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this old world

maybe we can start out sending some loveout to the world. we're the fortunate ones, especially stumbling upon this music, whichever way we did. so some good vibes for the world, mebbe? ---'never prank a truster'----

well said

good vibes to the whole world!

hey guys

good vibe to all out there in need.i know this prolly isnt the right place, but me and my family could use some good vibes right now, my dog has cancer. I found out the other night and im really scared for her, as she is really near to me. we caught it early and she has REALLY good chances, but we are still all havin trouble keepin up a good face. any and all well wishes would be greatly appreciated Peace, The Kid

DOGBEAMZ!

It's true, it's amazing how much veterinary science has progressed. Good for you for catching it early, healing beams to your doggie, good face beams to you and your family. What's her name? My Rex and Callie send their good doggie vibes also.

Hey Kid...

Sorry to hear about your dog and hope things are on the up swing for you guys. The sooner these problems are caught, the better the outcome. Like marye said, the dog docs are getting better and better at treating our little friends. I also can relate 'cause one of my dogs just received a clean bill of health after a really rough spell in which she had an emergency operation to save her life, a few weeks ago. Unfortunately she has lost her hearing (as a result of the operation) and I've had a tough time (emotionally) accepting that fact. But now that she's getting back to normal, playing and romping around with us again, I'm just grateful she's alive. Like Warren Zevon said (and perhaps I understand better with every experience that brushes death's doorstep), "Enjoy every sandwich"... with your dog ; - )

GRTUD!

beams to you as well. My Callie, now 11 (the spotted one), has been deaf her whole life. Certainly never slowed her down. You might want to check out the Deaf Dogs list on yahoo groups; it's very active and very nice folks. While I'd say the lion's share of the discussions have to do with rescue, adoption and training of deafies-from-birth, people often come along after their hearing dogs have lost their hearing for one reason or another and want some coping strategies. When Callie was young we used to go to local Deaf Dogs picnics, but now that we're all geezers in this house we've lost touch with that scene a bit. Sounds like your girl is coping just fine however!

In need of some good vibes

As a casual poster on this site I feel little weird asking, but everyone here has always been so excellent to me I figured any prayers/thoughts from such a good group of folks would be a big help.My one y/o son is having surgery tomorrow to have tumor removed from his chest. Though not growing on his spine, it is pressed right against it. The docs can't say for sure whether it's benign or malignant. The statistics tend to be on our side (benign), but we won't be sure until pathology gets a chance to take a look. If you have the time please keep my family in your thoughts. Thanks. McB "...the powerful plays goes on, and you may contribute a verse" -Walt Whitman-

Sending out positive vibes to

The Deadheadkids doggie and his family hope he gets well soon!and to McB28 for a safe recovery for your son! Keep the faith! Peace,Gigi

positive vibes

my heart goes out to you and your son McB28, all the best and good wishes are being sent your way.also, thanks for the well beams guys, i love my pup and if i ever lost her id be devastated. Her name is gretzky and shes great. all the best wishes to your pup grtud. Peace, The Kid

strong healing beams

to all our loved ones who need 'em. Safe recovery to McB28's son!

Am sending warmest vibes I can

to you Kid, for Gretzky's happy and healthy recovery, and also to you McB28! Hope your son's tumor is malignant, and that he heals completely and quickly. Healing light and energy to all who need it now.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

gretzky and mcb28

bestest thoughts out to you

SORRY SORRY SORRY

McB28-forgot the not-meant that hope is NOT malignant. Am glad that Pid was pointing out that I forgot a word. Of course I don't wish what I wrote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

MUSIC IS THE Answer..

always a positive thought to dance your *** off..lol! Fare Thee Well...

healing vibes and strength

to McB28's son. May today be a good one for his whole family. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

kid

Hope your dog does well. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

hey kid!

good doggie vibes headin2U!McB28, thinkin all good 4U and your son!!

more +++ vibes

more ++++ vibes for all! love and peace.

Positive vibes from Hoover and I

Somthin' about those doggie vibes............extremely healing Gone are the days we stopped to decide........where we should go......we just ride.

An Update and Thanks

The surgery went pretty well for my son. It turns out that it was not a single mass (tumor), but instead a group of inflamed lymphnodes. The surgeons seemed encouraged, if not a little puzzled by this. Now we are just waiting on results from pathology. Thank you all for your positive thoughts and prayers. It is always pleasant when you realize that there are some genuinely good people out there. Thanks. "...the powerful plays goes on, and you may contribute a verse" -Walt Whitman-

Hey McB28

So happy for you all, sending more positive vibes for grate results from pathology! Keep the faith! Without love in a dream it will never come true

great news, McB28

here's hoping it turns out to be something really trivial and easy to fix!

