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LET'S BE HONEST

• droolingtroll 107 Posts

  Tue, Sep 15 2015 4:53 AM

  you refered to him as gunny? marine corps? if so i hate to loose a brother but i know that that very fact makes him tough enough to go thru anything and i am sure he passed on some of that very toughness on to you too... this too shale pass and you will get through it with all of your family here at wgt ... and my hat is off to all of you wgt brothers who responded here, great job guys

  the drooling troll

• newcastleb 1,813 Posts

  Tue, Sep 15 2015 7:03 AM

  renniw52:

  Ya all shout out a prayer for my Dad, Thank You.

  Easiest thing I've been asked to do for ages....done

  And for you good sir - I know from sad experience that even with the time is 'right' it still hurts like a frickin hurting thing to loose someone so special.

  alosso:

  May sweet memory cover the sorrow!

  ^^yeh, what he said

  Blessings

  Thomas

• drmoose 3,543 Posts

  Tue, Sep 15 2015 9:16 AM

  My thoughts and hopes with you and yours, Rich.

  Doc 

• lee22sharon 1,419 Posts

  Tue, Sep 15 2015 9:34 AM

  May the memories of your "Gunny" never fade!   my nickle.

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Tue, Sep 15 2015 6:40 PM

  Thank you all more than I can say, talked to Dad tonight and he is hanging in. Said he would like to see a few more sun rises but it is not his call. Damn this is hard.

• frappefort 3,994 Posts

  Tue, Sep 15 2015 7:28 PM

  With you Rich   

• opyeuclid 6,710 Posts

  Wed, Sep 16 2015 2:47 PM

  Winn 25  ..    There are no words that I can say that will change whats to come . 

  As long as you remember your Dad , He will live forever in your heart just like mine has .

  OPY

• Mushy01 2,567 Posts

  Wed, Sep 16 2015 3:47 PM

  Went through the same in May Rich, god it still hurts.

  Thoughts and wishes bud

  Mush.

• golfvader7 1,822 Posts

  Sat, Sep 19 2015 2:23 PM

  golfvader7:

  golfvader7:

  It appears you all know each other already, so..........my friends call me "gv" or "vader", I'm 66 (Feb 13), live on Long Island in NY, am married 44 years to the same gal, and my daughter lives in Germantown, Maryland. 30 years ago I was a scratch golfer with hopes of getting better and trying to make the Senior Tour when I turned 50. I had already won 13 amateur tourneys, but still thought I had to get better.

  Then the fun began. I had 2 emotional breakdowns (working 80 hour weeks will do that), had a silent heart attack, found I had 2 bad kidneys (both make stones), developed angina, had a pacemaker implanted 6 hours before my heart shut down (I live off the thing, it fires 65 times per minute, it has been replaced 3 times), had my gall bladder removed, had open heart surgery (2x...after the 1st one I started bleeding into my chest cavity so they had to go in again), & just to make it interesting I have clinical depression and anxiety disorder. And, have tremors in both hands due to certain meds I must take. And I take more meds every day than most pharmacies carry as stock. I think that's it.

  This is without question the very best golf site I have ever seen. I've been a WGT member for a year, am a Tour Master, and hope to make Legend before I go play golf in Camelot. I've had more than my share of run-ins with the WGT..........but quit because of "all the problems"..........NEVER!!! This site gives me everything I had in playing regularly except actually swinging the club. My health prohibits that. But I WILL play again, even if I have to ride around the course in an ambulance with EMT"s as my caddie. 

