On Saturday May 1st, 2004, at 2:40pm and 33 seconds,
Dabz of Tacoma
Redd (Citizen Kill), The Falls River Fiends, The G-Men and Queen St.
Way Cool Tattoos, passed away at the Toronto-General Hospital's Eatons
wing.
Dabz finally succumbed to a mass rejection from a double
lung
transplant he received over two years prior. His health had been
failing since late November of 2003, but he slugged it out in true Dabz
fashion. As many of you know, he'd already beat the odds before; not
only
out-living the expected average age of someone living with CF, but
almost had a miraculous recovery from the transplant.
Ron was surrounded by a lot of friends, family, band
mates and
co-workers up to his final moments. His girlfriend, Mirella, never left
his side for a second and constantly made sure that he knew we were all
there with him, and how much we all loved him. She was truly a strong
and phenomenal solid person in all of this, and she should have our
eternal gratitude for the dignity and honour she allowed Ron to leave
us with.
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