Encouraging News & Thanks

McB2B - the news sounds good on your son. I'm praying for a full resolution for you and your family that includes a long life for all. Keep us posted. marye - thanks for the advice on my (now) deaf Yorkie. She's doing great, btw. Each day she's more like her old self. As for the deaf condition, she follows her brother's lead and seems to be doing as well as she has for the last year or more, which makes me think this surgery was a real life saver because (we think now) that the last few ear "infections" were being caused by the tumor and why they didn't seem to respond to just antibotics (we had to get Rx for steroids the last two times she has been sick). I'm so happy that she's well again! Thanks to all for your well wishes. "The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. ." - Erwin Schrödinger

hey guys

first off, good vibes to all out there in need, specially to you and your son McB2B and you and your pup GRTUDSecondly, on behalf of my pup and myself i wanna say THANK YOU for all the good vibes yall sent. my pup went through the first round of chemo today and the lymph nodes (which are the problem sites) shrank considerably, which is a GREAT sign. thank you all so much, not just for the good vibes, but for the support. Peace, The Kid

cancer-free beams

to all who need 'em, of whatever species. And good vibes of strength and comfort to those who are in it with them.

Well beams to all

Well and positive beams to all in need ,, no matter how many feet you walk on !! Take care and enjoy the weekend !!

Hey Everybody

Let's all send good vibes to johnman's computer, so he can be back with us again soon. Seems as if his has broken down.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

((((((((JOHNMAN))))))))

...and to all who need 'em. BIG POSITIVE ENERGY coming to all who need it from Pappy in Pittsburgh - especially to my sister-in-law, Maria who had surgery today. ~ Pappy www.theCAUSEjams.com "Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right." - Robert Hunter

Positive vibes going out

Healing computer vibes for Johnmanand Get well healing vibes to Maria *~*Walk in the sunshine, watch for the bright sun, Be all those things you're able to be*~*

Thanks GratefulMom

Really appreciated.... You're awesome! ~ Pappy www.theCAUSEjams.com "Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right." - Robert Hunter

Hope and beams

so that it all works out 'just exactly perfect' for you all on these paths.Take care The Truth is realized in an instant, the act is practiced step by step.

good vibes

to all out there who need emPeace, The Kid

too many

cookies on the computer johnman? pixel beams for your motherboard!! get well beams for maria!

Nothin but love

I haven't posted here ever before... used to hang out back in the 90's in a chat called "710 Ashbury", and haven't had the time since about 98', so a lot to say but will try and keep it short... haven't seen a show since Phoenix 94, just kinda faded away after Uncle Jerry went to play that great gig in the sky. Much has happened in my life since then. Kinda drifted in and out of the rainbow family for a few years, then joined the machine and became a heavy equipment operator of all things. That took me out to Reno and into a union and... well I'll save that for later, but, it eventually took me to Iraq working for a company out of Houston called KBR. It is truely amazing for me to look back at it all and see just how far I have strayed from who I really am in the name of the almighty dollar. I spent more time living in a warzone listening to Jerry and Bobby and Phil then I had until rescently since my last show. I'm home now and definitely scrambled in the head. Because I was a civilian contractor, there are no benefits available for counseling, no one will hire me, and I am so deep in debt, I can't even see the sun anymore. I only sleep 2 to 3 hours at a time and only 4 or 5 times a week. I keep my doors locked and have been living my life infront of my computer trying to get out of my head... but, I found a couple of my old cd's cleaning the house the other day and I have been back on the bus. I feel, just from the music, that the hole that war has left in me is slowly, very slowly, starting to close. I've been home for over a year and more than half my friends don't even know I'm home. Honestly, just so I know it myself, I'm not living this way out of fear, more, I feel that this is my pennance of sorts... I have created my own cell... I have nothing but love for all mankind, but the images trapped in my head still won't go away, so, I guess I'm askin for nothin but love... I could really use some good vibes and words of encouragement to know, weather you all agree with war, the war, or anything related to that whole scene, I'm still alive and its never too late. Sorry for the downer. Thanks for reading my vent, and if anyone cares to, feel free to drop me a private message or post a responce. Thanks again and, from what is left of my heart, never let go of the music.Chubs I be.

hey chubs

just do what ever you can do keep to your sweet nature it's not a downer to listen to what folks go through, far from it reflecting smiles to you, andy ---'never prank a truster'----

