Kendall's new hope

Subject: Kendall's new hope
From: kendall
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 09:56 AM

Check this out folks!

From the Boston Globe

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: DonMeixner
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:01 AM

Good.

Don

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Big Mick
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:07 AM

Exciting story, not just for our Skippah, but for all singers. Thanks for sharing it. Now can they do anything for wrinkled, old arses?

I'll get me aul cap and wellies.......

Mick

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:18 AM

Give him is voice back and he'll probably run for office. Not that that's a bad thing...for Kendall.

The story says it's "tunable" -- Kendall could turn out to be a soprano.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:23 AM

Great article - thanks for posting the link!

SRS

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Eiseley
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:26 AM

Good luck, Kendall!

Eiseley

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:26 AM

Thanks! Hope you put in on the BS thread too as people will want to know.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:31 AM

Wait'll Dan reads about the "Jell-O". Heehehee.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:49 AM

Excellent article.

I also could not help but be intrigued by this paragraph:

"In a paper published earlier this year, researchers tested the new injectable gel on dogs' vocal folds. On high-speed video, their vocal folds vibrated normally, with no safety problems."

This has potential for the continuing story of the shaggy dog who goes into the bar and...

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:56 AM

WOW. That's fantastic. It's turning out to be a good day today -

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 10:57 AM

"shaggy dog who goes into the bar and..."

The dog says to the doctor, "Will I be able to sing after the operation."
The Doctor says "Of course!"
The dog says "Good, because I always wanted to be able to sing."

Excellent article kendall. It reminds me of your story. Who is that handsome man being examined in the picture?

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Micca
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 11:12 AM

Good news Kendall, Thanks for putting up the link (Us Science types like that kind of stuff)

JtS and what song will the dog sing?
Why Kendalls, "Theres a 5$ fine for whining"

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 11:17 AM

Great article but somebody should shoot the photographer. Both you and the doctor look equally old and decrepit. I don't know how this is going to go over with the Groupies, Captain...

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: maeve
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 11:31 AM

Thanks for the link, Kendall. I'm closely following your journey.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: GUEST,BBP at work
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 11:36 AM

Kendall, all fingers at Gainsborough Folk Club are crossed for a good result on this. Can't wait to hear Jacqui moaning that she can't get a word in edgeways!

Deirdre

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Nancy King
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 11:41 AM

"Old and decrepit"??? Surely not! How about "Mature and distinguished" .... or something like that.

In any case, I'm keeping fingers and toes crossed! What's the timeline on the treatment?

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 11:43 AM

I see the Doctor worked with Steven Tyler in the past. I wonder if this means the Captain will be doing Back in the Saddle Again when the work is complete? ;>)
Great news, Kendall, and we are all in your corner on this one!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 12:06 PM

Wow! Wonderful article, wonderful news!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Crowhugger
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 12:10 PM

Incredible news, it would be soooo amazing to have your voice back! Say, Kendall, are you in the test group, or rather wait for others to see if there are unforeseen problems that didn't occur with the dogs?

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Big Ballad Singer
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 12:40 PM

Absolutely amazing... I LOVE it when things that used to be in the domain of fantasy and science-fiction novels are now becoming realities.

Kendall, I wish you all the best, and I will be praying that you not only get your voice back, but become a symbol of hope for anyone who has met struggles with dignity.

I can't imagine what I would do if I lost my voice... being able to speak and sing are foundational to who I am as a person and as a performer.

My fervent prayer is that you will not only return, but flourish.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: kendall
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 12:44 PM

I understood Doctor Zeitels to say that I am scheduled for the first trials. I told him that my insurance company probably won't pay for this because it is experimental. He said "We are going to do it anyway."

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Crowhugger
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 12:54 PM

Wow, that will be some truly remarkable history in the making. Looking forward to the next chapter!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 01:30 PM

A great article. Thanks for posting it. Hopes, prayers and crossed fingers are with you.

Jay

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Tinker
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 01:34 PM

This groupie is too thrilled to even focus on the photo....

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 03:16 PM

Kendall,

May the force be with you. My only worry is that we may have to put up with you "making up for lost time" by telling us everything you haven't gotten across the din since your voice went South. In reality, we will gladly put up with it.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: GUEST,Grace Kraemer
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 03:43 PM

Good luck Kendall. It sounds like you are in good hands. I'd like to share the article with my son who aspires to be a bioengineer. He will be a senior in high school and will be applying to colleges with bio-physics and bio-engineering programs. Although exposed to traditional music his entire life he has never caught the bug. Oh well.

Take care.

Grace

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 04:19 PM

Great news! Wishes for all the best of luck with it!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Genie
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 05:33 PM

Kendall, it's great news that you're scheduled for the first trials (that is, if you WANT to be among the first guinea pigs).   (Let's hope they give you the right type of gel, so you don't end up sounding like a Dachshund or St. Bernard.)

