From Bobbie:
The ReidRacing Team has had quite
the last month on our hands. As
posted, we had planned to go to
Canyon Raceway with Bobbie's
modified for the Dessert Classic the
first weekend of November. We had
plans to have some more fun in mid
October as well. We drove over to
the area of Reserve, NM for a 5 day
elk hunt in the Gila Forrest. Bobbie
had never been and it was a
wonderful experience with great
whether! On the last day, as we were
headed back to camp, we were blessed
with a heard of around a dozen elk
running 100 yards in front of the
truck. Butch got off one shot to
take down and elk in the back of the
pack! We were thrilled but also had
alot of work ahead for the 6x6 bull!
After 7 hours or so and the much
appreciated help from our Ranch
help, the work was done! We had the
meat quarterred and ready to head
down south. Both of us very sore and
very tired, decided to stay another
night. As the next week trudged on,
Bobbie continued to get more and
more sore and it was seeming a back
injury had developed sometime in the
skinning of the elk! Eventually,
she couldn't walk or stand up
straight and learned from a
chiropractor that she had slipped a
disc in her lumbar back :-/
Canyon Raceway was very helpful and
understanding in the ReidRacing
Team's decision not to travel to the
planned race. As Butch had to head
back down south for work, Bobbie
tried her best to heal up. Out of
work for 3 weeks, working with the
chiropractor and taking on the help
of Daddy and her loving siblings,
Veronica and Andy, she just took it
easy.
Just as things started to get back
to normal and Bobbie decided to
start light shifts at work, we also
had another unfortunate incident in
our family. Butch suffered a heart
attack on Friday 11/11/11 while down
in Carlsbad on a day off. It was
quite a severe scare for all of our
family. After a smart decision,
Butch was flown to The Heart
Hospital here in Albuquerque while
still having extreme chest pains.
Everything felt very safe once he
was there and the hospital was very
caring, thorough and intelligent.
His doctor decided to do a heart
catherization to see the issues and
immediately inserted a stent into
the 100% main blockage. A new diet,
medications and lifestyle change has
been set into place to treat the
other blockage and get him back to
full strength! Until then, he's back
down in Carlsbad healing up and
trying to get back to as normal
routine as possible.
As you can imagine, our lives have
been altered lately and we are doing
the best we can to stay strong and
faithful throughout. Please keep us
in your prayers and thoughts. Stay
posted for updates and information
on the upcoming 2012 season!
New pics from SMS 05/06/11 in the
gallery!
New pics from SMS 05/28/11 in the
gallery!
