Garth Brooks gives away guitar to fan with cancer during concert
A concert with thousands of fans turned into an intimate moment between Garth Brooks and one woman with cancer.
While singing his song "The Dance" Friday night in Minneapolis, the country star noticed a fan with a very touching sign. It read, "Chemo this morning. Garth tonight. Enjoying 'The Dance'."
Brooks decided he wanted to keep the sign, so--after serenading the fan--he made a trade.
http://abc7.com/health/garth-brooks-gives-away-guitar-to-fan-with-cancer/388303/
I'm not into Garth's music, but I'm into his empathy for his ailing fan.
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that Brooks’ mother and sister both died from cancer. 
My mother died of sepsis at the age of 73 due to liver cancer with complications of Myasthenia Gravis in 1999. I then lost my oldest brother in 2006 from Pancreatic Cancer at the age of 56.
What is myasthenia gravis?
Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by varying degrees of weakness of the skeletal (voluntary) muscles of the body. The name myasthenia gravis, which is Latin and Greek in origin, literally means "grave muscle weakness." With current therapies, however, most cases of myasthenia gravis are not as "grave" as the name implies. In fact, most individuals with myasthenia gravis have a normal life expectancy.
The hallmark of myasthenia gravis is muscle weakness that increases during periods of activity and improves after periods of rest. Certain muscles such as those that control eye and eyelid movement, facial expression, chewing, talking, and swallowing are often, but not always, involved in the disorder. The muscles that control breathing and neck and limb movements may also be affected.
Myasthenia gravis is caused by a defect in the transmission of nerve impulses to muscles. It occurs when normal communication between the nerve and muscle is interrupted at the neuromuscular junction—the place where nerve cells connect with the muscles they control. Normally when impulses travel down the nerve, the nerve endings release a neurotransmitter substance called acetylcholine. Acetylcholine travels from the neuromuscular junction and binds to acetylcholine receptors which are activated and generate a muscle contraction.
In myasthenia gravis, antibodies block, alter, or destroy the receptors for acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction, which prevents the muscle contraction from occurring. These antibodies are produced by the body's own immune system. Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease because the immune system—which normally protects the body from foreign organisms—mistakenly attacks itself.
case. She became very unsteady and her one eye started to droop in 1992 that's when she was diagnosed with MG. She went into remission and was fine for a few years.
Then she tripped and fell down in our yard in 1998 while hanging out laundry. While at the emergency room waiting for x-rays to be done for her hip they gave her a Flu shot and the Myasthenia Gravis returned with a vengeance.
She was placed in the hospital and then we found out about the cancer. She was never able to leave. She died on 1/26/99 after 56 days in the hospital. My first born Samantha Arija, (Arija was my mother's first name) was born in July of that same year. 
Strange thing about it is that my daughter's life long friend was born in the same hospital on the day my mother died.
I hope you, your sister and especially your mother are doing ok, I wish had something better to say but I'm at a lost for words right now. All I can offer is a peck on the cheek 
and a hug. 
Hang in there and keep up the good fight, I imagine your Dad is watching over you.
I just got overwhelmed when I read your reply and thought about my own loses. 
