Dear geekhack,
Well... it has officially been a year since my niece was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma. I heard from several doctors that she has between a 10 and 25% chance of even making it through surgery a few months in. Long story short, she has crushed all expectations by 8 months now!
I disappeared from this site for a few months to focus on her, but I came back with a new outlook on life and decided to give away all my keyboard stuff. Next thing I knew, I had TONS of people wanting to support by becoming very friendly with me and/or fundraising, donating, etc. I did not expect such an outpouring of love from strangers.
There are WAY too many of you to thank, so I'm not going to start rattling off names. You know who you are. ****... some of you I don't even know who you are because you donated anonymously.
I really want to thank this community for just being straight-up friendly and caring. I feel I have made lifelong friends here, and I attribute Destiny's survival in large part due to GH. Y'all have mentally kept me on point. You saved Mom-Mom's car. You saved my car. You funded food, hotels, gas, utility bills... just to name a portion of it all. The life of Mom-Mom, Pop-Pop, Wyfe, myself, Des's bro and sis have all been basically put on hold for year. It is a year I have learned so much from, moreso than any other time in my life, about just how amazing a 7 year old with damn near terminal cancer, two elderly grandparents who took abused children in, my amazing wyfe, and some nerdy kb geeks can be.
Quick update is that Des, on her exact 1 year anniversary of diagnosis, spiked a 104.5 fever WITH motrin. She had a bad case of rhinovirus plus tested graham positive for staff infection in her extremeties. We rushed up in the middle of the night expecting the worst. She told the doctors she "was done". By the time we got up there she was down to 102 and smiled when she saw me. You all allowed me to get up there and make her smile. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much of living through something like this is mental... for ALL of us.
To get back in the spirit of the original giveaway, I'm offering up this slirple pirple 420 MX clickclack. Within the next week, just post up your best sketch, mspaint, handwritten letter or similar to Destiny. We will NOT be picking favorites. It will be a random draw, but I will not accept entries that I know took 1 minute. You also must have at least 50 post count AND/OR have been a member for 3 months. Last time we did this a bunch of people disappeared after winning.
Sifo has just donated the following to another winner:Full lightly used bro set
Matching mimic cable
Some binge and ctrl alt stickers
Ctrl alt business card by punksdead
And I want to give a big thank you to BunnyLake and riotonthebay for making the giveaway possible through their generosity.
If you would like more detailed info, updates, pics of Des, etc we do have a private subforum (for security reasons). Please PM me for access.
THANK YOU, GEEKHACK!!!!! <3
PS - Sorry if this is a bit disjointed and not as eloquent as it should be. Went to a buddy's bday party at Midieval Times last night and the wenches brought me a bit too much ale.
Winners are JOEY AND JOKRIK!