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Dom took to Instagram today to announce that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Dom’s contagious enthusiasm for the drumming community and his love for drumming helps to inspire all of us to keep learning.
It’s time for us to send some of Dom’s positive energy back to Dom, please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as he fights this terrible disease.
He writes:
“To all my drumming community…
I want you all to hear this from me…
I recently have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. My surgery will be May 13 at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City. This has blindsided me completely. Cancer does not play fair.
I have traveled throughout life at 110 mph. This has slowed me down…temporarily. I have some energy at times during the day and continue to teach.
Every person is going through their own battles. I ask everyone to show more compassion and understanding to every soul you meet.
I thank all my supporters and people I have meet in my 60 countries I have traveled. You have brought me great joy and we confirmed our love for music and drumming.
Please understand the power of our words. We tend to post our opinions thinking it is our way of confirming our intelligence. But in negative ways…it hurts.
My mothers always said, “if you have nothing nice to say…do not say it!” I add or write it in our social media world. Words hurt and we need to turn this world negativity around.
We truly are in this life experience together and we are stronger treating each other with respect and kindness.
I appreciate each one of you reading this.
If we lift each other, we lift our home, our village our country and eventually the world. I have tried to do this and I am asking for help. I need each of you to reach out and lift others with your enthusiastic positive energy.
I have the battle of my life in front of me, but knowing that each of you are reaching to inspire people to aspire will eventually lift me.
I am so proud of my global drumming family and my music community.
Thank you for reading this and stay enthusiastic to each day to own the moment. The power is in owning now!
I love you all.
Onward and Upward…
Dom Famularo”
