So my not-so-brilliant body decided it would play a trick on me and would suddenly go into what the hospital staff called "DKA" - Diabetic ketoacidosis - which essentially means that while the blood sugar levels of a "normal" person are in the 70 to 100 range, mine were 1085 when I was admitted to the hospital and rushed immediately to the Emergency Room and then passed to the Intensive Care Unit. Two weeks later, and 43 pounds lighter (supposedly from my organs eating themselves, and the muscles around them, and not from fat loss), I was discharged from the hospital and told I'm now a diabetic in the "severely diabetic" category with blood sugar levels still in the upper 200's to lower 300's. Still on short term disability and off work, until they get my blood sugars back down in the more "normal" range.
Biggest pain in the neck, besides my general weakness, is that my eyesight comes and goes with the blood sugar levels. I'm told this will get back to normal when my blood sugar levels return back to more reasonable levels, but for the time being, I am struggling with tying anything smaller than size 12. and to be honest, size 12 is kind of a challenge too, but I refuse to go much larger than that. Does anyone have any *relatively *simple fly patterns that they could send me off-list for some size 12 flies (dries or nymphs preferred please, as I have plenty of soft hackles and streamers and I don't have much opportunity for use of salt or salmon and my eyes aren't up for traditional wets or full dressed atlantic salmon or spey, etc.)? I'm not looking for the simplicity of a san juan worm, but then again, I'm not much better than that with my eyesight right now... perhaps it is wishful thinking that I say I wish for something a bit more complex than that... but I desire a challenge. Thanks for any suggestions in the way of patterns you can send off-list! -Pete -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
