RIP, Greg

[sarakate]

I just learned that gblake, who was a longtime online friend of mine (I think I first met him online in 1990, in person in 1992), passed away yesterday, from complications following surgery. We weren't all that close, but he was very close with other friends of mine, who are devastated. He was a kind and generous person, optimistic in the face of

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[diabolka]

I'm so sorry for your loss! :(

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[nweiner]

I am so shocked, though apparently he had been ill for quite a long time. As with you, I did not know him very well, but I met him once on a trip to Pittsburgh, and he was our age or a year or two younger. It's an unfortunate part of aging that I am getting more used to the reality of people I know dying.

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[sarakate]

One of the things that's so shocking about this is that he appeared to be through the worst; he came through the lung transplant extremely well and was doing fine. This recent surgery was supposed to be a relatively minor thing, but he apparently never really came up out of it.

[sarakate]

No, he had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Which may be somewhat similar in overall effect (although I'm not sure of that), but is apparently different in underlying cause.