well being one of those people who has been questioning the lack of rumors publicly, i feel compelled to reach out. For those who do not know, R_E's family is going through a big medical situation. anyone curious in details should visit his posts in The Called clan message board.
while R_E is not the only one here on Salvation going through unfortunate situations, it should be pointed out that most of us are here because we followed him from mtgnews. while we are all sitting here tapping our feet wondering where our previews are... he's got other much more important things on his mind.
so what do we do? i know this sounds small... but i encourage anyone who's in the market for singles to shop at his website/ebay auctions. support R_E and help his family get back up on thier feet. it's time for us to show support for the guy who made out MTG experience more fun and wacky with his insight and secretive contacts. so i say let's all of us drop some cash at his site as a way to say "thanks" and "good luck." heck even overbid a couple bucks on his ebay auctions!
you're a good man R_E, you've treated us well. now let's do the same for our Rumor Mill Hero and treat him well in return!
I purchased the Foil toshi and some other cards off Rancored/Daron about two months ago, I gotta say he offers a great service: Free shipping to New Zealand, which is a real rarity internationally these days, I'll do what I can to check out his site again and pick up a few more cards...
Here's wishing you and your family all the best in this rough patch Daron! We all look forward to hearing from you soon...
I'm getting back into Magic soon (Read: two weeks from now) and I need some stuff, so I'll be dropping by his store. It's always awesome to see people help other people out like this. Reminds me of the fact that here we have a community.
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Hmm. I wish I had the spare change floating about, but I don't have one of those - you know, jobs - right now, so I am just waiting till those applications run out and I can run off to try again. Maybe in a month or two I will be getting paid for things again.
I was going to post this earlier, I just didn't know if it was my place to post about it all here Like I said in a previous post explaining his absent, I wish him the best and hope his kid is alright!
That sucks for R_E. My thoughs go out to you. But this is posted in the Rumor Mill and to bring it back to rumors?
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Yes RE is having a hard time and all of your support will be appreciated.
Maybe you should tell people to send all rumors tob you? I would say BB or you but BB is away and all so......
I say this because obviously if R_E is away then his sources probably will not send him stuff and if they do it could just sit in his Inbox unchecked. So should rumors still be to R_E?
Maybe you should tell people to send all rumors to you? I would say BB or you but BB is away and all so....I say this because obviously if R_E is away then his sources probably will not send him stuff and if they do it could just sit in his Inbox unchecked. So should rumors still be to R_E?
I'm sure Rancored would like to help us as much as he can, given his difficult circumstances, perhaps passing the torch onto another mod or member would be a good idea for this rumor season, I'm sure Rancored would be O.k with it, and if the situation is explained to our sources, i'm sure they'd be happy to let a trusted Mod/member into the loop for the sake of the community, any thoughts?
Can we approach Rancored about this, or... not?
You're in our thoughts Rancored, there's a community here that would love to hear from you dude!
I'd buy cards from ya if Paypal wasnt being a ***** (my account got canceled because my name is the same as some international criminal... )
I need a credit card >_>
Anyways, im not so up to REPLACING R_E with someone else, passing his sources sounds like "hey dude, we appreciate what you did, but get away and leave us with your info"
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Yeah, my prayers an best of the wishes for Rancored El an to his fam. I have never purchased from his site, but if i have the opportunity, i will do it ASAP.
I was really astonished for the lack of leaks (even though i didn't post bull#@*/t like other people on several threads), an i sarted to think that maybe something happened to one of the big sources. Indeed for my bad luck, is one of the persons that we as a new comunity owe him our respect and the greatness of this site.
I agree with nushio. I think we shouldn't bother R_e about his sources being passed on at ALL.
Not only would it seem trivial, but it would be insulting.
Not to mention the fact that we won't die if we wait another week for some cards.
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Wow...I had no idea r_e was going through all this. My condolences go out to him - he's always been here, supporting our little community o' desperate Magic players, looking foward to the new set.
i love to see this kind of support for other members of the community. it really puts a smile on my face and a rainbow in my heart. if i buy anything, i will definately shop with R_E.
I swear I already posted in this thread... Well, as R_E's stalker, I guess I might be able to also take the position of his understudy
I'll talk to him later tonight to see if he wants some help.
I swear I already posted in this thread... Well, as R_E's stalker, I guess I might be able to also take the position of his understudy
I'll talk to him later tonight to see if he wants some help.
We'd very much appreciate whatever you can do Alex, send Rancored all our best thoughts & prayers... Yeah!
