Barry Finn - THREE (April 2001)

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: annamill
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 12:05 PM

ooooooooooo...... how is he!! Is he OK??

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Jacob B
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 11:35 AM

Amen to all the good wishes, and I add my own.

Jacob

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 10:59 AM

Barry, hope everything went well, and it doesn't hurt too much. Maybe we should refresh Catspaw's post about sneezing and the pillow. I'm glad to hear the liver finally arrived and you can start looking forward to going places and doing things. Like the bathroom, for starters. ;-)

Get better fast, friend.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: DebC
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 10:45 AM

Hooray, Barry!!!

Looking forward to seeing you soon, my friend. keep well and take care of the new liver.

What will you name it?

here's to a full and speedy recovery.

Deb Cowan

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 10:26 AM

our prayers and good thoughts are with you Barry -- hopefully by now you are in recovery --

- and hope to see you sooner than later -- up and about and singing at the top of your lungs!!!

lots of love, Joy (and the rest of the Jgirls and Water Sign-- and all of the NYC contingency!!)

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: annamill
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 09:52 AM

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: CamiSu
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 09:37 AM

We can watch many hours, and NOT fall asleep! Here's more prayers for you, Barry.

CamiSu

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Dharmabum
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 09:37 AM

Best of luck to you Barry.

DB.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 09:12 AM

Prayers from here and from the prayer chain too.

If no liver today, Barry, we will keep Maundy Thursday Vigil tonight with you in mind... "could you not watch with Me one hour?"

~S~

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 08:27 AM

Great news! By now Barry is getting that liver installed and will be singing again before long! Looking forward to his first post with the new organ in place.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: jeffp
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 08:19 AM

With no word to the contrary, I'm assuming you're on the table, Barry. Good luck to you and I hope to meet and hear you sometime. Hang in there and get well.

jeffp

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 07:56 AM

Well, Barry, if everything is going according to schedule, you should be having your new liver installed about now. Good luck and God bless you!

Enjoyed our time together on Sunday. It was a dreary day outside but you added a great deal of sparkle inside.

All the best,
Dan

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Giac
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 06:48 AM

Hope everything's still a go for 7 a.m.

We will be thinking of you and sending mental and spiritual support. Expecting to hear soon that all is well.

Mary

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 06:35 AM

Maybe all it took was a good and loud session close by huh?..Damn but I knew we should have gone with the bodhran players in the room!!!

You know that the hearts, love, and best thoughts accompany you Barry and we'll be hearing about you soon and from you within a short while, freshly plumbed and ready to roar. See you soon.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Peg
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 02:00 AM

Yay, a liver for Barry, at last!

Barry, we talked of you at the sessiun tonight and told the Globe reporter of our lusty-voiced friend who could not be there and how much we are all rooting for him (that is, YOU).

I was going to stop by for a visit Friday but now it sounds like you will need your rest. I will check in at the desk before I try to stop in.

Godspeed and best of luck; we love you and miss you and are thinking of you!

Peg

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Night Owl
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 01:23 AM

Barry...you have the strength, love and support of Mudcatters in there with you.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 01:23 AM

Barry, that is wonderful news..after all this waiting. I will light my candle for you tonight and be working some magick as well, giving thanks for a complete and successful outcome.

I am sure between those who live there and know you and the rest of us, we'll know as soon as possible that you are right as rain and fit to fiddle, or at least sing.

May the god of your heart watch over you, enfold you in Peace and Love. Know that we all are offering up our own thoughts and prayers for you and they are powerful.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: GUEST,Bedridden Barry on Sis's laptop
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 01:04 AM

It's just midnight here & I just got word that a good looking livers' turned up, they'll do some more testing but so far it ssems like a go (if it's not I'll post back later this morning) for 7:00 am for the transplant. I'd just like to say thanks again for all who've posted, sent in cards, dropped by, sent books & tapes & CDs, called & in general just offered & gave support & recently to Gina Dunlap (a lurker here, Hi Gina it's high time you jumped in here, you'd be most welcome) my friend from "Shipping News" who just sent along the book "The Captain of the Phantom" already having previously sent me a copy of their CD & to John Roberts for a copy of his CD "Across the Western Ocean" which for some reason has escaped me all these years, a crime of which I'm guilty of, you mentioned it wasn't much but you were happy to help, believe me John it was more than you realize, thanks. Hi Richard, I'll looking forward to hearing a tape with your voice on it when I get back here into the ICU. Judy, Peg & the rest of the session singers from Boston are all singing at the moment down the street from here, thank you for keeping me in mind & music. If all goes well I probably won't be able to post for, at the very least a week, so I don't know how I can get word back here as to my condition. If all doesn't go well, well that's a bit to gloomy to consider at the moment but I will say it was very much enriching being here on the Mudcat & mostly meeting & getting to sing with so many fine people. Hope to see & hear you all soon. Thanks again & with all my love. Barry

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: GUEST,Judy Predmore
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 09:50 AM

Barry, Scott Alarik is coming to Paddy Burke's tonight, so we're starting early for him, 8:30. I mentioned in a thread today that you're right down the street, so be prepared in case anyone stops by.

