Gino Odjick Terminally Ill

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

Would he be eligible for heart transplant?

Doubtful if the condition does not originate from the heart, and would result in more of those deposits being generated and clogging the donor organ as well.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

Would he be eligible for heart transplant?

No, Amyloidosis is a protein/antibody problem that attacks the organs, If you're strong enough bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy can treat it and add a few years of life but I haven't heard of a complete cure, a buddy of mines uncle died from it or at least died from going threw the treatment. It was under a year for him from diagnosis but Gino is most likely fairly strong so he may hold out and hopefully someone finds a cure in a couple of years.

[troutman]

Ex-Canucks enforcer Odjick says health improving

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/f...health-update/

“Is the worst over? For right now it is,” Odjick’s friend Peter Leech said. “The doctors have given him more time, which is great. The opportunity for us now is to take advantage of that time and find ways to create even more time. There’s no reason we can’t do that. We turned six months into a year, now to two or three years. I think we can turn two or three years into six or eight years.”

[Drury18]

I was afraid to open this thread when it was bumped up.

Glad to see it was good news!

[Super Nintendo Chalmers]

Slight aside:

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/G...074/story.html

To understand how Gino Odjick felt about Pat Quinn, you need to know only the old tale about Mike Keenan berating Odjick in the coach’s office, a couple of months after Quinn was fired in 1997 by the Vancouver Canucks.

Keenan’s energetic criticism was interrupted by a phone call. Odjick didn’t know who was on the line, but Keenan began to speak very badly of Quinn. So Gino walked over to Iron Mike’s desk, hung up the coach’s phone and told Keenan he could say whatever he wanted about Odjick, call him any name he liked, but he had better never, ever speak that way about Pat Quinn.

Of course, maybe it was only an arena legend.

“Yeah, the good old days,” Odjick says, confirming the story with a nod and a smile. “I can’t remember exactly what I said to Mike. But now we all get along. I see Mike sometimes.”

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Drury18

I was afraid to open this thread when it was bumped up.

Glad to see it was good news!

Maybe OP can update thread title.

[FlamesAddiction]

Does this mean that I can start remembering how much I hated him when he was a player?

Glad to hear he is doing well though. You never want to see anyone suffer.