I'm so impressed with the response from our community over this, it's amazing to see the support rolling in for one of our beloved figure heads of the rumor mill community... GOGO Rancored
If I knew how to do it, I would surely support R_E by shopping at his page. Alas, the thing would be so complicated with all these payments, shipping and postal service...
At least I say that I wish you and all your family good luck and I hope that everything is going to be O.K.
P.S. Unless being an atheist, I would pray for the lines above.
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Okay, not quite... but I'm honoured. Thanks to everyone who has showed their support. I've initially only talked about recent events in my clan (The Called) thread until this point, thinking it arrogant to post about it in the Rumor Mill and expect people to read it and not think of it as spam, or attention-seeking. But since you've all brought it up, I'll give you a bit of a rundown on my situation, and how it relates to the most important thing... rumors!!! :smile2:
Here's a post I made in my clan thread just before the surgery, last Wednesday night:
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Everett's surgery is really early in the morning (we have to leave here at 0600, and it's midnight right now). My wife's totally upset about it, and worried, and stressed. Myself, I'm just sad that my poor innocent perfect little 11 month old has to get chopped up. He's such a sweet little guy, trusting and loving, just learning how to walk... and we're gonna take him and get tubes shoved up his *****, down his throat, and slice his stomach open. :slant: That's what upsets me. I'm not worried or stressed, though - he'll be fine. Children's Hospital is specialized in this kind of thing, and he's healthy, so he'll recover fast. My wife's upstairs trying to sleep... we gotta get up at 0500 so I hope she falls asleep soon.
Anyway here's the story and plan, for those who don't know.
Story: He was diagnosed with "megaureter" before being born (by ultrasound). In his first month or so, he had a lot of tests - ultrasounds, radioactive dye injected and watched by CT scanner as it exited through the urine, bloodwork, and so on. His ureters (tubes that go from the kidneys to the bladder) are a bit wide in some spots, and a bit narrow in other spots. Also, they enter the bladder at a less-than-optimal angle. Nobody knows why, but about 1 in every 200 births has such a defect. My wife didn't smoke, drink, or even have any caffeine during pregnancy (or the months before it), and she's extremely health concious, so there's no "cause". Sometimes it just happens during development. He looks completely normal (he was a 10 pounder!) and he's very happy, smart, and healthy other than that. The first problem came at 2 weeks, when he got a bladder infection (apparently the defect makes it more likely to occur). He had to go on antibiotics, and has taken them every day since. Luckily, he's had no more infections. Infections in babies with megaureter are bad, because they can backwash up into the kidneys and do damage in there. Anyway, over the next few months they decided he needs surgery to repair it. Sometimes the problem corrects itself in the first year of life, but not often. In his case, it didn't.
Plan: He'll get intubated (breathing tube down his throat for those who don't watch ER). They'll put him asleep, and a machine will maintain his airway and breathing. He'll get a catheter (pee tube) put in. They'll make a U shaped incision low on his abdomen (below the abdominal muscles to minimize damage to the body). They'll go in, splice the ureters down lengthwise, and correct the thickness/thinness so they're even and straight. They'll snip them off the bladder, and reimplant them onto the bladder at a proper angle. He'll get a couple little plastic things in them, so they maintain the proper shape and width (after he's healed in a few weeks, those will be removed by a tiny scope that goes up his *****... ouch). They'll sew him up from the inside, and then put steri-strips over the wound to keep it closed. He'll go to recovery, slowly wake up, the breathing tube will come out, but the catheter will stay in. Apparently there'll be lots of blood in his urine for a while and that's normal. He'll be on morphine by IV, so pretty out of it and tired. I feel so bad for him... such a little guy, it'll be sad to see him confused and hurting. My wife has to stay with him 24/7 for 4 (maybe more) days. There's a cot in his room for her to sleep on, but she's going to be mighty bored and uncomfortable there after a while, I imagine. I guess they keep him on the morphine for a couple days, then switch that off for something less harsh when the pain gets less. If he recovers fast, he'll only have to stay there 4 or 5 days. I'm going to be staying at home (I live about 75 minutes away by car) so I'll be going in to the hospital every day around noon and coming home late at night. Gavin (our nearly 3 year old) is at my wife's parents place for the duration.
Just wanted people to know what's up. I've talked about it with various people on AIM and whatnot, but now everybody knows the whole scoop.
