Well, I was hoping it wasn’t gonna come down to this. This isn’t easy to report… There is some bad news, but there is some slightly good news as well.

March 13, 2025… After three operations and seven weeks of chemotherapy and radiation over the past 3 1/2 years, as well as radiation. I’m having this week… This is my last day… Despite the doctors best efforts to stop this cancer… I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (incurable, but possibly treatable ) that has moved from my neck into my lungs.

The first option was immunotherapy, which I tried for nine weeks only to find out that it didn’t do anything at all. The tumors just continued to grow, collapsing the middle of my right lung and filling most of my right lung. It was during this time that mentally challenged me more than anything. In March I was given 6 to 8 months to live… But by the time I found out that immunotherapy wasn’t working I was hoping I would even make it through October to see my son’s 21st birthday.

After that. I was accepted into a clinical trial of a brand new drug that specifically targets squamous cell carcinoma… Which consisted of two different infusions every 21 days… This is the slightly good news ( except losing 25 pounds due to loss of appetite). It turns out the clinical trial started working and killing the tumors from the inside out and it was doing a great job for 15 weeks right up until September 7 last month. The side effects finally hit… It began with a rash on my chest and my back and on September 7, 2025 I found out I was at the beginning of 3 weeks straight of severe colitis… Inflammation of all of my intestines and stomach. The drug had turned my body against itself. I didn’t know what it was at first I thought it was that stomach virus… Until I got so completely dehydrated and saw my doctor they admitted me into the hospital. I was going through two giant IV bags per (BOLUS bags that contained electrolytes, magnesium, potassium… Things my body wasn’t getting) a day for seven days straight. Not really sure how I got through all of that. It was like going through hell for three weeks. And losing 25 additional pounds in that amount of time is shocking… I usually weigh 180 and I weigh 129.3 right now. I’ve lost 50 pounds all together in the past 4 1/2 months. I pretty much look like one of those skeletons you would see in science class.

In the last six weeks as well, they found a tiny bit of cancer in my T3 vertebrae… Today is my last day of radiation for that… They are 90% sure that this will be the end of that… I guess I’m just gonna experience fatigue in the next couple of weeks and starting next week, it’s gonna be hard to swallow for a bit, but I’ll get through it.

Needless to say, I am no longer on that clinical trial… I’ve just in the past week and a half been able to eat meals again and everything has calmed down due to all the pills that I’m having to take for the next two months… I haven’t gained any weight yet… I’m trying to get to 130. I suppose my body is just trying to get used to food again. It’ll come, it’s just gonna be a long process apparently.

All of my gigs, recordings and touring… Including a European tour I’m supposed to be on right now… Got wiped out. And I am probably gonna be wiped out for couple of months to come at least. I’m trying my best to eat as much as I can and stay positive as much as I can. After Health expenses, living expenses… I’ve pretty much gone through all of it… Hence this campaign. My sincere hope is be able to play again within the next couple of months or so (I miss it)… if that’s realistic, but that’s what I’m hoping for, but that I can also find another trial that can continue to kill the cancer…or that the tumors in my lung can stabilize and not grow back… otherwise I’m on a short clock again.

I CAN tell you that I have come to peace with death if that’s coming within months or… longer. But realistically, I have come to terms with it and I’m grateful for the life I’ve had and I’m grateful for my son, my friends, doctors, everybody that has supported me throughout my career and on Facebook and in real life! I’m grateful for being able to play music as long as I have and record with who I have and travel the globe. After watching my dad die of lung cancer in the middle of ninth grade… Right then and there I knew I’d be playing music the rest of my life. I believe Music has saved my life and allowed me to live at least this long. If it wasn’t for Music, I really don’t know what I would’ve done… So eternally grateful for the art form…it’s been quite an eventful life and I thank God for having 58 years to experience it. So I have started this campaign to hopefully heal enough and come back stronger… It’s just gonna take a while. It’s such a different reality having less than half of the strength I used to have… At least I still have hope and positivity and I’m gonna hold onto that.

Please feel free to share this… And anything at all helps… I am extremely appreciative of anything to all of you in advance. I’m hoping there will be alternatives to the drug that caused this last debacle…. but it also bought me some time. Gunnar turns 21 in a couple of weeks and I will see it! I’m happy I’m going to be able to see at least one more winter and I hope more. I will find out in about four weeks from now when I get another scan and I can put a little more weight on to handle some more tests… As far as finding something that can get rid of these tumors in my lung… And of course I will update this campaign with any and all

progress.

Thank you so much. I hope you guys have a great day.!

Sincerely,

Bryan Keeling