Fishin report for Lake Iwanttobethere..

[hoppe56307]

Hope you get better soon.

[Dotch]

Get better Bobby! We miss you! 

[RebelSS]

Hope you're home by now!!! get better!!!! 

[leechlake]

since I was a little kid I said the old "now I lay me down to sleep..." prayer before bed.  Always list people for God to bless and for the past while I find myself including Bobby Bass in it.  Sometimes I find it funny saying Bobby Bass but I know He knows who I mean.  It's around 80 days til "fishing opener" Bobby get well...

 

[Tom7227]

I only read this about once a month and so I have just learned that Bobby is have a new adventure, one I am sure he would prefer to have avoided.  But while going through things I have learned a couple of things.

First is that another red flag has to be tossed.  752 months does not result in a birthday.  It results in an age of 65.666.  Not quite enough for a birthday.

Second is to announce that I have downloaded every entry in this blog.  I have edited out all of the repetitive stuff that you get when you do a download. There are 1, 452, 282 words in the 'book' that is 1,939 pages long.

Recently you wrote about trying to remember the stories your grandpa told you and how you weren't able to do it.  But your grandkids are going to be able to read your stories any time they want.  They are going to be able to share them with their kids, and by then they probably will be able to come up with a way to fix it so they can watch you read it to them on the computer.

Keep banging away.  You are creating memories for many, and they can last for a long time.

Thanks.

[Bobby Bass]

WOW Tom that is some pretty cool research. Turns out I am a pretty long winded s.o.b. Hahha  Just got out of an unexpected hospital stay that was like the voyage of the uss minnow, instead of a four hour cruise it became four days. Had problems with very low heart rate and blood pressure and ended up having my blood chemistry go way out of whack, bunch of testing and I swear they removed enough blood to paint Duncan's house with  if Duncan had a dog house. The bad part about this was that this was suppose to be my off week in my chemo cycle and I spent it in the hospital. I have a lot of reading to catch up to and a lot of sleep as no one ever went to a hospital to get any rest. Thank you for everyone who is emailing me, I will touch base with all of you in the next few days, Bobby..

Edited February 26, 2016 by Bobby Bass

[Bobby Bass]

5 hours ago, Tom7227 said:

I only read this about once a month and so I have just learned that Bobby is have a new adventure, one I am sure he would prefer to have avoided.  But while going through things I have learned a couple of things.

First is that another red flag has to be tossed.  752 months does not result in a birthday.  It results in an age of 65.666.  Not quite enough for a birthday.

Second is to announce that I have downloaded every entry in this blog.  I have edited out all of the repetitive stuff that you get when you do a download. There are 1, 452, 282 words in the 'book' that is 1,939 pages long.

Recently you wrote about trying to remember the stories your grandpa told you and how you weren't able to do it.  But your grandkids are going to be able to read your stories any time they want.  They are going to be able to share them with their kids, and by then they probably will be able to come up with a way to fix it so they can watch you read it to them on the computer.

Keep banging away.  You are creating memories for many, and they can last for a long time.

Thanks.

But Tom to me here at the Lake every month on the 22nd is a birthday for me !  As a matter of fact I just had one a few days ago.  I got a new bag of saline for my IV as a present! and a cupcake from my night nurse...

 

On a more serious note thank you kindly for the comment about my kids and grandkids being able to read these stories, you don 't  know how close to home that hits me, Thanks Tom

[swamptiger]

Good luck, Bobby.  Always enjoy reading your posts.

[Bobby Bass]

THAT GUY, I am that guy! I went back to the hospital on Friday for my last plasma washing that went off without a hitch. Since my sessions were done they pulled out the chest tube, applied pressure and a bandage and I was allowed to leave. Ten minutes later I am at the emergency entrance waiting for my wife to bring the truck around and I reach down and find myself wet on my side. My pressure bandage had not held and I was bleeding, a lot of excitement there for a few minutes as I yelled for some help and several nurses came to bring me to the emergency room. I held my hand to my chest as blood poured out around my fingers and we got me to a room and some gloved up nurses. I ended up spending another day in the hospital as they had to give me a transfusion of two units of blood to get me good to go home again. This is the short version I don’t think I am going to write a long version of this story, but it was finally nice to get rather then receive blood for a change... Just saying I am that guy when this kind of stuff seems to happen.

