Every year about this time I am typically doing the countdown to opening day.
This year it is much different.
December 3rd I had back surgery and L4/L5 were fused.
Mid March I am scheduled for left knee replacement.
I am really looking forward to be on stream again.
2014 may be a wash for me but the future is unwritten.
Good Luck, spinner.
2014 unwritten right now , but you’ll have time to write while on the mend.
I know your full of good stories untold , soul medicine.
look forward to reading them Len.
hows your beautiful daughter?
Daughter has her first steady. Don’t get to see her anymore. She starts college in Fall.
Will use the time to write.
Thanks
keep the faith she will always be,
and , do what the wife says … be well
Len, sorry to hear of your situation. Four years ago I embarked upon a path that was both painful and permanently disabling. I have had 2 back surgeries that resulted in neuropathy in both feet resulting in my spraining my left ankle so bad that I had to have reconstructive surgery - well, six surgeries later it is fused and my leg is an inch shorter than when I started. In the middle of all that I had a hip replaced. I looked upon a bleak future with the strong possibility of little or no fishing. I was wrong. I still fish in excess of 50 days a year (about half of what I did prior to the problems), but I am still on the water at least once a week.
Though my mother is not a religious person she tells me often of her favorite scripture “…and it came to pass”, meaning it did not come to stay. I have strong faith in that statement as it feels like I have been through some pretty tough times and have rebounded; perhaps not to the level as before it all happened, but at least I am happy in what I can do.
You will be back on the water before you know it. I was fishing a new stillwater out of my pontoon boat two weeks after I had my hip replaced, and I caught some good fish and reveled in being back out in the country I love, doing what I love to do so much. I know your passion and am absolutely confident you will be back on the water before you know it.
Get a good walking/wading staff and get back out there. The activity will be good for your new knee and your spirit will be in a good place too.
How’s this for dedication?:
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Go get 'em brother!