In other hospital news....

[thewayne]

...an old friend just got out. He’s been having problems with rectal bleeding for several weeks now, WHY HE HASN’T FRICKIN’ GONE TO THE HOSPITAL SOONER I DON’T KNOW! Anyway, it got really bad early last week and he finally went in, it’s been found that he has colon cancer. They’re going to start working on him in about 10 days, I really hope things work out well. They haven’t removed the tumor yet, much less started radiation or chemo. I don’t think they’ve biopsied yet to determine whether or not it’s malignant. One problem standing in the way is that Jim is a bariatric case, and that makes everything dealing with surgery, recovery, and extended treatment more difficult. Fortunately he’s, for want of a better term, low-level bariatric, he doesn’t require special transportation to get to treatment and such. Also fortunately, he’s sufficiently American Indian that he can get treated at the Indian Hospital either inexpensively or free as he has zero health insurance.

Jim is one of those “friend for more than 20 years/Ex-Buffalo” guys. He’s a good GM, I’ve played Champions, Star Wars, Dead Lands, D&D, 7th Sea; Mercenaries, Spies, and Private Eyes; Call of Cthulhu, a home-brew or two, I think Runequest, probably Tunnels & Trolls, seems like either Espionage or Danger International, Fantasy Hero, and probably many more RPG systems that I can’t think of off-hand. Overall, he’s definitely a superior GM and I’ve had countless fun evenings at his place rolling dice and acting through my teeth, after all, playing a role-playing game is acting: you’re playing a role.

There’s no doubt that I’ve played in more sessions run by Jim than any other Phoenix GM. You’d probably have to total up all the missions that I’ve played under all the other GMs that I’ve played under and I think Jim would still come out on top. Some sessions are less than great, some campaigns have been less than great, but he’s produced some good stuff over the years. Though I have great memories of incidents in other campaigns, I still have the most stories from Jim’s.

So here’s to hoping Jim has a quick and full recovery.

Comments

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I can understand (at least to an extent) not wanting to go to the doc for that. After all, I doubt I'd be all that comfortable telling someone that my ass is leaking...

In all seriousness, though, I hope he comes out OK with it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It's a tough thing to admit, granted, but if it lasts for more than a day and it's bright red arterial blood, it's a bad problem. It should become a "take your pride and shove it" and see the doctor. It's guaranteed they've seen worse and they're the ones trained to help you.

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

I agree with you completely. I just also acknowledge that it can be hard to be that rational having something that disturbing happen. Having held off on admittedly less serious stuff, I know I'd struggle in that kind of situation, despite knowing intellectually how important it'd be.