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Brant Jackson (aka JAWS) [ View ] [ jacksonautowireservice@hotmail.com ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ] Boise, Idaho (208) 447-9631  An electrical headache can make a great car a pain

I hope this isn't going to far. One of our own has encountered a possibly serious condition. Known here as Judge. Rick is a great guy who just found out that he has a tumor in his spine. I have no other information than that. Hopefully it is not serious and he will be up feeling great and ready to cruise in his 37 ford sedan. Rick has become a friend from this site. My prayers are with him and his family and now I am asking for yours. -Brant

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Posted by 30 A pickup  -  05/15/2007 05:56 AM Not a problem at all. Consider it done on my part! 30 A pickup [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Cowpens, South Carolina   Posted by ahotrod33  -  05/15/2007 07:57 AM Rick, You're in our thoughts and prayers. ahotrod33 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Glen Mills, Pennsylvannia Charter Member since June 2003   Posted by zinski3  -  05/15/2007 08:07 AM My prayers are going out for him. Tell him we are all pulling for him. zinski3 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Edwards, Missouri Charter Member since December 2000   Posted by Crazyhorse Rod Shop  -  05/15/2007 08:45 AM hang tuff judge! rick's a tuff ole bird. he'll do well. dont poke the porchdog........he bites [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] BLUFF DALE, Texas Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by bigdude  -  05/15/2007 08:50 AM Several back problems also -were praying for you! resident know it all [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Three Rivers, Michigan Charter Member since January 2004   Posted by DavyJ  -  05/15/2007 10:44 AM There is always time to think of others, glad to add my well wishes and prayers Still driving the wife's car, cause I am slow. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Niagara Falls, Canada Charter Member since February 2005   Posted by REBORN55  -  05/15/2007 10:57 AM Thoughts and prayers are on the way... Ken [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] De soto, Illinois   Posted by 29robert  -  05/15/2007 11:11 AM Hang in there Judge. We got your back. Prayers are with you. 29robert [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] La Verne, California Charter Member since November 2004   Posted by flagator79  -  05/15/2007 11:21 AM Judge, You are in my prayers, absolutely!! God can heal and is in the healing business. Do what the doctors tell you to do and pray. You will be amazed. Brant, relative to "going too far" - at least from my perspective, we are never as tall as when we are on our knees. Thank your for allowing us to pray for the Judge. Have a blessed day all. If the world was fair, the worm would eat the bird half the time [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] West Monroe, Louisianna Charter Member since December 2005   Posted by 31tudor  -  05/15/2007 11:37 AM Our thoughts and prayers are with you Judge. Stick with it and get that '37 outta the garage! That's great therapy don't ya' know? You're not going too far at all Brant, thanks for sharing the news of one of our rodding brothers! We need more reminders of who we really are deep down. Skeet, I still think of little Jake often and recall the many kind words said by so many here! I hope his family is doing well! Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002   Posted by coupe32  -  05/15/2007 03:29 PM Hopefully its nothing 2 serious. And may you get better. ANd as going to far to ask for a prayer Brant, I say you did a good thing.. A person can never go to far. Its the distance you travel. SO tell your buddy to hop in the 37 and drive the distance. coupe32 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] nuremberg, Pennsylvannia   Posted by 31tudor  -  05/15/2007 03:59 PM Hey Brant, I think every single one of us would have been offended if you HADN'T asked us for our prayers on behalf of Judge. Thank you again!!! Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002   Posted by tlp1968  -  05/15/2007 05:15 PM Life is full of times when prayer is the answer. It can work miracles. I will add the Judge to my list of those needing some strength to fight this battle and win. *As for Skeet and the comment about little Jake. I think about him all the time. He touched many hearts and hopefully that family has learned to live with their great loss for the sake of his brothers. StreetRodding.com Marketing Director [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Springfield, Illinois Charter Member since August 2003   Posted by orphans2  -  05/15/2007 05:21 PM Rick, you're included in my prayers for a swift and full recovery. orphans2 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Stewartstown, Pennsylvannia Charter Member since November 2001   Posted by rc57  -  05/15/2007 06:31 PM Rick, we're praying for you too! medical