Terrible! Best wishes, @pinkunz !!
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Good wishes over here too!! Deeply sorry for your leg, but grateful it wasn’t all of you!
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That’s awful. I hope you have a good recovery. I don’t know you well but you’ve been on my mind all week-end, checking this thread all the time in hope of good news. The sense of community is strong here on intfiction 
Many thanks to all the people closer to pinkunz who relay updates.
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I’m so glad you’re still with us, Pinkunz. I’ll be sending healing thoughts. <3
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Still having a hard time thinking but wanted to thank all of you. I was scared and alone. Thank you more than I know hòw to explain. Cannot be repaid.
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There is no need to my friend 
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Pinkz messaged the Campfiremeows very briefly. I thought writing things down might make them a little easier to put into words, and I think it did.
Transcription:
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Things are going to be okay. Things are going to be okay, because they have to be- and that’s just how the cookie crumbles. There’s so much that I could say, a dozen different places to begin- let me start with a simple truth.
We’re friends, and I care about you- I love you very much. You’re one of my best friends, and you’re someone that I am lucky to be able to cherish. You said once - and you’ve pointed out before how you think it’s endearing, flattering to be listened to so closely - that sometimes what people want more than to be loved is to be understood.
Talking to you is so comforting for precisely that reason- you understand me, and there is a gentleness and ease in knowing that you can come as you are and be met with such warmth, and understanding. You’ve said before- its funny how little overlap we have in terms of our hobbies, yet get along so well- as you put it, “the same heart, different preoccupations,” with a terribly similar temperament.
You have made my life that much more wonderful for being a part of it. You are one of my very dearest friends. It was a chance circumstance that led to our meeting, and I am so incredibly thankful that things crossed over just so for it, too.
You promised me, remember? That you’d take me (and a friend) camping, and teach me how to fish all Bear Grylls-y, and I said I’d be holding you to that promise- that neither of us could kick the
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bucket until then, because a promise made is a promise kept, sworn on kitty meowgics. So everything will be alright, and you will be alright.
I don’t believe in God anymore and I know you don’t either. But even if it’s a sentimental, silly, desperate plea- I wanted to feel like I’d made sure to dot my i’s and cross my t’s- and on the slimmest offchance it does something, anything- asking for a man of faith, (a priest, even) to pray for intercession seemed like it’d be as good as anyone to ask.
Maybe that’s worth something.
I’ve said before that I envy the faithful the comfort their belief brings them- but, it’s okay, I don’t consider myself a Catholic anymore, but I’ll still petition any hypothetical higher power floating around out there.
I love you, and I love you to the point of a quiet, deep seated hope- even if it’s a very difficult thing for either of us to hold.
When the news broke- I was so afraid. You know already that the reason I always say I love you, and goodnight, and stay safe, is because I’m terrified something might happen to my loved ones, and no one would know.
I am so incredibly thankful that you’d shared [your wife] and yours’ phone numbers way back when. I’m glad that I got to say that I love you, that I care about you- that it comforted you to know I’d have reached out to [your wife] regardless, because of the radio silence- because I think of you, because your presence is notable and meaningful to us.
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I’m glad that it made you feel even a little better, to not be alone that night- I hope it does really help and gentle you to know there are so many people that care, that want to help- that you aren’t alone. People think of you- and it matters that you are around, that you exist.
You’re my friend, but perhaps more importantly, you’re our friend.
It doesn’t matter if it’s deserved, (how you feel matters, but its a material truth regardless) because you are our friend, because we care about you.
You once told me that- in the ever pragmatic, practical way you have- there wasn’t much to do but to accept people as they are, presently- not as some hypothetical. That I didn’t have to try to be ‘good enough’ or worry about being better- that of course you hoped I found a sense of peace for my sake- but that as far as you were concerned, I owed you nothing, and you loved and cared about me for me.
I hope you know that the very same sentiment is true of you- you don’t need to earn it. The ‘many little kindnesses’ are freely given, because I want to, because it is a delight and an honour and a pleasure to be your friend.
