You have many friends and fans among the Dopers. Are you ok? There are several of us (myself included) who are only a fairly short drive away - do you need us?
How is Mama ma’am?
Is there anything we can do? Reports need typed? Plants need water?
Hugs?
{{{{{Sampiro, we miss your cutting wit and your wonderful descriptions of times gone by.
Most of all, we miss you. Please come back. The green tomatoes are a’fryin’.
Yeah.
I like what Sampiro writes here. He’s got a sensibility pretty close to mine. I love the way he can make painful things funny. It’s one of the ways I use to cope with the bullshit life throws my way.
You’ve got a lot of support here. It’s moral support from me, since I live in the Northwest, but support nonetheless.
Be well, Sampiro.
I hate doing the ‘it’s already been done’ post, but…it’s already being done.
Mind you, two threads supporting Sampiro sounds cool as well. 
Mind you part two: a shorter thread might be easier for Sampiro to wade through right now than the other one. Hope things are okay.
Sampiro’s zestful eloquence made him a target for 'net remora because he’s visible but none of 'em even dented his worth as a decent human being. He never remotely invited, much less deserved, being savaged for cheap yucks just because he participated on a message board. Posters might argue, annoy and even flame the hell outta others who torque them off but they handle differences fairly. Bullies attack from the shadows for intimidation. Whooo Against whom? What? Depends on the whim of the asshole-wannabes counting coup to impress other skulking losers.
Whatever is happening in Sampiro’s life right now, I hope he and his (complex, addled?) family are muddling through the unthinkable as well as most of us fallible humans when faced with the unbearable.