Hey all (Operation Trident aka Nsomnia) I've been Away...

[nsomnia]

Hello Neil & co!

I had a stroke after I got back from vacation in the last day of November 2016 and hav'nt gone on the computer, for more than a half hour every couple/few weeks, until today to let everoyne know whats happening.

All my income from my websites/tutorials/assets/tutoring & live help/advertising went down the tubes etc. and I cant work anymore at the moment (a person on one of my games Facebook pages (I got to tell them first a week or so ago and I were talking and his uncle had a stroke and took him 8 years to get back to normal. I dont know details though)

Canada does not pay for anything except core care (doctors and hospitals) you pay for rehab, drugs, medical devices etc. so I could only afford a little rehab after waiting over a month in hospital with nothing to do but sit and hurt and wonder what happened since they are so busy I was able to get to the rehab hospital, but could not afford its help anymore and DEFINITLY not the outpatient, I got quoted for memory group there (private place) and its.. well sickening and makes me glad Canada did pay the $100,000 - $200,000 for the brain surgery by the specialist and all the care and sedation etc. (and my arm almost got amputated too from pooled blood so htat needed surgery too).

So I have no issues anyone can tell by looking from the outside (unless they are waving from my blind side) which is because I fell down the stairs (Tripped rather. it happens a lot actually at my place (it used to anyway I've idiot proofed the house now) kids toys, cat **** etc.) but I fell HARD and I guess I got a bad concussion, as the first injury, and was acting weird but my girl just went back to bed and I went on the computer where I was acting like I was drunk as a skunk and high as the sky I guess and my brain developed a bleed from the fall which eventually made it worse and worse.

After it got bad enough and I tried to get up for whatever reason off the computer chair (it didnt effect my left or right side like a lot of people) and in doing so, I fell again somewhere between the computer and bedroom and ended up near the bottom of the stairs halfway between the two rooms; laying down flat.

My girlfriend got up and thought I had drunken myself to sleep (I used to drink a lot when we were first together 12 years ago) and left me after putting me in the recovery position (so you don't suffocate on your own vomit) for work and called my grandmother in town to look after me.
She came over and knew it WAS NOT right and called 911 (thats a 400 dollar charge too even in Canada) and they rushed me to the hospital and did brain surgery to releive the pressure from the continued bleeding.
Just my luck I stayed at my grandparents who are getting very old after that cause their place was close to the hospital and after that rehab but now they fast track stroke patients because so many young people are having them.

My brain shifted about 1/2 inch and in-doing-so: cut off an artery causing the "stroke" (a blockage in the blood supply to the brain causing cell death) in my visual cortex (this might be near a major memory area too I'm not sure, anyone know the brain well?) and made me fall one last time too they think, just for me to make sure I had rocked myself so hard my bushings and bearings were falling out.
I burnt down our kitchen counter with a toaster oven making food late that night at the same time for whatever reason (pizza pops it looked like) and I guess it was just mayhem when my girl actually woke up for work (our bedroom is in the basement with extra thick and sound cancelling foam since we work different shifts always until we decide to have a kid when I can take over)

So my whole business is done as far as I'm concerned (making about 40 bucks a month, not able to do more stuff at that "wage") and I deleted all my files in a haze first time trying my computer. Mostly not doing anything and not really able to with the computer, rehab or anything. Cant drive ever again.

The things that can change your life....

If people want the rights to my game I started (the cold war sub game) let me know. If anyone has the project files please contact me! (From perforce or server etc.)


Any questions?

Neil, if you need a coder/modeler/animator/texture artist/cut scene videos/etc. etc. etc. I'm well versed in a few things haha ?

I did speak to my doctor today and he might want to try a drug temporarily but it doesn't get to the root of the problem.