Very Sad, But Touching Christmas Story

The_Ancient · Dec 29, 2003

Here is a Link I found from CAF, to a Paintball Site

I am posting this on behalf of my son whom you see coming to visit this great site as fruit_loops. My son is 13 years old and very sick. He wants to play paintball but his disease wouldn't allow him. His friends play paintball while he is left at home in the mercy of pain.

Ever since he registered with this great site, no day would pass without him checking what's new with paintball in Canada. He reads them, both of us actually, and finds fun in reading them. He loves clicking on the flags to change provincial locations. He boasts of being able to know what's happening in paintball in different provinces just by clicking the flags. He loves looking at your markers tirelessly in the showcase.

2 nights ago, he checked the Live Chat feature but I remember him saying nobody was online. Then suddenly "Welcome" was sounded from his speakers. It was the Support Crew. Then they started chatting. The guy from the other end asked him how he was doing and my little man answered, "I have a headache". I remember the guy asking him questions about how frequent his headache occurs, what type of pain, what his age was and whether he has seizures. My son answered them truthfully. Then, the guy asked him if he was taking medicines and if he is, what medicines were they. My son listed his medicines then suddenly the guy said ... "You must be very sick buddy. Are you on chemo?" I started to wonder, how come a computer guy can be conversant in the medical field, too. Their conversation became so interesting until the guy said: "Correct me if I'm wrong and you may not answer my question if you wish. Did your doctor tell you that your seizures is caused by meningioma?" That totally stopped my heart and my suspicion that he might be a medical professional was proven right. A computer guy knows medical diagnosis just by interviewing? I thought, only kids use this site.

The guy asked my son if he can ask permission from me to phone him. Thinking why not, I gave our number. We had a chat and he was such a nice guy. Changing topics, he asked what presents he received for Christmas. Then asked my son what he wanted that he didn't get. He replied: "xbox. My nintendo is too old". The guy casually said, you'll have it pretty soon, don't worry. My 13-year old kid replied: I will work for it when I get well.

About 1 'o clock this afternoon, a lady knocked on our door with a big gift nicely wrapped. I asked where it came from and she answered me: open the box when I leave. At the sight of the big present, my poor son whispered: "this is the biggest present I have ever received". The lady introduced herself as "Stacey". According to her, they got our address from our phone number then left while we were still at the door.

When we opened the present, it's an XBOX! I found myself lost in tears while my son was so amused. I thought it was from a relative. It came complete with everything he needs: a wireless router, a wireless xbox adapter, 2 wireless controllers, 2 headsets, a prepaid xbox Live subscription for 1 year and 10 DVD games. More tears flowed from my eyes, I will never afford to buy my son these stuff. A card was enclosed: "This must be your missing gift. I hope this takes some of your pain away. It's all wireless so you won't bother getting up just to play. A technician will come by your place and hook you up with high-speed internet and make sure that you will be playing your xbox before the day ends. Tell your mom not to worry about anything. I already created your Gamer Tag and I will play online against you soon. Be sure to beat me. Get well buddy. Be strong. I'll always remember you. Pdx.Sierra (xtremepaintballcanada.com)". He was the guy my son had a chat with and must be one of the Support Crew.

About 3 'o clock, the technician came and brought with him a high-speed modem and hooked my little man's xbox and fixed our computer. With just a phone call the technician made, we got upgraded from dial-up to broadband prepaid for one year. He played a game with him before he left. He requested to keep the identities of everyone involved.

I'm in tears. I definitely am. We will never forget your kindness, sir. Please call us back. Thank you thank you. May the Lord help you and keep you safe always.

To you all who participate in this site, thank you. You all help ease the pain and hardships my son is suffering day in and day out. Thank you. Happy holidays everyone.
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The Thread is 26 Pages long now, and is linked to below, please Respond their, I will leave the topic open for our own internal talks, but post a message there if you want to send your wishs or prayers

The Kid is appently in ICU now
I will follow the Topic and post updates here so you dont have to watch all 26 pages if you dont wish to, I read every post (that is a ALOT OF READING BTW) but here is the link

http://xtremepaintballcanada.com/vancouver...topic=1544&st=0

BlkX · Dec 29, 2003

Man, that's tough to read... amazingly touching story there.

MValley70 · Dec 29, 2003

Wow that was very touching.....remind me and I am sure some of ya'll how lucky we are to have our health......I pray that God will put his healing hand on this little guy.

Scott, SC

BlkX · Dec 29, 2003

Yea, if anyone deserves to be healed, it's definitely this guy. He seems to have a very good understanding of what he's going through, which is surprising for a 13yo, IMO at least. You can't help but admire how he's handling all the emails and response he's gotten from this post. Thinking back to when i was 13, i'm not so sure i'd handle everything as well as he has thus far.

Best of luck to him.

geolemon · Dec 29, 2003

That's really a touching story...
All you can hope to do is help someone out, after all.

Even if this ends badly, the man did what he could to help that child keep his mind off of the illness, to brighten his day...
And his family's.

The_Ancient · Dec 29, 2003

here is some good news for you

Our little man has been his usual self throughout the morning and on to the early afternoon. He is now out of the intensive care area and is playing with his xbox in an isolation room against his nurses and doctors. As soon as we are able to establish an internet connection from his room, our little man will stop by to visit you online. To those who are wondering, I haven't seen our little man yet. Both of us are situated thousands of miles apart. Due to time differences, do note that updates I post are generally delayed.