Sorry I haven't posted to you sooner. As in every thread, everyone has already said what I might have to say, which is why I don't post much. But that's no excuse... I assume you know all of us at Paddy Burke's are rooting for you. The PB's crowd asks about you every week, so I try to do a quick check of Mudcat before I leave for the pub... Glad to hear you're up & about a bit, but we're all impatient for you to be up, about, & out!

Judy, (who seems to have lost her cookie...)

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: radriano
Date: 10 Apr 01 - 04:56 PM

Hi Barry,

A copy of the 2nd "Out of the Rain" cassette, Song of the Wage Slave, is wending it's was over to you. I wanted to send you both cassettes but I'm out of stock of the first one. Hope you enjoy it, my friend.

Richard

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 10 Apr 01 - 10:05 AM

barry

Glad you seem to have enjoyed the Barry Gleeson and Donal Maguire CD's Dan left you. I know Barry very well but only met Donal for the first time in Donegal recently - which is where Dan picked up the CD, methinks. Great voice - wonderful diction.

Hope all goes well for you.

Regards

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Apr 01 - 10:03 AM

And the Gospel of John, King James version, which I think I will package up with Black Elk and a non-sectarian music tape done as a benefot for the planet and another about the planet.

~S~

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Apr 01 - 09:47 AM

Hmm, maybe it would be good to list possible audio books here so Barry can choose and we can avoid duplicate efforts, too.

Schindler's List

Black Elk Speaks

Radio Favorites-- a set of old radio detective and comedy shows, really a hoot!

~S~

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: CamiSu
Date: 10 Apr 01 - 09:18 AM

Barry, Glad you got the tape player, since I had not gotten my old one packed up. (HAdn't found the headphones)Cloudy up here, hope it's nicer down there. Wish I could send you a chunk of liver to grow.

Love you,

CamiSu

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 06:45 PM

I'll bet those are great article, but it is a little confusing to be presented with a member name and password box before you even go there. If anyone else tries it, who isn't already a member, just click okay and it will take you to the registration page. I did not register as I don't like all of the personal info they ask for, esp. birthdate, so I've missed the articles.

Avid reader, perhaps you could paste them in here?

Thanks, Barry, for letting me know. It was in time. I will go through my tapes tomorrow and see what I've got. what else do you need or can you have? (No dancing girls, I s'pose?**BG**)

kat

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: GUEST,avid reader
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 04:44 PM

Liver cloning is on the way

ORGAN DONOR POOL -- 1ST ANNUAL WINTER SYMPOSIUM: LIVING DONOR ADULT-TO-ADULT TRANSPLANTATION OF THE KIDNEY AND LIVER
The shortage of organs is the major limiting factor in transplantation of adult patients with end-stage organ disease.
Medscape Transplantation. (C) 2001 Medscape, Inc. http://www.medscape.com/ASTS2001 Read it Here (you have to register, free. Cloning artivle, New Scientist doesn't require registration)

Plus...
Journal Scan - Transplantation 2(3)

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 04:41 PM

Well, technically it's a psaltery, but have fun with it!

Watch the tape instrux-- tricky at first.

~S~

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: GUEST,Bedridden Barry on Sis's laptop
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 04:15 PM

Hi & thanks everyone. Spirits are still up but none will give me a liver but the spirits did say that they'd part with their wings though. My kids are briging me a tape player tonight seeing as how Dan Milner dropped by with a tape he'd picked up recently in Ireland so I hope you see this in time Kat. Dan stopped in yesterday & we had a lovely visit together. As is Dan's telltale evidence of being somewhere, he left some droppings as a calling card but instead of it being in the ilk of "Killroy was here" it was a CD by Dublin singer Barry Gleeson & another CD by Donal Maguire. I haven't had a listen yet to the tape of Josie McDermott he left but I can well imagaine, the man's taste in Irish singers like Gleeson & Maguire are so finely tuned that the needle wouldn't lay in the haystack for longer than a moment. Thanks WYSIWYG, I just recieved your gracious care package, thanks. I've never had a talking book before, this should be very interesting. I was wishing that I had planned this extended stay a little better & had had the forthought of thinking to bring in an instrument to get to learn to play with, your loan of the lap dulcimore more than fits the bill. And who ever said "if wishes were fishes". Well, it was a great day here in Boston, highs almost hit 70 & sunny, spent some time outdoors in the courtyard, felt like a content little lizard with not a care in the world, then it started to cool off a bit, oh well. Thanks again for all the support, LOVE, Barry

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 03:16 PM

I can send him "Hannibal". Not great but distracting. I will mail it next Monday. I am out of town until Sunday. Barry would you like some fava beans to munch on while listening to the tape? No chianti. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: MMario
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 11:38 AM

Hmmmm - audio tapes about a clan of people with no spoken language. interesting.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 11:25 AM

Goodonya, Kat. I already sent Clan of the Cave Bear on audio, figuring he'd have a tape player soon. If he likes it he'll get Valley of the Horses next.

