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by **froggydogg69** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:32 pm

Hey everyone! Thought I'd share a heartwarming tale with all of you. It certainly brightened my day/week/month.

Last Tuesday I had to bring my mother to the hospital because she couldn't breathe. The whole ordeal terrified the hell out of me, but wasn't entirely unexpected. She was diagnosed with emphysema after smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for over 30 years. I knew it would happen one day, but wasn't as prepared for it as I thought.

I had to quit smoking myself, so she would have some support, and that's rough enough, but I've also been pretty poor lately between buying gas to go visit her everyday and trying to help out with the cost of her meds and oxygen, which she's now on constantly. So there's been no TF hunting for me lately. A couple of my good friends got together and have been helping me through it. I brought her home from the hospital yesterday and these friends were waiting for me with a very nice, and thoughtful gift. Waiting for me was a copy of the Transformers videogame and two new TFs, Longarm and Dropkick.

I never thought a couple action figures could bring a tear to my eye. Another cool thing is that I probably never would have bought these two, as I was trying to only get characters who were actually in the movie. Dropkick is pretty darn cool though, so is Longarm but he's a bit cartoony IMO. Still thought it was a great surprise and thought I'd share it with you guys. The game seems pretty cool too.

by **Obsidian_Prime** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:49 pm

Friends like that are very rare. You are very fortunate. Anyway, how is your mother? Is she doing better?

by **toxicity** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:58 pm

best wishes to you and your mother

News Credits: 6 · by **bran10** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:01 pm

Those are really nive friends, and best wishes!

by **Bumblebee-otch** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:03 pm

that is truly a great story. best of wishes for both you and your mother.

by **Sportimus Prime** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:15 pm

That's some pretty damn good friends you have! Best wishes to you and your mom.

by **AntBot** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:18 pm

Best of luck to you and your mom, and enjoy the new TFs

News Credits: 4 · by **tom brokaw** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:30 pm

aww, thats pretty awesome. i hope all goes well and i'll pray for you and your family. god bless.

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumbled** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:20 am

Wow you have some great friends

I hope your mum gets better dude, smoking does cause a lot of problems.

Yours - Bumbled.

by **mechajol** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:24 am

you have good friends!

my friends can't be bothered to get me a burger, and i'm even the one paying! serves me right for hanging around with decepticons... :lol:

by **bobpiecheese** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:32 am

Now those kind of friends are good friends. Friends who tolerate your obsession, and are willing to help you with it.

That happened at my birthday this year. All the girls got together and bought me one. They even checked with me which one I wanted. That was nice of them (they got me Cyb Deluxe Prime Munky Type BTW)

Best wishes to your mother.

News Credits: 4 · by **the purifyer** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:40 am

Aw that's really nice.
You're lucky to have friends like that.
My friends suck.

Best wishes for you and my mother.

by **Susinko** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:05 am

Best wishes to you and your mother. What cool friends you have!

by **TK-225** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:21 am

Tell mom to get well soon, and bless your friends! :grin:

by **olokin** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:09 am

I hope your mother gets well soon.

by **froggydogg69** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:02 am

Thanks a lot everyone! I appreciate all the well wishes for my mom. She's doing much better now that she's out of the hospital and back home. Won't be long before she's even better than she was before all of this.

I can't deny I have awesome friends, they knew what would cheer me up and it worked like a charm.

Thanks again everyone!