![]() ![]() Seeing him made me once again reevaluate my blessings and made me ashamed of my occasional whining. He was in the moment, and didn’t take any part of the trip for granted. Tough guys like this don’t waste time complaining. Temperatures were in the 90s but John never complained or showed he was uncomfortable. I was concerned that the day might be hard on John because I had seen the impact on the health and stamina of my much younger friend, but John jumped in the boat ready to go. I met Dale, John and Dale’s brother-in-law Dale Self at the dock bright and early. This man deserved a special fishing trip. ![]() Surviving this operation is a feat in itself and I knew from another friend’s experience just how difficult it was to try to recover from it. I had last fished with Dale Rhine of Hollister some years ago, but in the meantime his father, 80-year-old John Rhine of Salinas, had been diagnosed with the cancer and gone through the incredibly complex Whipple operation. Few make it more than a couple years after having the procedure. But that memory of him telling me just how much he’d missed me is going to stay with me forever.What seemed like an ordinary guided striped bass trip request for me became something more when I was told that this was a special outing to celebrate the sixth-year anniversary of a pancreatic cancer operation. So I just picked him up and we had a bit of a cuddle. And he saw me and he jumped off his mum’s knee and he started running towards me, and the first 2 steps were really happy, and the second 2 steps that happiness was kind of overtaken by the distance he’d just experienced and then the next 2 steps he completely collapsed emotionally, so by the time he got to me he was just in a ball on the ground crying his eyes out. He was sitting on Danielle’s lap and I could see them through the kitchen window as I came around and I came in through the door and I said his name and he heard my voice but he couldn’t see me immediately so his head was flying around. I had to go to New York and make this film, so for 8 weeks they weren’t there and then when they turned up, Charlie was so funny. Russell (father of 2): The hardest thing for me as a parent has been distance. ![]() And he goes, ‘Yay!’ So he’s really, he’s really happy about that sort of situation as well so he’s got me 100 percent. ‘And Gussy’s at school today?’ ‘Yes, Gussy’s at school’. ![]() Tony (father of Declan and Angus): He will work through the week and he will say, ‘Is today a Daddy day?’ And I’ll say, ‘Yes’. Heather (mother of Declan and Angus): It was actually very recently that my eldest son, he asked me for the first time ever, ‘How was your day Mum?’ Which was a surprisingly lovely thing to hear, so we enjoy this time where we do talk about what each other has been up to in the day and what we plan to do, um, the next day. It’s just absolutely the most amazing feeling. you can’t describe how that makes you feel. I’ve always said, you know, love is easy.Īdam (father of Elly): Well, it’s an amazing feeling and just when she comes up to you and gives you a big cuddle and she tells you that she loves you, it’s. To me, it’s just, it’s the easiest, it’s the easiest thing. If they’re searching or they don’t feel quite 100 percent about that then they’re going to spend a lot of their lives looking for the love from their parents. To never question how much you love them just … There’s one thing parked and they can go off and be individuals I think allows them to be. Suzanne (mother of Sadie and Poppy): Say it all the time, tell them that you love them all the time. Even just looking in their eyes when you’re talking to them I find is so important. Rahnia (mother of Allirah and Ashtyn): You can see that they feel it and they know that they are secure and that they’re safe and that this person loves them. Some of them may be affectionate all of the time, some of them sometimes, some of them rarely, but they all want to feel safe and they all want to feel loved and they want you to be proud of them. Gavin (father of 4): It’s just because it is.īelinda (mother of 4): You know, they’re all different. ![]()
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