Those oughtta eat up a couple of hours!

~S~

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 11:02 AM

G'morning, Barry. It is a bright, sunshiney day in Wyoming, how about in Boston?

I found an extra walkman that plays cassettes, yesterday, so if I don't hear form you that you've already got one, by the end of today, I will send it out, with a few tapes, too.

HEAR THAT PHOAKS? I will be sending him a cassette player, so we can send him tapes, too.

Thinking of you always and wishing you a swift and healthfull return to your *normal* life.*BG*

kat

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 08:58 PM

HeyaBarry,

It has been wonderfully New Englandish wet springlike in Wyoming this past week...brought you to mind so many times. I really love the rain and the greening up of the grass and tiny buds coming out of the ground. Last weekend, after I heard my first meadowlark, I also hear my first robin of the year. They've been doing their rain song all week long.

I hope this finds you in good spirits. Please let us know if there are any books on tape or just plain books that you are esp interested in, as well as if you have a tape player, now, too.

Take care,

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Nancy King
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 07:01 PM

Barry, you must be going totally stir-crazy in addition to whatever physical discomforts and indignities you have to endure. Just know that a lot of folks are still thinking about you, wishing you the best, and hoping to see you soon!

Cheers, Nancy

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 12:32 PM

Well?


Did the bohdrans work? Refresh.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 05:23 PM

Barry, after your new addition is tucked in and purring away, and your transaminases are once again back in double digits or less, you have an open invitation to hang out on your choice of black or white sand beaches (or even green sand, if you like) and you won't even have to sing John Kanaka. Unless you want to. Meanwhile I'll be scouring the islands for shanty singers. Lots of good wishes from this neck of the ocean.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 03:27 PM

radriano, last we heard it was just CDs, but maybe someone has (or will) send him a Walkman.

~S~

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 03:26 PM

So far only CD's, Richard.

Barry, if you get a tape player, too, are there any books on CD/tape that you'd be interested in?

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: radriano
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 03:22 PM

Barry, can you only play CDs or cassettes too?

Richard

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 01:14 PM

First, gentrified and, second, extinct.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 01:05 PM

What ever happened to Sloppy Louie's at South Street? Did it become gentrified or extinct?

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 11:09 AM

South Street Seaport Schedule:

January 20 2001, February 17, March 24, April 28, May 19, June 23, July 21st (outdoor potluck barbecue) (Dates are less firm as they go farther out. Check back here before traveling!)

The event occurs at the Seaman's Church Institute, 241 Water Street, from 8PM until 11PM. There's a decent (pay) parking lot directly across the street from the venue, inside a chain-link fence.

Afterwards, many of us repair to a 'session' at Radio Mexico (a local Cantina) who have also been very gracious to us, when we 'invade' their environs every month. They're at 259 Front Street, and if you're coming to the chantey sing, you would do well to grab dinner there. They have Mexican specialties from mild to spicy, and they are that rare commodity in New York... ...a reasonably-priced good place to eat! Watch out for those Margaritas, now!
This info came from Greg Bullough. Is he a Mudcat member? If not, I invited him in for a visit.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:33 AM

And here is the address for sending cards and CDs.

Barry Finn
Mass General Hospital
55 Fruit St.
Blake Bldg, 6th floor
Boston, MA 02114

~S~

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:25 AM

A rendezvous at the South Street Seaport???? You really do have to get out more Brett. Nothing more romantic than a dock full of dying fish! Now the little Mexican place after the chanty sing has real possibilities.

Subject: RE: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: Naemanson
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:14 AM

SINSULL! That trip to the seaport is our little secret! Just you and me sneaking off to a rendezvous in the...

Uh-Oh! This is a thread not a PM! OOooooohhhhh Nooooooo!

Yeah, me and Sins and a buncha chantey singers havin' fun together. Barry, I'll pick you up on my way through.

Subject: BARRY FINN - THREE
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:00 AM

The other one was up to 106, so I decided it was time for the next one. You can find the previous one by CLICKING HERE. Here is Barry's last post from it:

Subject: RE: Barry Finn - TWO
From: GUEST,Bedridden Barry from Sis's laptop
Date: 03-Apr-01 - 05:14 PM

Still no little lively livers poking their peppered onion eyes over the horizon. At this point I'll even pass on mushrooms & butter. Talk about stir crazy. I do have a CD player & a fair collection of CD's on top of those that sent me some, to them, Dan Milner, RiGGY (just before I got here), Deb Cowan & to Shipping News & to Sinsull's Sea Ballads by Mansfield, thanks is not near enough. Hi spaw, I've got more ways now to cut an apple, peel an orange, floss my teeth while on all fours & how to swim the backstroke go into the sidestroke & finish off with the American crawl with out once falling off the nurses' station. Hi Meg & thanks, please send along to the Mystic crowd my apprecation for their care & concern & that I'll see you all in June come hell or high water. I'll be off now, supper just came in so like a well behaved pup I've got to play with it for a few hours. Thanks to all of you & with Lots Of Love. Barry