Ted from scrubs (Sam Lloyd) has terminal cancer :(

[terley]

Sad news, not a great start to 2019...

Midway through January, Sam began to experience headaches and he had lost 10 pounds. He figured the headaches were caused by the lack of sleep that came along with his new role as Daddy, and the weight loss seemed like it could easily be the byproduct of a busy schedule – Sam had spent the better part of 2018 going back and forth to Vermont to care for his ailing mother, Marianna. He helped her make the move to assisted living and he cleaned out the family home of 50+ years – no small task, indeed.

On Thursday, January 17th, as his headaches grew stronger, Sam decided to go to the doctor. The doctor thought the pain might be sinus-related so he ordered a CT Scan. The scan revealed a mass on Sam’s brain. Within a day, he was in brain surgery. Unfortunately the tumor was too intertwined so the surgeons couldn’t remove it. By Sunday, Sam and Vanessa were informed that the cancer in his brain had metastasized from his lungs. Further scans showed the cancer was also in his liver, spine, and jaw.

Really hit me hard, scrubs is by far my number 1 show of all time in all honesty... i can honestly say the majority of my character has been sculpted from the underlying moral messages in the show. Especially lessons that helped me deal with my own fathers terminal cancer a couple of years back.

There is a gofundme with more info
https://www.gofundme.com/f/dhfz9q-save-sammy

 

[Skillmister]

Very sad. I met him (and the rest of the band) back in uni. Still got the signed photo on my bookshelf

He's a top bloke

 

[ivrytwr3]

OK, this is sad and yes, i loved Ted and Scrubs (re-watched only last year). However, why does a successful actor with a net worth of $15m need a GoFundme page?

Surely a GoFundme is for treatments people otherwise cannot afford or to help people in need - did he not have health insurance? Are we raising funds to keep his family in luxury?

Strange one.

 

[Skillmister]

OK, this is sad and yes, i loved Ted and Scrubs (re-watched only last year). However, why does a successful actor with a net worth of $15m need a GoFundme page?

I did think this. It's quite odd. Hopefully it goes to charity

 

[ivrytwr3]

I did think this. It's quite odd. Hopefully it goes to charity

"There will be a range of medical, childcare, and other expenses".

So, nope.

 

[terley]

Sam didnt set up the gofundme, it was Tim Hobert the screenwriter for scrubs and the middle, having to fund your death and taking money away that would otherwise be used to look after your daughter for the rest of her life is obviously important..she will never know her dad.

 

[byeo]

Sad news, nice to see Gary Busey made the effort to visit him in hospital, though.

 

[XeNoN89]

ah man

I remember when i first saw this i couldn't stop laughing

 

[ivrytwr3]

Sam didnt set up the gofundme, it was Tim Hobert the screenwriter for scrubs and the middle, having to fund your death and taking money away that would otherwise be used to look after your daughter for the rest of her life is obviously important..she will never know her dad.

Yeah I guess it would be hard to survive on just $15m.

 

[cheesyboy]

OK, this is sad and yes, i loved Ted and Scrubs (re-watched only last year). However, why does a successful actor with a net worth of $15m need a GoFundme page?

Take those net worth figures with a pinch of salt. Heard Dax Shepard on his podcast retelling how his mother had been browsing on one of the 'celebrity net worth' site and he asked her if she'd checked him and Kristen Bell out - she said they were listed at $10m each and he was pretty incredulous about it - "you think we've got $20 million and I've not bought you a new car?!". It was all in good humour. Seems like they're not especially close to those figures. And I notice they're listed at about $32m combined now.

 

[Fluffybob]

What horrible news, so sad

 

[esoteric]

Damn that's a lot of cancer in a lot of places, the survival rate can't be good.. I would say not impossible

 

[randomshenans]

Take those net worth figures with a pinch of salt.

Yep. Same as that dude from the Vamps who was on I'm a Celeb. Read online he's apparently worth 8m or something, he was like WTF? Where's that money? Their best year apparently they made 22m as a band, but when it got down to him he got 220k before tax and that was their best year.

I love Ted. Poor man, Cancer is such a ****.

 

[dowie]

That’s sad to hear, great show, liked his character.

Sam didnt set up the gofundme, it was Tim Hobert the screenwriter for scrubs and the middle, having to fund your death and taking money away that would otherwise be used to look after your daughter for the rest of her life is obviously important..she will never know her dad.

So pretty dubious then. Please donate so a comfortably well off person can leave a larger inheritance?

Granted he might well not be worth the 8 figure sum on some celeb wealth site but he was in a hit TV show for several seasons, quite plausible he is worth a decent 7 figure sum.

 

[J.T]

Oh man, that's harsh!

 

[Efour]

Bummer but we all go at some time i guess

 

[Roland Butter]

Bummer but we all go at some time i guess

Amen to that, famous people die from the same boring stuff that the rest of us die of, not sure why this
fact has prompted a thread in GD.

 

[terley]

Amen to that, famous people die from the same boring stuff that the rest of us die of, not sure why this
fact has prompted a thread in GD.

Because a lot of people like me hold a special place in their heart for scrubs and its cast, for me they are an extended family..

 

[drunkenmaster]

Sam didnt set up the gofundme, it was Tim Hobert the screenwriter for scrubs and the middle, having to fund your death and taking money away that would otherwise be used to look after your daughter for the rest of her life is obviously important..she will never know her dad.

Yup, that was even worse to my mind, a rich guy who made a bundle on the series who knows Braff and the rest of them who are mega rich between them and instead of saying hey, we'll set up a college fund for your kids they say, lets get fans to donate towards their expense.

Rich people don't need charity and IF they need help in the future their uber freaking rich friends can deal with that without anything. Rich people already got a huge leg up, helping them out with charity is beyond absurd.

AS for having to fund your death, he's rich, he has health insurance, there will be few costs.

Poor people who don't have enough to fund their kids future colleges, a starter home, cars, etc, also have funeral costs, are far more likely to have horrendous medical costs (in the US at least) and can absolutely do with help.


I loved Ted's character and he was great back on Cougar Town in the same but not the same role. It's horrible that this happened to him, particularly as it was relatively minor symptoms but by the time he noticed them and got help it was already beyond all hope is terrible.


Two things make me incredibly angry, rich people asking for charity (this guy didn't at all, don't get me wrong on that) and rich people who ask poorer people to donate to something they can entirely fund themselves.

It's like a billionaire starting a gofundme for say 10k to help someone pay off a medical bill that is crushing a family in a bad situation.... and hoping a bunch of poorer people with little spare cash can band together to help. They somehow get the 'credit' for doing charity work, without actually paying what comparably is chump change to just get it done.

It's why I respect the hell out of Bill Gates and can't stand Bono. One gives his money to charitable causes or goes out and gets something done with his money and one begs his fans to donate but wants all the credit for it.

 

[mushtafa]

Sad news, I'm currently re-watching Scrubs. On series 3 at the moment.