Update on Larry Fischer vs The Bastard

[Robin Conrads]

#5080

Lots of folks have been asking me, “How are Larry and Belinda doing?” I can tell you, they haven’t lost the fight! Here is the latest update that Larry sent out last night. Thank you all for the continued prayers for both of them.

Return to the Battlefield

[paleoman]

#37299

All my best once again. And thank God for modern medicine. So many of us would have been screwed over even worse if we were born a couple hundred years ago. I hope that sounds positive!

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#37460

Dear Larry and Belinda,

Lots of Love and support from the Bugnons!We are pulling for you!!!

Alex

[Col Mike]

#51472

I see that Larry is on with us tonight. What’s the sit report?

Mike

[garydavis]

#51579

I’ve got some folks up here rooting for Larry instead of the Seahawks! That’s not all that easy this year. A lot of folks want a win on this one. They are trying to come up with a number for you Larry. I thought 24 was good, but I’m told that is already taken.

[James Harvey]

#51615

Thanks to Smithhammer, Crush the Bastard has gone intercontinental…

I reckon that’s the best anti-cancer message I’ve ever heard and it takes place alongside my wristband for wounded vet’s. More power to you Larry!

Sincerely,

Jim

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#52164

Right on, Jim – glad to see it arrived!

[Larry O. Fischer]

#52205

Thanks for all of the support. We are headed to Houston on the 16th for a consultation. Hopefully with a doctor that has no fear and little hands. Then sometime after this second round of chemo we will be headed to surgery and then onto the Snake for a little catfishing using the Bastard as bait!

As far as a number, I’m a lineman never wore a number under 50 in my life.

As for my condition at present we are continually fighting the Bastard, walking two miles a day, and the Doctor said I can resume shooting. I didn’t tell him that I had already tried shooting last week, with no pain.

Thanks again for all your support and prayers and I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas.

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#52331

Merry Christmas, Larry! You are such an inspiration!

[Dave Nash]

#52354

Merry Christmas Larry and keep on shooting.

Best to the family.

Dave Nash

[Murray]

#52816

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Larry. I’m proud of the fight you’re putting up, and just know you’re gonna win this war.

Murray

[Anonymous]

#55383

Merry Christmas, Larry. Crush the Bastard and use his guts for fish bait.

[jpcarlson]

#58029

You have so much to fight for Larry, it is an honor to read about your fight and your good winning attitude. You are an inspiration, keep up the good fight and let us all know what we can do to help you along.

Jans

[Robin Conrads]

#18172

Sorry I’m late getting this out. Larry sent this out just before Christmas. The doctor in Houston is willing to take The Bastard out!

Here is the latest update.

[wahoo]

#18292

thanks web mom – best wishes I am also sporting a purple bastard bracelet

[Justin]

#19042

I am very sorry to hear of your illness Mr. Fischer. Damn proud of how you and yours are fighting back though. Give it hell and best wishes over the holidays.

Justin

(aka Wildschwein)

[Anonymous]

#21163

Keep kickin’ the bastard’s azz, Larry!

[Robin Conrads]

#44598

The latest update:

Battlefront or Beachfront

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#44697

“The good part of this treatment is that The Bastard is laying on his pancreatic beach soaking up rays while pole dancing on my portal vein. Little does he know we are frying his ass! No SPF50 for that bastard!”

Quote worthy.

[David Petersen]

#45066

Larry — Get Some!!!:!:

[Mark Turton]

#47936

Bacon!

Have a good trip Larry.

Mark.

[Northener]

#51329

Prayers for Larry and family.

[Robin Conrads]

#21784

The latest update: Deep Tanned and Deep Fried

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#21791

Wow! just read the latest update! Go Larry!!

[Northener]

#21914

That’s great news indeed, go get’m Larry. Thanks for the update, I have been wondering.

Will continue to keep you and your family in our thoughts and prayers. Stay strong!!!!

[wahoo]

#24236

just read the update. Fantastic

[Larry O. Fischer]

#24393

Thanks for the well wishes. I’m spending the next few weeks getting stronger, eating lots of protein and working out. That includes shooting my bow! Hope to go into surgery as strong as possible, then recovery will be that much shorter.

