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Slade Smiley's Heartbreak: Son's Cancer Crisis Worsens As He 'Needs More Operations'
Source: fameflynet/Splash News
Jun. 30 2016, Published 3:08 p.m. ET
As former Real Housewives of Orange County stars Gretchen Rossi and fiance, Slade Smiley, continue to try for their first child together, RadarOnline.com has learned that Smiley's 16-year-old son, Grayson, has taken a turn for the worse in his cancer battle.
"Slade was at Children's hospital in L.A. last week with Gray and Gray's mom, Michelle," an insider told RadarOnline.com exclusively. "Grayson's illness is terminal and he has to undergo more operations. But he is a strong boy and will continue to fight."
Grayson – who was first diagnosed with Cancer seven years ago – has been struggling this past year to beat the illness. His mother Michelle Arroyo previously said, "It seems the older Gray gets, the more difficult the medical trauma effects his sweet soul."
As RadarOnline.com reported, Slade's father-son bond with Grayson – and older brother, Gavin – came under fire on the RHOC when Tamra Judge, 48, called him a "deadbeat dad" while he was starring on the hit Bravo show with fiancée, Gretchen Rossi, 37.
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But, according to a source, "Tamra did not know what she was talking about."
"When Slade was making a ton of money, he was paying close to $15,000 in child support a month," the insider told RadarOnline.com.
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"When the real estate market crashed he had to modify that agreement. But he was never, by any means, not there for his sons," the source claimed.
"Slade's boys are his life and they love their dad. He knows how lucky he is to have them and would do anything in the world to make sure that they are okay."
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An Inexplicable Attraction: My Fifty Years of Ocean Sailing
July 2017 • Book Review
By Eric B. Forsyth
Published by Green Ocean Race Productions 392 pages paperback $34.95
Sailing out of Weeks Yacht Yard in Patchogue, NY, Captain Eric Forsyth has logged approximately 300,000 nautical miles, many of them aboard his Westsail 42 Fiona. (An amusing story about how Forsyth's late wife Edith named this sturdy cutter can be found at yachtfiona.com.)
The 85-year-old Forsyth and Fiona have circumnavigated the globe twice, sailed around North America via the Northwest Passage and the Panama Canal, and completed voyages to the Baltic, the Arctic and Antarctic and many other places. An Inexplicable Attraction is a very entertaining compilation of these adventures.
In a half-century of cruising, Forsyth has witnessed change in many countries he's visited, with oligarchy supplanted by democracy and donkey carts replaced by automobiles and motorbikes. He maintains that such progress comes at a price, and that our planet's growing dependence on fossil fuel is unsustainable. Upon returning from a lap of the Atlantic in 2005, he proposed to the Cruising Club of America that they sponsor a transoceanic race for boats with no fossil fuel aboard and all energy supplied by sunlight or the motion of the boat. More information about the Green Ocean Race can be found at greenoceanrace.com.
Sustainable solutions are at hand, says Forsyth, the former Chair of the Accelerator Development Department at the Brookhaven National Laboratory who led the design and construction of several particle accelerators. In a recent blog post he wrote, "Every effort must be made to develop sources capable of continuous energy output, such as geothermal, hydroelectricity, tidal generation, improved nuclear reactors, fusion reactors, fuel cells, biomass cultivation and possibly, something nobody has though of yet."
A resident of Brookhaven, NY, Eric Forsyth is a recipient of the Cruising Club of America's Blue Water Medal and the Seven Seas Cruising Association's Seven Seas Award. His articles have appeared in Ocean Navigator, Ocean Voyager and Latitudes & Attitudes. An inspiring read for sailors contemplating a voyage and armchair sailors alike, An Inexplicable Attraction is available from Amazon.
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