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My name is Gwydion_Wolf on twitch. I am a live-streamer of video games and I love connecting with people through the process of meeting them online while playing.

Outside of gaming and streaming, I am someone who has had his share of hospital visits.

Back when I was 15, I was getting up from the couch to put away my dirty dishes when I felt a weird 'bubbly' sensation in my chest. I even joked about how mom's cooking must have gave me some gas. After about 4-5 steps though, I realized something was vary wrong as it was getting harder to breath by the second.

A trip to the Emergency room later, and it was discovered that my lung had collapsed.

My first thought was "What the heck?!" I didn't smoke (still never have to this day, not even 1 cigarette), wasn't around any toxic fumes, and wasn't hanging out with people who chain-smoked; granted a few friends smoked, but it wasn't like i was standing down-wind of their smoke fumes for hours at the time. So what happened?

Well, the doctors wrote it off as a freak incident. There literally was nothing for them to go off of, as not even in my family history had something like that happened. That is, until they started seeing me every 2 weeks (nearly to the hour). Honestly, I cant make this up. Every 2 weeks, nearly to the same hour, I had a total of 4 lung collapses, 5 counting the initial one. And the most puzzling thing was it alternated between the right and left lung.

The local hospital was baffled so they sent me up to one of the larger ones near the capital of our state. Within 15 minutes i was co-signing release forms to have both an MRI as well as immediate surgery post-MRI done.

End result? The doctors had to remove the top 10% of each of my lungs. They were covered in what they could only describe to me as 'blisters'. And it was them rupturing that was causing the lung collapses.

I spent 3 weeks in a hospital bed, unable to move anything from my neck down without having a lot of pain for the first week (you'd be supersized how much even moving a finger somehow requires mussels in your chest to move). I know first hand how frustrating it is to literally be unable to move or do anything 'active' for days at a time.

At this point, I thought I was in the clear, and for 3 years I was.

Then I woke up one morning, with that 'asleep foot' feeling from my head to my toes. I 'knew' my eyes were open, but all i saw was darkness with white 'flashes'. And, I knew I wasn't breathing, or if I was it was so shallow that I may as well not have been.

Yup, I had another lung collapse, only this time it happened in my sleep and was nearly fatal because of it. My will to live was a bit stronger than natures will to kill me, and i managed to force my body to move and roll over, thankfully landing on my stomach which allowed me to breath a bit.

Another hospital trip and another, more intensive surgery later and i was told they had to do the same thing again (removing part of each lung), though this time they had gone a step further and fused my lungs to the backs of my ribs.

Due to the more invasive second surgery, and the extra work they felt they had to do, the 2nd recovery time was even longer, with even less ability to move even after I was sent home.

I would have given anything for a group of people such as SpecialEffect to have existed back then here at home in the USA. The work they do to bring entertainment and games to people who have disabilities, or are otherwise impaired (or in cases like mine, stuck in a bed), is a godsend. If for no other reason than to help them get their minds off their current situations.

But their work goes beyond simply giving people a way to keep their minds occupied. They also work to help bring people back into social connections. Bringing them back into family circles. With a combination of custom-configured controls and eye-gaze software and programs (which lets you operate games and computers via eye-movements and blinks).

They help people re-gain their ability to share in the lives of others, despite any physical difficulties they have which otherwise would have kept them apart. I know full-well how that can feel. And they are worthy of any amount of Money i can help raise to let them continue to do their work.