Our Buddy MJ - Page 6

phatdaddy · #51 08-02-2018, 09:25 AM

Thank s for the update & address, i ll try to get something in the mail to him

Blue_Runner · #52 08-02-2018, 12:32 PM

Chum thanks so much for the update on our favorite big guy as well as your situation. Hoping & praying everything will be ok with MJ and that your surgery goes well.

wellcraftv20step · #53 08-03-2018, 04:41 AM

Best of luck chum, A Card will go out today ! He's just been through so much.

reelapeelin · #54 08-19-2018, 10:10 AM

Thanks for keeping us posted and remaining such a good friend of MJ's over the years...Please wish him the best for me

Monkey Butler · #55 09-19-2018, 05:38 PM

Stopping by for the first time in a while. Sorry to hear about your trials and tribulations with your health.

Looks like there's still a great bunch of people on here rooting for you. Get better soon MJ!

Steve Pawlowskis

Destroyer · #56 10-09-2018, 11:31 AM

Any updates on MJ?

chumbucket · #57 01-01-2019, 02:50 PM

Sorry for delayed updates on our Pal MJ. I've been having struggles myself with more spine surgeries. That's a nasty rabbit hole I don't wish on anybody.
Anyways, our Pal MJ is really struggling. At one point it sounded as if he was working towards going home. Unfortunately, as bad luck seems to be hanging over MJ's head constantly, that just never happened. So many setbacks and complicated issues have kept him in the nursing home since last summer.
He really wanted to be home around Thanksgiving for his twin grand kids birthday's. That didn't happen. As time wore on, MJ has become more and more dejected and withdrawn. To the point he doesn't answer phone calls or texts. I haven't really been able to drive to see him due to my ongoing surgeries. I have been in touch with his daughter several times for status updates. Each one sounds worse than the other. MJ often refuses to eat or take meds.
I did text him a Merry Christmas message on Christmas day and he responded with a short Merry Christmas back to me and saying we'll talk soon. I haven't heard anymore since.
A few members of another site are sending cards with get well wishes. If anyone here would like to do the same, his info is the same as what I posted earlier in this thread. I have also received a few donations to help him out. Those will most likely be forwarded to his daughter, but I'm going to make the effort to go see him in a week or two if possible. If that happens, I will ask how he wants those funds to be handled.
If any of you fellas would like to help, My PayPal is; [email protected] and any and all funds will go directly to help our buddy out. Even just a card to lift his spirits would be a huge help. I know things are tight for a lot of folks right after Christmas and all.
Thanks fellas. I'll try to give more timely updates provided I can stay out of hospitals myself.

Edit to add Joes info;
Joseph Gougeon c/o
Cape Cod Heritage Nursing Home
37 MA-6A
Sandwich, MA 02563

Destroyer · #58 01-01-2019, 08:15 PM

Thanks for the update CB. He's lucky to have such a good friend like you. Happy New Year and hope your problems disappear this year.

chumbucket · #59 01-02-2019, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Thanks for the update CB. He's lucky to have such a good friend like you. Happy New Year and hope your problems disappear this year.

Thank you my friend. Same to youz.

bradford · #60 01-02-2019, 09:26 PM

Appreciate the update Chum and the additional leg work even with your own issues going on. I am grateful to this site for the camaraderie and tons of free advice and knowledge through the years. I'm not online much anymore, but when I am I always try to check in here. Gonna see about sending something up that way for that old curmudgeon MJ. I will say that I was in a bar a week ago and a couple guys rocked out Billy Joel's "Downeaster Alexa" and made me think of him.