technology has come a long way, we wish you well and a speedy recovery. God bless you. never pet a burning dog! [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] colgate, Wisconsin Charter Member since February 2004   Posted by dixie  -  05/15/2007 06:36 PM Judge your in our prayers as said GOD can do great things. may god bless an watch over you. jim grace [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dade city, Florida Charter Member since January 2006   Posted by aroldfut  -  05/15/2007 08:37 PM Consider Rick on my prayer list. With HIM all things are possible.... aroldfut [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Russellville, Arkansas Charter Member since August 2003   Posted by carpro1946  -  05/15/2007 09:42 PM Our prayers are with you. carpro1946 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] hebron, Maryland Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by brian41chevy  -  05/15/2007 10:14 PM Will add you to my list. There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] New Lenox, Illinois Charter Member since November 2004   Posted by Rods & Customs by Leon  -  05/15/2007 10:34 PM Hang tough Rick, Our prayers are with you Rods & Customs by Leon [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Highlands, Texas Charter Member since May 2004   Posted by rice2775  -  05/16/2007 12:25 AM I don't know him, but if he's anything like everyone here I'm sure he's a great guy! Give him our best and let him know he's in our prayers. rice2775 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] excelsior springs, Missouri   Posted by flagator79  -  05/16/2007 01:50 PM Relative to little Jake, it is interesting how God works his world. As you all might remember, after we lost him last October, his mom and dad won $4,400,000 at a casino in Shreveport - had gone there to have lunch and played the slots for $30.00 worth and hit the jackpot. The established a foundation to financially help families of children with pediatric cancer and announced it yesterday. They are doing fine and God has given them another baby, to be born in the late fall. Thanks for asking about him. Just a reminder of our little rodder. If the world was fair, the worm would eat the bird half the time [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] West Monroe, Louisianna Charter Member since December 2005   Posted by JAWS  -  05/16/2007 08:02 PM You guys and gals are great. I just know that when Rick reads this he'll be very encouraged. I am just reading it myself. Blessed to have you folks in my life..... Thank you. An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by buick1  -  05/16/2007 08:26 PM Today is a wonderful time to have a health issue as the medical feel is so knowledgeable and so many high tech pieces of equipment are there to perform what couldn't be done in years past. I'm sure your positive outlook is present, and keep it going. Keep on keeping on. We will be thinking of you and looking forward to the time when we learn that the issue is a thing of the past. Wishing you well, FOR SURE. Dale Indy buick1 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Indianapolis, Indiana   Posted by MUDMANDENNY  -  05/16/2007 11:27 PM consider rick added to my prayer list, with this world getting crazier by the day we all need all the help we can get. have been thru many health problems with my wife, and it`s her strong faith that keeps her going. best of luck,rick; and remember all of us are pulling for you. MUDMANDENNY [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] MCDONALD, Ohio   Posted by 1carguy  -  05/17/2007 04:27 AM 21 years ago I knew a guy that had a tumor the size of a orange against his spine. Lots of surgery and chemotherapy and he's walking around today like nothing happened....that guy was me. Keep the spirit, often the light at the end of the tunnel is not a freight train after all. 1carguy [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Pleasanton, California   Posted by q1ap  -  05/17/2007 04:51 AM Rick prayers out to you and your family, hope all goes well. q1ap [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. Augustine, Florida   Posted by JAWS  -  05/17/2007 07:40 PM I still have not heard how he is doing. I promise I will update as soon as I know something. Thanks again. -Brant An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by Judge  -  05/23/2007 11:07 AM Friends, I just got out of the hospital after 8 days last night and was reading the site this morning. I must admit I wept like a baby when I read this thread and the outpouring of prayers from folks I have never met. You have no idea what this kind of support means to me and my family. I had friend Brant scheduled to come to Mt to wire my car when , in less than 2 wks, I went from walking to inability to move. I had to cancel Brant because of this impending surgery. I had surgery on my lumbar spine at L-2 through L-4 level on Tues, May 15; after 6-7 hrs, the neurosurgeon removed a maligant tumor called Filum Terminalae Endyomoma.Several surgeons told me that if one is going to have a spinal