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PLEASE HELP BEERBOHM OBTAIN HIP JOINT REPLACEMENT OPERATIONS

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The following is a letter i sent to various comics-blogging, long-time friends such as Mark Evanier http://www.povonline.com/ Tony Isabella http://www.worldfamouscomics.com/tony/ Gary Groth http://www.fantagraphics.com/ Tom Spurgeon http://comicsreporter.com/ Bart Bush http://oafcon2009.blogspot.com/ plus Bud Plant & D i see K (no spoon) Swan known as BigGuysComics, maybe a couple others whose names escape me at present. I should be shot for forgetting, tis the hip joint pain which does it, can hardly wait until it subsides and disappears soon enough now, as i have basicly raised what is needed to get thru the surgery and first little bit of rehab efforts.

 

I also must thank those of you here on this CGC "Gold board" who spent a bit of time scrolling thru stuff in my eBay store, helping me out in my hour of dire need more than any other challenge i have ever faced in my life, cuz without one's health you are nothing, as i painfully became aware of, and attuned into the concept, these past few years of steady decline. Since the operation day Oct 20 is bi-lateral, i should be back on my feet by the end of December so they tell me

 

Anyway, to record for posterity follows is a slightly modified letter sent out to some comics friends going way back before there was a Direct Market, and we were comics fans inside the fanzine days of yore

 

hello Friends,

 

I wish to thank each of you who blogged my situation, and otherwise got the word out for me recently in my hour of need which stretched into a couple months here. I read thru each of your words about what i am going thru, was deeply touched. And i had an out-poring of concern from a number of other friends as a result.

 

If you wish to do some sort of follow-up as mentioned by some of you as this bi-lateral operation is finally becoming a reality for my life, here is some background as I am thinking it right about now.

 

When I come out of this whole and intact once again, I will be figuring out how to pay it all forward as that is the type of world i envision and wish to participate in.

 

As the economy worsened over time last couple years, i despaired more than you can imagine I was never going to regain the use of what is an essential part of one's body used for doing damn near any thing in life, especially the life of a comic book dealer and historian, as stacks of this stuff becomes heavy, as we all know from personal experiences.

 

My "normal" load of vintage comics material hauled, unloaded, reloaded. hauled back, unloaded and pored thru back at the warehouse to "fix" the boxes, prep them for the next show, etc, is a tad over two tons, weighed by pro-teamsters at the first NY Javits show some years back now , blew me away when i first learned it was really that much weight being hauled in my one ton van and trailer.

 

Multiply that out to 25-30 shows a year around the country, after 22 years in the Bay Area participating building the world of comics readers, i have spent the last 15 doing a lot of traveling researching the earliest origins of the American comic book, definitively pushing that concept back to 1842.

 

Sales in my eBay store went up exponentially each time one of you mentioned what was going on in my life. I kept inching towards my goal needed to make this happen. Then a fortuitous thing happened I wish to relate:

 

Many of the internet comics readers out there overlap, so while i cannot break down who dun what when, the accumulative effect brought my plight to the attention of a certain comic book collector who reads a lot of internet comics blogging, requesting to remain anon for a spell, per his wishes when i asked him today. I have to respect that,

 

After 9/11, feeling a need to pay something forward, he told me, his firm formed an arm of their activities into sort of a good samaritan fund, which dispenses funds based on recommendations from people inside his firm.

 

A couple days ago the fine folks there FedEx'd me enough to cover my bi-lateral hip joint replacement operations at a place called Joint Replacement Center 2200 West 3rd St Los Angeles slated in stone now for Tuesday October 20. I am floored, speechless, and honored.

 

Several of you suggested dropping by, say hi, etc - sure, I will be in that hospital all week before they will let me out, they told me.

 

This all finally began to reach some sort of semi-organized momentum this past couple months on Saturday during the San Diego Comicon when a fellow came into my booth looking at some Snow White and Pinocchio original Disney art by Frank Follmer, First Asst Director on both features plus Fantasia, who was one of the Disney strike leaders never rehired, a missing "old man" of the studio.

