KiloPatches
Senior Member
So this post will probably end up disclosing some personal details about who I am in real life. I don't care, I have to get this out there, and get the word out, for one, and just ask for your moral support and just educate you about my friend's initiative.
2 years ago, my boyfriend got into amateur comedy. He performs at shows in the city, etc, festivals, and whatnot. Long story short, a good friend of ours, the owner of one of the comedy clubs, a guy in his late 20s, a very talented comedian himself and inspirational speaker, Josh Haddon, was diagnosed with Stage 3 Esophageal Cancer. We live in Canada, so we have health coverage here (no need to pull off crazy Breaking Bad stuff) and he has been traveling to one of the best Cancer Treatment Centres in the country for Chemotherapy, Princess Margaret Hospital, and in his experience, he found the waiting rooms were filled with outdated magazines and poor reading material. And its a morbid enough place as it is. So he decided to write a book - "The Funny Thing About Cancer" - to spread his humour and wit and give people in the HOURS of waiting something light but insightful to read, as they wait to have poison basically pumped into their blood that will by percentage chance potentially save their life, but also make them insanely sick. Leaving a sort of legacy - at least that is how I see it - post-mortem. He had me and a few others act as editors in the process, and it was submitted to the publisher for print this upcoming month. He has been booked already for Radio talk shows and even scheduled to be on Ellen to talk bout his book. But he was given some bad news about how he has been responding to treatment. He has 6 months to live, or less. Which would be hard for anyone to hear, never mind someone who has lived such a short life. But he has made a huge impact, and he his trying to make the best of his time on earth, and he has changed a lot of lives.
You can check out Josh Haddon on his website:
Learn bout Josh, read his blog, and preorder the book or make a donation, and read a sneak peek of the book.
http://www.joshhaddon.com
Follow him on twitter:
@hahahaddon
Or check out the book: (Facebook page) https://www.facebook.com/TheFunnyThingAboutCancer
If you preorder it, he will ship you a signed copy as well as pay for shipping of a free copy of the book to a Cancer Centre (of your choice, if you know one, you can choose one). Or you can donate copies of the book to your local Cancer Centre (must be minimum of 5 copies).
This whole idea sparked when he began a YouTube blog (vlog) of his cancer experience.
This is a particulrly moving episode: Cheer Someone Up Today: http://youtu.be/Y--Rzdnd9Vc
Josh is the most real, legit guys I know. He is down to earth, likes beer and the Toronto Blue Jays, very talented, and it is tragic that his life is being cut short.
If you have played the game, Until Dawn, you will know the interactions between Sam and Josh, in a sense of how he confides in her, as a friend, over the tragedy of his sisters' death (but he is in no other way like Josh in the game) I can kinda relate to that. I at least relate to Sam..... and Samantha is actually my middle name. I want to sing a cover of Until Dawn's soundtrack of "O Death" (which is already a cover), dedicated to Josh Haddon.
http://youtu.be/uwNTQO50bQE
I know its a lot to take in, and I am not asking for donations or anything. Or trying to publicize the book. I mean, that would be cool if you could spread the word and support the cause..... But chances are you have a cancer fighter in your life. Or know someone who died of Cancer. And Chances are you don't know who Canadian Comedian Josh Haddon is, but he is my friend, and he is young, and dying of cancer, and he wrote a book to help people dying of cancer through their struggle and make it less unbearable. Some bits are autobiographical, but some are self-help and comical, and Cracked.com has even offered to feature one part of it as an article on their site, "What NOT to tell someone dying of Cancer". He is scheduled to be on Ellen this October, as I said, but his health and other stuff with the directors have caused delays, but stay tuned.
Yeah..... that is all. Its hard for me too, but I am trying my best to stay strong for Josh.
Kilo.
2 years ago, my boyfriend got into amateur comedy. He performs at shows in the city, etc, festivals, and whatnot. Long story short, a good friend of ours, the owner of one of the comedy clubs, a guy in his late 20s, a very talented comedian himself and inspirational speaker, Josh Haddon, was diagnosed with Stage 3 Esophageal Cancer. We live in Canada, so we have health coverage here (no need to pull off crazy Breaking Bad stuff) and he has been traveling to one of the best Cancer Treatment Centres in the country for Chemotherapy, Princess Margaret Hospital, and in his experience, he found the waiting rooms were filled with outdated magazines and poor reading material. And its a morbid enough place as it is. So he decided to write a book - "The Funny Thing About Cancer" - to spread his humour and wit and give people in the HOURS of waiting something light but insightful to read, as they wait to have poison basically pumped into their blood that will by percentage chance potentially save their life, but also make them insanely sick. Leaving a sort of legacy - at least that is how I see it - post-mortem. He had me and a few others act as editors in the process, and it was submitted to the publisher for print this upcoming month. He has been booked already for Radio talk shows and even scheduled to be on Ellen to talk bout his book. But he was given some bad news about how he has been responding to treatment. He has 6 months to live, or less. Which would be hard for anyone to hear, never mind someone who has lived such a short life. But he has made a huge impact, and he his trying to make the best of his time on earth, and he has changed a lot of lives.
You can check out Josh Haddon on his website:
Learn bout Josh, read his blog, and preorder the book or make a donation, and read a sneak peek of the book.
http://www.joshhaddon.com
Follow him on twitter:
@hahahaddon
Or check out the book: (Facebook page) https://www.facebook.com/TheFunnyThingAboutCancer
If you preorder it, he will ship you a signed copy as well as pay for shipping of a free copy of the book to a Cancer Centre (of your choice, if you know one, you can choose one). Or you can donate copies of the book to your local Cancer Centre (must be minimum of 5 copies).
This whole idea sparked when he began a YouTube blog (vlog) of his cancer experience.
This is a particulrly moving episode: Cheer Someone Up Today: http://youtu.be/Y--Rzdnd9Vc
Josh is the most real, legit guys I know. He is down to earth, likes beer and the Toronto Blue Jays, very talented, and it is tragic that his life is being cut short.
If you have played the game, Until Dawn, you will know the interactions between Sam and Josh, in a sense of how he confides in her, as a friend, over the tragedy of his sisters' death (but he is in no other way like Josh in the game) I can kinda relate to that. I at least relate to Sam..... and Samantha is actually my middle name. I want to sing a cover of Until Dawn's soundtrack of "O Death" (which is already a cover), dedicated to Josh Haddon.
http://youtu.be/uwNTQO50bQE
I know its a lot to take in, and I am not asking for donations or anything. Or trying to publicize the book. I mean, that would be cool if you could spread the word and support the cause..... But chances are you have a cancer fighter in your life. Or know someone who died of Cancer. And Chances are you don't know who Canadian Comedian Josh Haddon is, but he is my friend, and he is young, and dying of cancer, and he wrote a book to help people dying of cancer through their struggle and make it less unbearable. Some bits are autobiographical, but some are self-help and comical, and Cracked.com has even offered to feature one part of it as an article on their site, "What NOT to tell someone dying of Cancer". He is scheduled to be on Ellen this October, as I said, but his health and other stuff with the directors have caused delays, but stay tuned.
Yeah..... that is all. Its hard for me too, but I am trying my best to stay strong for Josh.
Kilo.
It's nice to hear he's making a book though to help make things more light. Philosophical-wise, it's better to know you might possibly die within a certain amount of time and be able to read a book like his to help lighten things up than to remain tense the whole time. Cancer is a very negative problem that the world is dealing with, and unfortunately, despite the money everyone's put into research programs, I still think we're a long way from discovering the cure to cancer.
