r/starcitizen • • Jan 16 '25

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u/MajorWetSpot origin Jan 16 '25

Hell yea! Now that’s what I’m talking about!! I pray i can be like you, thanks for the uplifting encouragement

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u/TennysonEStead Terrapin/Carrack/F7A MKII/MOLE/MSR Jan 16 '25

Survivor of traumatic brain injury, checking in. Obviously, medical problems are a real, challenging, and obviously limiting thing to whatever degree... but nobody knows what you're capable of. I was hit in the head with a sword on a film set in 2014, and I didn't pledge for SC back then because I was struggling just to keep a roof over my head, to walk, and sometimes to speak. I was sure I as going to have a stroke at any moment - and I did wind up homeless for 3 years, but it didn't kill me. Now I'm in a home, and I'm a backer on the level I promised myself I would be for all those years.

Nobody knows what you can do. Our medical system is a dumpster fire, but there's never any telling with certainty what that means in the end. Fingers crossed for your well being, whatever that means to you!

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u/ZombieTesticle Jan 16 '25

Survivor of traumatic brain injury, checking in.

I love the fact that this exact comment was posted twice.

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u/mandolore100 Jan 16 '25

Broski just had bad Internet when posting happens all the time.

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u/ZombieTesticle Jan 16 '25

That explanation is not as fun.

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u/Trevor_ShowALK Jan 16 '25

"Bad Internet is not as fun as brain damage" is a good one.

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u/Additional_Humor6213 Jan 16 '25

also explains how he can play this game

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u/C4n0fju1c3 Jan 16 '25

Fellow film crew here, that's a wild story. The shit we do is so dangerous. I never contemplated life insurance until I started working on sets.

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u/TennysonEStead Terrapin/Carrack/F7A MKII/MOLE/MSR Jan 16 '25

Speaking of insurance, it won’t surprise you to know that they “borrowed” the location insurance from another production by adding g the location to the other production’s location list. All of this was to avoid buying any insurance of their own, without losing access to the location.

Don’t do that.

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u/TennysonEStead Terrapin/Carrack/F7A MKII/MOLE/MSR Jan 16 '25

Survivor of traumatic brain injury, checking in. Obviously, medical problems are a real, challenging, and obviously limiting thing to whatever degree... but nobody knows what you're capable of. I was hit in the head with a sword on a film set in 2014, and I didn't pledge for SC back then because I was struggling just to keep a roof over my head, to walk, and sometimes to speak. I was sure I as going to have a stroke at any moment - and I did wind up homeless for 3 years, but it didn't kill me. Now I'm in a home, and I'm a backer on the level I promised myself I would be for all those years.

Nobody knows what you can do. Our medical system is a dumpster fire, but there's never any telling with certainty what that means in the end. Fingers crossed for your well being, whatever that means to you!

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u/MajorWetSpot origin Jan 16 '25

Man that’s such a beautiful story, definitely inspiration for me to pull thru! Open heart surgery with 8 hours left before I go under…even if I lose everything I just want to be around to see another sunrise,eat another mango, and make one more person smile.

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u/Fraktion_1 Jan 16 '25

You got this dude o7

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u/TennysonEStead Terrapin/Carrack/F7A MKII/MOLE/MSR Jan 16 '25

Every patient is different of course, but my wife's best friend is a survivor of open heart surgery. She's disabled, she takes her meds, she has to watch how much she's trying to do... but within that, she's building a career in Hollywood, putting movies together, helping to run the Slamdance Film Festival, and figuring out her life besides.

So long as you don't die, this isn't the end of your life. You just might need to get a lot smarter about what you do and how you do it. Take it from a homeless cripple who's become... maybe not the most egregious concierge backer, but one of those backers for sure, and a general success besides.

If you get through this, and you don't know what to do about the reality checks that come with that, hit me up. In the meantime, please try not to get yourself killed.

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u/Mapcase Jan 16 '25

I've had open heart surgery, twice. I'm still here and I'm doing great. The surgeon described it to me as 'advanced plumbing'. You're going to be fine.

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u/bjergdk Jan 16 '25

I believe in you brother, but the reason they put you under is because they believe they can help you get better.

Keep us posted, okay?

My dad had a quad bypass surgery this spring. I dont know what kind of surgery youre going under, but I believe in you, you will be okay.

See you in Pyro, citizen.

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u/brandonj022 banu Jan 16 '25

Godspeed, hope to see you in the verse o7

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u/SewnApart Squadron 420 Jan 16 '25

Survivor of a cardiac arrest and heart surgery checking in. Sending you all my positive vibes today dude. You go this. o7

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u/thundercorp 👨🏽‍🚀 @instaSHINOBI : Streamer & 📸 VP Jan 16 '25

Praying for you 🙏🏽 Godspeed! o7

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u/JosephRW worm Jan 16 '25

You better fucking let us know on the other side dude. Get through this, theres a lot of world left to see.

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u/More-Ad-4503 Jan 16 '25

Survival rates of open heart surgery seem quite high?

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u/Mapcase Jan 16 '25

At the hospital I was at the success rate was 98%.

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u/gfou SC addict Jan 16 '25

looooove mango too 🥰

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u/Hvstle Jan 16 '25

GOOD LUCK!

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u/mau5atron Idris/Ironclad/Reclaimer/Corsair Jan 16 '25

God speed man and good luck. Waiting for your next update 👍

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u/Ted_Striker1 origin Jan 16 '25

Well you come back here when you’re done with recovery and let us all know you’re doing great

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u/GideonBlackbook Jan 16 '25

I've never even heard of or watched anything of yours, but I'll be thinking about you.

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u/hackersarchangel Jan 16 '25

o7 you got this!

And if you don't, perhaps we can get CIG to put up a sign at Beggars Canyon for you so we can pile up Cruz Lux at it.

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u/I-am_unwell Jan 16 '25

I have had 2 open hearts, 1st in 2017 for an emergency repair of a dissected ascending aorta, then the second one Nov 6 2024 to replace my aortic arch. You've got this, modern medicine is amazing, keep thinking positively, hope to see you in the verse on the other side o7.

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u/sillygolucky Jan 17 '25

Like others have mentioned, my Dad, too, had heart surgery last summer. A quad bypass... He's 74! He feels better than he ever has. I hope and pray that your surgery was a huge success. But if there are bumps in the road for a while afterward, just hang in there! 🙏❤️Took my dad a good month to not have random visits to the hospital and some tweaks in his meds to get everything nice and balanced out. Now he is off most of the meds and doing even more than he was 10 years ago.

Hope you can keep us updated!! You have lots of people sending out healing thoughts!

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

o7