I needed to send a message, I guess the Missouri forum forum is my home so here I am. I am 58, on March 22, 2012, I had a stroke! By the time I woke up, I was I had no feeling in my left arm, and oddly enough my right leg, and I could not speak. There is a hospital here which has a stroke trauma center, I my wife was told I would recover, eventually, the treament did some damages the stroke didn't. I was a long haul, I could'nt say a word for 7 days, when I did speak, it was in a word or two. I couldn't tell a difference if my dog was bigger than my horse!( this is real question!), As time got bye, 60 days, I was able to tell my alphabet, both verbally, and written, the leg is fine, my arm as a nagging little nerve tingling, but is strong as ever. I have spontaenous regeneration, and left handed people are fortunate, we recover better after a stroke. In short, I was scary, far exceeding how I felt with heart failure, blood stream staph infection, (that got the medical folks wild). I am lucky, I will be my argumently self some enough. I would ask your prayers for the ones I saw would never have the life they enjoyed a day the before. For those of you who though I needed "treatment", before from my posts, you have your opening! So on to pheasant/quail hunting, thankfully will be hear to see it. My habitat work is sorely lacking. I was spirited to blog about Jaytee, and the habitat improvement he has going in SW Missouri. It is high time the MDC are doing something compension to the hard work involved. I would be delighted to see these programs around the state. Finally, we might have a winnable fight yet. We have the weather this year, some should see the cold wet spring, that we are hearing about destroying of nesting seasons, the proof on the table. We need some recompensation of birds. I see we loss CRP here in my neighborhood this spring, I fear what I see all over the great plains this spring.Here it was nasty fescue monoculture. May be in time better times will come,with a better mixture.