Remember? “It wouldn’t be fair if you cried alone, when we’d laughed together.” You’re my friend, and I care about you, and I love you, and I mean it this time, and every time.
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We’re friends- and just like you said- that that’s what friendship is, that that’s what friends do, they’re there for each other, as best as they can be, in so much as they can be.
You’re not just my friend- I’m yours, too, and I’ve told you it before and I’ll say it again, we’re friends, and I am so happy that we are, and that I’ve had the chance to know you, and be known in turn.
The last time something terrible happened- you told me you wanted me to know that you wouldn’t forget it, that it meant more to you than words could describe. Language so often falls short of being able to accurately capture how people feel- but I know this to be true.
You’re my friend, and I care about you, and I love you.
That doesn’t change when things are hard, it doesn’t exist only in the ease of pleasantries- you’ve been there for me through the messiness of tears and choking on grief and all consuming rage and every shade in between- you have seen me struggle to choose, over and over, to be the kind of person I can bear to be.
You’ve been my friend, and as difficult to endure as things have been- I’m your friend, too. You aren’t alone. It’s okay to be scared- but we love you anyways, and we’ll be right there, as best as we can be, with you- because that’s what friends do.
I love you. I’m glad we’re friends. I mean it sincerely and completely, now and every time.
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Oh man, this is scary. I hope things get better as soon as possible, Pinkunz!
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Realized I’ve shared some updates via the chat but would be good to do that via the thread too! Pinkunz’s wife was able to get to the hospital to see him last night, and we’re working to get a GoFundMe set up for them that will hopefully go up tomorrow (please be ready to share far and wide!). And he’s got another surgery coming up tomorrow morning so please send good thoughts!
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I hope your surgery goes well, Pinkunz!
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Good to hear from you directly! Hope your surgeries and recovery go well, however long they end up taking. You’ll make it!
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Ugh, living in snow country, I’ve come close to plows in the past … those and logging trucks the rest of the year give me the heebeejeebees.
I hope the surgeries go well and recovery is quick.
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Some of the Hephmeows send their well wishes, too- they know about the Campmeows and the forums because I speak of you fondly.
Transcription: In summary, Eve, Sarah, Jo, Hazel, JH, Charlotte, Kite, and Han send their well wishes for Pinkz’ recovery. Their individual messages are as follows:
Eve: “Oh God, I hope your friend gets well soon Soaph. Wishing them a speedy recovery and minimal pain for them.”
Sarah: “I hope they recover well and it all goes so smoothly!!! I hope they get to have a treat when they are out of surgery.”
Jo: “Keeping your friend in my thoughts Sophia!! I hope their surgery goes well.”
Hazel: “Sending you both so much love and best wishes!!!”
JH: “I wish your friend all the best and hope their recovery goes well!”
Charlotte: “Oh all the best to you and your friend Sophia sending so much love!!”
Kite: “SOAPH sending so much love for you and your friend, I hope the procedure goes smooth and recovery is swift!! And I’m happy to know they have a good amount of community support, I’m sure they’ll be a great help for the recovery.”
Han: “Soph sending such good thoughts and well wishes for your friend’s recovery and also gentleness for you!!”
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Pinkunz is going in surgery right now.
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All the very best and get well soon from Berlin too!
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Thank you to you, and to everyone providing updates. Keeping Pinkunz in our thoughts here for a smooth surgery with no complications.
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Hi folks – we’ve finalized the GoFundMe for pinkunz and his wife. If you’re able to donate, please help out an amazing family; if that’s not something you can do right now, sharing far and wide is really helpful too. They appreciate your support so much!
@moderators I’d like to make sure this gets out far and wide, so don’t know if there’s a way to pin this thread/post, and/or ping users so they see it. Or if it’d be easier to post this in its own thread, maybe that’d be a good idea too, but wanted to check with y’all before spamming the board.
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Maybe a separate post? So it appears as NEW for everyone?
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I hope the surgery goes smoothly and his recovery is as speedy as possible under the circumstances! I’m not in a position to provide much emotional support right now, but I did just donate to the GoFundMe.
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