Dead of apparent natural causes at 67. These days, that's awfully young. He left all his episodes and materials from his California's Gold and other shows to Chapman University. His site is http://www.calgold.com . I hope to be able to buy the collection of his shows, though Chapman will make them available for viewing for free.
RIP for the best promoter of the Golden State that ever was. His shoes are too big to fill.
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Huell Howser died of cancer he had battled for about 2 years. An absolutely tremendous loss to California.felinefan wrote:Dead of apparent natural causes at 67. His shoes are too big to fill.
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Thanks for the update. I remember he had one show where he visited a place that had a walk-through colon, and he told his experience in having a colonoscopy.
There's a chance I could be put in a study for IBS next time; that would include a colonoscopy. I recently purchased the book "The Woman Who Swallowed A Toothbrush" , and the author includes a couple descriptions of what happens during a colonoscopy. Back in 1974, I was hospitalized to remove an ovarian cyst (benign); during testing before surgery, they were going to do a barium enema. My sympathies to anyone who has had one. Anyway, they gave my a solution called X-Prep, which I was promised tasted like prune juice. THEY LIED!!!! It tasted only faintly of prune juice--before I started avoiding the stuff--and more like what it was to evacuate. Anyway, in the book they say they now use something called GoLytely, which is described as sweet-tasting. As long as it doesn't taste like prunes--and keep me near a toilet, I'm not saying what happened with the X-Prep--I'm game. With the number of people on both sides who have died of colon cancer, it would be a good idea. Doing it as a part of a clinical trial would be the only way to get it done with no insurance and little money.
There's a chance I could be put in a study for IBS next time; that would include a colonoscopy. I recently purchased the book "The Woman Who Swallowed A Toothbrush" , and the author includes a couple descriptions of what happens during a colonoscopy. Back in 1974, I was hospitalized to remove an ovarian cyst (benign); during testing before surgery, they were going to do a barium enema. My sympathies to anyone who has had one. Anyway, they gave my a solution called X-Prep, which I was promised tasted like prune juice. THEY LIED!!!! It tasted only faintly of prune juice--before I started avoiding the stuff--and more like what it was to evacuate. Anyway, in the book they say they now use something called GoLytely, which is described as sweet-tasting. As long as it doesn't taste like prunes--and keep me near a toilet, I'm not saying what happened with the X-Prep--I'm game. With the number of people on both sides who have died of colon cancer, it would be a good idea. Doing it as a part of a clinical trial would be the only way to get it done with no insurance and little money.
