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Welcome! => San Diego Long Range => Spirit of Adventure 2019 => Topic started by: Keta on September 27, 2019, 02:48:22 PM

Title: It is getting close
Post by: Keta on September 27, 2019, 02:48:22 PM
The trip is getting close.  I thought I would have to bail out due to a nail caused msssive infection in my foot but my doctor nuked it with large doses of 2 powerful antibiotics.  It is still swollen and painful but the infection is under control now.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Hardy Boy on September 27, 2019, 03:21:59 PM
Thank god it was your foot and not your face ............................. could have ended your modelling career !  ;D, Feel better and have fun.

Cheers:

Todd
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Keta on September 27, 2019, 03:26:38 PM
It might have helped my face but I wasn't lip walking.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Gobi King on September 27, 2019, 03:37:56 PM
Ouch, in grown nail?

But his foot modelling career might be on pause for a while.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Crow on September 27, 2019, 04:20:46 PM
Us "older types" have to be extra careful about infection, it seems. I guess an "older" immune system isn't as good as "it used to be' :-\. I picked up a thorn in my hand, a few weeks ago...plucked it out, as I always do...stuck a band aid on it, and forgot all about it , until the "red streak" started running up my finger !  So, Doctor visit, and , as you say, some "high octane" drugs !
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: MarkT on September 27, 2019, 04:28:19 PM
It's closer for me.  I leave Sunday on my Phenix 10 day on the Excel!  I'll be back before you go with some tips on what worked... and didn't.  Keep taking those antibiotics Lee!
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Keta on September 27, 2019, 04:29:46 PM
 Have a safe and productive trip Mark.

The bottom of my boots always have some kind of manure on them, this time it was chicken.  The nail was a ring nail too.

(https://alantani.com/gallery/29/1583_24_09_19_4_52_32.jpeg)
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Tom McKinney on October 05, 2019, 05:08:33 PM
"Got to get on the good foot!"

(James Brown always sings with an exclamation point.)
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Keta on October 05, 2019, 10:07:30 PM
(https://alantani.com/gallery/29/1583_03_10_19_11_14_03.jpeg)
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Porthos on October 06, 2019, 04:42:00 AM
These are the nails that you should have been dealing with:

(https://alantani.com/gallery/29/9140_05_10_19_9_28_43.jpeg)

...nail knots that is.

100 lb hollow core connection on the 100 lb Izorline mono top shot side.

Two "nubs," about 1.75" apart, with nail knots to "lock" down the hollow core. Two consecutive nail knots on the hollow core tag end.

Same configuration on the opposite end of the hollow core to the 100 lb ProSpec Metered.

TWELVE nail knots total. Glue on all as the last step.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: swill88 on October 06, 2019, 04:50:45 AM

Lee, I have seen ugly feet.

YOU, have ugly feet!

I'm happy for you for going on the SOA.

Easy does it.

Steve

Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Keta on October 06, 2019, 05:20:46 AM
Thanks Wai and Steve.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Crow on October 06, 2019, 01:00:43 PM
So glad you're getting...and feeling...better, Lee !
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Gobi King on October 06, 2019, 01:04:29 PM
oh man, I am guessing you are not going a few rounds with Jean Claude VanDam any time soon.

Get better soon Lee!
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Keta on October 06, 2019, 01:44:23 PM
Quote from: Crow on October 06, 2019, 01:00:43 PM
So glad you're getting...and feeling...better, Lee !

I have been on 4 different oral antibiotics and 3 IV ones over the last 2 weeks, healing but not "feeling better".  I am currently on only 2 oral ones but still feel like crap from them.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Donnyboat on October 06, 2019, 06:42:58 PM
Thanks Lee, good luck, Steve dont worry about the look of the feet, as long as the face looks okay, cheers Don.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Keta on October 06, 2019, 07:44:23 PM
That's the scary part.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: joel8080 on October 06, 2019, 09:23:42 PM
Keta

There is an old & famous get well recipe for what ails you, It's called Scotch after a couple of shots you will feel great again.

Joel8080
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: MarkT on October 11, 2019, 03:37:05 AM
I got back from the Excel Phenix rods 10 day yesterday. Fishing for Wahoo at both the Ridge and Rocks was pretty good, Yellowtail was poor as was YFT until we hit the zone SW of the Coronados on the way back with all the short range fleet and lots of private boats.  I tagged 6 Wahoo, 2 on the troll using a Nomad DTX minnow and 4 on bombs. I had 3 wahoo eaten by Bronze Whaler sharks and lost 2 troll fish that ran across the stern after people dropped in and couldn't get out of the way quick enough. DTX minnows like to run long down the middle in clean water unlike Marauders that like to run short in the corners.  My one YT came on a yo-yo iron and I got 4 YFT that I gave to a couple of friends on the boat.  I only had my tags on 7 fish.  I did catch 16 species of fish.  I even got 2 barracuda at once on a yo-yo iron... I had one next to the boat getting ready to bounce and another one came up and tried to take the jig away so I bounced both at once!

We started on the Ridge at the 13 spot then went down to the Thetis bank, out to the Rocks for a day and a half then back to the 13, up to the San Pablo 10 spot, up by Turtle bay, went up to Canoas then Sacramento reef before ending fishing the YFT 35 miles from San Diego. We traveled 1650 miles over the 10 days!  We ate and drank too much, laughed a lot and am ready to go again next year on my 7th straight trip.

Edit: I got a Wahoo on one of my spinners with a bomb. I've wanted one on a spinner and got it done this year!
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Porthos on October 13, 2019, 02:54:09 PM
Quote from: MarkT on October 11, 2019, 03:37:05 AM...Fishing for Wahoo at both the Ridge and Rocks was pretty good, Yellowtail was poor as was YFT until we hit the zone SW of the Coronados on the way back with all the short range fleet and lots of private boats...started on the Ridge at the 13 spot then went down to the Thetis bank, out to the Rocks for a day and a half then back to the 13, up to the San Pablo 10 spot, up by Turtle bay, went up to Canoas then Sacramento reef before ending fishing the YFT 35 miles from San Diego...

Won't mind if the SOA did a similar itinerary...minus two-days.
Title: Re: It is getting close
Post by: Wally15 on October 14, 2019, 01:46:44 AM
You guys have a safe and productive trip. Give all the SoA folks my regards. I'll be thinking about you as all this wedding crap gets finalized. I'll be spending most of Saturday in a tuxedo. Who says you can't put lipstick on a pig!
I'm already signed up for 2020!!!!!!
One great thing about this marriage; the bride's Dad has 1600 acres of prime deer habitat 20 miles from me that needs some serious thinning. His only rule-you must shoot 3 does before shooting a buck (10 does and 2 antlers is the GA season limit). Got a nice doe Sat, opening day of black powder in GA. Going again in the AM. This is my favorite hunting week of the year. Gun season opens this coming Saturday and then all Hell breaks loose!
GA Mike