Popular Post effdeegee Posted December 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted December 20, 2015 (edited) I just realized today that, even though I've been here since 2012, I've never properly introduced myself. I'll try to keep it short so I won't bore the crap out of anyone. I'm not promising anything though, as I have a tendancy to ramble. So, hello! My name is Michael. I'm 36 years old and I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. If you've ever wondered what I look like, you can see pictures of me here, here, here and here. I'd like to think I'm a nice guy that's 1/2 Aboriginal, 1/2 French, 1/2 Scottish and 1/2 retarded. Some of my hobbies include playing PS3, writing and playing music, going for walks and making strangers smile. I can speak 5 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and sign language), play over a dozen musical instruments and will be going for my 20th diploma (Carpentry) at some point in 2016. In my spare time, I've been working on a solo music album and writing a book as well. When I'm not dealing with all of that poop, most of you might know me from running a popular social event called Your Next Game - The Lottery, or from trying to aggravate most of the chat box monkeys for like 12-16 hours a day. The first gaming console I played on was an Atari, playing Crackpots way back in 1983. Since then, I had owned every major home console but, the name that stole my heart was PlayStation. Ever since the launch of the PlayStation, I haven't touched another brand. I've owned every incarnation of PlayStation, except for the PS3 super slim and PS4 (yet ) and some of my favourite franchises are Assassin's Creed, Batman Arkham, Rock Band, LEGO and anything Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks. I bought an 80gb PS3 fat on launch day, but it didn't last too long, as I felt I needed to take a serious break from gaming in Aug 2009 (right after they introduced trophies! ). I sold everything game related that I owned and decided to focus more on life. The break lasted almost 3 years. Those who have known me the longest, know that, on Sept 1st, 2011, I was diagnosed with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, a cancer of the blood, and spent much of my battle and recovery rekindling my love for gaming on the PS3. It was a rough time to say the absolute least. Try thinking about having a phobia of needles and then having someone tell you that you have over 60 scheduled in the next 10-12 months. Here's a picture of the first full body PET scan: (picture mysteriously removed) The grey spots are just "plain ol' normal cancer" tumours. The black spots are what's known as "super uptake cancer" tumours. The report states "innumerable" amounts. I had so many tumours, no form of modern technology was able to count them. There are three types of cancer: the kind you can fix, the kind you can't fix (but can live with by taking meds every day), and the kind where it's lights out. I had the most aggressive form of curable cancer and, as you can see, we caught it extremely late. That's where my name effdeegee comes from. It's the phonetic spelling of FDG, the sugar-infused, radioactive injections that doctors give to cancer patients in order to make their cancer tumours more active, so they'll appear more clearly during the PET scans and CT scans. The sugar wakes them up and makes them OM NOM NOM more vigorously and the radioactive makes them smile bright for the camera. It's a pretty neat feeling to hear a lot of folks talk about Spiderman and think to myself, "I'm probably the only one around here that actually knows what it's like to have radioactive blood." So, that's a small chunk of ol' effy boy's life. Sorry if it was a snoozefest. It's nice to meet you. I'll see you around. Have a good day and, as always, happy gaming! Edited March 29 by effdeegee punctuation 22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyesUnholy Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Welcome to the forums It was awesome to read that, you've had a very interesting 36 year span so far and tbh I am always somewhat inspired to learn new languages in the future when other people know several themselves Cancer can just go fuck itself - good thing you fought it, 1v1 trickscoped it on COD and told it that you fucked it's mum And I was interested to know the origins of where your PSN ID came from, the fact that it has meaning from your life experience is pretty cool 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyTonberry Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Welcome Im sorry to hear that you have cancer, its nice that your name has a special meaning to you though. It wasn't boring to read but very interesting that you can play so many instruments and you know sign language I wish you the best of luck with your 11th diploma next year! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgeGeo Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Yeah welcome pal. I'm sure a fresh young buck like you will find friends here. I'm good at sign language too. I'm really adept in the gang variety. Here's hoping the cancer never comes back. Good luck man, I wish you the best. