Saturday, April 21, 2012

Cancer General Motors and Ford

Much of lifetime in battle with

GM Ford Chrysler, Delco

Just to make their workplaces

Fit for humans, with a living wage

An assembly line with dignity & respect.

Curry Chevrolet very first strike.

Learned to eat raw clams, slurp oysters.

“The kids very first oyster,” How the men laughed.

Ha ha ha ha ha and Another trespassing arrest.

Ford Weehawken Assembly over the fence

Leaflets inside the plant. We won for the U.A.W.

Good Works at Henry Ford’s Foundation

Voting rights, Civil rights, Women’s rights.

Miners for Democracy, Anti Poverty.

Old Ford money fighting the good fight.

Here I am at Sloan Kettering hospital

Two giants of GM Left their money to fight cancer.

Do they know they’re treating an old adversary?

Their way of saying? “Sorry for the cancers we caused?


Arrived at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) to see Dr. A. He had seen the Cat-scan from Stony Brook. Thought he could operate remove growth from pancreas. Decided on new Cat-scans done at MSKCC. New Cat-scans taken right then and there. He would let us know results on the way home. In the car driving back from the city came the call.

Problem. The growth is over an artery. Can’t operate. They will call Monday to setup appointment for Endoscopy so they can see is malignant and what kind etc. and start Chemo. The Chemo not as devastating as many others. So there we are. Really slouching to 95. My best RS

8 comments:

Basil Whiting said...

Rats! Good luck!

Baze

Rit said...

We love you Great-Grandpa.
A, R and S

bschrank said...

We love you Dad, Grandpa, Father-in-Law. Fred Barb and Allie

Anonymous said...

Whew!!
i hear myself saying repeatedly damn, damn, damn!....that in your slouch dance you have to encounter this medical/technological challenge--independent of who's paying for it.

know deeply that i love you and always will!
thanks for your strike story! keep believing in the struggle which is very close to you and to us all.

love Kaima

bill kornblum said...

Hey BOB -- i'd say you are still in there battling

all my love toyou and Kate, Bill

Michael Bailin said...

Roberto...So difficult to receive this news. You mean so much to so many people, and all of us will be sending good thoughts your way...every day. Keep up the good fight.

With much affection,

Mike B

Allie Schrank (granddaughter) said...

I love you grandpa. Stay strong. You're a fighter, always have been.

Love you so much,

Allie

Steve said...

Can't keep a fighting machinist down, stay strong, your voice will always be in our hearts.--Steve and Ann.