Gamer Dad suffers a heart attack, needs help

Gamerdad? Gamerdad!? GAAAMMEERRDAAAADDD!!!!!!

Ouch, that sucks! I wish GamerDad the best. Get well soon.

I hope Jack Thompson can learn from GamerDad.

I whish you the best GamerDad.

I wonder if he's playing Trauma Center.

never heard of him, but quad bypass sucks and must be pricey

What about sending him a WiiFit?

Is joystiq gona send him (an edited) copy of this thread?

Gamerdad we need more people like you!
On behalf of the NDF; Get well soon.

I can't wait till my boy's born in a matter of weeks.
I'm already lining up the games we'll play XD

Time to prioritize and sell those games and systems! Hope the guy feels better but my health and my family come before teh games. Best wishes.

Donation sent. Best wishes to him and his family.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Get well soon, GD!

That's no good. I wish him nothing but the best.

Shoot - if I woke up after a heat attack to a new Brain Age edition DS, I'd be feeling moderately better already, pretty much instantly!!

Seriously though - best wishes, from a fellow gamer parent.

GamerDad's a good guy and great voice in gaming. I hope his recovery goes well!

Get well soon, man! :D

Be well GamerDad, and here's hoping for fast recovery!

I am wondering though...why isn't his health insurance covering the costs?

Never read the site but I chipped in a few bucks. I'd hope others would do the same for me if my insurance still screwed me over. I wish him the best.

-Jeff
http://alinktothefuture.com

See!! Jack Thompson was right!!!!! Video games leaded to almost dying. Who can we sue? Was it those Mario people that caused his heart attack? (on the way to donate...keep up the good work Gamerdad.)

AAAAAAAHHHH....why is Mario above my name...he's coming for me!!

Best wishes for a quick and speedy recovery GamerDad!

Just curious, does anyone know how old he is?

"This isn't the places for politics."

If someone is publicly asking for donations to cover their medical bills, and they're also doing so through the press, then yes, I'd say politics is perfect fodder.

There are about 45 million Americans with no health insurance. Are you all going to be sending them donations when they get sick as well? Or are you going to let them go without proper care because they don't write about video games? That's a funny way of valuing human life.

It's about time we do something about this. It costs us more in the long run not to, because people without insurance don't get the preventative care that probably would have helped this guy avoid having a heart attack in the first place. Why do you think our health care costs are so ridiculously higher than the rest of the industrialized world, even though we're the one country out of that group without universal health care? One is a direct cause of the other.

I've never heard of the guy, yet what he does is a great thing: informing parents about videogames.

It's due to such ignorance, or indifference, that people like Jack Thompson is on the loose.


.... you know what? Screw what I just said. We should create a new "rule" banning all references to JT to prevent him from getting anymore attention.

And I can't believe I've just dragged JT into an article about Gamer Dad. But heck, better than dragging politics?

Good luck to him, hope he gets better. That said, almost 90% of heart attacks are avoidable if people didn't eat dairy and meat - plain and simple and an inarguable fact. It's an almost totally avoidable problem unless you have some congenital defect or major genetic problem.

Bub definitely has insurance. Why he is asking for money is unclear.