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Mar 28, 2010

Yucan Jack

I spoke to Yukan Jack today on the phone. He saw John in 1994, and again one more time when his cancer came back, but since then, he has been cancer free, and he had cancer everywhere when he first came to see John, was maybe five to ten days from death. He says to stay more than the minimum, which is disappointing, as I was hoping to get home and back to art and bills and people there that I miss.
His wife, an Rn, died after 41 days of cancer diagnoses in the late eightys, and then his seven year old daughter was 'chemo therapied' to death. At one point, it was so painful, that he went to his cabin about Silverthorne, preparing to die. Finally, one day he took a walk, quite a ways from the cabin, and realized he had come without his oxygen. He felt fearful, and just sat down, to go no further. He got to 'thinkin', well, I got out here, now I think I can get back, and he did, and for the first time he walked up the stairs to the cabin, one foot on each stair 'like a man'...and he went back to John for a few more weeks, and now, at 75, he is alive and well and a cowboy along the border to Canada...
He is inspiring me to stay on board with the process. I feel grateful for this new person to talk to, a coach!

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