Video Creator, Musician, Multi-Media Artist, Photographer, Published Poet & Live Streamer
Myrtle Beach, SC
Joined January 2014
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Censored from @Linktree_ but you can at-least find my videos on all platforms provided here. Ill update it more later.
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2 peas in a pod
(I know. I always wear this shirt. Not really, but give me a break. I just lost 100lbs. I have like 3 or 4 shirts that fit me besides work shirts)
4th of July is always crazy here.
We don’t really shoot any fireworks. Mostly just some sparklers for the kids.
Yes, we always bring a trash bag and clean up after, even trash that isn’t ours. There’s always garbage cans at beach accesses.
Either most people clean up after themselves, or we have some kind of great beach sanitation services in place.
Just like last year, we went to the beach today (July 5) and didn’t see any trash. Though, we usually stick to the south end of the Grand Strand, I don’t know how it is more downtown.
Update on My Mom – 07/02/2026
Since my last update on Thursday (06/25/2026), my Mother has made more progress.
She is still at Grand Strand Hospital, but she has been moved again — from the 3rd floor to the 2nd floor. ICU is on the 3rd floor, and even though she was moved out of ICU after only two days, the rest of that floor is still for critical patients (at least that’s what she tells me!). So this move is another positive sign that she’s heading in the right direction.
She’s also had both tubes removed from her nose, and after a couple days on a liquid-only diet, followed by a couple days of soft foods, she was officially cleared today to eat regular food again!
She still has 4 or 5 tubes coming out of her abdomen, but she tells me one of them should be removed soon. It was supposed to happen yesterday, but it didn’t, so hopefully today.
She also still has a lot of physical therapy ahead of her, but once the tubes are all removed, it shouldn’t be as difficult as it was when she first came home from Florida. Since her emergency surgery last Monday (06/22/2026), the swelling in her legs has gone down significantly. So while she’s been doing light physical therapy (like getting out of bed and sitting in a chair), she should be able to advance much more quickly once some of these tubes are removed.
In some other good news, after more than two months of trying to get everything sorted out, I was finally able to get Sedgwick to approve her short-term disability as of yesterday! That whole ordeal was more stressful than almost anything else.
Luckily, after she came home from Florida, I was able to get my hands on all of her medical paperwork, including “After Visit Summaries” from multiple hospitals over the last couple of months. I scanned and organized everything into separate PDFs, then paid for an online fax service and sent around 100 pages of medical documentation to Sedgwick on 06/18/2026.
And finally… it was approved.
I still don’t know all the specifics — like what percentage of pay she’ll receive, when it starts, or when it ends — but just getting it approved was a huge weight lifted off my chest.
Thank you to everybody for any and all support over the last couple of months. Hopefully this battle will be coming to an end soon, with my mom as the victor.
Also, a special thank you to my Aunt Diane (aka Auntie Dina) for coming and spending a couple nights at the hospital with my mom again. It definitely helps her morale.
I’ll update again when I know more.
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Got their a little late because Suzy had to work.
So we only caught the end of Vixen, while in line for food.
Just visited my Mom again in the hospital. My Aunt Diane (aka Auntie-Dina) is there with her, spending the night.
She’s down to one tube in her nose, getting ready to do a contrast test to see if she’s ready to start ingesting food (starting with beef broth) so they can remove the other one.
I wrote her this poem in a card I brought today:
Mother Nature
Mother Earth
Became a Mother
At my Birth
Mommy Dearest
Mama Kin
Mother’s Finest
My Mom, Lynn
Just realized i didn’t post the last 2 updates on my mother here. Im going to the gym and then going to visit her in the hospital…
Updated below:
Update on My Mom – 06/23/2026
We were so happy to celebrate my mother’s 65th birthday on Friday (06/19/2026) with her at home. Unfortunately, over the weekend, things took a turn for the worse.
Yesterday morning (06/22/2026), around 6:00 AM, I had to call 911 and she was rushed to the hospital. We found out—without any warning—that she had a perforated intestine and needed emergency surgery immediately.
She is now hospitalized again, this time at Grand Strand Hospital here in Myrtle Beach, and is currently recovering in the ICU.
Like I mentioned in my last update, the transition home had been rough, and over the weekend it became even more difficult. I’ll spare everyone the details, but it was clear something wasn’t right. As the weekend went on, she kept getting worse, and my brother and sister were both coming by to help as much as they could.
Yesterday morning around 5:45 AM, my brother came back over because my mom wanted him to take her to the hospital. Since I had to work and he was off—and only lives five minutes away—it made sense. But once she got downstairs, she told us to call 911 instead.
They first rushed her to South Strand Medical Center, where they discovered the perforated intestine. From there, she was transferred to Grand Strand Medical Center for emergency surgery.
The surgery is over, and now she’s in recovery.
She’s coherent, alert, and determined to get better. If you know my mom personally, you know she’s one tough lady. But it’s going to be a long road ahead. She’s stitched and stapled up, with tubes in her nose and stomach, but she’s comfortable, and most importantly, she’s in the right place—close to home, where we can all be there for her.
Thank you all so much for the continued support, prayers, and understanding. My mother has been overwhelmed by how many people are rooting for her, and our family can’t thank you enough.
I’ll continue to update everyone as we learn more.
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Update on My Mom – 06/25/2026
If you saw my last update, you know that after being home for only a week, we had to call 911 for her Monday morning (06/22/2026). She was rushed to South Strand Hospital and then transferred to Grand Strand Hospital for emergency surgery. We found out she had a perforated intestine and sepsis.
At the time of my last update, I didn’t realize they had only given her a 25% chance of surviving the surgery. Thankfully, she had already passed all of the rigorous stress tests at the MAYO Clinic in Florida for a potential liver transplant, which gave her some peace of mind going into it.
She made it through the surgery.
From what was explained to me, it was somewhat similar to a gastric bypass procedure, in the sense that they had to reroute part of her intestines, though it wasn’t exactly the same thing.
The doctors told us she would likely remain in ICU for several weeks. I visited her Monday night after surgery and again Tuesday night. Amazingly, after just two days, she was moved out of ICU on Wednesday and into a regular hospital room.
Besides having several tubes in her abdomen, two through her nose, and being stitched and stapled up, she looks and sounds surprisingly well. Honestly, it feels like her cognitive ability is better than it has been in the last six weeks. She seems more like herself again.
Even more surprising, her legs — which had been severely swollen this entire time — were back to normal size the day after surgery.
Could this have been the problem all along? We have no idea. It’s hard not to wonder.
It’s wild to think she was sent all the way to Florida and nearly had a liver transplant — something we had been mentally preparing for this whole time — and now, as of yesterday, her bilirubin is down to 1.74 (from around 46.5 when she was first hospitalized). Normal is around 1.2, so she’s getting very close.
Hopefully this is finally the turning point.
Now she has to heal, regain her strength, and take things one day at a time. We still don’t know how long she’ll be hospitalized, but at least now she’s local, and friends and family can visit whenever they want.
On top of everything, I faxed Sedgwick around 100 pages of medical paperwork last week, since she still hasn’t received a paycheck since mid-April. I’ll be calling them today to check where things stand.
Thank you all so much for the continued support, prayers, and donations. It truly means more than you know.
I’ll update again when we know more.
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