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pokerpops:

--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on December 14, 2012, 15:40:09 PM ---
Excellent news on your Dads progress, sounds very positive.

Glad you enjoyed watching the final table last night and well done on almost making it yourself.

--- End quote ---

Fatcatstu:
Well, played the home game last night, and actually managed to come 3/12 for a cash which was wholey unexpected being as how i usually come last!!! A few interesting hands.

it is the last hand before the break at 100/200. I am sat with roughly 6.5k and raise AKcc from early position to 450 Folds round to the Stockton Rock who decides to make it 1400. FML. I cant fold AK (even though i should) and peel (horrible i know) Flop comes 234 rainbow, I check, he checks. Turn is a Q. He bets out and i fold, he shows AA. GG 1400 chips.

Ran into AA AGAIN when my bb was min raised twice in a few hands by the chip leader who was UTG 4 handed to my BB.

Folded the first one, second one, where I had actually taken the chip lead by c/c all the way down when he was donk betting every street when i had an A on AAxxx board. Anyway, the second time i look down at KQcc and decide to see a flop.

Flop come KQ3, i check, he shoves for like 25k into a 6k pot (lol)

I call

Turn 9

River A.

Sigh. This took me to 12k with the blinds at 600/1200 which I promptly lost in short order to the same luckbox who went on to win with the Stockton Rock 2nd.

Had a cracking night out after with Dave Carey and got thoroughly hammered and  danced the night away :)

Fatcatstu:
Sorry folks, this is goig to be depressing, and if i were you i wouldnt read on agt all, Im jsut putting this down to get it out of me somehow, I cant put it on facebook, as my sister will worry.

Lying here in my bed, I am in the next room to my parents. Dad is in bed, its where he spends a fair bit of his time nowadays, even though he doesnt sleep much, he is just absolutely shattered from the chemotherapy.

As i lay here feeling sorry for myself as i have got a bit of flu, all I can hear in the background is the utter pain and torment that he is going through in the other room. Coughing and spluttering, even though his throat is so sore that he hasnt been able to speak for 3 weeks.

It makes him constantly feel sick. He has trouble breathing sometimes. He has jsut got over a fairly bad chest infection as the chemo whipes out your immune system. The worst thing is that at the minute, i cant be near him as im ill, if he catches it, then it will mean more hospital appointments for anitbiotics through a drip, and more blood transfusions.

Seeing the way that this is effecting a man who was always a mountain, a pillar of strength for the family is utterly heartbreaking, Im in floods writing this. He is taking this all far better than I ever could, and i suspect that we dont know the half of what he is going through. We are all there for each other, and always will be, but at times this horrible, vile disease can leave you feeling utterly alone and frankly helpless.

We WILL get through this. We WILL beat this, and we WILL get to see my dad be able to sit there, have a chat with us and hear him laugh.

Thank god I know so many fantastic people. You are all keeping me sane at the moment.

Stu

xx

duke3016:
Don"t ever apologise for venting your frustration on here.

We are all here for you - If you need a chat you have my number......

amcgrath1uk:
As Ger has said Stu. my dad found out too late to have chemo, think of the positives, and here if needed!

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