Barry Finn in hospital (July-Aug 2005)

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Susan A-R
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 06:12 PM

Barry, I hope that all goes well, and will be thinking of you and justine. Let's hope for a recovery that puts you healthy and happy at the Getaway.

Much love

Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 05:42 PM

Ok, Mate, you know how to do it, you did it before, now get on with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Micca
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 05:34 PM

Barry, Best wishes in this from CatsPHiddle and me too, we Hope to meet and greet you soon, our thoughts are with you! Micca

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Kaleea
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 04:40 PM

Second time's the charm. Aafter you've made it thus far, the rest is just a song. Keep singin' and you'll be doin' great! Let's all 'Catters keep sending all that positive healing energy.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 04:27 PM

Barry, it was great to see you at Mystic, as ever. At last, you're getting the 2nd replacement you needed. All my good wishes, my friend.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: annamill
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 02:52 PM

Barry & family...

All our love and best thoughts and wishes.

Love, Annamill & Glenn

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: karen k
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 01:14 PM

Gosh, Barry! I had no idea that this was coming. Hope you know I wish you all the best for a speedy recovery. Hope you will be at the Getaway. My best wishes to you and your family.

love,
karen

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 01:05 PM

and btw, Finn, this is a cheesy move on your part. I am finally close enough for that visit you keep promising I can partake of and you pull this crap. I need you to get out of that joint and get home so's I can git up to La Casa Finn and see's if I can talk Justine into baking me some cookies. So's its up off yer Royal backside and back to the aul house so's you can make ready for a visit from a freeloadin' old Mick.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:49 PM

Barry,
Tell them to get it right this time! Rest easy and heal. The shanty sings are not the same without you.
Love,
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:45 PM

All the best Barry. Hope to see you at the Press Room ASAP.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:30 PM

Best wishes and healthy thoughts Barry!

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: harpgirl
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:18 PM

Best wishes for a quick recovery and a long life, Barry.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:15 PM

Barry has been to several Getaways and we want him back for more! This looks like the first step....If good wishes help, he will be on the mend at a rapid rate.

No one puts more into a song than Barry, and I look forward to seeing scenes like this again.

Go, Barry!

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: CET
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:11 PM

Charmion and I send prayers for a quick recovery. Get well soon, Barry.

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: GUEST,Metchosin
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 11:45 AM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery Barry.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 11:32 AM

Thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: GUEST,guest tony
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 11:02 AM

Speedy recovery Barry, you,re very much in our thoughts. All the best from Tony and Mike (Mainbrace).

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 10:19 AM

Best wishes, hope all goes well.


Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 10:11 AM

Barry! Wish we'd known..... love and prayers from here.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 01:11 AM

Give 'em hell, Barry, lad!! We're rooting on your side!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 01:08 AM

Best of care and luck!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:48 AM

I'll be thinking of you , Barry.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: GUEST,Alice without cookie
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:38 AM

Barry, all the best to you in your recovery. Sing a song for me!

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Big Mick
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:33 AM

My first Mudcat buddy, Barry made me feel welcome from the first and every time since. You are in my prayers, buddy.

Tom, would you be so kind as to pass on to me the contact info? A PM or through Jeri will do. Thanks, my friend.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: georgeward
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:23 AM

He'd better make it. I just met him, and once ain't enough to meet a man like that.
Besides, I owe him a song. No, Barry, I did not forget. I'm sending all the best your way (song to follow).

- George

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: CarolC
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:21 AM

I'll be thinking about you, Barry, and we both send our best wishes for the best possible outcome for you and for whatever comfort and strength you and your loved ones need during this time.

Carol and Rob

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 02:25 PM

Barry's wife is expecting him to come back strong, according to her e-mail to me this morning. Who could hold Barry back? Certainly no force of nature thtat I'm familar with.

Yes, Barry was looking a little wane at the Mystic Sea Music Festival but certainly didn't hold back when he was leading songs. He's one of our best traditional style sea music singers and we owe him big time for his distinctive renditions of songs. He's also a damn fine fella.

I look forward to singing with him again this summer.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 02:17 PM

Jeez. He hasn't been looking that great lately, but I figured that was just Barry. I hope he got a perfect-for-him liver this time 'round, and goes on to heal perfectly too! Maybe he could have his people call John's people.

Much love to Barry and the Finn Family.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 02:04 PM

Thanks so much, Tom, for letting us know. Barry's been with us so long and contributed so much and has such a STRONG spirit. I was just transferring addys from one old phonebook to a new one and noticed I still had the last hospital addy from Barry's first transplant.

Barry, I am grateful you went to the top of the list, but not that it took getting worse to get there! We love you and send an unending stream of good thoughts and thanks-givings for the best possible outcome for all concerned. The Mudcat has incredible powers for helping one another at such times, as you know. I've just experienced that, myself...coming up to my 8th week after aortic valve replacement and plenty of good energy from Mudcatters helped me through.

In Love and Peace Profound,

Kat & Rog

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 02:02 PM

My best wishes for a successful outcome and a quick recovery. Barry, I hope to meet you at the Getaway one of these days.

Subject: RE: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 01:50 PM

Thanks for posting this, Tom. I got to meet and sing with Barry a few years ago, and hope to have the opportunity again in the future. Warm thoughts and prayers.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: BS: Barry Finn in hospital
From: curmudgeon
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 01:33 PM

I just learned this morning that Barry Finn, our good friend and comrade-in-song, is in hospital beginning the recovery from a liver replacement. This is Barry's second such procedure. The first didn't take and while he's known for a while that it would have to be redone, he didn't know exactly when due to the waiting list for such organs. a worsening of his condition, however, put him at the head of the list.

Barry's wife, Justine, adds, "Second time around is
a little trickier, but you know Barry's spirit. "

I'll post snail mail for card senders when I find it. Meanwhile, post messages here, send good thoughts, et al, and sing a shanty for Barry -- Tom

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Barry's on his way to recovery now - Click here for the new thread.
-Joe Offer-