So, any tricks to falling asleep when you're stressed, you're not due to go to bed for several hours, and you have to get up in 5 hours for a long and aweful day? :yikes:
Here's an update I posted a couple days ago:
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Everett has developed some post-op complications for one reason or another. The main one is called "paralytic ileus" which is what they call a stoppage of the intestines when it doesn't start up again after 24-48 hours. Normally everything stops after a surgery in the abdomen, but gets going soon after. Everett's stomach and intestines aren't moving much, if at all. He vomits anything he takes in, so they put him on NPO (nothing by mouth). He's still got the IV, which is hydrating him. He also still has the catheter and the drain, but the drain will probably come out tonight or in the morning. Everything to do with the surgery itself is a success as far as we know - it's just the complications that are keeping things worrisome. He's also in a lot of pain from the operation itself, and he can't take oral medication so it limits how we can reduce the pain. He's miserable, crying a lot. Hard to see him this way.
My wife is exhausted (has to be here 24/7) and not getting really any sleep worth mentioning. I'm still going home at nights to take care of my online business and keep the house running. My little guy Gavin (3yo) is still at my wife's parents. He's not sure why his stay has been so long there (usually only goes overnight or for a weekend) but they say he's alright for now.
I guess it's going to be at least 2-3 more nights until we could possibly go home... but maybe a week or even more. And the longer a hospital stay is, the more likely other problems are to surface, like bedsores, UTIs from the catheter, hospital-based infections, and so on. Also, I work casual, meaning I get paid when I work and don't have sick time or anything. My online business makes me a bit of money but not enough to pay all the bills. Not to mention gas, parking, and bringing in food for us to eat is getting expensive. My family in the interior is usually great but they're not "able" (frown) to help us right now with anything, so we're basically running this on our own.
Anyway thanks for the support... keep thinking about Everett.
And yesterday:
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Quick update.
Everett is feeling a little better today (Monday) but is still quite sick. His intestines are still not functioning, he can't eat or drink, he's still in a lot of pain, and to top it off now his belly is full of fluid. They gave him some Lasix (a diuretic) to help him eliminate some of the water, but it'll take time. My wife continues to stay at the bedside 24/7 but she's almost completely braindead from lack of sleep, and stress. Hopefully he'll be discharged Wednesday, but that's a best case scenario... it could be Thursday, Friday, or even later. I don't know how much longer we can keep this up. It's really unpleasant.
Thanks for the support and everything.
And this is today's news, which I haven't posted in the clan thread, but will:
Today (Tuesday) was marginally better... definitely better than Saturday and Sunday! Everett's still in quite a bit of pain, but it's as though he's resigned himself to it and decided "I guess they're gonna torture me, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I'll just have to hope it doesn't go on forever". At 11 months, you really don't know what's going on, all you know is that you're in a strange place, with people who cut you, put things in different parts of your body, hurt you, force you to drink stuff, and hold you down against your will. And that mommy and daddy are acting strange, and not doing anything to stop it. He must really be messed up by it. It kills me. Anyone who's been through major illness with a baby that age can understand how I feel. He's old enough to be aware that things are happening, but not old enough to be told why.
He's down to just the catheter (which they might take out tomorrow) and the IV, but the IV isn't always connected now - just when he needs medication that way. For example, he got more Lasix today, and that helped him eliminate some more water from his bloodstream. The theory is that if you dry out the blood a bit, the body will pull water from other places to replace it - in Everett's case, from the water that has pooled in his stomach. Poor guy looks like he has a big round potbelly. He can't sit or stand, only lie down... and if you hold him, he makes himself stiff as a board because it's too uncomfortable to sit forward at all, and the fluid puts pressure on his little lungs and he can't breathe. Plus the incision (around the belt line or just below) is still very painful. Good news - he's breastfeeding again, and not throwing it up... so hopefully he's able to digest it and get his intestines moving along again. Then, hopefully, the extra fluid will be absorbed back into the bloodstream and removed with the help of the Lasix. I can't wait to get the catheter and IV out, and have him able to start eating solid foods again like he was a week ago. There've been several setbacks already in this whole process, so it's hard to be optimistic, but we're still trying. Praying that things continue to go well like they sort of did today. The earliest possible discharge date is now Friday - day 9. Then he'll need a lot of care here at home to continue recovery.