Hear Hear

What free idea said "it's not a downer to listen..." Also it sounds like you got some stuff to get out, and we certainly don't mind listening. Hang in there Chubsib, take it day by day, and perhaps come back here from time to time, where people are kind. Is at least one more guy here who knows first hand what you've been through in Irak. He's still there, so perhaps you can hook up with writing to him here? Peace and inner strength to you Chubsib,and lots and lots of good vibes. ********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

Chubs

Sending you lots of LOVE & POSITIVE vibes.......and some tunes....... Help on the way, well, I know only this, I've got you today. Don't fly away, cause I love what I love and I want it that way. I will stay one more day, like I say, honey it's you. Making it too, without love in a dream it will never come true. Peace.Gigi

Alrighty then chubs

Well first off positive vibes Look man get out of the house, don't lock yourself into a cell and shut others out. Find others with your same experience and talk about it. If no counseling is available to you. You need to vent holding stuff in only creates anger and self sorrow. Don't feel sorry for yourself. Get out go to a show seems like there is alot of the scene out there get away for a few days. I know we alllike to have our higher conciousness or altered whatever. But please my brother don't drink yourself into a cave. Now that that is said. I know the experience and am sure have been in much worse situations than any KBR personnel. Please don't take that as a personal strike against you. It's not. I'm sure the thing is something you wish to contend with. death is a daily deal contractors are not exempt from the horrors and are targets as well. So with all that said and you start thinking who the fuck is this guy to tell me. My name is SFC Dwight R. Laporte am on my 3rd tour in Iraq. My job is combat engineer. I parachuted in Bashur Iraq in 03. returned in 06 to Mosul and am again currently in Mosul. I could go into great detail of war but don't think this is tjhe place. War sucks but is a reality we all have to deal with. everyone is affected either directly or indirectly. Have friends or family members who have been here etc. Maybe for me I've just kinda built of an internal defense. Sometimes nothing seems to matter, I always say if no body's dead it ain't that serious. I've been posting on here alot for the last couple month's cause we are getting ready to go home and have toned down some. Have made some grate friends here and hope to meet them somewhere one day. It helps me cause I a freakin deadhead and we all relate. And like you off the bus for a long time. I catch a fest when I can but won't be able to be completly free for 3 more years. I've gotten so much recent info about what is going on these days here. And like you when Jerry passed I kinda just lost touch with it all. Still listened of course but stayed in the Army. Anyway what did you do with all those big dollars KBR paid you, ha ha. Look man write me anytime. I look forward each day hoping some of my dead.net friends dropped me a line or responde to a post in a goofy way is alot of fun and is a release for me. So to all of you thanks. And chubs you can get past the bad but doing it alone is not the way to go believe me

Chubs

Thank you for you're post, it shows we all have stuff that sucks and we can't deal with. I used to be a regular at a chat place called wemissjerry.org. Haven't posted or chatted in awhile. The funny thing is that we all need our time and space to figure it all out. What I do know is that the spark that was kindled in your heart for what most call "Dead" is acutally alive. I've never been through what you are speaking, have heard alot of indepent contractors that have gone there, but what you are going through is not irregular. Don't stay at home, don't be reclusive, and please let your light SHINE! Most people don't know of the Grateful Dead and what's known is either Jerry died or it's a Hippy Community. I know this...I wasn't born in the 60's, nor in a commune, nor did I waste my youth....You are a part of something bigger than that, which is what you know is to be true! There is more love in this place of existance than you know. I've been in the deepest darkest of holes, yet I knew I was meant for more, why? Not because of me but because there are truly people in the world that care. You are one of the few light that beacons from every spectrum of the universe...so just LET IT SHINE. Being a youngin I only understand a little, but I'm sure that all the love you find in this place WILL NOT FADE AWAY! Scotty _________________________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!

Chubs

lots of good advice above, and.... "when you get confused, listen to the music play"

Under the knife tomorrow

I'd like to thank all of you for being assertive, innovative and expressive within this forum over the past couple of years. Tomorrow, I'll be in surgery and hope that I return to your flavorful posts, even if you're Republican. David, if you're out there somewhere, see if you can find a recording from New Orleans > 10/18-19/80. If the anesthesia isn't too strong and the slicer isn't hungover, expect my return. If not, grdaed73 can have my double imperial IPA,s downstairs in the fridge. Good luck, God bless, and long live the Grateful Dead~!!

Ted

Ted. all the best wishes and positive vibes during your hospital surgary. peace.

Best wishes, Gr8fulTed

I have to be careful in sending out the beams, afraid some of my innate negativity will leak out. That said, hope things work out for the best, Ted. Be looking for you on the vines, bro' Even if you are holding back IPAs ;^D ************************************************ I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com ************************************************

Ted, I will send out some beams for 'steady hands' to

your surgeon, AND some healing vibes out to you, my friend. ;o} The Truth is realized in an instant, the act is practiced step by step.

