Burns Diagnosed with Cancer Again - Sad Day

Sad day for a guy who by all accounts is a pretty good guy and a helluva hockey man....

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=264099&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_main

Cancer sucks.

Three times having gone through this. It's bad enough once.

Best of luck Patty, you can do it!!! Keep on fighting.

Very unfortunate. Hopefully, he'll succeed in this battle.

Burns has been admitted to hospital with pneumonia...

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=317139

This usually signals that the end is near. Very sad to hear, but expected given his prognosis and his choosing to forego any more chemotherapy.

It sounds like the chemo wouldn't have extended his life all that much and it would have been a miserable existance. Tough call. I could be wrong though.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:It sounds like the chemo wouldn't have extended his life all that much and it would have been a miserable existance. Tough call. I could be wrong though.

I think you're right... I believe the outlook was very bleak no matter what choice he made and I think he decided to spend time with his family as opposed to going through chemo etc... very tough choice to make.

Yeah, this is the final run I think. That is a bloody shame. I never thought Denis Hopper would outlive Pat Burns, I thought Burns would hang in there for a while because of the shape he's in.

Would be very sad if he was to be inducted in the the HHOF posthumously. Did you hear about the Facebook campaign to have him inducted? NHL should be ashamed if he doesn't get to live through his induction.

I listened to Burns nearly every morning for the past two years on CKAC radio. He decided last year to forego chemotherapy -- quality of life issues. He would sometimes mention how he felt -- physically, morally, emotionally -- if the subject were brought up, but he preferred to avoid pity. He often said that the children he met in the cancer wards, especially those who were terminally ill, had it much worse than him; their suffering always broke his heart.

He has no regrets; he lived a full and rewarding life, and considers himself blessed in every way.

Spirou wrote:I listened to Burns nearly every morning for the past two years on CKAC radio. He decided last year to forego chemotherapy -- quality of life issues. He would sometimes mention how he felt -- physically, morally, emotionally -- if the subject were brought up, but he preferred to avoid pity. He often said that the children he met in the cancer wards, especially those who were terminally ill, had it much worse than him; their suffering always broke his heart.

He has no regrets; he lived a full and rewarding life, and considers himself blessed in every way.

No kidding. I heard him on the radio a lot. Moreso before his illness. But he just was just taking a big bite out of life even at that time. Revelling in the time he spent in Magog and digging on "Me and Bobby McGee". Good memories.

Here's a Spring 1992 pic of Pat driving Guy Carbonneau and Chris Nilan in his pick-up truck to a playoff game against the Hartford Whalers.



http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/lnh/2009/01/

My, how things have changed in the NHL.

Spirou wrote:Here's a Spring 1992 pic of Pat driving Guy Carbonneau and Chris Nilan in his pick-up truck to a playoff game against the Hartford Whalers.



http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/lnh/2009/01/

My, how things have changed in the NHL.

Oh man... imagine that happening today? The NHLPA would be up in arms about insurance coverage and threatening to sue or something and Gary would be hopping up and down saying they don't have a deal with Dodge and should get some compensation for it...

Sigh... what happened to this league?

shabbs wrote:Oh man... imagine that happening today? The NHLPA would be up in arms about insurance coverage and threatening to sue or something and Gary would be hopping up and down saying they don't have a deal with Dodge and should get some compensation for it...

Sigh... what happened to this league?

Well, Pat himself probably received compensation for that Dodge, since he used to do commercials for that dealer (Kollbec) on TV and radio.

Burns has been released from hospital and is at home on antibiotics...

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=317139

More from Bob McKenzie:

http://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/11839070907

That seems like positive news.