Very good quote that I will have to remember. My problem is that I can handle the physical part. Hell as much as I have been carved on the incisions, needles and everything else that they do to me does not even matter. My Blood Pressure does not even raise a tick when they wheel me to the Operating Room and the nurses make comments about it each and everytime. The problem this time is I have focused and waited for December to get here because my buddy 3sons and I plus a few others from time to time would be fishing EVERY day at Dale Hollow. Catchemall and I would be defending our Billy Westmoreland title the first weekend of December, we had 22 fish on Thursday by the way with several good quality unders and then found bigger fish on Friday prefishing plus with the forecast my confidence was extremely high that we had just as good a shot as any. Then the pain gets worse and worse Friday, off the water at 11am, Hospital an hour later, then helicopter ride, emergency surgery, incision that is 6 inches deep and 8 inches wide, and that is the end of the month long fishing trip. Literally I was going to be FNF fishing Dale Hollow EVERY day in December except for the 25th and 26th when I would be home for Xmas. All the months of planning, thought, the fact that I had on fished for 90 minutes ALL YEAR LONG, literally packed food, clothes and everything else for the month and put it in the cabin, all taken away in a heartbeat.

I have had 27 surgeries, Right lung collapsed twice, left lung collapsed once, Psuedomoneous Staff Infection since 2008, now MRSA, 3 bouts of internal bleeding, kidney stones, gall stones, wound vacs that have gotten infected each of the 6 previous times I have had them (knock on wood this one is doing well), wounds after surgeries have gotten infected every time except twice, 500 days in the hospital, probably 50 trips to the ER and that is being conservative and not telling what I have forgotten over the past 5 years. That is a lot of storms to learn to dance thru and you dance and dance until you get tired of dancing.