Re: [VFB] Out of hospital, and now looking for fly patterns

2018-11-04 Thread DonO 
Pete, 
Email me your phone # off list so I can call you, please.
Answered your wife’s email, but no reply.
DonO

From: Pete Gramp 
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2018 9:28 AM
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Subject: [VFB] Out of hospital, and now looking for fly patterns

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
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Re: [VFB] Out of hospital, and now looking for fly patterns

2018-11-04 Thread 'Rick Zieger' via VFB Mail 
A PTN with a flash back the whole length of the fly. Also vary it with ostrich 
herl in place of peacock herl.Rick 

  From: Pete Gramp 
 To: "vfb-mail@googlegroups.com"  
 Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 10:29 AM
 Subject: [VFB] Out of hospital, and now looking for fly patterns
   
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-- 
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Re: [VFB] Out of hospital, and now looking for fly patterns

2018-11-04 Thread Neville Gosling 
Hi Pete:

Sorry to learn of your health problems. As a fairly severe diabetic myself, I 
am well aware of the danger of ketoacidosis. In fact if you remember Mark 
Delaney formerly on this list, it was ketoacidosis that caused his death.  I 
don’t think that he looked after himself as he should have done, so please make 
sure that you look after yourself and check your blood/glucose often. For me it 
is a real balancing act to try and keep it in the range that I want.

I can’t offer much in the way of fly dressings but suggest you search online 
for simple patterns as I have often found that it is the simple patterns that 
work better than the more impressive but complicate impressionistic patterns.

Hang in there and never give up.

Nevile (Nev) Gosling
Greater Vancouver, BC Canada


On Nov 4, 2018, at 08:28, Pete Gramp  wrote:

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

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[VFB] Out of hospital, and now looking for fly patterns

2018-11-04 Thread Pete Gramp 
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

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