My wife got 5 hours sleep last night which she was happy with (the most yet). She's pretty much on empty, though, emotionally and physically. I can't imagine how families cope when they have a baby in hospital for weeks or months. Do they just eventually give in, and leave the baby alone, trusting the nurses to make all the right choices, and go home and get some rest? I can't see my wife ever doing that anyway - she'd worry so much at home that she wouldn't get a wink of sleep! We're both nurses, so we're hypervigilant with Everett's care, questioning everything and researching anything we don't know about. I'm sure the nurses are tired of us... hehe just kidding. It's good for Everett because we're triple checking everything and advocating for him every step of the way. I wonder how families who have no medical background make it through something like this.
Gavin (turns 3 in a month) is still with my wife's parents. It's too far from them to the hospital (they live an additional hour further away than I do) so we've only seen him once. He can be a brat but I'm starting to miss him quite a bit! Talked to him on the phone today and he said "daddy, grama gave me candies, I love swimming, Everett's coming home soon, byebye!"
I'm still driving in daily, spending the day helping out and trying to give her a break, and then driving home at night to pick up more stuff she needs, do laundry, take care of the house, and run my website and eBay auctions. I'm only doing the bare minimum right now, just to keep things from falling apart - which is why you'll notice there are fairly few auctions up, and my site isn't properly stocked right now. I'm able to ship orders, but that's about all I'll be able to do until we can get Everett healthy.
I was shocked when I came home tonight (about an hour ago) and checked my email - five new orders on my site! Normally I get maybe one a day.. sometimes none. On top of that, a fair number of eBay auctions ended. Then I checked the Rumor Mill, and now I know why. Thanks to everybody who made purchases!
I should talk about the rumor "season" in general. Yes, it has been a slow one. Here, in my opinion, are the main reasons for this.
1) Everything I just talked about. This has been going on for a year (since he was diagnosed just before birth) but has been acutely an issue for the past few weeks. I'm not able to spend time actively hunting down information, and this is slowing down the rumoring process.
2) Two well known (to me) sources recently let me know that they can't help me out with Saviors info. One is a large and trusted source, who is "sitting this one out". The other is a lesser but still valued anonymous source who is getting out of the game and may or may not be back to help with Ravnica. This has put a damper on information leaking, as both tended to be sources who could get some info several weeks before the prerelease of each set. Yes, there are other sources, but for the most part they haven't kicked in yet.
Additionally, and perhaps I shouldn't mention this, I really haven't enjoyed Kamigawa. I didn't like the idea of it when they revealed it a while ago, and I haven't liked most of the cards themselves. This shouldn't play a part in anything, because I feel that info needs to be shared and enjoyed no matter what... but let's just say that even if I could spend a lot of time on Saviors, I'd be slightly less motivated to stay up hunting information from contacts because the set and cards just aren't doing it for me. I'm really looking forward to Ravnica... but let's not get ahead of ourselves!
I still have been and will continue to pass on anything that hits my inboxes (or AIM messages), though. People are willing to send me email, PMs, or find me on AIM, because I still do check each one nightly (or more).
I'm confident that real information is going to come soon, and that we'll get the full spoiler before the prerelease. We've never failed before, and won't this time either. It might be a bit of a weird season, with information coming a bit later, and from different sources, but it's nice to have a change sometimes.
Thanks again to everyone who made purchases, and those who gave their support here in the thread. As I'm not able to work during this, and don't get any sick pay, my "business" income, though relatively small, is helpful. And yes, do pray, or think good thoughts, or cross your fingers, or whatever, that there won't be any more complications and that the current ones will resolve, and his pain will start going away. Thank you everybody!
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EDIT: I'll attach a few pictures.
a) a few days before, taken in our backyard
b) morning of the surgery (last thursday) in hospital gown, waiting
c) hours after the surgery, showing tubes and monitors galore
d) evening after the surgery, puffy, sore, exhausted, scared
e) a couple days ago, looking better in the face, one of the content moments
I really hope everything works out for him. I dontthink I can Imagine how terrible it must be for you to go through something like this.
But he looks like a strong kids, he'll get through it just fine I think
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while R_E is not the only one here on Salvation going through unfortunate situations, it should be pointed out that most of us are here because we followed him from mtgnews. while we are all sitting here tapping our feet wondering where our previews are... he's got other much more important things on his mind.
so what do we do? i know this sounds small... but i encourage anyone who's in the market for singles to shop at his website/ebay auctions. support R_E and help his family get back up on thier feet. it's time for us to show support for the guy who made out MTG experience more fun and wacky with his insight and secretive contacts. so i say let's all of us drop some cash at his site as a way to say "thanks" and "good luck." heck even overbid a couple bucks on his ebay auctions!
you're a good man R_E, you've treated us well. now let's do the same for our Rumor Mill Hero and treat him well in return!