It's wonderful that the doc says they'll 'do' you even though you don't have insurance, too.

I hope everything comes out -- er, goes IN -- OK.

Genie

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 05:56 PM

SINS... "Both you and the doctor look equally old and decrepit."

Well, YOU ever shove one them things up someone's nose or had one shoved up yer nose? I have had that rigginfriggin shoved up my nose and down my gullet what seemed like far enough to look out the other end FAR too many times and I'll bet a pic of me at that point wouldna be the best. But I thought the old salt looked fine.

BTW... I am clear and free for six months as of last Monday. AND, I didn't gag when she shoved the scope in so I AM gonna be okay. Never hold a high note again but that's small potatoes.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Mark Ross
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 06:03 PM

I hope you are not, as Utah once said, being an "Italian Policeman"(aka, "Guinea Pg"). Good luck.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Aug 11 - 10:25 AM

Mark - yes, he will be a guinea pig but he was one of the early patients for last year's procedure and that worked out very well.

Right now Kendall is looking for anything that will give him more voice.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: olddude
Date: 02 Aug 11 - 10:32 AM

Wow what an article ... wow ...

thanks Captain

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Midchuck
Date: 02 Aug 11 - 10:33 AM

Ahh, he just wants a rematch in the Great Dirty Limerick Shootout! Well, I'm ready anytime...

Peter

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Aug 11 - 10:57 AM

Peter - I think he ceded you that title a while back.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 01:20 AM

Exciting news. Keep us up to date!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Martha Burns
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 01:31 AM

That's amazing!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 08:04 AM

wow!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Andrez
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 05:57 PM

I'm not at all religious, but there you go miracles can happen!

Cheers,

Andrez

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: kendall
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 07:32 PM

Yup, and it doesn't matter if you believe or not.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Janie
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 07:46 PM

Sounds wonderfully promising, Kendall.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Padre
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 08:45 PM

Wonderful news, Kendall.   

Tom McHenry+

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Art Thieme
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 08:59 PM

The Best of luck Kendall!

(singing in Morse code won't due I suspect.)

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: kendall
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 11:40 AM

I just don't want to sound like Julie Andrews.

Some years ago a large woolen mill complex in Germany went under and a world famous dog breeder bought the whole works. He bred, trained and sold a special breed of hunting dog, and his business became so successful that it even made the headlines in the local newspaper. It read:

THE MILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE HOUNDS OF MUNICH.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 12:18 PM

Kendall,

Your news is far better than that joke!! :o)

(Mind you, I'll probably be telling it tomorrow....as will most of the rest of us!!)

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 12:42 PM

Ouch! That's worthy of Art!

This is truly exciting, Kendall, not only for you but for all the people who will benefit when it's no longer experimental!

Dan

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: kendall
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 02:47 PM

Doctor Zeitels said I might be written up in the JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 02:56 PM

Are you gonna be signing copies somewhere?

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Amos
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 03:04 PM

"Old Grump Made to Smile by Modern Medical Miracle!!" I can see the headlines now.

Hey, maybe they could throw in a couple of other renewed body parts just as compensation for all the press they're getting. Candidate suggestions are invited from the reading public. Hair, maybe?

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: jacqui.c
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 03:34 PM

Trust me, he don't need no other body parts...............

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 03:41 PM

I'm late coming to this but all the very best as always, Kendall.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Midchuck
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 03:42 PM

JACQUI! CELLAR!

p.

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Amos
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 04:18 PM

Aw, c'mon Peter!! It was a set-up, an' she wuz framed!!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 04:24 PM

Isn't the cellar where they keep all the spare body parts?

D

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 06:43 PM

Today in the five o'clock hour of our local ABC Eyewitness News, there was a story about Dr. Zeitels and the work he's doing, particularly mentioning his treatment of Tom Hamilton (of Aerosmith) who had tongue and throat cancer.

Absolutely fascinating. And extremely encouraging.

Jay

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 07:01 PM

Geeziz.....Are you ever going to get this shit done? The sooner this is over the faster you can get on with installing the hydraulics for your willie. THEN you will be able to sing and actually something to sing about!


Spaw

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: jacqui.c
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 07:10 PM

Spaw - I SAID - he don't need no body parts!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: kendall
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 07:49 PM

Jacqui, do you tell everything you know?

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Amos
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 08:21 PM

You knew when you married her, Skipper, that she knew how to make a good impression!

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Mark Clark
Date: 05 Aug 11 - 08:14 PM

Just saw this. What great news. I sure hope they can do this. Take good care of yourself Kendall, we want to hear the outcome.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Kendall's new hope
From: Leadfingers
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 12:39 PM

Not had time to read The Cat at Sidders , so just caught up with this ! GRAT news Cap'n !