Mike Klotz has just made me aware of Paul's situation. Paul has been such a help to this web page and helped clean it up for me right after I started this. Please pray for him. Ken
Hey guys,
A lot of you know Paul Puppe as 71-521 on here. I just got these text msgs from him this morning.....they pretty much say it all, so here they are put together as one.
Mike. As you may have noticed, i have not been around lately. I started getting sick about a month or more ago...i first had am ulcer biopsied. The results came back yesterday as cancer. Today they are going back in 2 get a few more they found last night. If you can pass this on, I'd appreciate it. I'm at st. Joes in tacoma. You're datto buddy...Paul
Pray for Paul
Thanks there Ken...
loks like thingsgot sorted out pretty well while I was gone this lastr time..been back in the hospital sinjce the 28th of last month with an abcess that ruptured in my stomach..much better now and should be home in few days or so....Sister & Brother-in-law just bought me this laptop to keep me occupied while I am in here a ther have free wifi here! Now I just got to learn to type again!
Paul
loks like thingsgot sorted out pretty well while I was gone this lastr time..been back in the hospital sinjce the 28th of last month with an abcess that ruptured in my stomach..much better now and should be home in few days or so....Sister & Brother-in-law just bought me this laptop to keep me occupied while I am in here a ther have free wifi here! Now I just got to learn to type again!
Paul
I sure wish I had a good update to post here. I just received this from Paul's wife this morning.
Hello everyone,
It has come, the night of 2/11/08 we found out that Paul has anywhere from maybe a week to a month before the cancer takes him from us.
Paul is currently at St Joe's in Tacoma on the 10th floor in the B quad room 2. He has his cell phone with him should any of you like to take the time to say hello. His cell number is 253-223-2868.
Right now we are working on getting the house in shape for him to come home for hospice care. He may be home as soon as Sunday or Monday.
We are forever grateful for every prayer or well wish you all have been sending our way.
Hugs and Love,
TerriLynn
Hello everyone,
It has come, the night of 2/11/08 we found out that Paul has anywhere from maybe a week to a month before the cancer takes him from us.
Paul is currently at St Joe's in Tacoma on the 10th floor in the B quad room 2. He has his cell phone with him should any of you like to take the time to say hello. His cell number is 253-223-2868.
Right now we are working on getting the house in shape for him to come home for hospice care. He may be home as soon as Sunday or Monday.
We are forever grateful for every prayer or well wish you all have been sending our way.
Hugs and Love,
TerriLynn
Hi all,
I' m personaly saden to hear the news about paul(71-521), we all will be thinking of you paul? :X I will be praying to god to have his hand ready to guild you to his grarge in heaven peacefully. Thank you for handy help for us on this site.
Please cruze or drive safely everyone from paul (bruns) Richens
I' m personaly saden to hear the news about paul(71-521), we all will be thinking of you paul? :X I will be praying to god to have his hand ready to guild you to his grarge in heaven peacefully. Thank you for handy help for us on this site.
Please cruze or drive safely everyone from paul (bruns) Richens
Sorry I've been so remiss in posting updates on here. There really isn't any good news. Here's a link to the thread on Ratsun.net that has all the info so far. I'll try to post some of the more specific stuff on here later today or tomorrow.
http://forum.ratsun.net/showthread.php?t=895
http://forum.ratsun.net/showthread.php?t=895
from TerriLynn this morning
Hello everyone,
The time has come for Paul to leave this earth to join our heavenly father.
Paul passed away this morning. He held strong for Sampson's 9th birthday on the 12th. The 13th was his hardest day of all. Paul was in transit to the hospice house this morning the 14th when he passed away.
Our family thank you all for your thoughts and prayers over the last 8 months.
When I have a date and time I will be sending that out to you all.
Love to you all,
TerriLynn
Hello everyone,
The time has come for Paul to leave this earth to join our heavenly father.
Paul passed away this morning. He held strong for Sampson's 9th birthday on the 12th. The 13th was his hardest day of all. Paul was in transit to the hospice house this morning the 14th when he passed away.
Our family thank you all for your thoughts and prayers over the last 8 months.
When I have a date and time I will be sending that out to you all.