  When you have stared death in the face 3x, you develop a new outlook on life. Really you do!!! My sense of humor gets through the days, weeks, months and years. So, PLEASE, take a tip from "gv". This is as close to real golf as you can get. I've hit many a shot that I thought was perfect and wasn't. I've missed 10 inch putts more times than I can count. I've been screwed here on credits. SO WHAT!!!! Take this game for what it is.....have fun with it. Make new friends, laugh off some of the stupidity that happens all the time. You don't know when you won't be able to do it anymore. Just before I'm cremated (I want my ashes scattered, 1/2 over St. Andrews, the other 1/2 over the greatest course I ever played, Augusta National),  I'll probably say: "Please wait, I just want to hit 1 more shot"

  "I hope I see you all very soon in the short grass"..........................................."gv"

  PS.....What a simply great idea to have the chance to post things like this. Maybe I'll make some new "FRIENDS"

  
  

  Since that post in March 2013, I became the most hated owner in wgt because of something I wrote concerning CCs of the week. And quite frankly I have not posted since. I leave the community forum to those that "run it" and can say what they please, no matter what, no matter who they hurt. But this thread, the best of those in any forum, deserved an update form March 2013. I have recently been diagnosed with early -onset alzheimers. My short term memory is the 1st to be effected, the rest of my memory will follow. And there is no timetable for it's escalation. At present I have good days and bad days. On good days I can remember to adjust the swing meter, on bad days I cannot recognize my daughter's voice when she calls. So those that said that I had the IQ of a goldfish, in the long run, could turn out to be correct.

  My future, terrifies me. I don't know why, I probably won't remember it. I read my club forum 5 times a day. In lucid moments, I post in my club forum hoping that I'm making sense.

  I know I cannot beat this thing. My only hope is to do my best to try and "hold it off" for as long as I can.

  I'm definitely not looking for sympathy from this crowd, but there are a few who seem to genuinely care about those that "are honest". I have not posted here in months, and probably won't. Being vulture fodder is not my thing. To the few friends I made from this thread, this post was particularly made for you. To the rest, I'm as down as far as I can get, so I'll be a perfect target for the community assassins.

  So say what you will......odds are in a few weeks I won't remember anyway, and you can rest on your laurels while beating down a defenseless wgt member. 

  Renni, thanks for starting this. I won't be posting in it anymore. Because I don't post to the community anymore, and probably because I won't remember it's here.

   

  This will likely be my last post in this thread that has given me both laughter and heartache. By now I thought I would not remember, but medical science has found away to "slow-down" the E-O-A. But no such luck with my heart. 2 weeks ago, while not feeling well, it was discovered that I have 2 more blocked arteries, 1 in an already bypassed artery, the other cannot be operable. So time grows shorter, I have not been able to play this game in some time, so I keep myself amused by still causing all kinds of havoc in the community  forum. I guess the only way to stop posting there will be taken care of without my consent. I have never posted looking for pity or sympathy. Some of what I've read here make me feel lucky in comparison.

  I am now a living, breathing reverse time bomb. Not knowing when the bomb will shut down. And not having the strength to play this silly game is sheer torture. Many of you have become allies, even friends. Others will remain the rabid vultures I have encountered over the almost 4 years of wgting. I cannot be hurt anymore by words. If I awake, my 1st reaction is always, is this a joke and I'm really in a virtual reality. I am on cutting edge meds, hoping that they can do what the surgery I cannot have, would be able to do.

  I hope to be around when my club plays it's version of the Presidents Cup, so I can present the winning team it's award. 1 day at a time.

  I truly feel this IS my last post here. Renni, you have no idea what a panacea this thread has become. A place where I can put into words what weighs so heavily on me. It beats the hell out of a $100/hour therapist. So the race is on as to which of my maladies will be the eventual winner of the only lottery I am assured of winning.

  I close this way from a quote from my very 1st post here.........

  "Please, wait, I just want to hit one more shot..........."

                                                     GV
  

   

• craigswan 31,837 Posts

  Sun, Sep 20 2015 3:57 AM

  My  sincere sympathy to you ren on your loss . I lost my mum and dad many years ago when i was young . I still look at my dad,s ww2 medals and think back . They were both in their forties when i was born so i was never going to have much time with them .

  On a lighter note my son is bringing his new american girlfriend home to st andrews for xmas . We are having it on the 22nd as she flies back to miami on the 23rd .

  We are racking our brains to give her something memorable . Although we have never met her she has already screamed on skype about the thought of haggis or black pudding .

  Any idea;s guys and girls .

  I think one of my terriors who bites everybody might make her his dinner .