 

I mentioned to him why i had such treasures out for sale, he shot back he was a metal joint implant salesman for a medical supply house in LA, talking his boss into donating a full set to my cause as well as setting up the scenario with the hospital, surgeon, anesthesiologist, internist. etc whereby i can obtain total bi-lateral hip joint replacement for the princely sum of $18,000

 

- a bargain lower even than going over to India, which had been the previous focus of my personal recovery plan. That is when i began to put the word out anew I had a reachable goal in the short term for some one barely able to move at times.

 

I also salute the fine sales guys at San Diego Comicon with this email, who have made sure my last few years of Comicon were something i could realistically still do, even though i was cranky at times, helping me in many ways i owe more thanks than i will ever be able to say in the remaining portion of my lifetime, which has enabled me to be just a handful of souls who can say they have bought & sold comic books since #1 in 1970.

 

There are four comics-stuff dealers of us we know of: Bud Plant, Steve Schanes, Terry Stroud amongst those who have been to every show. An amazing side bar is two of those fellows were also in the van coming out of Houston back in 1973, Bud and Terry. Play that alternate world out if we had not all come thru that accident OK, Swan included in that statement.

 

Now all i have to do is make sure i take in enough to get me thru the next couple months of rehab recovery until i am completely healed. Fortunately, those are much lower levels of funding than coming up with a major operation slush fund covering many medical professionals. This is just food and heat, etc - easy flowing goals which my eBay store and kids who have moved back here to help me get thru this ordeal, both the last couple months on thru the upcoming recovery, will be able to handle.

 

It will be much easier now to get back to being on my feet with the kind help of friends which led in turn to kindness from strangers. We should all learn to pay it forward when the opportunity and means presents itself.

 

I am looking to becoming a healed human in the near term, getting back into my first love tracking down obscure comics material, gleaning previously "unknown" knowledge from same as I will be able to once again get back to finishing my my comics business history tome plus buying selling trading comics material of all shapes forms sizes which is what I have done non-stop for almost as long as I can remember now, it seems. Plus the many comics discussion groups i have been unable to keep up with as in days of yore.

 

And i have you all copied in this letter to thank (plus Swan whom i mention and recently spoke with) for certain levels on synchronicity which seems to have brought this all together one event leading into another. And it started with Pore Li'l Mose on a Saturday during the 40th anniversary San Diego, talking with Bud that day got my perspective back into focus.........

 

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robert

 

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so am i and thanks for the kind words

 

the last few years turned into one long bad dream to get woken up from, as my ability to lift stuff went away, but a new day be adawnin' - hope is in the atmosphere in Beerbohm-Land - 2010 will hopefully see a revived cosmic odyssey i will embark upon

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I wish to humbly thank the powers that be who have enabled the concept of repairing this broken body to happen shortly.

 

The past couple months have been severely taxing on my hip joints as mounds of books were gone thru, scanned & prepped, placed into eBay store, etc,

 

Am leaving out for LA tomorrow Sat Oct 17, prep Monday, surgery Tuesday Oct 20 at St Vincent's Hospital http://www.jri-docs.com/Pages/default.aspx

 

Will be there the first full week post op, any LA area collectors wishing to stop by, say hi, feel free, as several have expressed interest in the concept.

 

I bought a travel laptop a couple days ago, oldest daughter Kati has been loading it with what i need to function wireless, etc, so will attempt to stay in contact with those who choose to - as well as run my ebay store and learn more about making my fledgling web site become more functional.

 

quite a few of you sent in want lists, etc, attempting to help me out, some I did not get back to yet, my apologies as I have been running out of time this week doing pre-op prep scenarios with local medical people, trying to pack, setting up certain logistics for while I am gone, having no idea how long that actual time in LA will be yet, depends on how the surgery implants "take" and begin repairing and adhering to my bones & hip sockets.

