From the begining....

Last December my wife had errands to run and I  needed to go to yet another doctor appointment trying to figure out what was going on...thinking it was some lower back issue...never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would receive a terminal diagnoses. I go back to that day offten remembering it hitting me like a semi truck. The doc says, "well it looks like you have ALS, Lou Gehrigs Disease you know what that is, Right ?" Well I told him, " I think I have heard of it before..." He then goes on to say it is a neurological disease, it is terminal most live 2 to 5 years and some just a few months, you better go home and get your stuff in order. Not even being prepared for something like this I had gone to my appointment alone. I mean I was just having some problems here and there concerning my legs. Anyway just hearing this news I imediately tried to call my wife, no answer...she was in a appointment herself...it was going to be a little while...I went home and jumped on the computer for a search on ALS. Can you imagine coming across the information I shared on my opening blog, unbelievable...I finally was able to get in touch with Sonja and began to share with her the news...I could not get many of the words out without starting to cry like a baby...we decided it best to continue talking when she came home. Well needless to say there was not a lot of talking going on we just held on to each other and cried. We decided not to tell the kids yet because we were not really sure what it was and what exactly we were dealing with...Suck it up the kids are coming...really hard to gain your composure but we tried to pull it off. My sons and I REALLY enjoy hunting and of course Lance and I had plans to check out the woods later that day...we would still head to the woods but I forgot what I also loved about hunting... is time alone in the woods to think...this I did not need on that day...

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