As fruit_loops continue to shine like how the sun is shining now, I wouldn't like to think of elation given that a situation like this is very tricky. Let me however personally take a space to say our collective gratitude to our medical team for I remember, given the stress we've all been throughout last night, I failed to say thank you to anyone among you. My bad.

Join me to thank our medical team for their persistence in the treatment of our little man on behalf of all who now comprise a redefined xtremepaintballcanada.com. (It seems that paintball activities prematurely stopped in a paintball site as every concerned member paves way to this global upsurge for the cause of fruit_loops.) Our medical team is comprised of various experts from medical universities --- my former professors and their friends, classmates and their friends, school friends and their friends from different component areas within the medical and allied medical practice. We have to thank my colleagues from the Hampton Roads, the Raleigh-Durham, DC, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver and Toronto areas for travelling vast distances and crossing borders on their own time and money for the cause of our little man. Because of you, it sounded like our little man is lucky. I only needed a phone call and without hesitation, a heavy team of medical experts quickly organized themselves despite the call of celebrations for the Christmas Holidays. Thank you for forgetting yourselves temporarily.

May God continue to give you all wisdom, strength and perseverance. We all know that this is a difficult case to manage but by putting all brains together to function as one, we may be able to help our little man obtain a renewed ticket to life. The world is watching!

And to all of you who continue to come to xtremepaintballcanada.com, thank you so much. Please continue to spread our petition for prayers for our little, fruit_loops.
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delvryboy · Dec 29, 2003

Originally posted by Michael@Dec 29 2003, 01:06 PM
here is some good news for you

Our little man has been his usual self throughout the morning and on to the early afternoon. He is now out of the intensive care area and is playing with his xbox in an isolation room against his nurses and doctors. As soon as we are able to establish an internet connection from his room, our little man will stop by to visit you online. To those who are wondering, I haven't seen our little man yet. Both of us are situated thousands of miles apart. Due to time differences, do note that updates I post are generally delayed.

As fruit_loops continue to shine like how the sun is shining now, I wouldn't like to think of elation given that a situation like this is very tricky. Let me however personally take a space to say our collective gratitude to our medical team for I remember, given the stress we've all been throughout last night, I failed to say thank you to anyone among you. My bad.

Join me to thank our medical team for their persistence in the treatment of our little man on behalf of all who now comprise a redefined xtremepaintballcanada.com. (It seems that paintball activities prematurely stopped in a paintball site as every concerned member paves way to this global upsurge for the cause of fruit_loops.) Our medical team is comprised of various experts from medical universities --- my former professors and their friends, classmates and their friends, school friends and their friends from different component areas within the medical and allied medical practice. We have to thank my colleagues from the Hampton Roads, the Raleigh-Durham, DC, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver and Toronto areas for travelling vast distances and crossing borders on their own time and money for the cause of our little man. Because of you, it sounded like our little man is lucky. I only needed a phone call and without hesitation, a heavy team of medical experts quickly organized themselves despite the call of celebrations for the Christmas Holidays. Thank you for forgetting yourselves temporarily.

May God continue to give you all wisdom, strength and perseverance. We all know that this is a difficult case to manage but by putting all brains together to function as one, we may be able to help our little man obtain a renewed ticket to life. The world is watching!

And to all of you who continue to come to xtremepaintballcanada.com, thank you so much. Please continue to spread our petition for prayers for our little, fruit_loops.
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having kept up with the thread....when did he end up in the hospital in a coma?

MValley70 · Dec 29, 2003

hey yall. I feel so importent. I am usin a computer with a gient screen on the wall and guys I read all your posts. wow I thank you all. I am in a room with 3 lady doctors and a guy doctor and we are all readin your msgs. they tell me lots of funny stories. momma has colds and my doctor says she cant come in my room yet. I just wave my hands. I dont kno what hapend but I must been sick. im alryt I guess but mommas eyes look like was cryin. I have 8 thousend emails and more comin awww how can I read em all. I talked to my freind sierra on the video screen and I seen how he looks like. I looked him straight and I cant say a word. my momma was just lookin at the screen and she started cryin again. I feel like cryin but I dont have tears anymore. I gotta drink more fruit juice I guess. guys you make me tough guy. please god let me live. I am ashamed to die because I have lots of freinds. sierra is not the same color as my skin. I asked him if he is canadien or american and he said neither but said I shouldnt care. I don't believe him but the doctors said his not. what a nice fella who helped me altho we're diffrent. he asked me what I wanted and I said I jus wanna hug him. he said he will fly to visit me as long as I keep up the fight. I asked him wat if I lose the fight and he said he will make me pay for everythin and no exepshun. I asked him where he gets his money to pay for everythin and he said he doesnt have the money but he has lotsof freinds. I said I shouldof nown him earlier so all of you guys should not have been bothered and he said nobody has control. he asked me what I would ask if I meet god. I will ask him why did he give me cancer. I asked if god was true and he said it depends on me. I dont know if I am mad at god for makin me sick but I hope he hears my prayers. it was a quick chat and before he went away I asked him his name and he said sierra thats how he wants me to kno him. he said I shouldof think of the ppl from the world who goes to my fave website to wish me get well not him. I told him to keep me as his friend and he said he will forever. he was so cool. he makes me think. nobody else calls him sierra exep for me and my momma and stacey and the techs. everybody else calls him sir. at one time I called him sir sierra and he said he didn't appreciate it so I called him mister sierra and he laughed. he speaks very good english. okay guys I will read your msgs and I will msg you again if I think of sumthin kinda like a story to tell ya. later.
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Well he posted....always a good sign....seems in good spirts too

Scott, SC

delvryboy · Dec 30, 2003

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