Hi, Giant Bomb peeps. I dunno if I've ever used my name around you all (I've mostly just enjoyed being the Doom dude for the past few years), but hey, my name is Ian, and I guess I'm just writing this because some extreme shit happened to me over the last week and I feel like talking about it. In short, basically, I started having major headaches and after a week those headaches turned in to me forgetting words and being unable to read or write at all. I was pretty terrified that I had brain cancer or something and I was gonna die. That, luckily, is not what was up. Which isn't saying it wasn't a big thing, but it wasn't cancer, so I'm really lucky there and I'm glad.

What it was, it turns out, was a MAJOR brain abscess on my left lobe. It may have been a part of my brain for a pretty long time, I'm not sure, but a bad tooth decay caused it to get worse to the point where I needed to go to the hospital. So as of last week I went to a hospital, got put under, and got my skull the hell opened. It was gnarly. It hurt bad. I have a gnarly scar on my skull. Check it out, duders.

I'm actually healing pretty amazingly well. Walking just fine, remembering words, and obviously writing okay. I'm actually happier than I've been in years, I think my abscess may have made my brain all depressed for a long time and now I'm suddenly way more easily excited about fucking everything; games, movies, etc. I'm not gonna be able to go to work for a good while while all this is healing, so I'm planning to play a hella ton of vidgames in the next couple months, so hey, if any of you have ideas of stuff I should play, let me know!

I dunno what else to say. I know you guys don't know me that well, but I wanted to show off my gnarly ass skull scar. I'm alive. I'm good. I got lucky. Really lucky.