Hey everyone,
I'm sure many of you are curious about the lack of...everything. no streams, videos, anything.
On Thanksgiving morning, I had a horrid pain in my chest. Usually with indigestion or GERD this can happen, you take some medicine and move on, but not this time. The pain persisted for 6 hours, so at 3AM I went to the hospital.
To find out I needed heart surgery.
This wasn't GERD related or heartburn related at all, it was an aortic aneurysm that was bleeding into my chest. Without this immediate surgery, death was probable. (I'm sure that result would've made some dissenters happy.)
I was in the hospital for a little over a week. I guess I told nurses I was a Sumo Wrestler, so my humor never left me...but recovery has been the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. All while tragedy is striking friends and sorrow seems everywhere.
But I will and am getting better one day at a time. Itll be a while before I'm at full strength or at any sort of strength to resume the viewer videomania activities, but I am committed to them, even if some changes need made. I want to talk to you all as soon as I can, which hopefully will be just that: soon.
I miss all of you and love you all.
Mark (coverkillernation) Layne
QUICK UPDATE:
No stream today. Family that was slated to come in from Florida later this week have arrived today.
I'll give them love from the CKN clan.
Thursday's stream is currently up in the air, so we may need to push that to Friday if necessary.
Enjoy your week everyone!
CKN
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Hey all,
No stream today. We will add a day to the end of the event in its place and run the event until the end of the month.
See you Thursday
-CKN-
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
Today's scheduled stream needs to be moved to another day, which will be either next week or at the very end of the Viewer Videomania event near the middle of the month. It's been a taxing few days, between stuff here and my mom having surgery. She's out and well, but quite weak, so I'll be giving her a hand today helping out wherever I can. Family means a great deal to me, and she's been there for me a LOT throughout my life, so anytime I can return the favor, especially now that she's hit 70, I'm glad to. She says hello to you all, and thanks those from the stream who gave her well-wishes prior to the procedure.
Saturday's stream will remain unchanged by this, and, like last week, we are going to start earlier. So our next stream date as of right now will be SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2020 starting @ 2PM EST.
Thanks to all who have been coming out to the streams lately, and all generosity therein. For those unaware, there will soon be NEW VIDEOS here on youtube based on the suggestions and dream videos of the stream community and donors. The event, VIEWER VIDEOMANIA, will be running for another week or so, so stop on over when you see the stream active.
See you Saturday!
Good Saturday to everyone!
Our Saturday Stream will begin in around 2 1/2 hours at 1:30PM EST (or 13:30).
We'll be live for a couple of hours, so pop in and say hello!
If you've never attended a stream before, come meet our terrific community!
Peace,
-CKN-
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