Steve Groene Suffers more. Needs prayers OT

[victims cry]

Steve Groene, is doing everything he can to stay alive for his only remaining child from the horror of Joe Duncan (remaining out of Dylan and Shasta). With Shasta's mom killed, and two of her brothers, steve is fighting valiantly. They discovered another tumor.

http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stor...r.22ee58fb.html

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Steve Groene, the father of Shasta Groene, the only survivor of a brutal North Idaho murder and kidnapping, says he is undergoing emergency throat surgery in order to spend more time with his daugher.

Steve and Shasta Groene

Steve was diagnosed with throat cancer one year ago. Recently, doctors found another tumor in Steve's vocal box. He will undergo emergency throat surgery on Monday at a hospital in Seattle to have his vocal chords and the tumor removed.

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Groene told KREM 2 News one thing he will miss is playing the harmonica in his band. He has been playing with the Blue Tattoo Band for the last six years. Bandmates say they hope Steve continues writing music and lyrics for the band while he is recovering from surgery.

After the surgery, Steve will lose his sense of smell and taste. It is also possible he will lose feeling in his face and shoulders.

Shasta's mother Brenda and her boyfriend Mark McKenzie, along with brother Slade were beaten and killed inside their Wolf Lodge Bay home in May of 2005. Shasta and Dylan were abducted. Shasta was found in July at a Coeur d'Alene restaurant with accused killer Joseph Duncan. Dylan's remains were found in the Montana wilderness.

Duncan will stand trial for the murders of Brenda, Mark, and Slade, as well as the kidnapping of Shasta and Dylan on Oct. 16 in Kootenai County.

[Katie]

This is the saddest case I have ever seen, I rememeber Shastas Dad giving his sympathies to Beth but none was returned.
What was done to those poor babies, I don't think I'll ever get over!
the bastards who let him out, why he was able to prey all this time. why?. GRRRRRRRRRRR

[Katie]

I am praying for you Steve Shasta needs you, stay stong.

[Sultan]

Good lord, that poor child has had more bad things happen to her.

[victims cry]

The trial is scheduled for October 16. I hope that others here will follow it with me.

This is one i want to follow start to finish. The twists in the scums life, the mother from hell (omg read the psych reports from when he was incarcerated years ago) his own crimes, his blog, the crimes they have linked to him...

Shasta deserves that we care, unlike the freaking media who dropped her before dylan could be saved. So does Steve who dd all he could to find his little ones, and was tossed as soon as a blonde teen went missing.

I have no problem witih stories changing, but they could have done half and half while the little ones were missing. I gess he wasnt pretty enough with his tatoos and long hair for his kids to still need help.

[Sultan]

The trial is scheduled for October 16. I hope that others here will follow it with me.

This is one i want to follow start to finish. The twists in the scums life, the mother from hell (omg read the psych reports from when he was incarcerated years ago) his own crimes, his blog, the crimes they have linked to him...

Shasta deserves that we care, unlike the freaking media who dropped her before dylan could be saved. So does Steve who dd all he could to find his little ones, and was tossed as soon as a blonde teen went missing.

I have no problem witih stories changing, but they could have done half and half while the little ones were missing. I gess he wasnt pretty enough with his tatoos and long hair for his kids to still need help.

You know I wonder if this is true, the looks and tatoos angle. My opinion is the more out of the main stream you look the less people are willing to help.

[Nena]

very very sad.... :- (

[Danse Macabre]

dear god ,he is in my prayers, please let him survive not just this, but for a very long life....for shasta....

[hubbahubba]

at the end of every dark tunnel there is a rainbow.... may that rainbow be eternal for this family..

[victims cry]

http://www.cdapress.com/articles/20...news/news05.txt




SEATTLE -- Surgeons operating on Steve Groene had to remove all of his larynx, his sister said Monday night.

Wendy Price said the father of Shasta Groene, the lone survivor of the Wolf Lodge killings, was expected to be placed into the University of Washington Medical Center's intensive care unit following the surgery to remove the remainder of what is believed to be a cancerous larynx.

"He did lose his ability to speak," Price said. "They said they all felt bad about it, but they tried all they could do to save his voice box."


However, after more than seven hours under the knife, she said the doctors determined it was not possible.

Still, she said the doctors said his long-term prognosis is good.

Price said surgeons were going slow and were waiting for results of biopsies of lesions to determine if they are cancerous or benign.

Price, whose husband, Bob, died of cancer earlier this year, said her brother learned a lot because her husband faced terminal illness with a sense of humor and with help from God.

"I think Bob is watching over him, too," Price said.

Meanwhile, The Press learned Monday that the U.S. Attorney General's Office would release a statement today which might say federal prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for Joseph Edward Duncan III.

Groene, a 49-year-old blues musician, said last week he planned to sit in the courtroom during Duncan's trial and force the accused triple murderer to look at him every day.

The trial for Duncan, a 43-year-old level III registered sex offender from Fargo, N.D., is set to start on Oct. 16.

Price said before going into the operating room her brother called Shasta and left a voice message, the last words he will ever speak unassisted.

"He told her he was OK and that he loved her," Price said.

[Queen]

Unnnnfrigginbelievable . Has this family not suffered enough?

Truly a time to say:

ENOUGH OF THE BS ALREADY.

[Need2Know]

The trial is scheduled for October 16. I hope that others here will follow it with me.

This is one i want to follow start to finish. The twists in the scums life, the mother from hell (omg read the psych reports from when he was incarcerated years ago) his own crimes, his blog, the crimes they have linked to him...

Shasta deserves that we care, unlike the freaking media who dropped her before dylan could be saved. So does Steve who dd all he could to find his little ones, and was tossed as soon as a blonde teen went missing.

I have no problem witih stories changing, but they could have done half and half while the little ones were missing. I gess he wasnt pretty enough with his tatoos and long hair for his kids to still need help.

You know I wonder if this is true, the looks and tatoos angle. My opinion is the more out of the main stream you look the less people are willing to help.

It should never be this way but we live in a very deranged society. My prayers and that of my church will be with this family so that God brings them peace.

[Queen]

The image of Steve's face as he stood before the media and nation telling how detectives told him he failed parts of his poly, will never cease from my memory.
How Steve pulled the strength together not kill this Duncan SOB yet, I will never understand.
All for Shasta!!
My thoughts and prayers will be with them as this sick mo'fo is brought to justice.