GamerDad back in the hospital after surgery problems

12:45 PM on 01.22.2008   |   Brad Rice

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Andrew Bub, also known as GamerDad, has had some bad luck. First, he got hit with a heart attack, and now the guy's got some more trouble. The metal wiring holding his ribcage together has started grating against the muscles in his chest, causing internal bleeding to pool up inside of him. Needless to say, this is a major problem.

He sent out an e-mail to a bunch of us, giving us the heads up on the situation: 

I had a massive heart attack in September.

The fund raiser my wife organized back then paid the bills and then some.  But now the metal wiring that was used to hold my rib cage together is starting to.... move.  It's scraping the muscles in my chest and causing internal bleeding and that bleeding is pooling around my lungs and triggering asthma.  My lungs are clear, but it feels like I have pneumonia and its felt like that for over two weeks now.  I'm tired of it but it can't be removed safely for another month.  I'm burning through pain pills.

Anyway, this has incurred some new costs.  I'm sure the bulk, maybe all, f it will be taken care of by insurance but my family could still use some cheering up.

So, he's put a bunch of items up on eBay for people to bid on, including:

• -Two framed Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn prints signed by the development team
• -Cardboard standee showing Jade Empire art, and signed by the development team
• -Framed collector's artwork from the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG

We're trying to look out for our own here. So if you want, please bid on anything that interests you, or donate via PayPal on his site. Here's to hoping that everything goes OK with him, and that this whole heart attack episode will soon be behind him.

All of us here at Destructoid wish Andrew the best of luck with his recovery from this.