(What's his website?)
The prices are decent and it's free shipping over $5.00
Thanks to Olveron for the awesome banner and Nan for the Avatar!!
I purchased the Foil toshi and some other cards off Rancored/Daron about two months ago, I gotta say he offers a great service: Free shipping to New Zealand, which is a real rarity internationally these days, I'll do what I can to check out his site again and pick up a few more cards...
Here's wishing you and your family all the best in this rough patch Daron! We all look forward to hearing from you soon...
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Stop *****ing about the lack of rumors.
With R_E on a very understandable hiatus, rumors will be dry. I'm sure we can deal. I mean, I know I can.
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Maybe you should tell people to send all rumors tob you? I would say BB or you but BB is away and all so......
I say this because obviously if R_E is away then his sources probably will not send him stuff and if they do it could just sit in his Inbox unchecked. So should rumors still be to R_E?
Also, I hope that you troubles end soon R_E, for better or for worse.
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I'm sure Rancored would like to help us as much as he can, given his difficult circumstances, perhaps passing the torch onto another mod or member would be a good idea for this rumor season, I'm sure Rancored would be O.k with it, and if the situation is explained to our sources, i'm sure they'd be happy to let a trusted Mod/member into the loop for the sake of the community, any thoughts?
Can we approach Rancored about this, or... not?
You're in our thoughts Rancored, there's a community here that would love to hear from you dude!
I need a credit card >_>
Anyways, im not so up to REPLACING R_E with someone else, passing his sources sounds like "hey dude, we appreciate what you did, but get away and leave us with your info"
I was really astonished for the lack of leaks (even though i didn't post bull#@*/t like other people on several threads), an i sarted to think that maybe something happened to one of the big sources. Indeed for my bad luck, is one of the persons that we as a new comunity owe him our respect and the greatness of this site.
So please stop complaining about the leaks.
Not only would it seem trivial, but it would be insulting.
Not to mention the fact that we won't die if we wait another week for some cards.
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I'll talk to him later tonight to see if he wants some help.
We'd very much appreciate whatever you can do Alex, send Rancored all our best thoughts & prayers... Yeah!
I'm so impressed with the response from our community over this, it's amazing to see the support rolling in for one of our beloved figure heads of the rumor mill community... GOGO Rancored
At least I say that I wish you and all your family good luck and I hope that everything is going to be O.K.
P.S. Unless being an atheist, I would pray for the lines above.
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Okay, not quite... but I'm honoured. Thanks to everyone who has showed their support. I've initially only talked about recent events in my clan (The Called) thread until this point, thinking it arrogant to post about it in the Rumor Mill and expect people to read it and not think of it as spam, or attention-seeking. But since you've all brought it up, I'll give you a bit of a rundown on my situation, and how it relates to the most important thing... rumors!!! :smile2:
Here's a post I made in my clan thread just before the surgery, last Wednesday night:
Here's an update I posted a couple days ago:
And yesterday:
And this is today's news, which I haven't posted in the clan thread, but will:
Today (Tuesday) was marginally better... definitely better than Saturday and Sunday! Everett's still in quite a bit of pain, but it's as though he's resigned himself to it and decided "I guess they're gonna torture me, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I'll just have to hope it doesn't go on forever". At 11 months, you really don't know what's going on, all you know is that you're in a strange place, with people who cut you, put things in different parts of your body, hurt you, force you to drink stuff, and hold you down against your will. And that mommy and daddy are acting strange, and not doing anything to stop it. He must really be messed up by it. It kills me. Anyone who's been through major illness with a baby that age can understand how I feel. He's old enough to be aware that things are happening, but not old enough to be told why.
He's down to just the catheter (which they might take out tomorrow) and the IV, but the IV isn't always connected now - just when he needs medication that way. For example, he got more Lasix today, and that helped him eliminate some more water from his bloodstream. The theory is that if you dry out the blood a bit, the body will pull water from other places to replace it - in Everett's case, from the water that has pooled in his stomach. Poor guy looks like he has a big round potbelly. He can't sit or stand, only lie down... and if you hold him, he makes himself stiff as a board because it's too uncomfortable to sit forward at all, and the fluid puts pressure on his little lungs and he can't breathe. Plus the incision (around the belt line or just below) is still very painful. Good news - he's breastfeeding again, and not throwing it up... so hopefully he's able to digest it and get his intestines moving along again. Then, hopefully, the extra fluid will be absorbed back into the bloodstream and removed with the help of the Lasix. I can't wait to get the catheter and IV out, and have him able to start eating solid foods again like he was a week ago. There've been several setbacks already in this whole process, so it's hard to be optimistic, but we're still trying. Praying that things continue to go well like they sort of did today. The earliest possible discharge date is now Friday - day 9. Then he'll need a lot of care here at home to continue recovery.
