the wild places once again.  Carol, my office 
> person,is continuing to schedule for the spring and fall.   And believe me, 
> I'll need the gigs to help pay for the hospital time. 
> 
> In the meantime, I've canceled my winter gigs at Lone Mountain Ranch, 
> and have fallen into a self-preservation mode. I sleep for hours each 
> day, and have fallen way behind in correspondence. Please accept my 
> apologies for not responding to your letters or emails right away.  I'll get 
> to it, but it might take me a while.  
> 
> Thank you all for your support, and I encourage all of you to take 
> the time to give thanks for this beautiful life we live, the planet that 
> sustains us, and the good fortune that touches us each and every day.   
> Wishing you the VERY BEST for 2008!!!! 
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> - Walkin' Jim


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