Love to you all,
TerriLynn
This is an email from Paul's sister Kristine. It gives a lot more insight into Pauls last moments to let all know that he passed peacefully. Mike
[font="Arial"]I wanted to share this message with you that I sent to our friends last night, as you are very close to Paul and TerriLynn. Thank you for being a part of my brother’s life...[/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] My brother, Paul, died this morning at 10:45am. It’s been just a few days over eight months since he was diagnoses with stage four stomach cancer. I don’t even know where to begin to recap the joys and sorrows of this short time frame, but I will recount just a few of the praises. He should have been dead last July by organ poisoning when the tumor ulcerated his stomach, but instead everything was contained in the area where his spleen had been that had been taken out 4 years ago... none of organs were affected by the acid contents of the stomach, as well as his heart hadn’t failed due to his potassium levels were so low (1.7 when 3.5 – 5.0 is normal) they couldn’t perform surgery for 36 hours until they got his levels raised. He was given 1 week to 1 month to live on January 11[sup]th[/sup] when he was in the midst of his 5[sup]th[/sup] hospital stay since July. The doctor said if he makes it to one month, we should could it a blessing. All five of his younger sons (he has an estranged oldest son) were able to visit with him in the past two weeks or so. One coming back from his deployment to Iraq. Paul was able to celebrate his youngest son, Sampson’s 9[sup]th[/sup] birthday with him on Wednesday. Little things, maybe, but big things to him. I’d remind him “God has done miracles and will continue to work good in your life.� [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] But the miracle of it all, and I didn’t even witness it, was the moments before his passing. A total answer to so many prayers. I was working this morning at Amanda’s high school, so I didn’t get to be there, but I’m so full of praise for what occurred... the medical team was wheeling him from the house to the ambulance when a neighbor walking by asked if she could pray for Paul. After her prayer (which I was told was the most beautiful prayer they’d ever heard), she anointed Paul with oil. Paul took one more breathe and then they didn’t see him breathe again. He was loaded into the ambulance. They informed TerriLynn he didn’t survive the short distance to the hospice facility. I don’t know who this neighbor is, but she made the final connected through her prayer and anointing him with oil that allowed Paul to finally let go.[/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] My prayers, along with so many others, were that he would just breathe his last and be gone. I had told him that was my prayer. He said didn’t want to die the way our mom had died – with her heart stopping and her lungs filling up. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] We had wonderful spiritual talks on Tuesday and Wednesday surrounding his recap of him nearly dying on Tuesday in the early morning hours. TerriLynn said she thought she was going to lose Paul. But Paul said that although he’d seen the big angels standing around and the little angels were flying all around swiftly and heading toward the light, he had a choice to stay a little while longer and he didn’t want to die just before or on his son’s birthday. We talked about angels, their purpose, and how God has angels just ‘assigned’ to us. I told him those big angels were probably waiting for him to be ready...ready to go. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] On Wednesday, we had an all-day celebration as people came and went for his son’s birthday. We even got some video of him when he suddenly took something we said in conversation and acted it out in such a funny way. We all got to sit around and laugh and have fun even though it was such a sobering time. He was throwing up again and we asked him to turn the bucket around so the holes on the lip were in the back, to ensure he didn’t spill or leak any. Someone said we should get some superglue and glue the holes. Paul put the bucket to his mouth and pretended his lips were stuck to the bucket with the superglue. It was such a sweet memory that in the midst of the worst time of all, he was able to find something to make us laugh about. He even re-enacted it for us to video tape. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] When it hit 12:10am on Thursday morning and his wife, TerriLynn and I told Paul that it was the new day and he could let himself go, things started declining even more. We were up nearly all the night because he was so tired, so restless, and so full of tremors. I got to have one of the last conversations he held with someone that Thursday morning about 3:00am when I’d helped him to the bathroom and then outside to smoke one last cigarette. I will treasure that little exchange of words about nothing in particular forever. Except he asked if I thought it was all a game. Life, I asked him? Then whether we have teammates as well as opponents. Just a deep thought process...an exchange that’s hard to explain... [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] By 7:00am, Paul was no longer talkative, by 12:15 the hospice nurse said he was ‘actively dying’ and didn’t think it would last for more than an hour. We adjusted medication as he tremored and moaned as if in pain. I prayed with him, I talked with him, I played “I Can Only Imagine� on our laptop right next to him. Someone asked if I thought he was in turmoil. Hospice personnel asked him questions like “what have you seen... have you seen any family members� etc. I talked with him as they said the hearing is the last sense to go when a person is dying. I reminded him that he’d made a statement of his faith in Jesus in January, he received forgiveness from God which mattered more than forgiveness from any person that he felt he’d wronged and needed forgiveness from. Not much communication occurred, but after one prayer, he definitely responded “Amen� although it was slightly delayed. And everyone heard it. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] This morning, on the phone, the family talked about what we felt was best for Paul and were starting to wonder if in following orders from hospice, we were hindering him by overmedicating him. He had only spoken more than a word here or there in over 12 hours and that was at the 10:00pm or so medication change when the morphine pump was turned off and he started to say he wanted to go while trying to get out of bed. Therefore, after consulting hospice nurses, they decided to move him to a hospice facility just a couple miles from his house that had a room available. There nurses could monitor him constantly to gauge what his needs were. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] But he never made it there... he instead was outside where he loved to be, had just been prayed over, had been anointed with oil, and passes from this lifetime to eternal life. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] Thank you so much for your prayers these past months for my brother, his family, myself and my family. Many times I wasn’t sure what was helping me get through, but then I’d realize that it was only because there was so much prayer surrounding us – lifting us, carrying the deep burden. Then there is my deep thanks as well to those who contributed to the Puppe Family Cancer Donation Fund at US Bank. This will help TerriLynn get established and back on track financially for her family that she now needs to support alone. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] You all are so special. May God pour out a blessing upon you that meets your every need! [/font][font="Wingdings"]J[/font][font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] Kristine[/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] [/font]
[font="Arial"]I wanted to share this message with you that I sent to our friends last night, as you are very close to Paul and TerriLynn. Thank you for being a part of my brother’s life...[/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] My brother, Paul, died this morning at 10:45am. It’s been just a few days over eight months since he was diagnoses with stage four stomach cancer. I don’t even know where to begin to recap the joys and sorrows of this short time frame, but I will recount just a few of the praises. He should have been dead last July by organ poisoning when the tumor ulcerated his stomach, but instead everything was contained in the area where his spleen had been that had been taken out 4 years ago... none of organs were affected by the acid contents of the stomach, as well as his heart hadn’t failed due to his potassium levels were so low (1.7 when 3.5 – 5.0 is normal) they couldn’t perform surgery for 36 hours until they got his levels raised. He was given 1 week to 1 month to live on January 11[sup]th[/sup] when he was in the midst of his 5[sup]th[/sup] hospital stay since July. The doctor said if he makes it to one month, we should could it a blessing. All five of his younger sons (he has an estranged oldest son) were able to visit with him in the past two weeks or so. One coming back from his deployment to Iraq. Paul was able to celebrate his youngest son, Sampson’s 9[sup]th[/sup] birthday with him on Wednesday. Little things, maybe, but big things to him. I’d remind him “God has done miracles and will continue to work good in your life.� [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] But the miracle of it all, and I didn’t even witness it, was the moments before his passing. A total answer to so many prayers. I was working this morning at Amanda’s high school, so I didn’t get to be there, but I’m so full of praise for what occurred... the medical team was wheeling him from the house to the ambulance when a neighbor walking by asked if she could pray for Paul. After her prayer (which I was told was the most beautiful prayer they’d ever heard), she anointed Paul with oil. Paul took one more breathe and then they didn’t see him breathe again. He was loaded into the ambulance. They informed TerriLynn he didn’t survive the short distance to the hospice facility. I don’t know who this neighbor is, but she made the final connected through her prayer and anointing him with oil that allowed Paul to finally let go.[/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] My prayers, along with so many others, were that he would just breathe his last and be gone. I had told him that was my prayer. He said didn’t want to die the way our mom had died – with her heart stopping and her lungs filling up. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] We had wonderful spiritual talks on Tuesday and Wednesday surrounding his recap of him nearly dying on Tuesday in the early morning hours. TerriLynn said she thought she was going to lose Paul. But Paul said that although he’d seen the big angels standing around and the little angels were flying all around swiftly and heading toward the light, he had a choice to stay a little while longer and he didn’t want to die just before or on his son’s birthday. We talked about angels, their purpose, and how God has angels just ‘assigned’ to us. I told him those big angels were probably waiting for him to be ready...ready to go. