Dammit. Dave - travel well, brother.
Dave was an inspiration to me. All the years with the cancer and dealing with dialysis, and he still lived his life like someone without those problems. I knew he had to travel with dialysis stuff, or have it shipped, etc. but it never really hit me on how complicated that was until I walked into his and Charby's hotel room when we met to scatter Monkeyleg's ashes.
That room was piled full of medical stuff Dave needed to survive, yet he still made that trip and many others. I was thinking to myself that I would have just wussed out and become a homebody if I had to deal with all that, but Dave didn't let any of that stop him - he still lived his life like he was perfectly healthy and did all the things someone with no medical problems would do.
I know it tired him out though, and though I will miss him, I understand his choice of eternal rest rather than being poked and prodded and suffering, stuck in a hospital bed.
RIP Dave.