Johno, is having some medical issues.

sending thoughts and prayers

A fine man.

Hoping and praying for a good outcome.

🙏🏻🙏🏻

Dang.. hoping and praying for good news.

Hang in there johno!

Pulling for you, Johno.

Many thanks mates, be glad to get in for surgery so we know where things stand, Your kind thoughts and prayers mean a great deal

Johno

Get better ol buddy, praying for you.

Yeah, Johno, you ARE one of the good ones. Hang in there. We're all behind/beside you.

Get on the mend soon!

Wish you the best and thank you again for all the help over the years getting those 'oddball' SPORTCO parts, couldn't have done it without you.

Prayers up!

Sending positive energy for a complete recovery.

Wishing all the best my friend!!

Savage family here pulling for you. Keep us posted, please.

Chin Up Mate

All good fellas, no news is good news eh?. One thing that covid has helped with over here not sure about US or NZ is that many initial appointments and follows ups are done by tele health uses the internet which is great when return journey is 10 hours. So call booked for next week to work when they do the surgery, I will be glad to get it done pain & bleeding not much fun

Johno

good luck and a fast recovery

You are in my prayers

Have an update fellas, worst fears confirmed bowel cancer just waiting on time for surgery and pre op CT scans to check lymph nodes. This is gonna be a barrel of fun

Johno

I wish you the best Johno. May God smile on you.

Oh dang.. keep the spirit up as much as you can. We're praying for ya!

Godspeed Johno!

Prayers sent!

Prayers sent ol buddy.

Keeping a positive attitude is half the battle.
Treatment options are many and amazing.
Hang in there!

Prayers sent for your recovery.

Keep a positive attitude.

We are with you. Hang in there.

I'm not a praying kind of guy, but I'll keep you in my thoughts, Johno.

As someone who endured intestinal surgery recently, I'm here to tell you the advances they've made in those surgery protocols is absolutely amazing. Even the technology available a mere ten years ago is Medieval in comparison to today's.

Best of luck to you Johno. I'll be thinking of you.

Thank you gentleman, looks like it was found early so i'm keeping positive will let you know when I head to the chop shop

Johno

prayers for you my friend stay positive

Best of luck Johno. 🙏🏻

Hang tough, like always!!

I know several survivors so it can be done.

I've lifted up prayers for you to have a full recovery.

Godspeed friend ................Prayers and love

We are moving forward fellas surgery booked for 6th September my CT scans which we have been sweating came back with lymph glands clear so fingers crossed the demon is localized. 10-14 days in hospital so its a big procedure.

Thanks for the kind wishes it really does help

Johno

Good luck johno!

Thinking about you. Hang in there.

Hoping everything goes perfectly!

hang in there Johnno, prayers sent for full recovery , positive attitude is a winner .

norm

Best of luck

Prayers for complete recovery. He who created you can heal you!

Good luck Johno.

My grandmother had the very same surgery about 30 years ago when she was in her mid 70's. She lived to be 91.

Just sayin...

Best wishes from PA Johno

good luck mate!

Prayers for Johno!

Will be praying for you.

By his stripes we are healed …. Isaiah 53

Many thanks friends

Purri good to see you here brother its a fine place to sit around the fire and talk

Johno

I wish you the best. I’ve been dealing with fallout from a stroke for the last 6 months. It’s easy to get depressed over the long term. Hopefully family and friends will keep you upbeat. Stay busy, the mind is a terrible thing when not occupied.

Thanks mate, the mental side of it hit me like an Ali left hook just came out of nowhere whilst awaiting the CT scan results, with the back up in hospital waiting time it two weeks before the scans were even read. I am doing ok at the moment no doubt old Ali will come out swinging a few days before surgery

Johno

Johno, Hang in there ,you aussies are known for being tough ! Don

Thanks Don, tough???? soft as butter mate lol

Johno

I was going to say something like that but didn’t want to hurt your feelings. Koala bears do look kind of cuddly. Although I don’t know how they pull a trigger with 6 thumbs.

Keep hanging tough, Johno! Just like the Diggers at Tobruk held Rommel at bay against all odds, and the Aussies on the Kokoda Trail kept the Japs away from Port Moresby, y'all got that "certain something"!!

Joe, the soft as butter is fine but when you call a Koala a bear well them's fighting words mate, Koala is a Marsupial (wink)

Gary we have fixed bayonets and stand ready to charge to the surgical ward next Tuesday

Thanks friends

Johno

Wishing you the Best!

Did you find me that 58-59 Chrysler Ute yet. I've got a line on an old Studebaker.

