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I wasn't going to enter Raf's contest...

He asked to, so for.my son I did. I shared my story directly to him, as I was,admittedly embarrassed to share publicly....
Here goes.

We had gotten a Vision just a few months ago. My son was never happier!! He asked Santa,both in letter and on lap, for The Vision Marvel Universe figure.... Christmas came.and went, yet no Vision came.

About a month later, an arker hooked me.up with a great price and I was able to fulfil my son's wish. As you can see in the UK marvel 3.75 forum pics... he was elated. Then a bit of a situation occurred.

His mother, my wife, suffers from multiple sclerosis and lives in continual pain 24/7. We do all that we can for her, but options are limited with our National Health Insurance in the United Kingdom. The.government makes.cuts at.every turn. So we signed her up for a new treatment called hyperbaric oxygen treatment. It allows cellular restructuring on micro level. It helps to slow the progressive degenerative effects of the disease. This expensive treatment comes out of pocket. There was a three year waiting list.

Out of the blue, we had an opportunity to get her in the tree program. £1300 ($2150) down payment was required in less than a week and a half.... I had to sell everything that was valuable of mine along with either my wife's grandma's pearls or my son's prize possession...The Vision to cover the remaining amount needed. I kept grandma's pearls in the end. Blaze, my wonderful son, was and is still unaware of his sale. I told him I was putting Vision in the bank vault to protect him. I have NEVER lied to my son before. I was and remained ashamed, and sad. He often asks if we can go to the bank to look at Vision. I make up reasons why we can not.

I am an immigrant here to the UK from America. It is difficult working here as there are several restrictions as the hours I am allowed to work and the amount of money I am allowed to earn. Alongside with my bed ridden partner, we get by and I sell a few drawings here and there to buy my son his favourite nothing in the world. Marvel Universe figures.

He takes better care of them than most of us do. Acid free bags, labelled of coarse. He places them them up, NEVER bashes them and then ALWAYS dusts.them before returning them to their careful homes. He knows more about Marvel than most comic shop owners even! He is a wonderful.and.nice.boy. Says prayers every night and picks up litter when ever he see it lying about. I would not have.ever entered, but he is worthy. Plus raf had asked me to enter.

At first I was only going.to tell raf the story through pm here. I decided to share with all my friends here and expose my own insecurities to you all.

Thanks.for.reading..... I have began work on a drawing of The Vision to offer for this contest as.well. I offered well before I ever decided to enter Blaze into it. I try to be as helpful as I can here on toyark. Win lose or draw.... I am proud to be part of this WONDERFUL community and call you all, my friends.