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 metallic artist is going through off in opposition to that dragon most cancers. But when there’s something I’ve realized through the years when coping with this form of subject, it’s that the metallic neighborhood commonly rallies collectively to assist out considered one of their very own.
This time round, we’ve obtained Carnal Forge bassist Lars Linden staring down the barrel of a reasonably critical analysis — colon most cancers that’s unfold to the liver — and he’s obtained 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 medical doctors given him the horrific information that he’s solely obtained “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 primary tumor and 25 cm (9.84 inches) of my colon” and “27 therapies with chemotherapy”, he stated he’s been pressured to regulate to this new regular.
And whereas that will be arduous sufficient to cope with, he was additionally informed that the Swedish healthcare system doesn’t have anymore viable therapy choices to think about. Seeing as he’s on the younger age of 53 years outdated, he’s not prepared to surrender the combat simply but, so he’s arrange a GoFundMe web page to hunt out assist from anybody that may spare some funds to assist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 develop into extra in depth, and is sadly not operable for the time being. There are at present no therapy choices out there in our Swedish hospitals that may give me the assistance I so desperately want. My physician stated that I ‘ought to come again after I begin to flip yellow, as a result of that’s when the liver is shutting down’. He stated 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 purpose of kr200,000 ($18282.87), with simply kr17,950 ($1640.89) raised so removed from 28 donations. In the event you’d like to assist Linden out, you should definitely head over to his GoFundMe web page and kick in some funds. Might assist preserve this household man and metallic head on the planet a short time longer.
