02-02-2024, 09:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-05-2024, 01:21 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Got this from his wife just now:
Dov passed quickly yesterday. As he would have said, yesterday was a good die to die, live or die makes no difference, it how you live that counts. I’m grieving as are so many others whose lives he touched. Yasmine
Dov had cancer of the throat & thyroid. He was a chiropractor and an advocate of supplements and abandoned western medicine for homeopathy. He was hospitalized a few weeks ago. By chance, one of his students, a fellow iaido classmate, works as a nurse’s aid and helped treat him. After several weeks, they discovered the cancer. He went home for the last few weeks of his life.
Dov knew me from SJSU Kendo and when I moved to Santa Cruz for grad school, he introduced me to Steve Anderson sensei. Steve got me into Rock Med.
He produced a series of nerf sword videos for Tiger Claw. That series tanked.
When I was cast on Man at Arms, I arranged a private lesson with him to rebuild my cutting skills. That was the last time I saw him. He gave me a prescription for a ton of supplements. I didn’t follow through on that - the seemed a bit crackpot to me. He did help me when I popped my hip out doing splits in Kung Fu with what may have been my first chiro session.
He lived on the west side, maybe 10 mins from me. I don’t know why we didn’t get together more often. I guess in the end, we weren’t that close, despite so much shared history. That’s on both of us.
Dov passed quickly yesterday. As he would have said, yesterday was a good die to die, live or die makes no difference, it how you live that counts. I’m grieving as are so many others whose lives he touched. Yasmine
Dov had cancer of the throat & thyroid. He was a chiropractor and an advocate of supplements and abandoned western medicine for homeopathy. He was hospitalized a few weeks ago. By chance, one of his students, a fellow iaido classmate, works as a nurse’s aid and helped treat him. After several weeks, they discovered the cancer. He went home for the last few weeks of his life.
Dov knew me from SJSU Kendo and when I moved to Santa Cruz for grad school, he introduced me to Steve Anderson sensei. Steve got me into Rock Med.
He produced a series of nerf sword videos for Tiger Claw. That series tanked.
When I was cast on Man at Arms, I arranged a private lesson with him to rebuild my cutting skills. That was the last time I saw him. He gave me a prescription for a ton of supplements. I didn’t follow through on that - the seemed a bit crackpot to me. He did help me when I popped my hip out doing splits in Kung Fu with what may have been my first chiro session.
He lived on the west side, maybe 10 mins from me. I don’t know why we didn’t get together more often. I guess in the end, we weren’t that close, despite so much shared history. That’s on both of us.
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