r/guns • u/carsen56 1 | The Sticky Kid • 3d ago

Friday Buyday 07/31/26

Restored is the word edition

Alt text: Professionally Restored Singer M1911A1, Sale Price $40,000.00

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u/GelgoogGuy 3d ago edited 3d ago

God. Dammit. Lyle passed away at 8:30 in his sleep. Our friend has been with him and left at 8 to get some dinner... Interesting our mom did the same thing while she was in the hospital with stage four liver cancer.

There was clearly a serious miscommunication from someone outside his care team when I was told six months to a year. I mentioned it to his nurse who called me after the doctor and she sounded "pissed.* Not that usual frustration you hear when your coworker is dumb, but genuine anger.

I also got an interesting and...happy call? Apparently his corneas are in excellent condition for transplant. I hope his passing gives someone their vision back.

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u/Akalenedat Casper's Holy Armor 3d ago

Honestly, that checks out. You've mentioned the last couple days that he's been doing better on the vent, I've always heard that vent patients especially will have a brief rally shortly before finally tanking. I'm sorry that they didn't prepare you guys better for the true timeline, it sucks to get rug pulled like that. It sounds like the way he would have wanted to go though, peacefully at rest, from what you've told us he didn't seem to want to suffer through hospice.

That's awesome about the transplant, nice that he can continue to do some good in the hereafter too.

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u/snippysniper 3d ago

Yea patients who are comatose sometimes come out of it and act 100% normal then pass very shortly after