[Anonymous]

#25057

Hell yeah! Great news, Larry! The Bastard and his kind CAN be beaten; they have been before and with you they will be again.

[Robin Conrads]

#24348

An update from Larry yesterday:

Houston, We Have a Problem

[Vintage Archer]

#24397

Larry,Belinda and family

Keep the faith and keep fighting the fight. Prayers coming your way…I found that they are the best medicine.

[Ralph]

#24538

Be strong Larry, we’re being strong for you. Just listen for the prayers, they’re coming your way.

Ralph & Shirley

[paleoman]

#24675

I would love to grab, choke and stomp the #$%! out of the misery that this world delivers. You have a great and inspiring attitude.

[mittenm]

#24867

Love and prayers sent.

[Murray]

#24937

Prayers sent for you and your family.

[James Harvey]

#25604

Give em Hell mate

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#25764

Give that bastard hell, bruh!! Love, Alex

[Col Mike]

#25929

Larry

Sometimes in the thick of the battle it appears that you are about to lose—attack, you really have nothing but victory at the end. And the end can be fleeting as we all know.

Hang tough my friend–take a walk in the woods and give Belinda a hug.

Semper Fi

Mike

[Anonymous]

#29581

colmike wrote: Larry

Sometimes in the thick of the battle it appears that you are about to lose—attack, you really have nothing but victory at the end. And the end can be fleeting as we all know.

Hang tough my friend–take a walk in the woods and give Belinda a hug.

Semper Fi

Mike

This. Frontal assault time, Larry. Kick his a$$.

Keep giving Belinda hugs, too.

[Fallguy]

#30105

Now is the time to do your best Rooster Cogburn imitation. The reins in your teeth a six gun in each hand and hit “The Bastard” head on.:twisted:

[Robin Conrads]

#64109

Sorry I’m late getting this out. Here is the latest update from Larry: Fighting and Living!

[David Coulter]

#7661

Robin, thanks for posting this. It’s a good read.

Larry, I wish you the best, all the best. I admire you in your fight and your spirit to make it all count. I hope you get a bear to add another smile.

Thank you for your writings. It’s important for me and probably the rest of us to understand the process and to feel another person’s trial. best, david

[Vintage Archer]

#7673

LARRY you and Belinda are amazing! Your attitude, sense of humor, and the prayers that your friends are sending will sustain you through these hard times

You are an inspiration to others………THANKS

[Larry O. Fischer]

#8505

Thanks for all the prayers and positive thoughts. Rebaited tonight, bear is hitting it hard!

Chemo tomorrow morning and hopefully a bear for the wall, and meat for the freezer this weekend. It’s good to be back in the field after missing last fall. I think the bastard has taken to this bowhunting, he has been very quiet!

Larry

[Mark Turton]

#8611

Hi Larry, with yew sap running through your veins this makes you THE traditional bowhunter, a modern greenman.

Look forward to an update on the bear hunting.

Mark.

[James Harvey]

#8713

Webmother wrote: Here is the latest update from Larry: Fighting and Living!

That is properly inspiring stuff.

[David Bartlett]

#8746

Larry,

Good luck in your Hunting! For both the Bear and the Bastard.

[paleoman]

#8802

I don’t even know you Larry, but your story strikes a chord to get out of our own heads and unwrap life for the gift it is. I wish you well.

[Fallguy]

#9419

Keep him at bay Larry. There was a news story this week that the Mayo Clinic had success curing a cancer patient with a mega dose of the measles virus. The treatment is experimental. They going to start clinical trials to see if they get more positive results. http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/health/measles-cancer-remission/ Buy the way good luck bear hunting:D

[Bob Ledrich]

#14618

We have never met Larry but through Tradbow, I feel like I know you. I lost my cousin and friend last Oct to the lung bastard. You are an inspiration and a great example for us all to follow. I will be praying or you and I hope you get that bear.

[Robin Conrads]

#57800

Here’s the latest on Larry’s battle with The Bastard.

Tactics Change—The Battle Continues!

[Stix]

#57810

Prayer said in Colorado. God Bless ~ <

[Ralph]

#57811

Be blessed Larry and your family also. All of us are sending prayers for you and yours.