My wife got 5 hours sleep last night which she was happy with (the most yet). She's pretty much on empty, though, emotionally and physically. I can't imagine how families cope when they have a baby in hospital for weeks or months. Do they just eventually give in, and leave the baby alone, trusting the nurses to make all the right choices, and go home and get some rest? I can't see my wife ever doing that anyway - she'd worry so much at home that she wouldn't get a wink of sleep! We're both nurses, so we're hypervigilant with Everett's care, questioning everything and researching anything we don't know about. I'm sure the nurses are tired of us... hehe just kidding. It's good for Everett because we're triple checking everything and advocating for him every step of the way. I wonder how families who have no medical background make it through something like this.
Gavin (turns 3 in a month) is still with my wife's parents. It's too far from them to the hospital (they live an additional hour further away than I do) so we've only seen him once. He can be a brat but I'm starting to miss him quite a bit! Talked to him on the phone today and he said "daddy, grama gave me candies, I love swimming, Everett's coming home soon, byebye!"
I'm still driving in daily, spending the day helping out and trying to give her a break, and then driving home at night to pick up more stuff she needs, do laundry, take care of the house, and run my website and eBay auctions. I'm only doing the bare minimum right now, just to keep things from falling apart - which is why you'll notice there are fairly few auctions up, and my site isn't properly stocked right now. I'm able to ship orders, but that's about all I'll be able to do until we can get Everett healthy.
I was shocked when I came home tonight (about an hour ago) and checked my email - five new orders on my site! Normally I get maybe one a day.. sometimes none. On top of that, a fair number of eBay auctions ended. Then I checked the Rumor Mill, and now I know why. Thanks to everybody who made purchases!
I should talk about the rumor "season" in general. Yes, it has been a slow one. Here, in my opinion, are the main reasons for this.
1) Everything I just talked about. This has been going on for a year (since he was diagnosed just before birth) but has been acutely an issue for the past few weeks. I'm not able to spend time actively hunting down information, and this is slowing down the rumoring process.
2) Two well known (to me) sources recently let me know that they can't help me out with Saviors info. One is a large and trusted source, who is "sitting this one out". The other is a lesser but still valued anonymous source who is getting out of the game and may or may not be back to help with Ravnica. This has put a damper on information leaking, as both tended to be sources who could get some info several weeks before the prerelease of each set. Yes, there are other sources, but for the most part they haven't kicked in yet.
Additionally, and perhaps I shouldn't mention this, I really haven't enjoyed Kamigawa. I didn't like the idea of it when they revealed it a while ago, and I haven't liked most of the cards themselves. This shouldn't play a part in anything, because I feel that info needs to be shared and enjoyed no matter what... but let's just say that even if I could spend a lot of time on Saviors, I'd be slightly less motivated to stay up hunting information from contacts because the set and cards just aren't doing it for me. I'm really looking forward to Ravnica... but let's not get ahead of ourselves!
I still have been and will continue to pass on anything that hits my inboxes (or AIM messages), though. People are willing to send me email, PMs, or find me on AIM, because I still do check each one nightly (or more).
I'm confident that real information is going to come soon, and that we'll get the full spoiler before the prerelease. We've never failed before, and won't this time either. It might be a bit of a weird season, with information coming a bit later, and from different sources, but it's nice to have a change sometimes.
Thanks again to everyone who made purchases, and those who gave their support here in the thread. As I'm not able to work during this, and don't get any sick pay, my "business" income, though relatively small, is helpful. And yes, do pray, or think good thoughts, or cross your fingers, or whatever, that there won't be any more complications and that the current ones will resolve, and his pain will start going away. Thank you everybody!
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EDIT: I'll attach a few pictures.
a) a few days before, taken in our backyard
b) morning of the surgery (last thursday) in hospital gown, waiting
c) hours after the surgery, showing tubes and monitors galore
d) evening after the surgery, puffy, sore, exhausted, scared
e) a couple days ago, looking better in the face, one of the content moments
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I really hope everything works out for him. I dontthink I can Imagine how terrible it must be for you to go through something like this.
But he looks like a strong kids, he'll get through it just fine I think
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