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LET'S BE HONEST

• alosso 21,072 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 3:18 AM

  Thanks for your remarkable honesty, but you can't expect us to not answer.

  But, instead of the usual stuff, I'm gonna say what I've learned lately:

   

  ENJOY YOUR LIFE!

   

  For more of this mindset, look at the Clairity Project (link to youtube) of Claire, a happy young woman from California in severe health condition.

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 4:23 AM

  PaulTon:

  Myself and a few friends played golf after consuming 100 mushrooms each. We didn't keep scores, mainly because we couldn't handle numbers in that state.

  The standard of golf was terrible, what a laugh though. We all seemed to be using vividly coloured vapour trail balls which didn't cost us extra credits.

  Dunno why that memory popped up but I thought I'd share.

  Good 1 LOL

  PaulTon:

  Here's the honesty bit -

  This week my doctor has confirmed that I have a condition called Marfans syndrome.

  Very sorry to hear that.  The utter randomness of this mortal coil we get to tread never ceases to amaze........My best to you and yours from all here is all I can say, but it is genuine.  

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 4:47 AM

  Paul..I had never heard of this condition prior to your post. So I quickly googled it, and this one line caught my attention:

  "There is no cure for Marfan syndrome. Many people have a normal life expectancy with proper treatment.."

  So stay positive, my friend, and follow your doctor's instructions to the letter.

  ct

• WigerToods2010 8,447 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 5:12 AM

  PaulTon:

  Here's the honesty bit -

  This week my doctor has confirmed that I have a condition called Marfans syndrome.

  So sorry to read the above.

  Now... stop f***ing whinging and get oan wae it !

  Take care, Pablo.

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 5:19 AM

  Thanks guys.

  ct690911:

  "There is no cure for Marfan syndrome. Many people have a normal life expectancy with proper treatment.."

  Yeah, I read that too. I'm not gonna check the numbers, lol.

  All that's changed is that I've been told something, it could be something or nothing. I'm still planning to live forever and I've got to say, so far so good...

  WigerToods2010:

  Now... stop f***ing whinging and get oan wae it !

  But hang on, I hit a PW into a 15mph headwind, no spin and dinged it. It went .....

  :)

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 8:48 AM

  Whale oil beef hooked...

  Screw getting maudlin, just want to say you've brought (and continue to bring) a lot to the table and I only regret we'll both probably shuffle off this mortal coil not having had the chance to sit down together and have a few laughs over a pint or three.

  Goddammit, maudlin is lurking behind my monitor waiting to pounce...

• drmoose 3,542 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 9:16 AM

   ^^^ Yep, kindred spirits an' all, well put Mark. Thoughts for your wellbeing Paul.

  Doc

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 9:35 AM

  mkg335:

  Whale oil beef hooked...

  Screw getting maudlin, just want to say you've brought (and continue to bring) a lot to the table and I only regret we'll both probably shuffle off this mortal coil not having had the chance to sit down together and have a few laughs over a pint or three.

  Goddammit, maudlin is lurking behind my monitor waiting to pounce...

  Couldn't have penned it better. On an upnote, at least we know wgt cares.:)

• petervcpt 1,013 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 11:05 AM

  PaulTon:

  This week my doctor has confirmed that I have a condition called Marfans syndrome.

  So therefore, you are tall and thin?

  :-)

  It might not be much mate and it probably ain't, but if ya need to shout and rail, we're here for you.

  As we say in Afrikaans:

  "Sterkte maat, kyk Noord en fok voort"

  Thanks for sharing, and ya know what?

  Eff ya.

  :-)

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Wed, Oct 5 2016 11:54 AM

  Good attitude PT!

  A somewhat close friend of mines wife was diagnosed with Cancer, no problem they said, opened her up, long story short she was gone in 8 months...

  4 years later he is diagnosed with it, they tell him it is "really" bad, he has a year to live at the most but they can treat it and get him 2 or so....he says screw that, he changed his diet, read up and tried a bunch of "Natural remedies" and went on about it, and he of course passed away, 5yrs later of a Heart attack leaving a Casino!

  If it's true that "Only the good die young", you should have many decades left...LMAO