Sorry about your dog, know how you feel. I thought I was gonna lose my girl buddy of 12 years but we got her infection stopped. Not a challenge like yours but it still makes one’s heart bleed.

God Bless!!’

Ralph

[Vintage Archer]

#57823

Larry,Belinda and Family I know it feels like things are spinning out of control and crashing down around you….All things you cannot control……The main thing is you are still in the fight and battling the “Bastard”.

You guys are in our thoughts and prayers every day.

Joe and Janice Furlong

[Dan Herbert]

#57827

Larry, Belinda and Family,

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family…..keep fighting the fight against the “Bastard”!

Dan and Lisa Herbert

Fort Bragg, NC

[Raymond Coffman]

#58211

Larry –

Buena Suerte —

Cyberscout

[brokeback]

#59230

Hi Larry, this is a message of support and love from a bowhunting brother in Central Africa. We have carefully followed all of your posts,and we ask that Gaia embrace you on your journey through this life.

[Robin Conrads]

#12075

The latest update: Ambushed

[paleoman]

#12184

Larry – what an insult, a kidney stone on top of it all! I’ll offer this about digestive regulation…my Mother is up there in years now and had back surgery. So, the flora in her gut got tomahawked by the antibiotics. My brother, hearing this says “well, all you have to do now is eat a dead rat and you’ll be all set”. That was a gem and if it can give you a grin, that’s good meds too.

[Anonymous]

#12327

Webmother wrote: The latest update: Ambushed

Insert appropriate four-letter word I can’t say/type here without getting banned.

Larry, I don’t pray often, or much, but you’ve got all I can offer.

[William Warren]

#16852

Just read “Ambushed” and am sorry to hear of the Bastard’s extra stubbornness. As I gather with family this weekend I will not be able to eat or drink without thinking and praying for Larry and his family. Sending prayers for Larry.

[Bob Ledrich]

#18427

Larry and Family,

Our thoughts and prayers are with you this weekend and

Every day. We will be praying for that miracle.

Bob and Debbie Ledrich

[David Coulter]

#18683

Larry, Belinda & Family,

I don’t find myself in prayer often either, but here’s an opportunity for some. I wish you all the best. I am also in appreciative amazement that you are able to document and share your journey with us. It does make me feel like family. As we say to our children when they head off to school for the day, “you are in my heart.”

I wish your miracle finds you soon. peace, david

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#48457

You are in my thoughts today, Larry. Thank you for all you’ve done – with this publication, with promoting traditional bowhunting and with Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. Please know that you have left a big impact on many of us, and keep fighting.

[Anonymous]

#59642

Been a long time since the last update. Any word?

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#14763

We are thinking about you, Larry! Thank you for all you have done! Hang in there, bud! Hoping for a miracle!

[Robin Conrads]

#15598

Larry and Belinda wrote an update late last night.

The Final Battle

[Col Mike]

#15867

Damn! Please pass mine and Linda’s best thoughts to them and the family.

I was privileged to have a short personal time with Larry and Belinda—and I will never forget that friendship.

Semper Fi

Mike

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#15875

Godspeed, Larry. And our condolences to the entire Ficher clan. Glasses will be raised tonight…

[Dave Nash]

#15880

Thoughts and prayers from here.

Dave

[Ralph]

#15888

Blessings and prayers too from us.

Ralph and Shirley

[David Fudala]

#15941

Thoughts and Prayers sent to the entire Fischer family!

[Robin Conrads]

#16081

Some of you may have already heard…Larry passed away this afternoon, surrounded by his family. Godspeed my friend and brother, we will miss you dearly. Prayers go out for Belinda, Blake, Diana, Jake, Becky, Pat and Tony.

Thanks for all of your prayers and good thoughts. Give a toast to Larry tonight and know that his legacy will continue on for years to come.

[David Coulter]

#16114

Our condolences to entire family. I wish them all peace now and always. david

[Brennan Herr]

#16173

Prayers and thoughts to Belinda and family. Larry good luck on the journey…thanks for the inspiration and one of the greatest showings of strength I have witnessed!

[Stephen Graf]

#16528

Well that is a true bummer. I haven’t posted on this thread but I have been reading Larry’s updates and hoping for the best. I never met Larry but have surly benefited from his commitment to traditional archery, this magazine, and hunting.

