Hello friends,
This is christian himself. I got word of a thread on here and searched it out a couple days ago. Here is an update.
First and foremost thanks to each of you for your prayers and wishes, as I have always said they mean the most. Its been a hard time for the last couple months and now I'm about out of time. With your prayers and support, it makes these times easier for both my family and myself. Prayer is a powerful thing!
Many of you have probably heard of my name. I use to report on the ohio river here on fishin.com, wrote articules for the Redbone journal, courier journal, spanishflytv, indiana conservation afield and many others. I've been very fortunate to have fished with some of the best in the world, and the OLN network named me All-Time Couragious 25 #19 in 2004. While I'm paying with my life for the disease I was born with back in 1984, my life has been great, and without having to have fought to see another day my whole life, I wouldn't be the person I am today. I'd like to think as I'm leaving this world by my articles and those whom knew me the closest, maybe I made a diffrence in someones life. Weither its one person or 1000, I can rest easy with that fact.
What I'm trying to say is even though my life story has been one of up's and down's (primarily down's) there is no reason to feel sadend by what's happening now. Yes, its hard. But by good friends like you I'd rather my final days be ones of happy memories rather than the sad. Does this make since?
As of the moment I'm sitting in a hospital bed at UNC. Reading through the Ohio River posts almost make me cry! Last year I finally fgured the river stripes out and in doing do pissing a lot of people off. How would you feel if this "seemingly" kid showed up and caught his limit of stripes for he and his buddy of solid 10lb fish. Meanwhile you where there all day! Sure, so this didn't happen everyday (I'm not that good no matter how much I let on) but I was at my prime as far as the river was concerned. But hey, that's life right! Now I sit here and read the posts by you guys and just smile! We have a great fishery right out our back door, enjoy it! Trust me, its not like that everywhere.
Back to an update of my health, I heard the rumor of cancer. Turns out I do not have cancer but very fast acting chronic rejection. Somedays I don't even leave my bed because its such a struggle, and talking on the phone is out. The doctors had planned to give me a second and final transplant although because of my declining health and scheduling delays, I haven't been able to complete all my pre-tx evals. There is a lot that goes into a successful double lung transplant and without all tests completed its no big of a risk to proceed forward.
I have two remaining tests this week but they are expected to get delayed because at the moment I am too sick to perform them. There is some hope, but we are simply running out of time.
Once again I thank each of you for taking in a stranger and sending your prayers and wishes. I cannot begin to explain what they mean to me. When I opened this page I couldn't believe it.

If you would like to know more about my life and what I'm about visit spanishflytv.com/whatup

There will be an article there wrote by me while I was in the hospital in September. It talks about my transplant, my friendship with Jose Wejebe and previews my show to air in Jan. on ESPN2.

I will keep you updated as I feel like it. Thanks again, God Bless