WoW Gamers Save Guild Member’s Life in Real ‘First’ Life
Talk about asocial? Well, WoW gamers can certainly teach real life people a thing or two! WoW player “Dredd GaRayn” (Level 60 Human Paladin), diagnosed with a rare cancer, had to turn to his fellow guild members who lent a helping hand when his family letters to his congressman and President Bush went unanswered.
According to Dredd GaRayn:
“Last December, before Christmas, I was diagnosed with a very rare and very lethal form of cancer known as Burkitts Lymphoma.
I underwent surgery to remove a mass the size of a softball from my neck that if left in one, maybe two more weeks, would have killed me. I was admitted to the hospital just after the first of the year to undergo three rounds, three months of some of the most intensive chemotherapy done in the industry.
3 months out of chemo I type to you all here and now, 3 months I have tried to heal as fast as I could, learn to walk and type, and get a new job which I just started today making a good salary. But I could not have done this without the support of many people, here in World of Warcraft.
When the state, charities, governor, news agencies, senators and even the president of the united states did not respond to my familys pleas for help to keep a roof over our head, help to keep the power company from shutting us off from a $1,500 power bill and keep food on the table for my kids while we incurred expenses of me missing work, my Guild stepped up.”
Take that, those who think that gamers are losers and have no real life; Dredd would have died if his WoW gamer friends didn’t step in!