In hopes of making some small payback to Larry, I will give my next deer to a hungry family in his name.

Thanks Larry for all you did. You lived a strong life. Salute!

[sharpster]

#16599

Oh no. We all knew the prognosis wasn’t good but I prayed more for this great man than I’ve ever prayed any other person in my life. Like everyone else I had been hoping against hope for a miracle.

I would like to offer my sincerest and most heart felt condolences to Belinda, Blake, and the rest of your family, as well as to anyone else whose life was so enriched by having the good fortune to have known this fine man. Our friend was a truly exceptional person. I honestly believe that to say Larry was 1 in a million is no exaggeration. You will be sorely missed my friend, but I know that in time, remembrances of you and our friendship will bring a warm smile to my heart. God speed sir. Till we meet again,

Ron

1st Corinthians 15:54-55 “But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. “O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING”?

[Fallguy]

#16629

Truly sad news, my condolences to the Fisher family. He was a gifted man and he shared that with us all here and in the magazine. He will be missed.

[Vintage Archer]

#16669

Larry fought the long battle to survive the cancer which he called the “Bastard”. His tenacity and desire to fight the” Bastard”, even under diminishing odds for survival , is a lesson from which we all can learn.

Cancer affects not just the individual. but the spouse as caregiver .Belinda fought the battle right along side Larry……Prayers to you Belinda and Larry’s family.

He will be missed!

[Troy Breeding]

#16682

The man I called a friend will be remembered for years.

[mittenm]

#16945

Prayers sent. Amen

[Stix]

#16986

Prayer said in Colorado for Jesus to welcome him into his kingdom and to comfort his family. God Bless <

[Anonymous]

#17763

Godspeed, my friend. Thank you for all you’ve done for so many. You will be missed and you will not be forgotten.

[Todd Smith]

#18224

Since day one of the original announcement of the Battle and the Bastard, I have carried Larry, Belinda, and family with me. Daily prayers, conversations ‘with them’ in the woods, and anguish for their battles.

Still – every day I pray for them, and now Larry has moved on – to a new place, one where he can be rid of the Bastard.

Belinda, Blake and the entire family and circle of friends, we share you loss, and we’re here for you as we say goodbye to a man we loved.

[Robin Conrads]

#18283

The War is Over October 20, 2014

On Saturday, October 18th, all of the family rallied around Larry with more love than The Bastard could handle. The Bastard did not get to declare victory. We now get to celebrate Larry’s life. Please join us. If you would like, wear purple for Larry.

Memorial Services will be held Friday, October 24th, at 6 pm at Summer’s Funeral Home, 3629 E Ustick Rd, Meridian, ID 83646

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, October 25th, from 12-5 pm at the Basque Center, 611 W Grove St, Boise, ID 83702

Sunday, October 26th, we will have a potluck bow shoot here at the house around 3:00 pm

In lieu of flowers, you may make a donation to any of the following in Larry Fischer’s name:

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network – PanCan.org – to help fight Pancreatic Cancer

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers – backcountryhunters.org – to help preserve hunting and fishing on public land

Benefit4Kids – B4K.org – to grant outdoor wishes of terminally ill and life-limited children

Thanks for all your support and prayers,

Belinda Fischer and Family

[Dave Nash]

#19116

Can not be there in person but will have you all in my thoughts and prayers. God Bless all of Larrys familiy and many many friends.Life well lived

Dave Nash and familiy

[Bunyan Morris]

#19983

I did not know Larry personally, but I am thankful for the contributions that he made to our way of life. My prayers, thoughts and condolences go out to his family and friends.

[Mad Dog Mike]

#20533

Having known Larry thru his association with us here in Montana, We have lost a great voice for the traditional bowhunters. Our condolences to his family, and his earthly fight is now over, and his peace is now one with our Maker. Those of us left must continue the struggle to keep this precious gift going..traditional bows and hunting, as a legacy to what Larry has stood for all these years. We will keep you all in our thoughts and prayers. Mike and Dolly Shepard, Columbia Falls Mt

[paleoman]

#22176

I never knew the man but followed his story. And was touched by it. Peace to him and good health to you all.

Scott

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