EdBecerra of SB.com Creative Forum posts an Open Letter regarding his fanfics

kclcmdr

kclcmdr

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Hello, folks of TS.com

I receive an okay to post this here from SB.com until told otherwise.

To some of the members that use to or are still members of the Creative Forum at Spacebattles.com...

One of our author, EdBecerra, a fellow olde member, has posted a thread Linked below
--> https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/an-open-letter-to-spacebattles-regarding-my-fanfics.1082814/

Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond my control, I will not be able to complete most of my fics.

All of my works are dedicated to the Public Domain, in the hopes that SpaceBattles members will make use of them.
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To those fellow authors & members that recall EdB and the event that his health does turn '' poorly ''
and you have cordial & good memories of the times at SB.com and EdB...
Perhaps a post like Skeet, another author of SB.com, have responded & paid their respects ...

Good day.
 
kclcmdr

kclcmdr

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EdB has further stated his medical condition below
--> Open Letter #2
--> https://forums.spacebattles.com/thr...rding-my-fanfics.1082814/page-2#post-91460592

I've been discussing this with a few mods and at least one admin, so here's what's happening, why, and what I intend to do about it.

Last December, I was diagnosed with a lesion in the right hemisphere of my brain. There really isn't anything much they can do about it aside from treating the symptoms. Those symptoms will include increasingly frequent and increasingly severe seizures, as well as "cognitive decline", which are merely some medical weasel-words for "You're going to succumb to senile dementia."

This will grow worse as time goes by. The time frame is uncertain, to say the least, but it's pretty much a given that I'll end up institutionalized in a few years. *sigh* I won't even get a clean death.

I'd always enjoyed reading Flowers for Algernon. I never thought I'd be starring in a remake as the main character.

So, Crazy Unka Ed is going to gradually get even crazier. This isn't an excuse, this is me asking you to watch out for me, report me promptly to the moderators and admins if I seem to be getting crazier than usual so that they can take early action, and so on.

Ah, a question from the back row. If I'm going to lose it and lose it so badly, why don't I just quit SpaceBattles while I'm still sane enough to know what I'm doing and thereby avoid annoying anyone?

Answer: SB is pretty much the only family I have left. I haven't spoken with any relatives in some thirteen years now, and don't even know how to get in touch with them. If I lose SB, I've lost everyone I still care to talk to. I realize that this is me being terribly selfish. But I honestly don't know what else to do.

Someone else asked, in honest intent, why I just don't end things while I'm still sane enough to have the choice. Answer: When my beloved Aili was herself dying of synovial cell sarcoma, she asked me for a promise, but wouldn't tell me what that promise would entail. Like any other idiot totally besotted with his love, I made it. Then she told me she wouldn't allow me to take any shortcuts. She wanted me to wait patiently, for whatever end the world had in store for me. And that in return, she'd be waiting for me, on the other side.

That's a promise I won't break.
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Blasterbot

Blasterbot

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Answer: SB is pretty much the only family I have left. I haven't spoken with any relatives in some thirteen years now, and don't even know how to get in touch with them. If I lose SB, I've lost everyone I still care to talk to. I realize that this is me being terribly selfish. But I honestly don't know what else to do.

jesus that is sad. he has cut out everyone in his life to the point that SB is his only friends.
 
Simonbob

Simonbob

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It's a pity.

Ed's an old school kinda guy. I always liked his sense of humor, and he was always willing to relax things with a joke. A good guy for a chat, when we were in the same thread.

His health hasn't been good for a while, though. And, well, most of those he loved, they've been gone a long time.



Hope he gets a clean death, at this point. I've seen the other path, and it's pretty bad.
 
Yinko

Yinko

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It's always weird to me when people die on these sites. I remember there was an author that had a heart attack while mowing his lawn, and his wife had to post updates on all of his smut stories, awkward. It's times like that when you makes you realize just how old you are and how long you've been on sites like this. What's worse is, unless someone is a serious writer who feels a sense of responsibility to his base, you'd never hear about it, they would just disappear and everyone would forget about them after a while.
 
kclcmdr

kclcmdr

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Hello, again, folks of TS.com

EdBecerra has posted his latest update of his health SitRep at SB.com
Open letter #3. Possible good news. Maybe.
--> https://forums.spacebattles.com/thr...rding-my-fanfics.1082814/page-6#post-95053148

The gist of it is..
Thursday, August 31, I was revisited by my neurologist. He informed me that I am a candidate for surgery, and that the hospital in Denver was trying to get in contact with me.

IF they can, and if I can, and IF Medicare/Medicaid is willing to foot the bill for a full recovery period (I have no family, no neighbors, et cetera, so I would have to remain in a hospital until fully able to care for myself once again) they would go in with remote tools and clip certain leaking arteries and attempt to seal the lesion in my right hemisphere.

If they succeed, the slow slide to dementia won't come to a halt, but it should be slowed considerably.

If they fail, odds are I'll be a vegetable on the operating table....
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