I have posted and told people in email or comments about my friend kamyk who is a fellow abuse survivor. He was kidnapped at age 7, trained and abused to be a sex toy for wealthy men. Then for some reason no one will admit to he was returned to his family after months of being used and abused, filmed and made to do sex acts with adults, other kids, and dogs. He then was abused all his childhood until he became an adult and then sadly was pimped out and sexually abused until at 40 he escaped and started a life trying to understand himself / what happened to him.
Some background for those that don’t know and I have his permission to share this much. He was born premature and with an intestine system not fully formed and so he had intestinal troubles and pain all his life. It effected his bowl movements badly which was bad when he was being abused. He had diverticulitis which went bad and became full blown diverticulosis. That means the pockets formed on the outside of the intestine and attached to it forming a pocket got super infected and then burst. One burst into his bladder. During the time his infected pockets ruptured, his pain in his lower intestines got really bad and he developed a high fever of 104. He was taken to a walk into care which sent him to the hospital. They admitted him and shortly he had what they called a dirty surgery. That was when they couldn’t clean his system out and they couldn’t get a scope inside him because his intestines were so inflamed. They had to remove his sigmoid colon.
After the surgery he had a bad incident where a person ordered him up out of bed and ignored his pleas to get help from the nurse. That caused his abdominal wound to open up among other things. He was put in the ICU. He was taken from the ICU and placed in a specialty care facility to further heal. I tell you all of this because I have a request for my followers who care.
When he talks to me he is very unhappy, he feels trapped, he feels unworthy to live, he feels depressed, he is lonely. This afternoon his sister reached out to me and asked me to ask those that knew him and my friends to send him get well cards. She felt he needed to be flooded with love. I contacted those on the Male Survivor site I have email addresses for who have asked me to keep them informed and asked them to forward the message to the site. But they have a strict rule against posting addresses of survivors so that might be hard.
I am asking you who would care to do so, to please send him a card or well wishes to the address I will put below. You don’t need to be specific or even mention all I wrote. Just tell him you heard about his situation and that he was in recovery from Scottie and wanted to send him a get well message. Or anything like that. You people all care about others so may know far better how to write a get well message, I admit I am sort of a klutz or clueless at that stuff, Ron does it for us. On those kinds of things I don’t understand or function well.
Thank you to everyone. I used to spend hours at night listening to him cry out his anguish as new memories of his abuse surfaced. I was doing for him what Randy did for me in 2014 when I had my emotional breakdown for the same reasons. But now he needs more than someone to listen, he needs to know people care about him. Thank you. Hugs
Select specialty hospital
Attn: Kamyk Robinson
8049 South Ave room 103
Youngstown Ohio 44512
Scottie's Playtime 
On it. I’m just going to write that you and his sister invited me to his card shower, and that I hope to cheer and encourage him during his recovery.
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Hi Ali. You are a positive person. A caring person. You will know or understand what to write on the card to help him feel loved and want to live. I was afraid when I wrote the post people would concentrate on his surgery, or his abuse. But really what he needs is just the knowledge, the information that people care about him. I am so worried he will give up. As is his sister, which is why she reached out to me with this request. She keeps telling me how much he loves me and how she can not express how much it means to her / Kamyk what I am doing. But Ali, I don’t think I am doing anything other than being a friend of someone I care deeply about. I really hope my post sends him tens of cards even if he doesn’t know the people they come from. I sent the information off to Male Survivor and they are talking changing the rules to allow this address posting for these circumstances. Ron and I bought a card for him and it was all about kittens as he had cats before and loves them. I just hope those that so send cards will not just do one, but many over the weeks he is there. Thank you again. I seem to be thanking you a lot lately, and you deserve it. Sadly no one else has responded. I really thought the followers of this blog would understand. But no one responded except you. Thank you. Hugs
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Well, some are recovering from health situations, and may not have energy to do everything just yet. I think it’ll be OK.
I thought I had a boatload of those sappy “to cheer you” cards from my MIL, but found that I did indeed send those to schools for art projects. And recycled some of the really awful ones (you know how cards can get! Laugh.) Anyway, though, I had a beautiful hummingbird note card, and a really nice little “Joy” winter scene card without mention of a holiday, so wrote notes in both of those. I didn’t say anything about much, other than the card shower idea, and my heartiest wishes for his recovery to complete. Then something about a card from Summer and a card from Winter, so he’d be happy whichever he preferred; I told him I prefer Winter, but know that’s an unpopular opinion. Cheery stuff like that without substance other than good wishes. I mailed them off yesterday. I’m thinking I’ll try to send one or 2 once a week till we hear about things. He is not obligated to respond in any way, in case he asks about that. Nor is his sister. Bedside caring is tough, I know. This is a small thing, for me, and I’m happy to do it. I hope it makes a difference, the way tossing organic unsalted nuts from the day old grocery shelf out into the yard for birds and squirrels to have.
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Hi Ali. You are so grand. His sister is so stressed. She is basically in charge of caring for their parents who are in their 80s and sick from covid, her younger sister just broke her leg and has covid, she is Kamyk’s patient advocate so coordinates all his stuff. She has her own family, a child and husband, also she has had the flu. Plus she works a busy job. I tell her every day I talk to her how grand she is and to take time for herself.
He will love the cards. We got him one with kittens on several foldouts. He had cats in the past and loves them. I love your idea of sending more than one. I think I will mention that to Ron, thank you for the idea. Hugs
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