Payback Time

I was catching up with other blog type things this morning and read my Livejournal Friends list including the RSS feed of Neil Gaiman and a little way down the list I read about Robert Sheckley's illness in Ukraine.

After initially being without visible medical cover, though he did have insurance somewhere, and needing ventilation and without much help from the US Embassy, he's now convelescing before going back to the US. Once in the US he's going to need considerable financial support to cover his medical bills. He should have stayed in Europe after the 60's, at least he'd have got his health care covered.

Anyhow, there is a Paypal donation page here. As most that know me realise, I'm not exactly positive about charity in the main but I make an exception in this case. Robert Sheckley was one of the first five or so writers on the planet that I read and loved wholeheartedly and who, if not inspired, then at the very least proved that joining words together on a page was a pleasing occupation. One day I might even get up and occupy myself with it but if I do then almost every sentence will be judged and found wanting compared to Sheckley's.

So, I threw my $50 down the hole and I wish it does more than $50 worth of medical support which will blink past.