Since it seems like I get all the bad luck just wondering if anyone has any GOOD LUCK that they don't need and would pass it my way. Everyone knows of my medical issues and they just keep on coming. Been hoping to go fishing this past weekend for my only trip to KY Lake this year. Saving all year long and hoping I would heal up from the surgery well enough. All was going well and looked like I would get 5 days at KY Lake in Prime Time fish catching action but then.. a week ago I get out of bed and go to the bathroom for the morning leakage. After I get done I pass out and hit the vanity and then the floor. Luckily my wife was home and heard me come crashing down. She found me passed out on the bathroom floor and got me to a sitting position but said I was out cold for over 4 minutes. We go to UK hospital and they do all kinds of test and rule out stroke, heart issues, clots and other stuff and says it is Vasovagal. What, it is a diseas that men get over the age of 40 where their blood pressure drops, ESPECIALLY during that morning leakage and the blood does not get from the legs back to the heart and you pass out. Bruised ribs, knot on my head and twisted knee but I was deteremined to go to KY Lake and fish. Get everything ready, new line in 6 rods, boat ready leave out Saturday afternoon, get on North Barkley for a couple of hours before the sun goes down. I catch 28 with 8 keepers and my buddy caught 8 with 2 keepers. The hook setting bending and other stuff was miserable. The ride back to Poplar Creek into the wind and small waves was MISERABLE. I could not breath because my ribs were hurting me so bad. Knew I should not have went but when a man has been thru what I have been thru Fishing is about the only thing I can do to feel normal. Got the boat on the trailer, turned her around and drove back home. 4 hours down, 90 minutes on the water, 4 hours back and the fish were jumping into the boat. 4lb Smallie on the first cast, 2 1/2 lb Spotted Bass on the 3rd cast and 4lb Largemouth on the 5th cast, trifecta of keepers in the first 5 cast and my buddy was still trying to hook his lizard. Horrible Luck is all I can say. I recovered from the surgery well did everything I could do, saved every penny to get to go and then Vasovagal takes it all away. Sitting here about as depressed as one man can get. Does anyone have any Good Luck that they could spare because I sure could use a tad bit?

The only good of the trip was that we stopped by and seen David Hayes on the way down and my buddy Mike got to meet him plus I got one of my pictures that my wife took a few weeks back when I met him for the first time autographed. I now have an 8 1/2 x 11 Glossy of Mr. Hayes holding the record Smallie autographed and framed on my wall. Still a Class Act Mr Hayes.