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10kman
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Fishing partner
10kman
Posts: 998 Officer
One of the hard parts of life is losing a good fishing/hunting
partner.For those of you who saw an old,with lots of fiberglass
patches on a green Gheenoe at Goodland or POI early am,
then you know him.But that boat could go shallow!
I was scheduled to fish with him.but the night before he
called and said he didn't feel well.Fri.he called from the
hospital to tell me,he had been admitted and the Doctor just
informed him he has pancreatic cancer.
When you've fish with someone probably 300 times in
last 15 years you remember the memorable fish,the many
times lost in the 10k or times stranded on a sandbar or mud.
partner.For those of you who saw an old,with lots of fiberglass
patches on a green Gheenoe at Goodland or POI early am,
then you know him.But that boat could go shallow!
I was scheduled to fish with him.but the night before he
called and said he didn't feel well.Fri.he called from the
hospital to tell me,he had been admitted and the Doctor just
informed him he has pancreatic cancer.
When you've fish with someone probably 300 times in
last 15 years you remember the memorable fish,the many
times lost in the 10k or times stranded on a sandbar or mud.
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Bob LeMay
(954) 435-5666
10 years ago one of my oldest friends was diagnosed with cancer in August and he passed away in December. I knew him since we were in junior high school and it was devastating.
On the other hand, my wife was diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago (stage 3) and, following chemo and radiation, she has been disease free ever since.
My point is don’t give up on him because the treatments have come a long way and people are surviving at a greater rate every year.
I hope that you get to fish with him again soon.
Back in the mid 80's when I moved down here from the Chesapeake I became good friends with a co-worker who had the boat to run & gun offshore Broward. He was my mentor for all things bluewater just as I became his mentor for all things inshore in the 10k. Caught my first wahoo on his boat, he caught his first tarpon on mine.
So here's to you Leigh, we had us a time.
And I'm still sorry about that crappy bimini I tied that cost us a potential tournament winning dolphin...
last week a doctor walked in his room at NCH and
said "you have pancreatic cancer."Now it turns out
later tests(MRI) no evidence of that.But probably its
pancreatitis,also serious but correctable.
Yes,he will fish again.