Re: Tony long time

[Guest guest]

Hi Tony the oilfield cop,

Enjoyed reading your post and admire your attitude about your approach you are taking to living your life. I too was a cop for a few years and absolutely loved the friday and saturday night fights with the loggers, bikers and local tough guys (the loggers were the toughest). I took my badge and gun off more than once to combat the one that thought he could do me in--if they won they got to go free, but I could keep typing all night about those days--I loved it. My dad was a macho, type A personality guy, (a mans, man), who died of sarcoid, he had the same attitude as I have & what you exhibit, but as he got towards the end he was not able to get the transplant that could have saved his live because of the amount of damage he had done to the rest of his oxygen deprived organs. I watched him die with tears in his eyes the last day of his life. He was a baseball lover and

the closest he came to saying that he screwed up was when he said, "I wanted to bat all the time, but I guess God wants you to play the field once in awhile and get a clear picture of the whole game."

Now that I have IPF, fatal disease, I have decided to keep my organs and body in the best shape I can so if the opportunity is given for a transplant, I will have played the game the best way I could. I too think I am invincible until I turn the lights off and think about my dad and my current breathing problem.

At least 10 times a week I think about what my Grandma told me one time, "A smart man can change his mind but a damn fool never will."

I don't want to offend anyone with this story, so if I did, please accept my apologies now, as I don't want to respond to, or defend what I have said, I can only hope it helps someone as it has me. Thank you.

G. UIP/IPF 5/07 AZ.

P.S. (when I took the gun & badge off I never lost any of those fights). I hope win this one!

[Guest guest]

-My brother, lol sounds like we could tell stories forever about the

good old days. Those days are far behind us. I don't think the

attitude ever leaves us. If as I believe and most people say that

that they believe. No man knows the hour of his death but God. So if

we have an appointed time to die, do you think we can change it with

any thing we try to do. I believe God is not going to take me until

he is ready, and when ever that is. There is not a damn thing I can

do to change it.

So have fun, enjoy the life you have left, and meet it on your own

terms. Courage or the lack of has nothing to do with it, nor does

education, money or anything else.I am not going to live just hanging

around waiting for it.

A person is only alive for a short time, but dead is forever. so make

the most of it.

-- In Breathe-Support , Godfrey

wrote:

>

> Hi Tony the oilfield cop,

>      Enjoyed reading your post and admire your attitude about your

approach you are taking to living your life.  I too was a cop for a

few years and absolutely loved the friday and saturday night fights

with the loggers, bikers and local tough guys (the loggers were the

toughest).  I took my badge and gun off more than once to combat the

one that thought he could do me in--if they won they got to go free,

but I could keep typing all night about those days--I loved it.  My

dad was a macho, type A personality guy, (a mans, man), who died of

sarcoid, he had the same attitude as I have &  what you exhibit, but

as he got towards the end he was not able to get the transplant that

could have saved his live because of the amount of damage he had done

to the rest of his oxygen deprived organs.  I watched him die with

tears in his eyes the last day of his life.  He was a baseball lover

and the closest he came to saying that he screwed up was when he

> said, " I wanted to bat all the time, but I guess God wants you to

play the field once in awhile and get a clear picture of the whole

game. "

>      Now that I have  IPF, fatal disease, I have decided to keep my

organs and body in the best shape I can so if the opportunity is

given for a transplant, I will have played the game the best way I

could.  I too think I am invincible until I turn the lights off and

think about my dad and my current breathing problem.

>       At least 10 times a week I think about what my Grandma told

me one time, " A smart man can change his mind but a damn fool never

will. "

>      I don't want to offend anyone with this story, so if I did,

please accept my apologies now, as I don't want to respond to, or

defend what I have said, I can only hope it helps someone as it has

me.  Thank you.

>       G.  UIP/IPF  5/07  AZ.

> P.S.  (when I took the gun & badge off I never lost any of those

fights).  I hope win this one!

>

[Guest guest]

... well said here, well said. I always enjoy reading your posts.

Glad the visit w/Jon and Teri was so enjoyable. I too love meeting the members!

MamaSher, age 69. IPF 3-06, OR. NasturtiumsDon't fret about tomorrow, God is already there!

Re: Tony long time

Hi Tony the oilfield cop,

Enjoyed reading your post and admire your attitude about your approach you are taking to living your life. I too was a cop for a few years and absolutely loved the friday and saturday night fights with the loggers, bikers and local tough guys (the loggers were the toughest). I took my badge and gun off more than once to combat the one that thought he could do me in--if they won they got to go free, but I could keep typing all night about those days--I loved it. My dad was a macho, type A personality guy, (a mans, man), who died of sarcoid, he had the same attitude as I have & what you exhibit, but as he got towards the end he was not able to get the transplant that could have saved his live because of the amount of damage he had done to the rest of his oxygen deprived organs. I watched him die with tears in his eyes the last day of his life. He was a baseball lover and the closest he came to saying that he screwed up was when he said, "I wanted to bat all the time, but I guess God wants you to play the field once in awhile and get a clear picture of the whole game."

Now that I have IPF, fatal disease, I have decided to keep my organs and body in the best shape I can so if the opportunity is given for a transplant, I will have played the game the best way I could. I too think I am invincible until I turn the lights off and think about my dad and my current breathing problem.

At least 10 times a week I think about what my Grandma told me one time, "A smart man can change his mind but a damn fool never will."

I don't want to offend anyone with this story, so if I did, please accept my apologies now, as I don't want to respond to, or defend what I have said, I can only hope it helps someone as it has me. Thank you.

G. UIP/IPF 5/07 AZ.

P.S. (when I took the gun & badge off I never lost any of those fights). I hope win this one!