Just to let you know I had an email from Sauron recently - a former regular on the Wargamer, and an occasional visitor here.
He is in a very bad way with his health, and expecting to be admitted to hospital soon. He is very worried about his prognosis, as he has had gastric acid get into his lungs and intestines. He has even passed on my email to his best friend to let me know what happens, if he gets too ill to email - or worse...
I hope they can do something for him, but he is feeling very low at the moment, but I'm sure if he knew you guys were rooting for him it will improve his morale.
Boggit, thanks for the update. If you can, would you tell him that all the Grogs are rooting for him to pull through and reappear amongst us. Pass on our names and tell him that if there is anything we can do for him to please, please let us know. I will keep him in my thoughts and prayers.
Please do.
My thoughts and prayers go out to him. I'll ask my family to pray for him, too.
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 24, 2013, 08:01:17 PM
Boggit, thanks for the update. If you can, would you tell him that all the Grogs are rooting for him to pull through and reappear amongst us. Pass on our names and tell him that if there is anything we can do for him to please, please let us know. I will keep him in my thoughts and prayers.
I'll email him, but I haven't heard from him for about a week since his health really deteriorated.
He sounded pretty depressed during the last few weeks. His mum died a couple of years ago (he was very close to her), and then his brother committed suicide last year, so his poor health has brought him very low. He's also had a lot of other crap to deal with in his personal life too, so I'm not surprised he's not posted for a while.
Anyway, I'll email him now, and hopefully he'll look up the forum. Thanks for your kind words.
Wow, poor guy. I seem to recall
Sauron has had health problems prior to this as well. Yes? No?
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 24, 2013, 08:01:17 PM
Boggit, thanks for the update. If you can, would you tell him that all the Grogs are rooting for him to pull through and reappear amongst us. Pass on our names and tell him that if there is anything we can do for him to please, please let us know. I will keep him in my thoughts and prayers.
I second this in the strongest possible terms.
I'm sorry to hear this. I hope it gets better for him.
what everyone else said
Best wishes, I hope he know's he is never alone.
Sauron is a good guy, sorry to hear of his health issues. Best Wishes for a full recovery.
Man, that sucks. Best wishes go out to him.
yes best wishes from me too. he somehow disappeared from my radar. but i remember that i had him categorized with the good guys back at wargamer. iirmc he was one that talked more about our hobby than flaming around and stuff.
I can only add my best wishes and hope he makes a speedy recovery.
Yeah - good luck to the guy...I hope he pulls through.
I'm sorry to hear that Boggit. I remember Sauron, He is a good guy, and I hope he recover fully.
Sad news. Hope he gets better. Or if that is not God's will that he die in a state of grace.
Bad news for sure. :-[ Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Quote from: Boggit on July 24, 2013, 07:53:43 PM
Just to let you know I had an email from Sauron recently - a former regular on the Wargamer, and an occasional visitor here.
He is in a very bad way with his health, and expecting to be admitted to hospital soon. He is very worried about his prognosis, as he has had gastric acid get into his lungs and intestines. He has even passed on my email to his best friend to let me know what happens, if he gets too ill to email - or worse...
I hope they can do something for him, but he is feeling very low at the moment, but I'm sure if he knew you guys were rooting for him it will improve his morale.
How awful!
I share your hope that something can be done to greatly improve his health. Hang in there Sauron.
Good luck from here too and best wishes - hope everythings ok
Best wishes! i remembered his name the second i ve read it. He's a good guy, Indeed.
Here's hoping he makes out ok..
Most important is to keep his spirits up. Let him know he's got a forum full of friends who are thinking of him.
He's in my prayers. If there is something we can do, let us know. I'm sure we could get a care package together or something.
Please let him know that we are here for him. I remember him from Wargamer, too. He was always respectful and cared quite a bit about our hobby. He truly does have a forum full of friends rooting for him and praying. GET BETTER SAURON!!
Quote from: MetalDog on July 27, 2013, 09:39:17 AM
Please let him know that we are here for him. I remember him from Wargamer, too. He was always respectful and cared quite a bit about our hobby. He truly does have a forum full of friends rooting for him and praying. GET BETTER SAURON!!
+1 to this and all the other well wishes. I will keep him in my prayers.
Quote from: Martok on July 24, 2013, 08:42:12 PM
Wow, poor guy. I seem to recall Sauron has had health problems prior to this as well. Yes? No?
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 24, 2013, 08:01:17 PM
Boggit, thanks for the update. If you can, would you tell him that all the Grogs are rooting for him to pull through and reappear amongst us. Pass on our names and tell him that if there is anything we can do for him to please, please let us know. I will keep him in my thoughts and prayers.
I second this in the strongest possible terms.
+2
Hang in there Sauron!!
Boggit, is there any more word on how he is doing?
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.
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My thoughts and prayers go out to him.
+1
Quote from: LongBlade on July 26, 2013, 11:00:20 AM
Most important is to keep his spirits up. Let him know he's got a forum full of friends who are thinking of him.
I have done that. He emailed me back. He is still in a bad way, but seems to have stabilised.
Quote from: Boggit on July 31, 2013, 07:31:43 AM
Quote from: LongBlade on July 26, 2013, 11:00:20 AM
Most important is to keep his spirits up. Let him know he's got a forum full of friends who are thinking of him.
I have done that. He emailed me back. He is still in a bad way, but seems to have stabilised.
Thanks for the update.
Yes, thanks Boggit.
Just had another email from Sauron. He's still in bad shape, but is stable. He's seen the thread and it has raised his spirits. He really appreciates the support being shown.
He says in the email "i read all post and when i will feel in better shape i will post and thanks all posters who send me their best wishes, amazingly they are all from the wargamer who migrated here."