cord tumor, this is the one you "want." It had not spread to any part of the central system including the brain(or the lungs). After 4 days in the ICU unit, I have had a pretty remarkable recovery. I am told that I will undergo approx 6 wks of radiation to the lumbar spine and I should make the list of long term cancer survivors. I know in my heart that this would not have been possible without my faith in God and the many prayers of people such as all of you. For that I will be eternally grateful to each and every one of you forever. I have been empathetic to people I hear have a cancer diagnosis and feel remiss in not responding to this type of thread when people are in need in prayer before--never again. When you are the person who receives the diagnosis(or are a parent or spouse of some who does) as many of you have been, it puts you in an entirely different position(maybe a different planet). You are all a very special group of friends for which I remain eternally grateful. I am told it will be a long recovery period but my court has lined up visiting federal judges from Wash, Oregon, California and Wyoming who are coming to Billings now for a week at a time to cover my court calendar so I will have all the time I need to recover. And Brant, obviously I do not thing you went "too far". You are indeed a special friend. By the way, my 37 Ford should be on the road by the end of June(I promise it will never ride in a trailer; I intend to drive the wheels off of it!) This kind of experience puts a whole different perspective on life and the living of it. Many thanks again. Judge [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Billings, Montana Charter Member since July 2003   Posted by REBORN55  -  05/23/2007 11:21 AM Glad to hear you are on the road to recovery. Take care. Ken [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] De soto, Illinois   Posted by ahotrod33  -  05/23/2007 11:39 AM In the immortal words of Sammy Davis, JR.................."Here Comes Da Judge", and from Poltergeist "He's Baaaack". Great news to hear the recovery is going well and that the prognosis is good. Keep us all posted and we'll look for the 37 on the highways and byways. ahotrod33 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Glen Mills, Pennsylvannia Charter Member since June 2003   Posted by Jaybird  -  05/23/2007 02:13 PM Good to hear from you Judge!! You will be just fine because of the outlook that you have. Your faith is in the right place. Jaybird [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Cincinnati, Ohio Charter Member since December 2003   Posted by 1carguy  -  05/23/2007 02:38 PM It all sounds like good news. I know what you are going through but your positive attitude will give your body unbelievable strength to fight back. Keep the spirit! 1carguy [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Pleasanton, California   Posted by MUDMANDENNY  -  05/23/2007 05:00 PM modern medicine, faith in God, and a positive attitude (not necessarily in that order) can work wonders. sounds like you have all the necessary ingredients. congratulations on agood prognosis, and continued good wishes for a full and speedy recovery. MUDMANDENNY [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] MCDONALD, Ohio   Posted by JAWS  -  05/23/2007 07:32 PM Praise GOD! That's about sums it up for me...... An electrical headache can make a great car a pain [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Boise, Idaho Charter Member since August 2004   Posted by carpro1946  -  05/23/2007 09:05 PM What a Blessing, may your recovery be quick and your 37 miles be many. carpro1946 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] hebron, Maryland Charter Member since March 2003   Posted by DavyJ  -  05/23/2007 09:45 PM Judge, great to hear you are on the road to recovery. Keep up the attitude, muddle through the tough spots. That car is aching to be driven. We will all be here if you need us. Still driving the wife's car, cause I am slow. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Niagara Falls, Canada Charter Member since February 2005   Posted by flagator79  -  05/24/2007 12:31 AM Judge, that is fantastic news!! The Great Physician has laid His hand on you - don't ever forget that. I went through 33 radiation treatments and a bone marrow transplant in my battle -- I am fine (don't talk to my wife though) and fit as a fiddle. Do what the doctors say and as always, it is better to have the treatment and not need it than to need the treatment and not have it. Stay mad at the disease and fight for your recovery. Life is great and savior all of it every day - listen to the whispers of life - they are subtle and beautiful. I am so very happy for you my friend. God Bless and keep you in the cup of His magnificent hand. Skeet (13 year survivor of breast cancer) Your second life has just begun. If the world was fair, the worm would eat the bird half the time [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] West Monroe, Louisianna Charter Member since December 2005

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