For those of you that don't know my dad, he is the best. At the age of 70, he still does his best to be one of the boy's, throwing batting practice to my baseball team, helps my brother and I coach football, and he still attempts to play in the ward softball tournament, even though he is at least 25 years older than anyone else on the field. The only thing that really shows his age is his driving ability. He is all over the road. It isn't "Life in the fast lane", it is "Life in EVERY LANE." My brother and I have nick named him the "Bird Man" because we get the finger all the time while driving around town.
2008 however, has been a rough year for him. To start the year off he had retina surgery to fix a detached retina. After that surgery he had to have cataract surgery as a result of the retina surgery. So now he is kinda blind in one eye. Which makes the driving experience even more interesting. A few months later, he had a hip replacement, and was out of it for 6 weeks. And today, he has once again gone under the knife to repair some pinched nerves in his back, and the doc says this one will keep him out for another 6 to 8 weeks. To finish it all of, he is also 80 percent deaf in his left ear. I DON'T WANT TO GET OLD!!!!
Now for all of you that want to feel sorry for him, DON'T. There is only one reason he has subjected himself to all of this, so he can play GOLF. It is not for his health, nor his family, just golf. We don't mind him playing golf, we just hope that eventually he will let us drive, although the day would be a little less interesting if that happened.
2008 however, has been a rough year for him. To start the year off he had retina surgery to fix a detached retina. After that surgery he had to have cataract surgery as a result of the retina surgery. So now he is kinda blind in one eye. Which makes the driving experience even more interesting. A few months later, he had a hip replacement, and was out of it for 6 weeks. And today, he has once again gone under the knife to repair some pinched nerves in his back, and the doc says this one will keep him out for another 6 to 8 weeks. To finish it all of, he is also 80 percent deaf in his left ear. I DON'T WANT TO GET OLD!!!!
Now for all of you that want to feel sorry for him, DON'T. There is only one reason he has subjected himself to all of this, so he can play GOLF. It is not for his health, nor his family, just golf. We don't mind him playing golf, we just hope that eventually he will let us drive, although the day would be a little less interesting if that happened.
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Trav already plays way too much. What is he going to do when we get old. Oh wait...we're half way there.
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