Evening!!
Well, its been a very mixed week so far in the Ward household as always!!!
Early doors, I was lucky enough to get selected by Steve Redfern to represent England at the upcoming World Championship of Amateur Poker. What an absolute honour. I am obviously over the moon to have the chance to play for England for a 3rd time. Its not something that you ever expect to be picked for, but i am so looking forward to it.
I can remember talking to Tony about how much i would like to be have been on the team with them at the Europeans (when they won silver), now it has come true!!
Steve has picked such a strong team to go to battle with, Steve is a top player himself and fiercely patriotic. Asa, Tony and Carl are all fantastic players with a brilliant pedigree in APAT and wider poker, and i am sure that we are going to have a fantastic team spirit, back each other and fight for each other and give the rest of the countries that are playing absolute hell. Win as a team, lose as a team. I am sure it will be the winning part of things for us though
On the other hand, my young nephew Elias went into hospital today for an operation on his legs tomorrow to help him walk.
Its a long story, he was born very premature and with Cerebal Palsey, and has thus far been able to crawl, but unable to walk in his nearly 4 years. The doctors have decided that he needs operations on both legs, effectively to break the bones, reset his hips and heal the bones again, which will also involve cutting tendons to allow the bones to heal again. He has the operation on one leg tomorrow, then the other in a month and will have both legs in casts for 2 months each.
Honestly, i feel sick for the poor little fella, but it is something that is hopefully going to enable him to have a much better future, and if it leads to him walking, then i hope the pain is all going to be worth it.
Tomorrow will be nervewracking for us all, especially for my sister and Brother in Law, but i cant wait to go see him thursday and spoil the little hero rotten.
