Amos is ill (January 2019)

Subject: RE: Amos is ill (January 2019)
From: Raggytash
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 02:01 PM

Amos has always been one of the good guys, I hope the rest of his time with us is easy.

Subject: RE: Amos is ill (January 2019)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 01:49 PM

I think Amos produced at least one of the Mudcat CD sets, maybe all of them.
His YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/amosjess...lots of Mudcatters, but he doesn't have many videos of himself.
Here's a link that will lead you to more: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=amos+jessup&sp=mAEB

I'm wishing he'll be back on stage soon.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 12:22 PM

There was a set of CDs produced by various Mudcat members in 2002, the Blue Plate Special had five disks. I just glanced at them and see Amos at least once, probably more. He's on YouTube, and he has poetry out there. A few years ago he asked me to retrieve some of the poems he posted in the Mother of all BS thread because he wanted to publish them; I hope he did. I think the poems were deleted in the thread (they can be restored, but that's a really huge job).

My point here, Amos has made a big mark at Mudcat. I hope he understands that a whole bunch of people have appreciated his work for a long time and wish him well. Keep him comfortable.

Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 12:21 PM

Oh, danr. I've been very concerned, but then it sounded like things were going well for him and he had the cancer licked. Amos, old friend, my thoughts are with you.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 12:03 PM

Sorry to hear this too. Let him know we are thinking of him and best wishes.

Mick

Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: GUEST,akenaton
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 11:50 AM

Sorry to hear about Amos...I miss his big long words and big heart...A

Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 11:05 AM

Lovely guy, sort of a musical jukebox, he can play and sing so many songs Enjoyed meeting up with him at a Getaway, and I was his Secret Santa one year. Wishing him well.

Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: Elmore
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 11:01 AM

Very sad. I wish Amos and his family the best.

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Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 11:00 AM

DMcG beat me to it, but it bears repeating: Amos has been a precious resource to Mudcat as well.

I am so SO sorry to read this (been writing that far too much lately). He was always enormously helpful to me - us - with our Apple woes, and I also hugely enjoyed his other posts.

Deda, thanks so much for telling us, sorrowful as the news is. If Amos is in any position to hear it, please let him know how valued he is here, and that we are all pulling for him. And do keep us informed!

Bonnie

Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 10:49 AM

I enjoyed meeting him a few years ago up here, and at Getaways. I hope for the best for him. (Although he did kind of bend the rules of betting in order to get out of buying me a bottle of singe malt) Comfort and healing.

Subject: RE: Amos is ill
From: Will Fly
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 10:48 AM

That's sad news - my very best to him and all good wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Amos is ill
From: Morticia
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 10:43 AM

I'm so sorry to hear this, Rebecca and will be directing my good wishes toward America in the hopes he gets better soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Amos is ill
From: DMcG
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 10:33 AM

Sorry to hear all that. Amos has been a precious resource to Mudcat as well. I believe he is on the Mudcat CDs that were made?

By convention, these are not BS topics: would someone kindly move it?

Subject: BS: Amos is ill
From: Deda
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 10:24 AM

I am Amos' sister, Rebecca, in Belfast, Maine. Amos is in the hospital and is in a pretty bad way. Last summer he had surgery for bladder cancer (and finally quit smoking), and we thought he was out of the woods, but the cancer metastasized and moved into his lungs (which is not the same as lung cancer). He was in a clinical trial at UNC hospital Chapel Hill (where he is now), but he didn't respond, apparently. Amos took a serious fall, had a concussion and some fractured bones in his face, and went back to the hospital. That was maybe five days ago, and I talked to him that night. He was irascible and in pain, but sounded recognizable, not too bad. As soon as the next day Daly told me that his ability to form recognizable speech had deteriorated so much that she can't understand what he's saying. I suggested bringing in a pad and paper or even a keyboard, but apparently he does not have control of his hands any more than of his speech. Perhaps he's had a stroke. He's had MRIs and CT scans. Daly has a friend there with a lot of experience in the medical system who will come in with her to the hospital and try to talk with the doctors. I asked Daly if I should come down there but she hasn't suggested it yet. I'm very rarely on mudcat but you can email me at [e-mail]. It goes without saying that mudcat has been a very precious resource to Amos for many years, and he has derived great joy from his many deep friends here.