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] On Wednesday, we had an all-day celebration as people came and went for his son’s birthday. We even got some video of him when he suddenly took something we said in conversation and acted it out in such a funny way. We all got to sit around and laugh and have fun even though it was such a sobering time. He was throwing up again and we asked him to turn the bucket around so the holes on the lip were in the back, to ensure he didn’t spill or leak any. Someone said we should get some superglue and glue the holes. Paul put the bucket to his mouth and pretended his lips were stuck to the bucket with the superglue. It was such a sweet memory that in the midst of the worst time of all, he was able to find something to make us laugh about. He even re-enacted it for us to video tape. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] When it hit 12:10am on Thursday morning and his wife, TerriLynn and I told Paul that it was the new day and he could let himself go, things started declining even more. We were up nearly all the night because he was so tired, so restless, and so full of tremors. I got to have one of the last conversations he held with someone that Thursday morning about 3:00am when I’d helped him to the bathroom and then outside to smoke one last cigarette. I will treasure that little exchange of words about nothing in particular forever. Except he asked if I thought it was all a game. Life, I asked him? Then whether we have teammates as well as opponents. Just a deep thought process...an exchange that’s hard to explain... [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] By 7:00am, Paul was no longer talkative, by 12:15 the hospice nurse said he was ‘actively dying’ and didn’t think it would last for more than an hour. We adjusted medication as he tremored and moaned as if in pain. I prayed with him, I talked with him, I played “I Can Only Imagine� on our laptop right next to him. Someone asked if I thought he was in turmoil. Hospice personnel asked him questions like “what have you seen... have you seen any family members� etc. I talked with him as they said the hearing is the last sense to go when a person is dying. I reminded him that he’d made a statement of his faith in Jesus in January, he received forgiveness from God which mattered more than forgiveness from any person that he felt he’d wronged and needed forgiveness from. Not much communication occurred, but after one prayer, he definitely responded “Amen� although it was slightly delayed. And everyone heard it. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] This morning, on the phone, the family talked about what we felt was best for Paul and were starting to wonder if in following orders from hospice, we were hindering him by overmedicating him. He had only spoken more than a word here or there in over 12 hours and that was at the 10:00pm or so medication change when the morphine pump was turned off and he started to say he wanted to go while trying to get out of bed. Therefore, after consulting hospice nurses, they decided to move him to a hospice facility just a couple miles from his house that had a room available. There nurses could monitor him constantly to gauge what his needs were. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] But he never made it there... he instead was outside where he loved to be, had just been prayed over, had been anointed with oil, and passes from this lifetime to eternal life. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] Thank you so much for your prayers these past months for my brother, his family, myself and my family. Many times I wasn’t sure what was helping me get through, but then I’d realize that it was only because there was so much prayer surrounding us – lifting us, carrying the deep burden. Then there is my deep thanks as well to those who contributed to the Puppe Family Cancer Donation Fund at US Bank. This will help TerriLynn get established and back on track financially for her family that she now needs to support alone. [/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] You all are so special. May God pour out a blessing upon you that meets your every need! [/font][font="Wingdings"]J[/font][font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] Kristine[/font]
[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"] [/font]
I'm sitting here thinking, how do you add to this last post? Kristine, i pray that God continues to bless you and the family and send angels to watch over. I hope you will send Mike the address and particulars for the Puppe fund so he can post it here, I know our members will be happy to help. I've just been named the executor of an estate of a friend who died of ovarian cancer, even though she had 4 different insurance coverages the bills just keep coming in. I'd like to do something special here to remember Paul so if you could also send pictures I'd be grateful. Paul was the second member to join this site and volunteered to help moderate without hesitation. He has been my right arm for the past few years and will be sorely missed. I can't wait to see his face again and tell him "well done oh good and faithful friend". To our members who have prayed and supported the family I give a heart-felt thank you. Mike, bless you for keeping me in the loop via emails.
Christians are lambs but it takes rams to protect the innocent from evil.
Christians are lambs but it takes rams to protect the innocent from evil.
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Hi All,
May Paul Rest in peace & will be sadly missed by all in this site,
all over the world. I personly hope paul has the bigest ram & strongest horns marked with ''datsun'' on them with pride! 
Stay Safe everyone for paul (71-521) that is all he would ask all to do?
Bye Paul & Thank you mate.
From Paul (Bruns) Richens, australia
May Paul Rest in peace & will be sadly missed by all in this site,
all over the world. I personly hope paul has the bigest ram & strongest horns marked with ''datsun'' on them with pride! Stay Safe everyone for paul (71-521) that is all he would ask all to do?
Bye Paul & Thank you mate.
From Paul (Bruns) Richens, australia