Good friends and family...

I cannot even fathom this situation happening again, especially to someone i know, someone this close. However, my boy Sean's dog, Brutus (my 'ole boy Rocky's sibling-three generations later, same father) has been diagnosed with lymphosarcoma, the same damn thing Rocky had, that eventually took him out. After Rocky's issues Sean made sure to check Brutus everyday, and last Monday, his worst fear came alive... lumps in his neck!!!

Anyway, he is an amazing boy, VERY strong, VERY resilient, only 2 years old, and needs MAJOR help. He goes in for surgery on Monday, the 22nd of January to remove the affected lymph node, and after that, I'm sure there will be rounds of Chemotherapy. So, although he could use help now, the ongoing Chemo is going to cost a lot too... anything will help, trust me.

Anyway, I'm taking it upon myself to start collecting donations for Brutus, he is going to fight this one, tooth and nail, and I hope we can all help him. His myspace page is here

http://www.myspace.com/brutusjames

You can make donations to my paypal account (tw@revolutionwebdesign.com), and please note "For Brutus James" when doing so. Anything, and EVERYTHING is appreciated. When I get donations, I will note them on his blog, and all those who helped will recieve many good years of good karma :)

If you could, please repost this, make this bulletin go far and wide, and help a brother out. Post it on your blogs, in your Myspace pages, on your mothers myspace pages, EVERYWHERE... if you can.

Take it easy and thank you VERY much on behalf of Sean his wife and two children... they need our help right now... and Brutus does too!

Sincerely...
Uncle Tony

So I decided to take a few days to reflect on the events that took place last saturday... December 9, 2006. The day, that will go down as the hardest day of my life, so far. The never ending circle that we call life, came to a physical end for my dog, Rocky. He was the first dog that I owned, a pitbull, a gentleman through and through, a protector and overall a lot of lessons learned for me! He taught me about responsibility, unconditional love, and most of all, that we are mortal. We do not have an infinite trip on this physical plane we exist. We will pass. We will move on. This was my first experience with death so close to me. I've never lost anyone but a childhood friend (rest in peace Martin), a best friend's mother and a great-great-aunt. Noone else. Never. Noone THIS close to ME.

The coolest part of the story, is that I am about to get another tattoo, most likely a tribute to Rocky, in some sort of way, probably a picture of his head, and his name in some Compton style gangster letters (Cause you know, I'm soo gangster.) But the cool part of it will be that his ashes will be made part of it! Yes... a great friend of mine, and tattooist extraordinaire will be mixing some of his ashes into the ink (after we sterilize them in some alchohol) and therefore I will have Rocky with me until I leave this physical plane. I've never heard of this before, and I thought it would be a great way to carry him with me, even if it's a very small part of him and only ashes, it will still have much meaning to me, and that's just about all that matters :)

Here is the last picture that we took together just about 30 minutes before we put him to rest for his final nap... Sad day it was, but I now understand what people say when they say they can feel their loved ones around them at all times... I truly do. Rocky is with me... I know this.

it's just been too cloudy in my life to blog about anything, as soon as i pull up the add new entry field, i get this weird feeling like, i dont care what i have to write about... so who in the world would REALLY care... no one. not now. nothing interesting is going on.

hopefully there will be some good news soon... lots of it.

three things that i want to change soon...

1. my grandfather tony dimarco will make it out of the hospital soon.

2. my house and my life will be taken over by myself and my new life

3. my dog and his disease will go strong for a long long time

other than that... im just doing my best to maintain sane. im trying to take the most practical approach to all of this... as its really trying, this is probably the most trying time my life has ever endured. many many things happening, all seem to be bad, but maybe somehow, out of all of it, something good will happen.

just maybe. i have hope.

so, it is with great dismay that I even write this... but the doctors gave us the worst news we could have expected... rocky doesnt have much time, he may have a month, chemo would have ran about 3-4k and that just isnt in the budget... not to mention it may not have lasted or made him last any longer than a month, maybe longer, up to a year or so, but not without a lot of trauma and simply delaying the inevitable... :(

so, i will, as i said, once we put him down, and he is ready to go off to doggy heaven, donate the rest of the money we collected, to our local humane society, in salisbury, maryland.

i cannot thank EVERYONE of you enough, we tried, and we have him on prednisone, a drug that will keep his Quality of life up for a short bit of time, so that his mother and i can enjoy him, for a little while longer...

we will miss you rocky bear...

Hello
I am a 5 and a half year old pitbull, owned by Tony Weeg. My father just found out that I have Lymphosarcoma, Cancer of the Lymph nodes. I'm a healthy young dog with many years left, however, a lymph node under my neck was swollen and dad took me to the doctors office. After we tried some antibiotics, they did a biopsy on my hind legs, and what do you know!!! Freakin' cancer. Yeah, anyway, not to happy about it... but, I gotta deal with it, it was the card I was dealt, and I will make it through. I hear that this little Yorkshire Terrier, named sparky, made it and has made it for many years, so I have my hopes up! (http://www.sparkyfightsback.com/) Hopefully you can help... It would make me surviving that much easier... even a dollar would help!

Anyway, I need some assistance paying for my medical costs. I am going to the doctor next Monday, and dad is hoping to get me some chemotherapy so that I can hang around for a little while longer, I'm really not done hanging out with you all...

If you can help, please send donations in any denomination to my dad's paypal account, tony@revolutionwebdesign.com, and he will use it to help with my chemotherapy. Once I am done, I'm going to use the remaining money if there is any, and give it to the humane society here in Salisbury.

Please stop by my myspace page, www.myspace.com/rockyweeg/ and drop me some love.

Have a good one and wish me luck!
PAWS UP to all y'alls :)
Rocky

rockyweeg@gmail.com

Took some cool pictures of Rocky today out and about the back deck area...

Here is a link to the Flickr set of images

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyweeg/sets/72157594208943913/