Get well soon, Sauron. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
^What he said. Hang in there. Keep your spirits up if you can- it will help you get better sooner. :)
get better or were sending Windy to discuss climate change with you.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 04, 2013, 10:38:58 AM
get better or were sending Windy to discuss climate change with you.
Good heavens. Just the mention of that could kill him! Please, for Sauron's sake - don't say that again!
Thanks for the update,
Boggit. I'm glad he's at least stabilized. Now here's hoping he starts to improve quickly and soon!
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 04, 2013, 10:38:58 AM
get better or were sending Windy to discuss climate change with you.
Eek! Get better fast,
Sauron! :P
Lesson 1
Chapter 1
What is climate?....
Oh sorry... I am indisposed to travel so I am sending my climate change TA over to teach you Sauron.
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Quote from: Boggit on August 04, 2013, 04:53:22 AM
Just had another email from Sauron. He's still in bad shape, but is stable. He's seen the thread and it has raised his spirits. He really appreciates the support being shown.
He says in the email "i read all post and when i will feel in better shape i will post and thanks all posters who send me their best wishes, amazingly they are all from the wargamer who migrated here."
Wonderful news!
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+1 :)
Wait a second? So Frodo and Sam failed? Why have I been forced to live believing this lie all these years?
Get well soon!
hello fellow wargamers!
thank you so much for your support and your kind words, it means lot to me even if we never meet in real life, i value the support of nice people. i cannot thanks personnaly all of you, since you are so many too post but i read carrefully all of them and they warmed my heart.
thanks to boggit to start this thread, i'm a bit embarassed that he tell so much about my life and the story of what happened to my brother, he was a nice guy, very kind and higly intelligent and wise but he was to weak carry on his life.its tragic he had enough courage to face death but not enough to face life. he gave nevertheless some wise advice for life and the way to see things. he was not a wargamer because he hate even simulated violence and war above all for many good reasons that i cannot tell because its too personnal and private.he loved reflection games like solve puzzles or complicate but abstract games. i guess if people like him were the majority of mankind, war would never exist and we all would play dominoes instead! but reality is alas otherwise, for my part i think that people like him musst be protected from less kind people and tragicaly thats why history will repeat itself forever i guess. we all have our burden less or more heavy depending on our life experience, for my part i would rather have less one because a "rich" or "eventfull" life means often lot of pain...boggit is a very nice guy who has is very own burden, especialy on the health level too and one time is showed me a private conversation with one of you and told how his health issue changed his look on the world and what realy matters in life, not power and wealth but true and valuable relations with friends and people and share knowledge and passions. i musst confess this year i was not very playful concerning wagames, my last pbem turn game was in april with one of my best friend but real life issues on his side and mine caused us to stop our hobby.this month i took resolution to tka vacancy of my real life problems in order to prevent what is left of my health since it get critical mid july. now i'm resting and watch movies from bed or listen to music i enjoy. and finaly three days ago i played for the first time a game i bought two week ago because the went from 39 euros to decent 20 euros, the game is called "for liberty", i played the demo years ago and i realy enjoyed it and the full game didn't disapoint me.
i saw that some games are now out like xenonauts wich demo i played also months ago was very good. another game which some of you surely awaiting like me is this one, i give the link because some of you would not believe such good news! ;)
http://www.ageofwonders.com/aow3live/
okay, here are some other links for people who will recognize themself for the subject of the games! ;)
here is a free game turn based game about blowing up zombies!
http://gamesamurai.net/1211-Tactics-Zombie.html
here is one about blowing up aliens remind very much incubation, sort of rip off but much easier!
http://gamesamurai.net/1222-Xenosquad.html
another one but this one don't expect to win the game lol!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/408816
and here for the treekies a musst have free game!
http://ststcs.slightlysilly.com/
and here a hilarious thread about a nice subject but the nerds managed to talk about phaser issues stuff instead og keeping focused on the initial very serious subject! :P
http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=74836
sorry to end this post but i remember by register now that i had only 60 minutes of logging so i prefer to end here but i promise i will show up from time to time to say hello to everyone and share our mutual hobby! ;)
best wishes to all of you, live long and prosper! :)
sauron
ps (sorry for the capital letters, i only write with my left hand, dont' worry i still have my right but its 50% disabled due to an ulnar nerf of my right elbow who is damaged, no more fps and rts game for me but that is a good thing at last! ;) )
Hello Sauron!
Glad you are feeling well enough to post here. We've been worried about you and are glad you're feeling better.
That Star Trek game looks interesting. Never heard of it. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you're back Sauron, even if only a little bit! Please don't be a stranger. Thanks for the game links, and hope you start feeling better soon.
YES! Welcome back Sauron!
+10 to what the other guys have said and have a speedy recovery!
Get better hombre.
its good to have you back 8) seeing your post really brightened my day :)
(i had some minor annoyances these days)
Hope you get better soon! and can enjoy the hobby again.
Hey Sauron! Glad you're feeling well enough to post here.
I too have been following Age of Wonders 3. It's already on my "must buy" list. 8)
Glad your feeling better!
All hope for a fast recovery, Sauron!
Hi Sauron
I'm glad to see you posting here. Even if it isn't at full strength.
And thanks for the links.
I hope you'll have a speedy recovery.
Keep up the recovery.
Sauron, I'm glad you are doing better and hope you stay on the mend. Thanks for dropping in and updating us, as well as giving us all that gaming news.
It's good to see you here, Sauron. Glad you could make it.
Keep getting better, man.
Quote from: LongBlade on August 07, 2013, 01:32:56 PM
Hello Sauron!
Glad you are feeling well enough to post here. We've been worried about you and are glad you're feeling better.
That Star Trek game looks interesting. Never heard of it. Thanks for sharing.
+1 on all counts.
Thanks for taking the time to post Sauron.
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