Permit secured,flight service booked , hotel reserved, gear sorted out , rounds loaded , rifle dialed in , boots waxed, weight lost. Ready. Two weeks to go Im taking a shower and notice a bulge where ive been hurting for a while. I push on it. It goes back in , I think "great I dont have time for this , two weeks till opening day !" Mind starts racing what in the hell is it? Ignore it, DO NOT TELL THE WIFE! ON the next day wife and I put 60lbs in our packs and go for a 8 mile hike. Its eating at me , its hurting , I tell her. Well she makes me a doctors appointment. Five days later im in the doctors office , after the obligatory "junk fondle" she tells me i have a hernia. I say" I cant right now we are going sheep hunting in like a week". She sends me to a Surgeon two days later. Another "Junk fondling" and he says "yup you have a hernia, and its a big one" . I say "We are going sheep hunting in a week". With my wife sitting there (cause she knows ill lie to her) he says "if your intestines wont go back in when you push on it , you have ten hours to get to a hospital because the blood flow will stop , it will rupture and you will die." I say ill show you pictures when we get back" He shakes his head. A short argument with the wife determined we were going hunting.
We glassed two rams from the bottom , went up one drainage over , crossed the next drainage and crawled to the edge. This sheep was 103 yards below us in his bed . He was not the bigger of the two. I gave up on holding out for" big" years ago so......three flights ,Ten miles , two thousand feet , and by afternoon opening day in the Brooks we were done. Twelve days later I had surgery , two hernias on the same side , largest tares he has ever seen, he liked the photos
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We glassed two rams from the bottom , went up one drainage over , crossed the next drainage and crawled to the edge. This sheep was 103 yards below us in his bed . He was not the bigger of the two. I gave up on holding out for" big" years ago so......three flights ,Ten miles , two thousand feet , and by afternoon opening day in the Brooks we were done. Twelve days later I had surgery , two hernias on the same side , largest tares he has ever seen, he liked the photos
