GamerDad Health Update + eBay Fund-Raiser
Hello,
Here’s the gist. I’m 37 years old. I run GamerDad.com and I’ve been in the videogame business as a pundit for over 10 years. I had a massive heart attack in September.
The fund raiser my wife organized back then paid the bills and then some. But now the metal wiring that was used to hold my rib cage together is starting too…. move. It’s scraping the muscles in my chest and causing internal bleeding and that bleeding is pooling around my lungs and triggering asthma. My lungs are clear, but it feels like I have pneumonia and its felt like that for over two weeks now. I’m tired of it but it can’t be removed safely for another month. I’m burning through pain pills.
Anyway, this has incurred some new costs. I’m sure the bulk, maybe all, of it will be taken care of by insurance but my family could still use some cheering up. That’s why I combed through some of the cool swag I’ve got, among other stuff, and decided to do this simple fund raiser:
So I went through the closets and storage and compiled a list of items to auction. The auction ends in 3 days or so, so time is a factor too.
3 Decks of cards: Grand Theft Auto 3 (opened but complete), Psychonauts (sealed), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (sealed)
A bunch of game related T-shirts:
2 Framed Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn prints signed by the development team. 42/1000
1 cardboard standee showing Jade Empire art, and signed by the dev team 42/1000
1 Framed collector’s artwork from the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG showing the pirate “Jolly Roger.” 497/1000 collector’s item.
a bunch of leather jackets, mens and womens.
1 Sony DSC-F717 Digital Camera with accessories
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZadenison
All proceeds will be used for bills with the remainder going toward – showing my family a good time. It’s been pretty stressful here lately. As you can well imagine.
If you’re a PR rep and you’re angry I’m selling this stuff – I apologize. I need the money and want these items to leave my dusty storage closet and for them to go to real gamers.
Please spread the word if you’ve a mind to. Thanks,
PayPal Donations are still accepted: LDenison@wi.rr.com
Yours
-Andrew S. Bub
GamerDad & Family
January 21st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I will see what I can bid on and hopefully score 😉
Best wishes to you and your family, I hope things get better for you all as soon as possible!!!
January 21st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Sorry to hear the internal stuff didn’t hold up as well as it should have… will be keeping you in mind…
January 21st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
So didn’t you tell us about this earlier because you knew we’d be concerned?! Because we are!
Hope things work out soon, man.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 am
Well there was a post about it a couple weeks back when I thought it was just an effusion Simon. A post called “I’m Okay!”.
The problem is the structure of my chest. Very broad with the sternum forward. The other problem is that these surgeons don’t have a lot of experience with a 36 year old having this surgery. The 3rd problem is that I’m me and things like this always happen to me.
Hey guys, remember when I had what I thought were Ulcers and then later thought were Panic Attacks? Those were small heart attacks. I’m actually really lucky to be alive!