Oh Please Santa

[mrmertz]

Let there be a December seasonal blowout sale coming up! Fighting cancer and in and out of hospital so missed the November one. Would have bought every single module then. Looks like they try to run about a special out of the E-shop every month or so anyways so fingers crossed. Doubt it will be another 70% one though.

 

Just chit-chat.

[fixen]

I suspect there will be another christmas sale. I got all modules on the last sale :)

 

Hope you are doing well.

[Arcto10]

Sorry to hear that mrmertz, hope you pull through!

 

+1 for December blowout sale!!

[9JG54_Stray]

I got $50 in my paypal waiting for this event.

 

Checking DCS news every day.

[Chief1942]

mrmertz,

I lost my wife of 47 years to cancer after a 6 year battle. I know the circumstance you are facing. You tell me which modules you want for Christmas and I will personally purchase them for you. And Merry Christmas!

[cichlidfan]

mrmertz,

I lost my wife of 47 years to cancer after a 6 year battle. I know the circumstance you are facing. You tell me which modules you want for Christmas and I will personally purchase them for you. And Merry Christmas!

 

:thumbup:

[javelina1]

mrmertz,

I lost my wife of 47 years to cancer after a 6 year battle. I know the circumstance you are facing. You tell me which modules you want for Christmas and I will personally purchase them for you. And Merry Christmas!

 

mrmertz, I hope and pray all is well.

 

Chief, you are the man. Good Karma your way M8! :thumbup:

[Gladman]

Chief you are a stand up dude.

Mrmertz, my best wishes to you.

 

Dale

[mrmertz]

Wow...I'm overwhelmed to say the least. Seriously. You know, after this posting I felt it rather inappropriate I mentioned my current position with the cancer and besides began feeling like a "cheap ass" at the same time. But it was already posted so that was that. I think my goal was more to just say I've had really but one priority on my mind since this past July when this all started that I have been definitely way "outside the loop" on what my normal life would have been and flight sims were (and just getting back into it) still are a huge interest to me. The closest I'll ever get to the real thing.

 

For anyone interested, I'm thankfully on the new chemo drug just recently approved along with my capsules of Revlimid which were also just recently approved. I'm using my new rig I just built figuring I'm going to beat this thing and along with some other sims am trying to keep some sort of training for my hands/eye/neurological aspects of my hands in particular since one slight side effect from all these drugs is having your hands shaking....some days worse than others. So doing the best I can with what little steadiness I have left right now. They say it's only temporary and once chemo (praying) is done, the effects will wear off over the course of several months.

 

53 years old and one day lifted an umbrella in the backyard when a microburst hit. Figured I strained my back, no biggie. Hurt like hell. At that point after several weeks of non-stop pain I admitted myself to be checked. Took an x-Ray and saw what looked like arthritis. Later got a phone call the next morning "you have cancer lesions on your L-2 spine". Later that night the wife rushed me into the ER...I was then told I had acute kidney failure of both kidneys. The constancy severe back pain and the kidney failure are both direct results of the cancer itself. The flood of oversized protiens shut down my kidneys. Miraculously, within 48 hours of being admitted without dialysis - they began functioning on their own. They still don't understand that part! My kidneys on their own have one regained full normal operation and my protien levels achieved the same results after 5 days of massive transfusions in the hospital. The cancer I have is isolated bone marrow cancer, otherwise known as Mutiple Myeloma.

 

So, back to the post. Sorry to ramble, but it just shows how after never being even admitted to a hospital for 41 years and as my record states " shows an unremarkable medical past" how fragile life really is. It can hit anybody, any age, any time.

 

I guess all I want to say is a very big "thank you" for the support on my post, particularly Chief1942 for his honesty and support and my condolences to you sir. I really was kind of expecting the opposite thinking people would look at me and the cancer as a crutch to be a cheap old buzzard in gaining something for nothing. But no, lesson here (if any I guess) is enjoy your simming, your time with friends and family, the simple pleasure in life because as Chief and others know life can truly turn on a dime at any moment and that's SO easy to loose track of.

 

I appreciate the offer for modules, I truly do, but I'll make do with a CC I have standing by just in case then transfer that over to a one year no interest rate. Tee-hee.

 

My oncologist still says I'm responding very well to treatment, as tough a road as it is, just take it day by day and am noticing vast improvement the last 60 days. Perhaps someday I'll be able to get my hands from shaking too much and really enjoy things like this as I used to but if not, eh, I'll still enjoy it the best I can!

 

Keep on flying, thanks for the positive input and thank you for the offer Chief. Not many people nowadays would reach out like that - particularly to a complete stranger. Looks more like we are all one family here though. I'm in it to win it and see you maybe multiplayer someday even!

 

Most Sincerely and SORRY FOR THE RAMBLING,

Jeff aka mrmertz

[Chief1942]

Jeff,

 

You are correct in so many of the things you said. Yes, the flight sim community is a "family". There really are not that many of us when compared to the other genres. We do need to assist and contribute to one another in any ways that we can.

Do know that now that your struggle is out there, there are those that will keep you in their thoughts and prayers. You already know that each day is a gift and the longer you keep up the good fight, the chance that the next day will find some new drug or treatment regimen that could lick this thing for good, is a possibility. My offer is still there and it would be my privilege to assist you in keeping your hands into something you enjoy and that rewards you in other ways as well. At 72 I appreciate the mental challenges that flight simming forces upon me and it helps me exercise my gray matter.

 

Any way, you hang in there and I pray you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy the New Year and many to follow.

[Chief1942]

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/

 

There you go MrMertz, Santa has come through for you. Merry Christmas!

[Steel Jaw]

Yeah good prices, too bad no beta Hornets. :cry:

[golfsierra2]

Hi mrmertz,

Merry Christmas to you. My wife is fighting skin cancer since 2010 (now metastases in her liver) and I fought my battle with a Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma last year (and won so far, fingers crossed).

 

I'm no religious man, but I wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas Eve. I'm sure, 2015 will bring back some more happy moments to you.

 

You truly deserve it.

[Blade_meister]

mrmertz, PMed you Sir.

 

 

 

S!Blade<><

[Extranajero]

For all of you touched by cancer directly or by the cancer of a relative I would like to share something.

 

My mother in law was diagnosed with an inoperable liver cancer two years ago.

She chose to take chemo to extend her life a little longer and it turned out that the chemo shrank the cancer enough to make it operable.

Her surgery was quite extensive, but today she is alive, and very well.

 

Sometimes there is hope when it seems like there isn't any hope.

 

Good luck, a Happy Christmas ( or whatever you celebrate ) and my very best wishes for you all in 2015

[skinnadoor]

I hope that soon.. within my lifetime we can control or eradicate Cancer. There are people working hard to see this happen.

 

Donate to the Cancer foundations in your respective countries.