I rarely if ever read Don's posts in here but he was a friend from the chat room. We heard he went to hospital many weeks ago and today we learned he passed away and has joined Christina in the clouds.

No information as to cause of death was found out yet.

Bye Don, we in chat will miss the way you laughed, cried and made our days a bit brighter.

I'm shattered. Don was such a nice guy. He and I must have sent a zillion Pvt Msgs back and forth. And he was always on Chat when ever I was...

I don't know what to say. He was a student and the last I heard was talking to me about going forward in the medical field to right some of the wrongs done to him.

I'll miss him! :-\

I as well will miss Don in the chat room and message board. He was very active. He as well had suffered greatly the past months with great physical pain. Don was on very heavy dose of pain medicines. He was in and out of doctors and hospitals the last few months. I am sure he is still the happy eunuch we all knew.

This is sad news, indeed. To lose two such people as Don and Christina in such a short time is very difficult. --FLO--

I learned of Don's passing this afternoon. I had been trying to contact him for over three weeks – leaving messages on his cell phone until it was disconnected, leaving messages on the land line phone in his apartment, sending emails, sending a letter with a stamped self-addressed postcard for a response by anyone who might pick up his mail. No response whatsoever since I last spoke with him in his hospital room, where he was very happy that he was to be released the following morning.

Yesterday I learned the name of one of his doctors and called his office as soon as it opened this morning. He later returned me call to say that Don had passed away unexpectedly – apparently peacefully in the middle of the night. His mother found him the following afternoon when she arrived for a visit.

His doctor repeated a couple of times what an intelligent and pleasant person Don was.

He will be missed.

I am really saddened to hear this news. Don and I had exchanged a number of lengthy emails and occasionally chatted. He was indeed very intelligent and showed a genuine concern for my well-being. I will certainly miss having him around.

Don's passing was completely unexpected, and I was surprised and saddened when I learned of it. Don was a great guy; I spoke with him numerous time in the chatroom and through PMs. He was a lot of fun and also incredibly helpful. I will miss him lots.

I read Don's post and his struggles and the intelligent way he dealt with them. His posts were very informative. What a bright young man. I once teased him I was old enough to be his father. We had talked about a MoM and I wanted to meet him.

Wow! What a shock. You just never know, I guess.... How sad, because of all he had gone through... to have it end so suddenly.

Was just getting to know Don well. Had chatted several times one on one and had been told by other ops i was to pass my chicken suit on to him being, at the time, the newest op here in the chat. He took that banter in stride and as always, made it easy to like him. Will never forget the times he logged in from his actual hospital bed sharing actual pics from his surgeries and others times when he nodded off at the keyboard like so many of us do from time to time. Don made a lasting impression on me and I'm sure many others. It was my pleasure to know you Don. RIP DonFl