Positive Beams ~

to you Gr8fulTed, give the nurses Hell! PEACE

fast-healing beams

to Ted!

Hey were there for you

Positive healing vibes out to you Gr8fulTed. Hope the anesthesia is just exactly perfect and the slicer is also. grdaed73, now don't rush over to his basement just yet! And if you need back up with the nurses, give iknowurider a call, she will color their world! ;))peace and good wishes,pk

good luck Ted

May everything go well. Hey Pk, I'm a nurse, how will iknowyourider color my world? I'm not wearing fishnets if that is what you have in mind. Unless they are tie - dyed, that may be another matter. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

umm..let's just say she

umm..let's just say she speaks very colorfully. ;))

Hey Now ~

Let me try again ~ Give the Nurses HECK! Hal R ~ Oh, to see you in tye dye fishnets!! Even then, I'd be speechless.... PEACE

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August 25, 2025 - 8:11pm

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proudfoot

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Cheers, indeed

Yall be cool, TC
August 25, 2025 - 7:57pm

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Tom Constanten

Hearing TC could use some financial help dealing with cancer illness. Just thought this might be a good place to spread the word and the positive vibes.
Cheers to Tom
July 21, 2025 - 6:52pm

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proudfoot

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Here's to good health for your brother, oro

Fuck cancer
July 21, 2025 - 5:53pm

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Oroboros

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Brother Scott

Scott was recently hospitalized and then provided with intense chemo for four days to kill his leukemic bone marrow. And then eleven days ago (the eleven?) the specialists completed a stem cell transplant.

The oncologist indicated that it would take from 6 to 14 days for the new stem cells to adjust and take over the essential function(s). And Scott just called me to report blood levels have started to stabilize. Most of last year he required blood transfusions at least every two days if not every day to survive. Now his hemacrit, red, and white cells are all close to normal. Platelets still low but looks like this treatment has taken. Bobby used to sing "I need a miracle every day" and looks like today it was Scott's turn on a miracle.

As Phil always gave his 'donor rap' at the end of each show, I want to thank that anonymous donor who provided Scott with his stem cells. Sure this donor had a loved one touched by this cancer and got tested (as did I, but not a good enough match) so he was in the 'bank.' The doctors treated that donor with some meds to supercharge his stem cells so these could be harvested and then sent (across the pond, it sounds like) to save Scott's life.

We have a ways to go, with more isolation in the hospital and then Scott must live within a 10 minute drive from the hospital in case of 'host rejection' by his new cells as they transmorgify his immunity system. But things are looking up here in the middle of America.

Appreciate all the kind words, healing vibes, and hopeful thoughts sent my brother's way.

"Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, says "Don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe."
Don't give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill,
only love can fill." - Robert Hunter
June 10, 2025 - 9:56am

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marye

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Many good vibes to you both

and hope the treatment is just exactly perfect
June 10, 2025 - 6:19am

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1stshow70878

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Positive Vibes

Oro-1, for you and Scott.
Love heals, and drives out the negative.
Best wishes

Same goes for you Heart 21.
A box of rain will ease the pain, and love will see you through.
Keep the faith.
June 10, 2025 - 3:45am

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Oroboros

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This morning driving my big brother Scott

to the UNMC for blood work for Acute Myeloid Leukemia. They diagnosed him with this in November of 2023 and had some success with chemo, until this cancer mutated around that treatment. Scott is the best of us, humble, kind, curious, and genuine. Hope to get the cancer subdued enough to proceed to a stem cell transplant in a couple weeks. Please send healing thoughts, prayers, and good vibes this way.

"Look out of any window...."

"Teachers open the door, but we must enter by ourselves."
May 15, 2024 - 2:50pm

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marye

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well, glad you made it here

and hope you find some kind souls to talk with!
May 15, 2024 - 2:13pm

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Heart 21

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currently stuck in a mental hospital

i tried to go to the shows in las vegas but had a mental breakdown on the way and had to come back to the mental hospital could really use some friends to chat with...i'm gonna be here awhile!
April 2, 2024 - 2:11pm

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Good Vibes for Phil

My brother Phil is a deadhead from way back -- made it to 95% of all dead shows from '87 to '90 and most of the west coast shows until Jerry passed in '95 (over 200 shows). Some of you might even know him. He's currently fighting for his life with stage 4 cancer and he could use your good vibes.

For more information, search for Phil Burkett on the gofundme site, and thank you.