Well Joe my football side is in moth balls after falling at the last hurdle so out of curiosity I will search some sites here tomorrow. Just spent the day at hospital with doc's & anesthetist all good to go Tuesday morning

Johno

Monday night here so 0500hrs tomorrow off to the chop shop, I will be off line but my good wife will put any updates on here for me

Thanks for all the support fellas

Johno

Hope it goes well.

Tell her your Savage family needs/wants updates.

You will be a better man once it's completed. Good luck mate.

Johno I just head about this. Prayers sent from Michigan. Good luck!!!!!

6 hours of surgery 14" bowel removed I was very ill for first 24 hours bad reaction to morphine, doing better now now just the wait on pathology will be in hospital another wek at least

Johno

Hang in there. Thanks for the update.

Glad to hear you got through the surgery. Hoping everything else is easier!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery johno

Good news, keep 'er going mate!!

Hang in there!

Hopefully, the worst is behind you.

Best wishes for a quick recovery.

Back home, feels good to be on my own dung hill. Tired a fair amount of pain and now the big wait to see if we had a win wont know for another week or so but surgery went well they will not commit more than than that

Johno

Well, that's a good start. Still sending prayers. Hope you don't get any Monsoons and was that dung hill away.

One step at a time, and being home is a good step! No more nurses waking you up all night to take vitals. Hate that.

Joe I some times forget how the difference in speech between out two countries even though we both speak English

Dung Hill = an area where rabbits go to lay their little nuggets, home territory as it were. I don't know if Jack Rabbits do that but the European Rabbit which we have like to make a "poop hill" as it were

That first 24 hours or so after surgery Rory they are at you on the hour very hour, I will leave you fellas with a though about nurses I came across many years ago I think its very fitting

God made man and called him man
He than made woman and called her woman
Then finally he made angles and called them nurses

May God bless you all

Johno

glad to hear you are home.

you ever tried to put a knife in frozen butter ,,stay cool,,

norm

Well, I'm not sure I heard that definition before. But, I did learn something. I live on top of a dung hill. My back yard is about 2"s deep with Rabbit Raisins.

What is it with old fellas that just don't listen? Doc said you need to take it easy this has been a big operation so first day home I go and hang a 12 foot heavy gate, move the lambing ewes to another paddock bah now you know why I haven't been here for a day or so. I only have one 99 now so my wife has threatened to list it on a sale site if I don't grow up.

Johno

Your wife knows best. Rest and heal.

Johno! I emailed you all those pictures to keep you occupied SITTING DOWN!

Sounds like someone I know with a hernia who wrangles 10 cords of firewood....

Gene, I did reply to your email and really appreciated the photos what a great time it must have been back then, tough for sure really hard to imagine just how hard those times were.

Well Gary i'm glad to hear that in a crippled way just knowing i'm not the only fool on a fool's island is a comfort, feeling ok today also

Johno

Growing up is for little kids!

back in hospital, ambulance road trip yesterday seems to be a major blockage

johno

Just saw this buddy, don’t get in here that much this time of the year.

Hope all is well soon and a speedy recovery.

Hey Joe good to hear from you.

I was rushed back in by ambulance with complications back home again. CT scan result was good no sign of other cancers but I do need to go on chemo due to the depth of the cancer, seems a 5% chance of returning somewhere else so best be safe and yeah sick

Johno

Hang in there, buddy. Anyone who is lucky enough to find a solid frame 22 Hi-P can survive cancer no problem.

Saw the oncologist today expecting to start chemo treatment in a week or so. "I have some news all your results are now back we have down graded you from cat 3 to cat 2, you will not need treatment there are no signs of cancer anywhere else" Praise the Lord says I

Just have to keep keep an eye things CT scans and colonoscopy next year, my thanks for all the best wishes from my mates here it surely helped me keep positive

Johno

GREAT news johno

Heck yeah, Johno. Good work!

Yes, GREAT news. Start loading up some ammo so you can go outside and play with that HP.

Great to hear some good news for a change.
Continued positive energy sent your way.✌️

Yay!!

Good Deal johno!

Hallelujah! So good to hear that!

Great News!!!

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

So glad to hear you got some good luck on this pass!

Stay in it Johno! Great news.

Glad to hear this news

Thanks for the best wishes, oh that should be stage 2&3 not cat 2&3 tired when typed 6 hour round trip.

Big news also picked up my solid frame 99E that morning photos to come later on

Johno

waiting for the pics but maybe just send the rifle up so i can get a REAL good look

Norm,

glad u are feeling better.

such great news!!

Thanks so much fellas.

had a great day cleaned up 99E solid frame sent photos to Rory who will post when he has time, tang crack though not big was a disappointment but it sure gave me a boost to have the rifle home

Johno