Modern Vespa

Many of you don't know our friend the Floridian, but most of you do. Bob worked at the Kennedy Space Center until he retired a few years ago. He put together a project that sent Snoopy around the world with MV'rs. After his great adventures Snoopy ended up at the Space museum at the cape.

Often he would "go dark" for extended periods of time as he would go into the bunker and had no contact with the outside world.

He has been dark recently because he has sickness in the family as his wife Crystal is fighting a rare form of cancer.

He asked me to share this with you.

It’s been a rough go for Crystal. Almost lost her after her first chemo. She went into respiratory arrest within an hour of the first infusion. Fortunately, the Moffitt team was able to revive her. She spent two weeks in icu. Soon after the the second chemo, blood counts crashed and she was back in the hospital. I just got her home last night and she’s resting. Next chemo is Thursday, the 3rd of 6 that are planned. Problems are because of the unusual strength of the chemo to fight the rare form of blood cancer. If we complete the chemo regimen with a remission, a bone marrow transplant will be done immediately in Tampa.


We wish Crystal and him great success with her treatments and will keep her in our prayers.

Where’s Snoopy - The End.

Awful news. Best wishes Mrs Floridian.

Wishing all the best for Mrs Flordian - that chemo is hard work for both the patient and their loved ones.

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This is tough to hear. I wish the very best for Bob and Crystal.

I watch the rockets lift off at the cape from my back yard in Titusville, I will think of you next launch. Best wishes to you Bob n Crystal.

Oof. Such hell.

Here's hoping.

Good thoughts and wishes for both Mrs. an Mr. Flordian.

That’s right, FLORDIAN.

Only he knows why.

My thoughts and prayers are with Floridian and his lovely wife. I have Pad Rat Stickers and most of my scoots. Stay strong my friend.

So sorry to hear that. It's a hell of a go. Prayers for the best outcome.

Pad Rat sticker rides with me too....

Only the best wishes for you and your wife Bob.
Ira

Best wishes for the success of the cure (...and some prayers added in my short time in church).

Sending best wishes from the UK.

somerset

With all this SpaceX stuff going on at the moment, kind of assumed Flordian had 'gone dark' on a mission again

All the very best to Crystal & Bob, and hopes for the best possible outcome

Best wishes from the South of Africa...

Our highest hope for Flordian and family. Cancer sucks and the treatments are difficult. I hope Crystal can muscle thru them and they are successful.

Miguel in Santa Cruz California

So sorry to hear this, sending my best wishes and hope for the best and that she is getting the best care.

Thanks for posting this lostboater. Very sorry to hear of their woes and wish Cystal and Floridian the very best.

My very best wishes. My daughter had a potentially fatal health condition
recently. She is fine. I am going to send over the angels that circled over her to you.

God bless your wife.

Bob Copeland
Minnesota

Best wishes from the uk hope all goes well for them

That's a tough struggle, best wishes to his whole family going through a terrible ordeal.

Snoopy go to hug me or the other way around. It was awesome.

All the best. Perseverance.

God's peace and love to Mrs Floridian. And His strength for them both as they face this together.

Big Bobby, you and yours are in our hearts and prayers. sending good vibes from the left coast to that right coast.

you got mission control backing you up and an army behind you. know that.

big hugs and a strong cocktail of your choice

-g

Bob and Crystal my thoughts and prayers for you 2.

Deepest wishes for Crystal's beating this back, and comfort to you both.

I am so sad reading this news.

Flordian your loving wife couldn’t possibly ask for a better companion in this trying time.

My very best wishes to both of you as you fight to pull through.

thank you so much for your concern. crystal is my big sis. bob my bro in law. for years they've put me up when working special welding projects at cape for the big b. I pretty much wore out his lx. both bob and crystal always there for me. so sad to see my sis deteriorating like this. tough on her as she goes thru the process. peeps have to understand that bob is so very much structured because of past nasa perfection brain washing. he's really having issues with this because of something he can't control or find a solution. so thankful for our mv peeps for your concerns while they go thru this journey. I'm at their house now and will make sure he see's your posts. youre all the best! jim

Sending hugs and strength to you both. Take care.

Thank you for the update lostboater.

Thoughts and prayers to the Floridian and his wife. 3 years ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 non Hodgkin lymphoma. After a year of chemo and weeks in the hospital they could not get me in remission. Then we found out I was eligible for a brand new treatment called car-t. ( you can look it up). The treatment was successful for the first 6 months then I relapsed. At that time we had to take aggressive measures and they put me back in the hospital for 3 weeks and I was receiving chemo almost everyday.

The next step was a stem cell transplant. Long story short no matches in my family but they did find a match for me in the UK. It’s amazing how this works. Once I was in remission after a heavy dose of chemo it was go time. My donor had to go into the hospital to extract her stem cells and then they were shipped and within 12 hours they were transfusing her stem cells into me. By the way I live in the Kansas City area. That was last November of 2019.

My point is Never Give Up. Being a man of faith and activating all my prayer warriors I’m healed. I’m enjoying life again one day at a time with my kids, grandkids and wife and I’m having fun with all sorts of recreational fun. If you want you can pass this along to the Floridian to encourage him and his wife.

On a side note my dad was in sales all his life and I remember he had a plaque on the wall in his office that read Winners Never Quit and Quitters never win. I hung on to that and here we are. 😀

Wish you the best of luck. The snoopy sticker is still on the back of my Jeep. Fond memories of my Vespa days.

Best wishes, positive energy waves being sent by MV forum members to you mate Floridian and to your lady.
Interesting timing, I was listening to Weekend edition on the radio & somehow my mind went to thinking of a singer named Anne Murray, I had heard music on the radio growing up in the 70's & i searched now & this song https://youtu.be/B8TRsgyX_D8?t=1373 was playing just as I was reading this post.
Sending good energies

Thanks for sharing about the stem cell work going on. I'm proceeding to get on the list for a kidney transplant for my son. I could include my availability for stem cell donor I guess. Amazing testimony.