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« on: November 27, 2011, 07:22:59 PM »

I knew from Wilum H. Pugmire's vlog that he was doing increasingly poorly (see the most recent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia3IkC9Z9mQ where he is obviously sounding rough), and his recent blog post http://lovecraftianhorror.blogspot.com/2011/11/finis.html didn't provide any encouragement.

Today, found out that he has been hospitalized. There is an update at that blog that says he is doing better today, and apparently he has been flooded with Lovecraftian books to read and is mostly just wanting to rest for a few days.

Still, he's such a sweetie that makes me sad to hear him so down and sick.

Here is to him having a speedy, amazing recovery. That last link, the Lovecraft eZine, has a comment thread that is going to be printed out and given to Pugmire if you have anything you would like to include.
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« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2011, 01:30:09 PM »

Get well soon, Willum!!!
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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2011, 02:02:21 PM »

Well damn. I certainly hope Sir Pugmire pulls through.
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 11:21:36 AM »

DAmn....speedy recovery.
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 11:39:33 AM »

Update on Pugmire's condition, and hospital visits from S.T. Joshi and some Mormons.
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2011, 01:19:17 PM »

A comment on his blog, posted this morning:

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Feeling much better now that I am home, and I hope that I can completely recover and return to writing. I miss working on books, such work is the air I breathe. I still have a keen vision of what one can accomplish as a Lovecraftian weird fiction writer today, the possibilities are endless!

Wilum, if you're reading this, best wishes.
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2011, 05:03:15 PM »

Let's just hope ... they weren't ... nautical Mormons Smiley

Up and at 'em, Pug!
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« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2011, 09:52:06 AM »

Update on Pugmire's condition, and hospital visits from S.T. Joshi and some Mormons.

I read the bit about S.T. sticking around for a bit, then finally leaving. That had to be an odd, surreal moment for everyone involved.
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« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2011, 03:59:25 PM »

Maybe ST was just checking to make sure they weren't nautical, and left when he was satisfied their Mormon oils were kosher and halal and whatever Hindus call it.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2011, 05:49:37 PM »

He sounds just a little bit better:

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http://lovecraftianhorror.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html

Tuesday, December 6, 2011
A Wee Up-date, Just

Just a wee note.  I am not much online these days because I'm still rather weak and the stairs leading down to the basement, where I have my laptop and Internet access, proves difficult at times.  Going down the stairs is usually okay, but climbing them to get back to the main floor and my bedroom sometimes so exhausts me and gives me such a pain in my chest that I need to take one of my nitroglycerine pills.  I am trying to come down once or twice a week to check email and all of that.  I sometimes think I am feeling better, but then I try to behave in a normal fashion and the result is wretched.  Today I decided to drive to Southcenter Mall to pay my Nordstrom bill, as I am too late to mail it in.  I try to mail it in so that I don't wander to the cosmetic section and become entranced with some new lipstick or eyeshadow.  Honey, I'm a sucker for makeup.  So I parked my car and got out and walked to the store, and I nearly fainted.  The air was so bleedin' cold and I could not breathe.  I had to find a chair to sit in before I paid my bill.  I was gonna pay in the underwear section, but the lure proved too fatal, so I staggered to cosmetics, where at the MAC section Lady Gaga was crooning "Born This Way."  I went to the NARS section -- and O MY GREAT YUGGOTH, what did I see?

The new Arabian Nights shadow trio.  Girlfriend, did I get it?  You bet I did!  Now I need to get healthy so I have the energy to do a FABULOUS drag for some new YouTube frolick.

I stay in bed almost all day, trying to read but usually sleeping or gasping for air.  Just very weak.  We are making big chances and hiring more full-time at-home care for Mother, so that I don't have to lift her any longer.  I think the heavy lifting of taking care of mom may have triggered, in part, this new heart trauma.

I want to return to writing, but I simply have no strength.  If I am bent over this keyboard for more than half an hour I get dizzy and have difficulty breathing.  So I won't be online too often, and there will be long gaps of silence here and at YouTube & Facebook, and I shall get hideously behind in answering email.  I love y'all for your patience.  I have asked a friend, one of the finest fantasy and horror writers of all time, to help me write my next book--I simply cannot do it on my own, and she has agreed.  Whether I can actually work on weird fiction is a question that remains unanswerable.  But one has to try or die.

Kisses, my sweets.

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« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2012, 04:01:16 PM »

According to the spam in my inbox, he's posting stuff on facebook again, so maybe he's feeling better.
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« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2012, 07:33:09 PM »

Yeah, he's been writing and posting and generally being himself.  So much yay.
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