[delcecchi]

Hey Bobby, are you consuming much blood during your treatments, in addition to that which you let run all over the ground?   Used to be that folks could donate to help someone out and provide blood for them.  If that still would help, I bet some of the folks here would be happy to get a needle in their vein for you.  

I would be up for it, if I can get off this inhaler that defers me from donating.

[Bobby Bass]

On 2/25/2016 at 0:16 PM, RebelSS said:

Hope you're home by now!!! get better!!!! 

Back in hospital, blood clot. Not a good stretch of days!

[LindellProStaf]

dam that sucks Bobby.  A shot of whiskey may thin that out for you.  Get this stuff under control now so you can enjoy the beautiful spring that is right around the corner.   My thoughts are with you.

[leechlake]

Bobby-  you jinxed yourself when you said you liked the breakfast service of the nurses better than the one provided at home!!!  Keep your spirits up and let the doctors take care of your body.  I witnessed a guy buying a fishing license at lunch today and thought of the opener countdown and you.  Get well and get home.

[Dotch]

Hey Bobby, hope things are improving for you. I think LPS has the right idea. Get well so you can enjoy more of those birthdays with cherries on top. 

[Bobby Bass]

Just woke up from a 48 hour nap. Came home from the hospital exausted and went straight to bed. Blood clot was ruled out after ultrasounds and two cat scans. So some good news there. On my tablet tuff to Write lots of rea reading for me.

 d

[ANYFISH2]

Wishing you the best Bobby! 

Brian

[Dotch]

Keep checking here to see how you're doing. That was one heck of a nap! Get better there, bud! 

[leechlake]

On March 6, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Bobby Bass said:

Just woke up from a 48 hour nap. Came home from the hospital exausted and went straight to bed. Blood clot was ruled out after ultrasounds and two cat scans. So some good news there. On my tablet tuff to Write lots of rea reading for me.

 d

Holy Cow!  48 hour nap would be about 12 trips to the bathroom for me.  Good work holding it

The backlog of LIWTBT stories is going to provide quite a bit of continuous reading for us, maybe it was good you were sleeping because after limited fishing success this weekend I may have picked up a white package at the  grocery store and wasn't seen this time.

[Bobby Bass]

I am beaming here at Lake Iwanttobethere, just back from the DOC’s office where we discussed the current treatment plan. The good news is that my unplanned stay at the hospital last week was a success as my blood work came back today and I am back inside limits on several tests that were way out of bounds and were getting into the critical stages. I did gain 25 pounds in water weight but have already shed it all in the past three days. Let me tell you walking around with all that made balance and blood pressure tough to control. I see some stories coming so you might want to grab a can of Hamm’s when I start posting them...

[RebelSS]

Yay! Good news!  Vey happy to hear that, Bobby!   Dontcha just hate those CAT scans??  

 

[Bobby Bass]

4 hours ago, RebelSS said:

Yay! Good news!  Vey happy to hear that, Bobby!   Dontcha just hate those CAT scans??  

 

O so true 

I just read about Weathertite on the Saint Cloud thread. shook me hard and hit home. he has been a strong supporter in my own health. My thoughts are going to him.

[Bobby Bass]

FIRST OFF I believe that nothing is impossible but a lot of things are highly improbable, Having made that statement I believe in ghosts. During my long stay in the hospital any kind of really good sleep was next to impossible to get. With the drugs I was taking I had more than a few wild dreams interrupted. Most dreams were quickly forgotten but one has hung with me now for more then a week, I was in my hospital bed and the room door was ajar. The bathroom door was open a crack with the light on. The sliver of light from the bathroom that fell into the room was just enough for the nurses and lab people to check on me, It was past two in the morning when I woke up. I didn't open my eyes all the way as I was expecting a nurse was going to be the reason I woke up. Instead I got the impression someone was in my room but I did not see anyone, I rolled on to my side and looked through the side rail of the bed to see my old dog Bud looking back at me.

