Weird Medicine Healthcare for the Rest of Us

We have a listener who has been battling terminal bladder cancer since 2011. He’s had to try to continue to work just to keep the lights on despite horrific intractable pain, but hasn’t had a full time job since being laid off in 2012. The last tweet I got from him said “i’m already $100 away from being homeless. At this point I long for the relief that death will bring.”

He has no family who can help him, and he’s alone, suffering in a cold house he may be evicted from soon due to back taxes. He has about 30 days of insulin left, which will cost him almost $700 to refill.

He got better for awhile and we stopped raising money for him; he’s again bed ridden and can’t work. We’re trying to get free hospice care for him but it has been a struggle.

Please donate below, $5, $10, $100, whatever you can afford; 100% will go to RexDart who is known to people on the Interrobang website and on twitter as @rexdart936.

Let’s see what we can do as a group to keep the lights on and some heat going so our friend can live out his days in peace.

your friend,

Steve

We have a listener who has been battling terminal bladder cancer since 2011. He’s had to try to continue to work just to keep the lights on despite horrific intractable pain, but hasn’t had a full time job since being laid off in 2012. The last tweet I got from him said “i’m already $100 away from being homeless. At this point I long for the relief that death will bring.”

He has no family who can help him, and he’s alone, suffering in a cold house he may be evicted from soon due to back taxes. He has about 30 days of insulin left, which will cost him almost $700 to refill.

I’ve asked him to let us help him for some time now, and he just today said he’d accept the kindness of strangers.

Please donate below, $5, $10, $100, whatever you can afford; 100% will go to RexDart who is known to people on the Interrobang website and on twitter as @rexdart936.

Let’s see what we can do as a group to keep the lights on and some heat going so our friend can live out his days in peace.

your friend,

Steve

UPDATE 1/8/14:  We raised $300 the first day;  thank you to all our listeners who contributed!  This will really help.

UPDATE 1/9/14: RexDart was able to square with the electric company and buy some propane.  We raised another $400 today so far and this has been forwarded directly to him as well.   THANK YOU ALL for your help for a friend in need.

UPDATE 3/12/14: We finally got hospice in the home and a social worker is seeing what help is available. WM listeners have donated over $2000 to helping RexDart stay in his home. He wants you all to know he appreciates “this help more than you can imagine.” Y’all rule.

We have a listener who has been battling terminal bladder cancer since 2011. He’s had to try to continue to work just to keep the lights on despite horrific intractable pain, but hasn’t had a full time job since being laid off in 2012. The last tweet I got from him said “i’m already $100 away from being homeless. At this point I long for the relief that death will bring.”

He has no family who can help him, and he’s alone, suffering in a cold house he may be evicted from soon due to back taxes. He has about 30 days of insulin left, which will cost him almost $700 to refill.

I’ve asked him to let us help him for some time now, and he just today said he’d accept the kindness of strangers.

Please donate below, $5, $10, $100, whatever you can afford; 100% will go to RexDart who is known to people on the Interrobang website and on twitter as @rexdart936.

Let’s see what we can do as a group to keep the lights on and some heat going so our friend can live out his days in peace.

your friend,

Steve

UPDATE 1/8/14:  We raised $300 the first day;  thank you to all our listeners who contributed!  This will really help.

UPDATE 1/9/14: RexDart was able to square with the electric company and buy some propane.  We raised another $400 today so far and this has been forwarded directly to him as well.   THANK YOU ALL for your help for a friend in need.

Last night we recorded a “very special” Weird Medicine from the RiotCast studio above the Comedy Cellar in the West Village. Thanks to the owner, Noam Dworman for giving us this incredible space to record! Rob Sprance, the co-owner of The Riotcast Network was there and made sure all the technical details were perfect as well as lending his special brand of micrognathic humor to the conversation.

This was a roundtable discussion with guests from RiotCast and XM103. The guest list included the delightful Kristin Montella from “Live From the Table”, “News Whore” Mandy Stadtmiller from XOJANE.COM,

Dan Naturman also from Live From the Table and the one person I know who should be 10x more famous than he is. The panel was complete with the addition of the “Hardest Working Man in Radio”,  Mr Sam Roberts.

Topics included the differences in male-female approaches to intersex friendship, emetophobia (fear of puking), ObamaCare, male and female nocturnal emissions (wet dreams), and how many times a week a certain radio host has to “get the poison out”.

This show will air on the RiotCast Network on 11-19-13.  “Your old pal”TM  Dr Steve will also appear on “The Hole” as well as Robert Kelly’s YKWD Podcast this week.  Watch for some insertion-despite-the-lawyers on SiriusXM’s Opie and Anthony show on Friday 11-15-13 at around 8-9am.

Ok, this guy called our show (you’ll hear it 6/16/13) to plug his book by asking a question about anxiety. Of course, it was tongue in cheek and we get the joke, but the guy doesn’t have any comments or reviews on his Amazon page so I thought it would be fun if our listeners left a few “words of encouragement” and “serious questions” for him. The first sentence of the book says “There is no evidence of reality among this story…” so you know it has to be great!

Here’s the link!

Enjoy!

Here’s the original phone call:
the blackberry boys

We were given the very sad news that our friend XM Jim passed away today.

He always told me “this cancer isn’t going to get me, doc” and he was right; he died of a massive heart attack.

Jim was self-employed and had no life insurance; he leaves behind a wife and 3 kids, 2 of whom are 4 or under and one of whom has special needs. Beside the obvious emotional distress, they are so devastated financially that they’re asking the Veteran’s Administration for help with his burial.

If you can see it in your heart to donate to his family again, please click the “Donate” button below. If you can’t (and we understand) please send positive thoughts and prayers to his wife and family.

your friend,

Steve

Occasionally, I come to you, hat in hand, to help one of the friends of our show monetarily. Some of these promotions are more successful (Patrice O’Neal, Big A) than others (Blowhard), but you always come through. This time we really need your help.

A listener to our show (he’s @XMJim on Twitter, please follow him) was feeling crummy so he saw his doctor and came away with a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. He’s been in the hospital and has now lost his job and has no income. Of course, his cancer treatments are going to cost a fortune, and if he can’t work…

Right now we just need to get him through the holidays. He and his family don’t know how they’re going to make it.

If you can donate $1, $5, $100, whatever you can handle, 100% of the donations will go to Jim and his family. If you can’t donate this year, no problem, everyone understands. Toss a little positive thinking his way (and follow him on Twitter!)

Y’all rule.

your obt svt,

Steve