In Doyle Brunson's latest blog, Live as if you were going to die tomorrow, learn as if you were going to live forever, he shares some really sad news with his fans and the rest of the poker world - his sister took her own life last month.
He describes his only sister, Lavada Hale, as a very strong person all her life, but when she recently lost her eyesight due to glaucoma and related [...] Read more » Doyle's sister took her own life (RIP)
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There is a little word of warning that must go with this article: get your eyes checked regularly and make sure you are getting an eye pressure test and picture of your retinal nerve. I was recently diagnosed with high pressure inside my eyes, which can be caused by several things (in my case myopia). Anyways, all cases of glaucoma start with high eye pressure, and left untreated damages your retinal nerve. Luckily we seem to have caught it in time, and with eye drops (every night for the rest of my life) I should be able to control it and prevent damage. It is easy to take your visioin for granted, especially if you don't wear glasses, however loss of vision and blindness is a life changing event, get your eyes checked regularly. RIP Lavada.
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yeah this are sad news for doyle rest in peace for her but i can understand what she doing she had live there life with 79 years and when she decide to do it thats it´s there right.I must think by this on my father he was a strong man and he tells me he won´t not die in bed when other people must feed him and so on.And he was very ill can no more talking layin only in bed but he can not doing this on this own and for the rest of my family it was forbiten by law to help him to die so he had a slowy dead every day for 6 years. I hope when i was old or got ill i can decide it on my own to die or not
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Everyday everywhere i see news about people dying... Things like that made me kinda insensitive. But when i think about it... i don't know if i would like to go on without sight at 79 years.
Very bad news. I really appreciate Doyle Brunson and his family. I know how he suffered to reach what he has now. I hope that fact doesn't affect his mood and his poker as well. Rip
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Posted by Aggro666: to give such personal informations and emotions on the blog make doyle even more respectable in this pokerworld of young fast money
to give such personal informations doesnt make anyone more respectable. Just more famous. and yeah - thats true fast money.
