cdoublejj wrote:

you never know i guess, for all we know he got with some bad luck and miss fortune or something.

Well, I don't blame him. I mean, things happen. I'm not rushing into conclusions or anything, but one day I had this thought: "If I get hit by a bus and turn into a pile of flesh and bones, nobody on the net will find out". Indeed, my friend gets happy birthdays on his facebook page even though he's been dead for good four years.

Not far from the truth. Spent the last year and a half in and out of hospitals. I have severe heart failure, but the doctors think I've stabilized enough to go back to a somewhat normal life. They tell me I could theoretically go another 30 years or so, or my heart could explode at any random moment. Best part is that they have absofuckinglutely zero clue what the cause is. Oh well.

For anyone who is interested in the medical stuff, they call it idiosyncratic cardiomyopathy. My EF is 12% and the electrical functions of the left ventrical are pretty much no longer existent. I've been implanted with a defibrillator/pacer combo device, and I've been on a good handful of pills both morning and night, likely for the rest of my life.

I've sent a PM to RacoonRider to try and make right with what I promised. That was actually the last request I had yet to send out when all of this really went bad.

Anyway, I'm back and I'm itching to get back into this ridiculous hobby of ours 😀

Welcome back senrew! This is all very sad to hear, I'm glad that you are okay right now and wish all the best in your future endeavors and health.

Hope you feel better! Enjoy the sun & happy computing! 😀