Bungie has sent a care package to a gamer recovering from brain surgery.

Bkbunny87 says her husband, Eric the Hunter, was sent the gift after he was advised to play Destiny by his doctor to aid in his recovery."Yesterday I had a post talking about my husband and his doctor recommending Destiny to serve as a form of physical therapy (PT) for him following several brain surgeries," Bunny writes via Reddit "This community was amazing, and raid groups are being organized for him out of all the people who offered to help him."After Bungie heard about his story, community manager Deej got involved and contacted Bunny directly, asking for her husband to check in with Tess the Post Master in The Tower. According to Bunny, what followed was lots of screaming."[Eric] has been sent the exotic gun Fate Of All Fools, a solar primary that looks like it will be available in future content. Vision of Confluence had been my husband's dream weapon, as scout is his favorite and he wanted that solar damage. A more perfect weapon could not have been chosen."Eric has undergone seven brain surgeries in the last eleven months, with three of those surgeries including the removal of sections of his brain."We knew in advance his memory would be heavily effected," Bunny writes in a different post, "and it has been. For a while he didn't know me, and he only sometimes knew who he was. Right as he was starting to have things back together, he developed an infection."Bunny says she spent the first week of the Queen's Wrath event playing via a PS Vita at his bedside while Eric underwent two more operations to remove the infected matter and a large part of his skull, before placing it with a titanium plate."No worries there," says Bunny, "he thinks having a titanium plate is awesome."What was Eric's biggest concern at the time? Not being able to play at launch, says Bunny."He wanted to play it! He agonized more over his surgery date interfering with the release than about having to have surgery in the first place. He wanted it badly enough that two weeks ago he described the game in detail to his wonderful neurologist.""To my extreme surprise, his neurologist told us that video games have been showing tremendous use as a PT tool for brain and memory damage. He even brought Destiny up on his computer and after some speed-reading he was all but jumping at the opportunity the game could pose for someone in my husband's position."Following the purchase of an extra PlayStation 4, Eric was good to go."Once an avid cook, he was no longer able to navigate our kitchen - but with Destiny, he was like a duck to water. He has always been exceptionally good at games, and it seems like that hadn't changed a bit. It's been a joy to watch him."Bunny notes that despite Eric being weak for months, he is now "flourishing," and "making jokes," and that the effect of playing Destiny has greatly lifted his mood. That said, it hasn't all been plain sailing."There are some hiccups. He gave raiding a try today, and he finds communicating with strangers difficult -- even something as simple as stating that he is stuck inside the portal was too much for him today. One or two in our fireteam were getting frustrated with him, and it bummed him out pretty badly. And playing for hours on end is exhausting for him. But we agree that for ten or so days into playing, the results we have seen are not bad. Not bad at all."

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