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 dealing with off in opposition to that dragon most cancers. But when there’s something I’ve discovered through the years when coping with this kind of subject, it’s that the steel neighborhood usually rallies collectively to assist out one in all their very own.
This time round, we’ve obtained Carnal Forge bassist Lars Linden staring down the barrel of a fairly critical prognosis — colon most cancers that’s unfold to the liver — and he’s obtained a brand new GoFundMe to assist out. He’s been residing with this prognosis since April 2023, however solely just lately 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 remedies with chemotherapy”, he stated he’s been pressured to regulate to this new regular.
And whereas that might be exhausting sufficient to cope with, he was additionally instructed 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 battle 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 accessible in our Swedish hospitals that can provide me the assistance I so desperately want. My physician stated 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 stated that ‘I wouldn’t fear about ache ultimately 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. In case you’d like to assist Linden out, make sure to head over to his GoFundMe web page and kick in some funds. Might assist preserve this household man and steel head on the planet a short time longer.