Randy was a very witty guy with a very sarcastic type humor. He has been very ill over the last year. He was in the hospital at this same time last year. His health had tremendously declined . I don't know how much he shared with people . He was actually doing better and they moved him out of ICU. He was stable. I went home to get a nights sleep and found out the next morning he was moved back to the ICU. They never contacted me. He had gone into respiratory failure and they had to put him on a vent . His organs had started shutting down and there was no more the doctors could do. Randy has always asked me to fight for him and I have. I have fought this disease with him, beside him for 18 years. Actually even before that . He recently asked me not to let him suffer. I'm a nurse. A mom first and a nurse second. I fought for him until it was time to let him go and not let him suffer. He was in so much pain.
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I want to thank you for reaching out to me. I saw people were asking about what happened to him. You may share what I told you. He ended up with a malabsorption issue which caused him to suffer from severe malnutrition. Once there is no fat, the body uses muscle. Once there is no muscle, the body attacks the organs. That led to what is called non alcoholic cirrhosis and kidney damage . His liver and kidneys weren't working properly so his body started filling with fluid which caused the respiratory failure. Not only was he 100% deaf , but he was legally blind. He was almost completely blind when he passed. That's why he wasn't online much. He could speak but he was losing his voice too. Such a shame for such a talented kid beat cancer twice and end up dying like this.