 

Under normal circumstances it is easy to go thru my vintage stuff in myriad boxes, alas, not so easy as of late with bone on bone deterioration inside the joints set in beyond my control accelerating this year, causing some of my stuff to get "misfiled" as it has been a while since i could lift boxes of any sorts or stripes - and once something gets placed down, there it might sit until figured out that it needs to get from point A to point B, etc

 

Anyway, the voices thereof, and the support via orders, have been, and are, much appreciated in this little corner of the comics collecting world. I will be back at my warehouse soon enough, and will continue to offer good deals on what i have here, such as it may be, lots of great vintage comics of a by-gone era, not so much in the high end can't be read sealed up category.

 

If i have been forced by time now to leave some loose ends dangling, please be kind enough with a bit of patience as all will be sorted out in the near term as best i can while i get thru this difficult phase until healed and back in the game full time

 

best

 

robert

 

 

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Thanks for the continuing kind words

 

Arrived LAX this afternoon,

 

dropped off son Will at his mother's place here, hung out with daughter Rochelle & grand daughter Giana north of LA, then headed south a bit as I prep for the upcoming surgery

 

So far all systems are a go on this, doctors signed off on xrays, EKG, blood samplings, etc - Monday comes pre-op stuff, Tuesday they cut cut cut, making me one of those guys who gets to set off metal detectors the rest of his life

 

An upcoming new lease of=n life is cause to realize that after the darkness comes the light

 

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I just heard good news from a mutual friend in LA:

 

Just got a call from Kati (Bob's daughter) at the hospital. Bob just got out of surgery, had both sides done and she is told it went extremely well. He was starting to get pretty nervous last night (understandably) thinking of all the possibilities. He's in the recovery room right now (about 3 pm Tuesday) and she's going to hang there until he's settled in a room later.

 

This is also good news for me since I'm having a hip replaced in two days. Moderation in all things for me -- just the right side.

 

Jack

 

 

 

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I just heard good news from a mutual friend in LA:

 

Just got a call from Kati (Bob's daughter) at the hospital. Bob just got out of surgery, had both sides done and she is told it went extremely well. He was starting to get pretty nervous last night (understandably) thinking of all the possibilities. He's in the recovery room right now (about 3 pm Tuesday) and she's going to hang there until he's settled in a room later.

 

This is also good news for me since I'm having a hip replaced in two days. Moderation in all things for me -- just the right side.

 

Jack

 

 

 

Glad it went well. Nice of you to get one of yours done just to keep Bob company.

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I just heard good news from a mutual friend in LA:

 

Just got a call from Kati (Bob's daughter) at the hospital. Bob just got out of surgery, had both sides done and she is told it went extremely well. He was starting to get pretty nervous last night (understandably) thinking of all the possibilities. He's in the recovery room right now (about 3 pm Tuesday) and she's going to hang there until he's settled in a room later.

 

This is also good news for me since I'm having a hip replaced in two days. Moderation in all things for me -- just the right side.

 

Jack

 

 

 

Glad it went well. Nice of you to get one of yours done just to keep Bob company.

 

Anything for a pal.

 

Update:

 

"I had a brief phone conversation with Bob tonight. Still pretty woozy and medicated up but they've got him up and moving already. Seems to be going OK. Best of luck with yours!"

 

Jack

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I just heard good news from a mutual friend in LA:

 

Just got a call from Kati (Bob's daughter) at the hospital. Bob just got out of surgery, had both sides done and she is told it went extremely well. He was starting to get pretty nervous last night (understandably) thinking of all the possibilities. He's in the recovery room right now (about 3 pm Tuesday) and she's going to hang there until he's settled in a room later.

 

This is also good news for me since I'm having a hip replaced in two days. Moderation in all things for me -- just the right side.

 

Jack

 

 

 

Thanks for the update Jack. And best of luck to you on your operation. :wishluck:

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