 

White face and his sweet old tired eyes looked back at me and his tail was slowly waging with a purpose brushing the curtain that hangs from the ceiling in front of the door. I blinked my eyes trying to get them in focus. He stood looking at me like he had been there for awhile. Bud took a few steps closer to the bed and was in reach of my hand that I had stuck through the side rail, I heard him whine his familiar whine and he leaned forward to lick my hand, just once, I asked him if he wanted me to follow him but instead he turned away from the bed and walked to the curtain. He looked over his broad brown back at me and gave me a soft little ruff growl that sounded like a no. Then he walked into the curtain and was gone.

 

The dream is the only one of many that I had, but it is the only one I remember, I think he was telling me that Bud and his brother Barney are not yet ready to show me their new hunting grounds. Was it a dream or was it Buds ghost checking on me, I want to think it was his ghost. Here at Lake Iwanttobethere anything can be possible.

[ANYFISH2]

Powerful moments, when old friends come to visit, dream or otherwise.

Bud is still watching over you!  Here, you may have thought he was your dog when in all reality, you are HIS human.

Glad your back Bobby!

Edited March 9, 2016 by ANYFISH2

[Bobby Bass]

A VERY PRODUCTIVE day today here at the cabin on Hidden Bay. Some light rain fell which is helping with the snow melt and no dripping from the eves as the snow is all gone along with the little ice dams there were on the out buildings roofs. My son in law's birthday today and along with his wife, my daughter I set up a surprise present. Since I know that I am not going to make eighty and even seventy may be a reach I am working on gifting my rifles and shotguns away. I want to keep things in the family and I know the son in law has to borrow a gun for deer hunting. My thought for his thirty fifth birthday was to gift him a thirty-five year old 30-30 with scope and hard case.

　

So this morning I got it out from the gun cabinet and clean it up, oiled and before you know it the smell in the den was rich with gun cleaning solvent and wipe clothes. I ended up cleaning all the guns and can mark it off my Spring cleaning do list. I brought the rife over to the son in law's house with a story that his wife had given me the OK to store a gun there for a couple of weeks. I brought the gun over and he didn’t think twice about it and we did some cake and then I gave him fat little card. He opened the card to find two keys for the case and I told him what was inside was actually his present. He open it up looked at me and shook my hand and just said thank you. Just the response I was looking for, he then picked it up and checked the rifle out and shook my hand again.

　

Back at the cabin after doing a little car shopping at Reed’s Auto Place. Am looking to trade off the wife’s Jeep for something else. Getting to point where it needs more work then I want to put it in so I am looking to dump it off in a trade, which surprising the wife approved. But then again for the last month she has been driving the Tahoe while I have been laid up and is getting a little too comfortable in it if you know what I mean. So I get back to the cabin and find out that one of my sons had been by and cleaned all the carpet while I was out with the wife at the son in laws. I did have to put furniture back but I got clean carpets.

 

So I am sitting in the den with the smell of gun oil still hanging in the air and Duncan lying at my feet under the desk. Got a lot done today compared to a typical day the last few months. Am feeling pretty good as a matter of fact. I also am feeling good about making the son in law's day and mine also. Lots of stuff that I no longer need but have here. Hate to see it just given away, I like the idea of doing some gifting and filling some other relative's fishing boxes with the forty some years of fishing tackle that I have in the Puddle Humper and in storage. I always buy to much and you know that as I give fishing tackle away then I will have open slots in my tackle boxes. No sense in telling the wife I will probable be in need for some new fishing tackle here at Lake Iwanttobethere

[ANYFISH2]

Gosh, I've been missing your regular additions!  

Here's to a long stretch of health and stories.