Took the wife for a couple hours today a bit windy for sure…no reds today all Trout released to play another day!
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That bank looks warm, low tide, dark pluff, slight undercut, gentle bend.
It’s got all the right stuff, well except the drop that we can’t see, lol
Great pics
YOU NAILED IT EF1…changed it up a bit today on the colors!
Jump they say 2nd chances at life change you, and they would be correct in my mind… I enjoy the catch and release more than ever… I am taking my FIL again Friday and will probably send a couple his way for dinner…
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@Wickedfishing Absolutely! Happened to me but in a different way.
Got a scholarship to play basketball in college. Worked my way to 6th man junior year. All of a sudden I have blood in my stool, started losing weight, couldnt stay out of the bathroom. Ended up dropping scholarship but graduated. 4 years later my colon was removed due to signs of colon cancer starting. It changed my life…but for good…God is so good! Keep the pictures coming for us Up-Staters!
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I must have some feline blood because I’ve lived at least 4 lives, so far. Thank God for letting me survive the stupidity of my youth.
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Heck of a story Jump, I’m glad everything worked out for you… my story was a little weird
and I will give you the short version 5 1/2 years ago I had a covid test done at a local hospital … better not to name …got a call that evening and they left a voicemal saying hey test was negative if you dont feel better in a few days go see your primary care doc… ok great no worries Im good… following day get another message saying hey call us back we can discuss your results… so this is where it went to crap… should I have called or should they have explained yea your test was negative but would like to discuss another issue… so I guess it depends which side of the fence your on… so fast forwarded exacty 5 years and one week… that time frame is important later… I was hunting pheasants with my 3 sons in Virginia… without out so much as an inkling I get out of the truck and couldnt breathe well it was bad enough I didnt hunt after a 7 hour drive…Immediately returned home and doc sent me to Roper pulmonary and they did a bunch of tests… so I signed up for their portal … test results were already there and it was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis…I didnt have a clue what it was so of course you google it… and I quote no cure 3 to 5 years life expectancy without any type treatment…always fatal… yea that hit hard… so then my wife is looking and says thats a mistake honey that report is dated June of 2020… are you sure thats yours … then we realize that’s the report that was never discussed with me but auto uplaoded when I joined the portal… so then you realize youve had this disease for 5 years and 1 week… yea I was done for at that point… I went to a very dark place and it took me a couple weeks to snap out of it and decided I was going to do whatever it took to live long for my very young Grandchildren to remember me… MUSC enters the picture and brought hope… Man of faith and a Christian but when a doctor sits in front of you and tells you your dying and in reality only had a few months… it can rock you regardless… by then I was shortly admitted to the hospital because I needed 60 liters of oxygen just to go to bathroom…I went through a week plus worth of testing to see if I qualified and that is stressful in itself because you just know something is going to pop up and disqualify you… and the months or years waiting for a match could I last long enough?? I was already admitted and new I was never going to leave MUSC without a new set of lungs and thats a scary feeling… especially knowing their is not a whole lot of 6 foot 2 plus tall donors out there… my faimly my freinds and myself all remained faithfull and trusted in God…I wont go into the pain, hallucinations , learning to walk again, eat again its all part of it but what I wanted to focus on was the doors God opened for me from the very beginning… when I was finally in the osistion to be listed on the national data base it could be months to years and I didnt have that kind of time… the one thing that I wasnt sure I was dealing with to well is I knew someone had to die for me to live a and this persons family was going to suffer as well… 4 days I was on the list 4 days with the Docs finding a new set and turning down several other sets… so many doors were opened for me some truly unbelievable and fully still hard to talk about . But thats my story in short and Im thankful that God decided it wasnt my time yet. At 56 I plan on being around a bit… I have been married 36 years with 4 children and 9 grandchildren… I plan on enjoying the time i have left with 2nd life I have been given.
The one thing I really want to emphasize well really 2… god has a plan for me and secondly MUSC in no uncertain terms have been and continue to be the absolute the best …everyone from 5 east on 5th foor from the rehab teams down to the first floor transplant clinic all are an absolute incredible team of Doctors and Nurses and Techs who absolutely without question are the best are what they do and saved my life… they treat me with such compassion and care still to this day… sorry for the lengthy write everyone.
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Thats freaking funny T, I think we’ve all been there haha
Really happy for you Wicked. It’s very important to be an organ donor, and on the bone marrow donor registry. I won’t go into details but MUSC has been an amazing gift to my family. World class care going on 30 years.
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@Wickedfishing The procedure to remove my colon and create the j-pouch was done at MUSC!!! I 100% agree with you!
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