I have been in this place for four days. This tour has been one of the most difficult in my career. Bad weather – show cancellations and then I got real sick. The band played in Houston and Austin without me. Both times, we hired other front people. Thank YOU Jon Richardson, Julia Cruz Magness and Billy Bacon. YOU ARE THE BEST - I was hospitalized at the time and couldnt be there but I heard you were great. I am so sick and my mind is all cloudy from medicines. Today I finally got a nerve block and it was really bad. The doctor had not done many nerve blocks before. I should have followed my instincts and walked away but I didn’t. He messed me up. I feel horrible. I am flying home tomorrow to check myself into my regular hospitall (Cedars Sinai) and try and get well. I dont know if I can do it but I must try. I am telling you my troubles, dearest fans and friends, in the hopes that you can help me. If you have some extra money to give me PLEASE PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP. You can paypal me. My email address for paypal is: candyekanetour@aol or you can send me a check at: candyekane 315 S. HWY 101 #47 Encinitas CA 92024. Or you can write to me at the email above and I will send you my bank routing information. Every little bit will help me now. I am in dire straits. My phone bill is overdue and will be turned off in a few days. I owe thousands to everyone I know. Many of you have helped me before and I am writing to ask you to help me again if you possibly can. First two days of the tour, two tires blew out on my van in Colorado and metal was exposed on the other two. I had to spend $1000 for four new tires. Thank God Kennan Shaw and Kurt Kalker werent hurt or driving too fast. Thank goodness my band mates are wonderful, generous people who really love and care about me and are willing to go the extra miles. I am so lucky in the middle of such pain and tragedy. The tires blowing out were the first bad omen. We should have turned around and come home right then. But the show must go on. Then the flooding in Colorado caused the Crystola Roadhouse cancelation! They were on the phone with me on the way to sound check when we got the word that the Crystola Roadhouse show was cancelled. I told them to come back to the hotel. They turned around and came back, narrowly missed being swept away by a huge wall of water that killed several people just five minutes later at the same intersection! I know they could have been hurt in the flood if they had kept on going up the mountain. Its been insane and dangerous and expensive. Now, with this botched nerve block, I feel I have no choice but to go home and try and get better before I get worse. Im the toughest girl -- I am. But I am having a breakdown now in every part ofmy life it seems, and I am so sorry that my agents at piedmont talent and the club owners and promoters will lose money because of me. And now, because of this flubbed nerve block and excruciating pain, I am stuck in this Austin hospital in pain between a sharp rock and a hard place. My best friend Laura Chavez is here and she refuses to leave my side. I am truly blessed but I am canceling all the remaining U.S. shows and going home, leaving myself in debt for over $7000.00 to my band and agents in salaries, expenses, commissions, gas and hotels. I hope the promoters will forgive me, be compassionate and let me come and play in Nola, Texas and Florida later in the year, like in November. But money has ruined good relationships before and I know some of these people just wont understand what a cancer patient endures from day to day unless they have doneit themselves or watched a loved one suffer. I know that many of you have your own health issues and crosses to bear. I don’t want you to send money if you don’t have it. I want you to only send money if its not a hardship to you – but I have 13,000 fans here on Facebook. If everyone just sent me $5.00, I would be ecstatic. I know things will get better – I am sure of it - I just dont know when. I will keep trudging along and keeping the faith. Its what I have to do. But everyone needs a helping hand now and then. Especially artists and musicians need subsidies sometimes to survive. PLEASE consider making me your charity this month. Be a philanthropic super hero and send your favorite cancer fighter a check. I have needed your help before and I cant promise I wont need help again but please know how much I appreciate it. Thank you in advance for your love, patience, understanding and support; Candye
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:51:37 +0000
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