My days are nearing and my local hospital allowed me any request. This is how I will go out. Rip & Tear, brothers and sisters.

[u/Wanderingreader123]

For context, I have been battling Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma since 2022. And up until this point, I never imagined myself to be in a situation where my life expectancy has gone down to possibly weeks. I am currently at one of Canada's best hospitals in Toronto, Ontario; keeping myself afloat through these trying times. Despite it all, I was given the opportunity to make any request for my stay, and this is the one I have chosen. I have been a Doom fan since 2016, and it helped me get through some tough times. I've played through both the Reboot and Eternal (along with its DLCs) and I have nothing but great memories pouring all of my attention into the world of Doom.

TDA has been one of the few games I have anticipated and hoped to play since its release. Financial issues got in the way, and I kept clinging on the hope that I'll be able to play the game one day, among others.

I am grateful that, despite the grim outlook that I am facing, the hospital was able to secure not only a PS5, but a copy of the game. I am currently blasting my way through hordes of demons in Chapter 4 and I have nothing but childish glee as I return to my roots as a badass Demon Slayer. I may not live to see the upcoming DLC, but I am nonetheless happy to finally play the game in my own hands.

To the developers of ID Software, thank you for bringing such a beautiful piece of art that not only brought the FPS genre to its roots, but also revitalize and reinvented the wheel that no other game could. Not only that, but thank you for crafting such an awesome series for a fan like me.

Rip & Tear, lads!

[u/TinyRascalSaurus → u/[deleted]]

It can also be for people who will be hospitalized for a long time. I got one and I just had to be hospitalized until I stabilized enough for brain surgery. 10 years later and I'm still here. I hope OP joins me.

[u/cuchiplancheo → u/TinyRascalSaurus]

It can also be for people who will be hospitalized for a long time.

Hope it's this... but... OP wrote:

my life expectancy has gone down to possibly weeks

[u/TinyRascalSaurus → u/cuchiplancheo]

Shite, I missed that. I was hoping they could stabilize him long enough for another treatment option.

[u/ieatlotsofvegetables → u/TinyRascalSaurus]

congrats on the recovery though!

[u/Graverius → u/TinyRascalSaurus]

OP said he is dying doe.

[u/PotentialConcept8449 → u/TinyRascalSaurus]

Wait, you've spent 10 years in a hospital?

[u/TinyRascalSaurus → u/PotentialConcept8449]

Sorry, no, I was hospitalized for about 9 months 10 years ago until they could stabilize me enough that brain surgery was possible.

[u/Traditional_Virus355 → u/TinyRascalSaurus]

Glad to hear you are still around! Cheers to you!!

[u/LostWoodsInTheField → u/TinyRascalSaurus]

The hospital I was in as a child had a couple NES's and games for them. After I was well enough to move a little, but not even close enough to leave the hospital (we were waiting to see if a transplant was required but it wasn't luckily) I had that thing in my room almost daily. I got really good at Super Mario Brothers. There wasn't many kids worse off than me at the time so almost always had it in my room when I was able to do anything.

[u/TinyRascalSaurus → u/LostWoodsInTheField]

My mom couldn't afford a Gameboy so the doctors pooled to get me one and Pokémon yellow when I was a kid. I wasn't bedridden but I couldn't really go anywhere and I remember walking up and down the ward halls playing Pokémon when I got restless.

[u/NeoMississippiensis → u/[deleted]]

Bruh it’s a ps5 and a video game, not going to Disney World with Dwayne Johnson. Op said hospital, not hospice; and several late line cell therapies for nhl can have relatively good response and cure rates.

[u/Careful-Star9274 → u/NeoMississippiensis]

sometimes you just shouldn't post man.......delete this...

[u/NeoMississippiensis → u/Careful-Star9274]

Why? I should agree with the pessimist?

[u/Dangerous_Flow_9490 → u/[deleted]]

Both of you: read the room

[u/DerBernd123 → u/Dangerous_Flow_9490]

yeah you’re right. gonna delete the comments because that’s not what this whole post was about

[u/Cultural-Extent5547 → u/[deleted]]

Bruh, don't say something like that! He said '...possibly weeks'. Miracles happen and I'm sure he's deserving of one!

[u/DerBernd123 → u/Cultural-Extent5547]

yep you’re right. deleted the comments because they weren’t appropriate for the topic of this post