Category: Updates

Danny’s Celebration of Life was everything I wanted and more. I could feel the love and admiration for Danny flowing and connecting us all. It was a beautiful evening. I only wish I had more time to spend with each of you! There were about 150 people who attended from 12 states (I was wrong…

Hello, friends and family. Danny’s Celebration of Life is in less than 30 days, and I’m happy to announce the following amazing lineup of bands: Legendary Denton funk band Beef Jerky, formed in 1992 with Danny on drums, will reunite in Danny’s honor for the first time in 15 years! The band lineup features five…

Hello friends and family. We have locked down the date, time, and venue for Danny’s celebration of life. Mark your calender: Sunday, November 19, 5:00pm at Harvest House in Denton, Texas. I am pleased to host this celebration in Denton, “where it all started” (as I like to say). Danny and I met in Denton…

My nightstand received an unwelcome transformation. Books with titles like Not Now, Cancer. I’m Busy. and When Blood Breaks Down were replaced with a new collection of books — On Grief & Grieving, The Modern Loss Handbook, and Broken Open. These are not the books I imagined my almost 50-year-old self reading. It’s not a…

I’m very sorry to say that Danny passed away yesterday morning, June 16. Memorial plans will be posted as soon as there is more information. – Robyn Gregory, friend / colleague

Early this morning, around 2:00am CDT, I received a call from the hospital to tell me that Danny went into cardiac arrest. Fortunately, the team acted quickly and performed CPR to revive him. He was immediately transferred back to ICU, intubated, and put on a breathing machine. I’m here with Danny in his ICU room…

I’m happy to share that Danny was moved out of ICU yesterday, Monday, June 12. He’s back in a room on the bone marrow transplant (BMT) floor. The nurses on the BMT floor told me that for them, sending a patient to ICU is like sending their child to daycare for the first time. So,…

It’s been 16 days since Danny’s transplant. I’ve been waiting to post an update, hoping for some really great news to share. But we’re still “in the thick of it” as his doctors say. Presently, Danny is in the ICU. They moved him down here yesterday. He’s in stable condition. Danny was having a pretty…

BIG NEWS! Danny’s transplant is complete! It went well, and we are now focused on his post-transplant recovery. At around 11:30pm CT on Tuesday, May 23, the transplant doctor entered Danny’s hospital room followed by four nurses, one carrying a small blue cooler. It didn’t take long to figure out that the cooler did not…

First, a giant thank you for the extraordinarily generous response to my last post! We received a steady stream of Amazon deliveries and emails with DoorDash & gas gift cards. (My neighbors probably suspected that I’d developed a serious online shopping addiction given how frequently delivery trucks appeared in front of our house.) Danny and…