Always enjoyed his videos fishing with his wife in little creeks and rivers

Damn, I have enjoyed following his fishing trips lately and learned a lot from them as well. I hope he gets better soon.

Terrible. Always liked his videos

T&P's.

Ran into him last summer at Gibbons, super chill guy, and didn't mind giving a bit of time to a fan.

T&P

Dang, hate to hear it.

Prayers for him.

That was a shock to see that video. Prayers for him.

For those who haven't had time to watch the video, he said it was benign, but he does not yet know what kind of treatment he will need.

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For those who haven't had time to watch the video, he said it was benign, but he does not yet know what kind of treatment he will need.

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Not to be a Debbie Downer, but although benign, it can still grow. Not a big deal in a lot of places. in your brain, it can be.

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Yep. Better than malignant, but "Nothing a little routine brain surgery won't fix!" said no one, ever. Hope he beats it.

Brain tumors, even if malignant, are highly treatable. The aggressive kinds, like the one John McCain is reported to have, are exceptions and of course secondary tumors indicating Stage IV (distant metastasis) from other organs are as well. In a lot of these cases the treatment doesn't involve chemo, which can wreck your quality of life and can kill you almost as easily as the cancer can. The other good thing is that treatments are evolving so fast they can't get quality 5 year survival rate studies. Within a year, they will have something better and put you on that.

At any rate, best wishes here.

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Well, there's this one technique I'm aware of called cyber knife. Minimal invasion. I'm not sure if it applies here or to this type of tumor, but treatments are getting better every day. We're not yet at "take 2 aspirin ..." but who knows.

Damn that sucks, and I wish him the best.

It was also sorta hard to watch. Back in September my fitness nut cousin went out for a jog. Came back and took a show. His wife heard a loud thud upstairs, and found him having a seizure. Off to the ER. There they found a egg sized tumor, with a finger trying to wrap around the brainstem. Surgery got a bunch of it, but there was some they couldn't get it all....stage 3 something that starts with a "g". So he is now going through radiation and chemo. Now the rough part. Something during the surgery triggered a pretty massive stroke. The cancer he is pretty well dealing with, he has likely reached the extent of recovery from the stroke. Unfortunately, he went from a very quickly rising doctor, living a pretty nice lifestyle, to 180 the other direction in 6 months.

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Damn that sucks, and I wish him the best.

It was also sorta hard to watch. Back in September my fitness nut cousin went out for a jog. Came back and took a show. His wife heard a loud thud upstairs, and found him having a seizure. Off to the ER. There they found a egg sized tumor, with a finger trying to wrap around the brainstem. Surgery got a bunch of it, but there was some they couldn't get it all....stage 3 something that starts with a "g". So he is now going through radiation and chemo. Now the rough part. Something during the surgery triggered a pretty massive stroke. The cancer he is pretty well dealing with, he has likely reached the extent of recovery from the stroke. Unfortunately, he went from a very quickly rising doctor, living a pretty nice lifestyle, to 180 the other direction in 6 months.

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Likely a glioblastoma. Tough to treat. T&P's to your cousin and Justin.

That's it. Didn't feel like playing with Google last night. Thanks.

Apparently there is quite a bit of extra room in the braincase. Prior to the seizure, he never had any headaches or other common symptoms.

Crap. Prayers for sure.

Lake Fork Guy is an Aggie right? Does he post on here?
Standing in prayer for full recovery.

Yeah, Justin is an Ag. Won the title while he was here. I got to meet him a few years back, he's a great guy and has some awesome videos. One of the best on YouTube, IMO.

Praying for him and his family.

About a year ago, I moved to a new area that gave me lake access and access to couple of wooded ponds. I decided I was going to take advantage of my new amenities and start fishing, which I had never before been big on. I hit up YouTube and bought some gear, went out and caught some fish and became obsessed with bass fishing. LFG is a big part of that. I've learned a lot from him. There's gotta be many more like me out there that he helped to turn on to the sport. Praying for a speedy and absolute recovery, as well as comfort for him and his family.

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For those who haven't had time to watch the video, he said it was benign, but he does not yet know what kind of treatment he will need.

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Not to be a Debbie Downer, but although benign, it can still grow. Not a big deal in a lot of places. in your brain, it can be.

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Just to add a little positive energy to this, I had a benign brain tumor removed when I was 16. I was in the hospital for a week and couldn't do any contact sports for a year. That was the hardest part for me, I played baseball my whole life and suddenly had to sit out my entire Junior year. Anyways, only lingering side effects for me were migraines, which do suck.

Prayers for LFG and for you Crock!

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For those who haven't had time to watch the video, he said it was benign, but he does not yet know what kind of treatment he will need.

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Not to be a Debbie Downer, but although benign, it can still grow. Not a big deal in a lot of places. in your brain, it can be.

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Just to add a little positive energy to this, I had a benign brain tumor removed when I was 16. I was in the hospital for a week and couldn't do any contact sports for a year. That was the hardest part for me, I played baseball my whole life and suddenly had to sit out my entire Junior year. Anyways, only lingering side effects for me were migraines, which do suck.

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That's good to hear that it worked out.

I only posted it because some people might think it was no big deal. He still needs the prayers, along with the others on this page.

2 people I've know for 20 years have had strokes in the past year, both in decent health and not even 50. Life can certainly make a quick turn.

I was not trying to belittle his situation.

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I was not trying to belittle his situation.

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I know blue. No offense intended.