Footnote Gordin: just got back from my physician's office this morning, my heart has been "pounding" all week missing every other beat - he's ordered me to stop working my second job until end of June, then a reassessment. They just won't let me not work weekends at my second job. Blood pressure was 160/110. WAY too high. He wants me back cycling to and from my regular full time job again and said I should be trying to get more paddling in - have not done much of either since last heart surgery. So there, doctors orders. Get on the water. > Yeah, been thinking about you, even said a prayer for you, you big lug. > > My friend Dorathea (Mike Jackson knows her) is going through the whole b. > cancer thing - what an ordeal. She insists paddling has helped her to keep > perspective. Hairless and under chemo derision, she headed to Vargas with > my used VHF the other week, and is off to God's Pocket soon. I asked her > how she does it; how she can still paddle during this ordeal. I'm a whiner > myself - bod not working, I'm off the water complaining to anyone who will > listen. She says she's fine while on the water - upbeat, focused on > staying perpendicular, in her glory, living the life (life being the > operative word eh, pardon all the puns). She did say when she hits the > beach though, she can barley navigate up the incline. But out on the > water - that's incredible resolve, man! Staying perpendicular, that's the > ticket, for paddling, and for life as long as we can. > > I've lost 3 co-workers to cancer this year, one just two days ago, 5, yes > 5 others were also diagnosed with the big "C" this year alone struggling > with their own battles now, and it's not even half way through the year. > It's our demographic, Gordin. Nothing we can do really, though many of > these folks are smokers. So, heal up, stay positive, stay humble, and get > out there and paddle. Life is a short fling, that's it, then you are gone. > Enjoy it, explore it, and use guide books at your own discretion. :-) How > we get knowledge from words is an interesting aspect of being part of the > human race. I know, being in a church it's scary how literally some folks > take words in "The Guidebook." > > And enjoy the rough stuff. It's kind of fun not letting the sea bully you > anymore - though ultimately it'll slap you silly and stomp on you if you > push it. The grin you get taking it near the edge, or even within your > arbitrary or self-set limits, is a salve for many ailments in life. > > Doug L > >> >> Doug Lloyd wrote: >> >> >>> You will be ready for night storm paddling soon!!! >>> >> Paul M wrote: Flat sunny days are frankly boring. >> >> >> Had my second day surgery of the past month today. Like Doug I prefer >> rough water paddling and like Paul I find flat sunny days kind of, >> well, - dull. But right now I'd welcome a flat day sunny or any day. >> It'll be two weeks before I can return to paddling. Which means I will >> have been on the water twice in the last six weeks. >> >> But don't feel sorry for me as I've turned a corner today. Even though I >> will have to wait 10 days before I know the results of this last bit they >> pulled out of me; I know I've got this thing beat. >> >> So instead of paddling I'm laying down paddling plans. Big ones. >> >> Gordin Warner *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed May 14 2008 - 10:30:39 PDT
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