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"Recently I began an online relationship with the sweetest guy ever just outside of Raleigh NC. Im from Boston and i don't really invest much in the idea of LDR, but we really hit it off. Almost everything in common, cept I dont like baloney and he doesn't like the gym. Other than that i spend every day anticipating his calls, im addicted to his voice. We talk just about every day about everything. I listen to him open my Xmas packages over the phone. He's also very close to his little sister, who apparently loves to eavesdrop on our convos (total homophile) so she knows more than I would have told her myself. He also has a brain tumor in the back his head. It just came back for the second time in his life, and it made him crash his car on his way to see me before New Years. I felt terrible, that any guy would drive 800 miles to see me deserves a visit. Its the least I can do right? So he says his dad is sending me tickets to come see him so I don't have to drive. Cool! Im super excited and head over heels for him. So I wait and every day he seems to get more headaches and feels a little weaker. He says the surgery is set for Friday so on Monday I made him a promise, that i would be the first one he sees when he wakes up after surgery. Monday comes, no tickets no mail, so I promise him Tuesday come hell or high water. Tuesday no mail so I buy my own one way at 5pm because now im worried, and as I'm boarding his sister tells me that he's going in right away, they're operating the next day. Also she says I shouldn't come because the excitement is too much for him. I tell her I'm on the way and im keeping my promise, but ill stay out of the way until the surgery is over. I land at 11. The trip was an adventure, but there was no one to meet me at the airport, and no help coming to get to his town two hours away. I make it finally to his house at 6am, 800 miles from home and almost broke. I find his sister walking the two small dogs he told me about, and she tells me he's not home and their parents didn't think I'd actually show up so I can't stay there... Its cold, but im polite and i go sit at a cafe for several hours and nap. She says his godparents will pick me up to stay with them. I wait there till 1pm. They didn't show. I walked back to the house and find g-ma... She says she don't have a boy named Zack (he's adopted) and he doesn't live here. But I know it's the right house. She leaves me freezing on the front lawn to go pick up the sister. The sister texts me after a while and says his real names Andrew and g-ma won't acknowledge his nickname. She came home and told me he is now in the hospital in Raleigh but I can't stay with them and the godfathers said they didn't see me at the cafe. I ask for their number and can i please speak to g-ma and at least introduce myself. No, she's too stressed and pissed. So back to the cafe. Sister shows up at 7, promising g-ma will drive me to the hospital tomorrow but I can't stay at their house. Still she gives me no phone numbers and eventually leaves. Im determined to reach the hospital before he wakes, just to be by his side, to keep my promise. Im almost out of money but a truck driver gets me the 40 miles to Raleigh and then the fun really begins. The hospital she thinks he's at sends me to a room with the wrong person. They don't have him. Its midnight. I call two other hospitals in Raleigh, then the surrounding hospitals in Durham. Nothing. I try his 'real' name, his adopted family's name, his nickname. Nothing. I do this for three hours. Meanwhile I start hounding facebook, adding all her relatives and trying in vein to reach someone, anyone who can tell me what's going on. On her page is a pic him marked Zack, with comments that seem to verify him, but according to the hospital, he ain't around. (he doesn't have his own facebook, says he has no use for it. Props to him but...) Now im tired, im dead broke, im completely alone, confused, and scared. She gave me the godfathers number, it didn't work. She says her friend Katelyn will call/pick me up, nothing. Im starting to think the most paranoid thoughts, that this has all been some hoax and it's really been her the whole time, but his voice is definitely a guy. I must be over-tired. I even found his ex and called him. He said he went thru the same thing when he tried to reach out to the family once. He also says Zack tried to drive up and visit him but didn't make it. He also believes he's real, but he's never actually met him or seen him on Skype. In the morning, im gonna demand to know what hospital we're talking about, and if I don't get results, ima find a ride back to Mebane, and confront g-ma directly. Thing is I'm totally broke now, it's cold as fuck, and the furthest I can get is chapel hill. Im also scared that I'm being played, when I've been bragging to my family and friends about this great guy i found, this guy with whom I feel so intimately comfortable whenever we talk, that I'm willing to do anything for him. Even put up with all of this. I really hope I'm being emotional and not getting scammed by a girl with a yaoi fetish. Reddit, WTF do I do? "

The saga continues here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/2rq8wc/i_think_im_being_played_and_i_really_hope_im_wrong/

1/9/2015 3:58:48 PM

gonna need some cliff notes or bullet points or something

1/9/2015 4:12:02 PM

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1/9/2015 4:14:25 PM

holy words

1/9/2015 4:21:43 PM

I am not sure but I think this relates to

Catfish Noodling Forearm Injury Requiring Urgent Surgical Treatment: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259698519_Catfish_Noodling_Forearm_Injury_Requiring_Urgent_Surgical_Treatment_A_Case_Report_and_Review_of_the_Literature

1/9/2015 4:27:27 PM

gay catfish visits raleigh

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

1/9/2015 4:33:49 PM

this is pretty awful

what the hell, Mebane

1/9/2015 8:00:19 PM

tl;dr

1/9/2015 8:01:38 PM

ok for some reason I read this..

why exactly do I care about this again? :-\

1/9/2015 8:17:44 PM

i saw the original thread when this person was looking for a ride to the hospital but weren't sure which one

this person is dumb or trolling
http://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/2rp4er/emergency_ride_to_raleigh_cancer_relevance/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Assistance/comments/2roqsa/ride_from_mebane_to_raleigh_nc_cancer_related/

[Edited on January 9, 2015 at 8:36 PM. Reason : .]

1/9/2015 8:34:28 PM

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Also tl;dr

1/9/2015 9:52:02 PM

I tried to follow that thread

So the gay guy turned out to the best friend neighbor???

1/12/2015 1:27:53 PM

I read it, but I still don't know wtf is going on, and don't care enough to read it again. People are fucking weird man

1/12/2015 2:17:22 PM

1/12/2015 10:05:02 PM

I read it.

Dude had an Internet romance with another dude. Supposed dude in Raleigh gets sick and has to go into the hospital...presumably. Other dude (the author) flies down to be
with him. Author can't find the guy he's been talking to for months and can't get a straight answer about what hospital he might find his man.

Author is suspicious that he's been catfished. He's interacted with a lot of his man's family members, especially the sister...but he's never been able to physically be near the
man he adores. He's close to broke and limited travel-wise so he's really starting to lose it...everything--all the bajillion hours he spent virtually sharing with his
dude--is sort of falling apart for him.

[Edited on January 12, 2015 at 10:17 PM. Reason : ]

1/12/2015 10:16:17 PM

yall faggots who believe this dumbass is being catfisted are the ones being catfisted, shit is fake yo

1/12/2015 10:22:19 PM

Some of us read/write fast so it ain't no thang.

1/12/2015 10:46:41 PM

1/13/2015 4:39:45 PM