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PipeSwinger Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 That is certainly a late introduction, but always better late than never! Welcome.. Even though you've been here a year longer than I have lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJROE95 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Never heard of you, you must keep very quiet around these parts Very interesting read, and I think you are the only person to include a body scan! It's good that you are getting on with your life and doing a damn fine job with sucky circumstances. Keep on gaming man, and perhaps one day I'll have the guts to sign up to the game lottery 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condemned09 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Sorry about your cancer bro, i pray that it goes away and never comes back. Its good to meet you and i like your introduction 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hpknight Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Always nice seeing new faces around here! I'm sorry about what happened to you. Cancer is an annoying dick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boooda Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Great read man, had no idea about your battle with cancer and im really sorry to hear that. Thank god for all that free health care amirite? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CasaDeBen Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Thanks for sharing your story. Always wondered about your name. Stay strong fellow canadian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Uhmm.. Hi and welcome? it's kinda weird to welcome someone here that stayed waay much longer than me... It's really interesting to learn new stuff to people I meet and see here... thanks for sharing and good luck with your battle with cancer.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMDE Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 It was a rough time to say the absolute least. Try thinking about having a phobia of needles and then having someone tell you that you have over 60 scheduled in the next 10-12 month. Sucks to have any kind of cancer, and I'm glad yours is curable, even if it was caught a bit late. Anyways, I quoted this portion, because I've always had a bit of a needle phobia myself. I have absolutely no idea how many needles I've taken in my life, but it's not few I imagine. They've literally sliced into my feet, sawed over the bone in my leg, turned it around a bit and screwed the two parts together again with a real screw, before sewing the sliced flesh and meat together again with pig skin tissue. This wasn't a one time thing either. Luckily, I was made unconscious, basically breathe in the air in a mask until you fall asleep and wake up a day later or something all alone in a hospital bed room with nobody you know around, and with all kinds of stuff plugged into your body, and gypsum plaster around your itching foot. This last time I did this, my foot was in the gypsum plaster for too long, or at least it didn't get to breath enough, might be due to growth in the foot or something, anyways, the foot started to rot due to oxygen starvation or something. I 20 years later still got scars left from this, the kind of scar you get from falling and your leg scrubs against the ground making like a layer on top of the cuts. Even had a couple of operations for my ears where I'm not entirely sure what they did, but basically small straws inside my ears. I've bled from my ears later on, by just jumping like 10 meters down into water. There's a couple of other stories, but yeah, I think you get the point, I think this has made me fear needles, and I know what it's like to just take one. 60 can be worse, or it can be you get a bit over it after some few shots. I don't know. Do you feel differently about it now? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheYuriG Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 The sugar wakes them up and makes them OM NOM NOM more vigorously and the radioactive makes them smile brighter for the camera. Cancer can just go fuck itself - good thing you fought it, 1v1 trickscoped it on COD and told it that you fucked it's mum Best parts. Welcome, eff, hope you find the cure for your addiction to shopping ps3 games too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daftprophet Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Damn dude. I know we have been friends a while, but you learn new things everyday. Stay strong and keep gaming Welcome to the forums, ya boob. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beyondthegrave07 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Sounds like you have had it rough the past few years. I can't imagine the pain you've been through. Seeing my uncle go through cancer treatment was really rough. It was probably worse than it looked. I hope you continue to be active in the community and more importantly, stay healthy!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effdeegee Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 Thanks to all for the greetings, kind words and well wishes. I ran out of likes so, I'm just waiting for them to restock now. You know you like too many posts when you run out and then have to make a waiting list of posts to go back to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleLamb121 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Welcome, even if you've already been here for a long time! That was a very interesting read, and I'm glad you're doing better now. Stay strong, and keep gaming! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roster13 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Welcome buddy ! I've seen you plently around the Forums, but haven't really got to know you. Hopefully that willl change 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venocide Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Welcome to the PSNP community! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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