Topic: Jeff Healey has lung cancer

42 y/o Canadian blues/rock guitarist Jeff Healey (Ruf Records) has canceled further performances due to a diagnosis of lung cancer...Let's all remember him in our prayers.  Cathy

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As if blind isn't enough, now lung cancer, how terrible.  Will certainly remember him in
our prayers.  Jaci

Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind.  Mick Jagger

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SEEN JEFF A FEW TIMES AT TOADS PLACE
NEW HAVEN, CT
YEARS AGO
ALWAYS GREAT PERFORMANCES
I OFFER MY PRAYERS

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Cathy isn't this a recurrence from a few years ago. I remember hearing something about him having previous health issues, but I don't recall if it was lung cancer. You know how sympathetic I am to him at this point in time. Best wishes to him, he's been a favorite of mine for years.

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What is success? Is it do yo' own thang, or is it to join the rest?   -Allen Toussaint

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This was posted yesterday on the Clapton site.

"JEFF HEALEY CONTINUES HIS BATTLE AGAINST CANCER GENE

Guitarist, band-leader and musician Jeff Healey, despite his ongoing battle against the cancer gene that stems from retino blastoma - the disease that took his sight in early childhood - is continuing to work on a variety of projects.

Currently in the middle of a course of chemotherapy, he is working on two different recording projects - one a jazz recording for Stony Plain Records, the other a blues CD for Ruf Records in Germany. He is also continuing his radio show, My Kinda Jazz, heard every Monday evening from 9 - 11 EST, and Sunday mornings from 7 - 9 EST on JazzFM in Toronto.

"I have had to repeat one earlier show, and I'm taping some shows this week, but I'm doing the show live whenever I can, because I much prefer to do it that way," he said.
A handful of concert dates have been postponed, and Healey was sad to miss a Scandinavian tour, which would have lasted too long to allow his ongoing treatments.

"I have great confidence in the doctors who are working with me," Healey says. "I'm doing everything I can to keep busy while my doctors and I fight the good fight. Keeping my various projects on the go is as important to my health as are the treatments."

Well wishes can be sent to info@jeffhealey.com


Sarah French

Assistant to Jeff Healey"

StringsforaCURE~Helping cancer patients one STRING at a time.
http://stringsforacure.com/

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Thanks for the update Angela....Fight the good fight Jeff.......Cathy

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Boy can I relate to that comment by Jeff. Put up the good fight is our battle cry. I don't recommend this stuff for anybody. Stay healthy and follow your doctors suggestions when they want you tested routinely, no matter where they have to stick it.

                                                                                             Chemo/Radiant Myself These Days,

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What is success? Is it do yo' own thang, or is it to join the rest?   -Allen Toussaint

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ohiodawg13 wrote:

Boy can I relate to that comment by Jeff. Put up the good fight is our battle cry. I don't recommend this stuff for anybody. Stay healthy and follow your doctors suggestions when they want you tested routinely, no matter where they have to stick it.

                                                                                             Chemo/Radiant Myself These Days,

                                                                                             J Dawg

Hey bud! You take care of YOURSELF! Dont worry about tonight I'll pick you up, hope your feeling up to it, I got to get some sleep first. I drove home, Deb was pissed at me , she knows that was a dangerous drive. And by the way Joe said he missed you last night, i told him your "under the weather", said we would see him tonight.

Call you later....Shred

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poor guy cant catch a break.  that's the blues.  I'll pray for him.

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