TWshoot67 - Best wishes!

[Super Tuna]

TWshoot67, best wishes from the west coast of Canada to your family good sir. I really hope everything turns out well.

 

To the community at large: I'm not sure if TWshoot wants the info out there, so I'm just going to leave it at his family would likely appriciated well wishes/prayers.

[revkev]

And so they shall have it. You're in my prayers TW - you and your family. You're a valuable part of this community.

[The Dansome]

Prayers and wishes here. Remember it's not just a community around here it's like a family. Wish you the best.

[SPY ZINGER]

Well wishes and hopes that your son makes a complete recovery. Take good care, TW.

[RoverRick]

Best wishes TW.

[BK in TEXAS]

I hate hearing son & recover in the same sentence. We'll say a few prayers for ya.

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

Same here TW...

[hckymeyer]

Thoughts and prayers coming your way, hope all turns out well.

[Tyk]

Hope everything turns out well TW.

[Kanoito]

The best to you and your family!

[kygolfer1980]

Best Wishes TW!!!

[GolfSpy WD]

Best wishes TW, our thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family

[sparnar]

Your in our thoughts, TW.

 

Hope all goes well for you and your family.

[Walkerjames]

Best wishes TW

[Aotearoa_Brad]

Our prayers from us down here as well.

Brad

[Marlockey Golf]

Tim,

Glad to hear Wayland is doing well, Here's to a speedy recovery, Hope everyone is ok, talk soon

Regards

Mark

[jayhawker]

Hope it all turns out fine. Thoughts and prayers for everything to come out well.

[TWShoot67]

Thanks guys. The family has had it rough the last week and half but not nearly as hard as my 17 year old son Wayland. I've posted in many of the golf forums that i have been a part of for the better part of 10 years or more. My family has been overwhelmed with the amount of support the golf community has given to us through emails and Topics posted and posts received of well wishes for my son. I'm was going to start a thread about what had happened but since you guys have already started this I will just continue from here. Anyone who knows me and is a friend of mine on facebook is probably aware by now of what has happened, but I also realize not everyone that visits these golf forums hangs on facebook as well as myself I've done it more for communicating with my children and golf related companies that have facebook pages. So anyway here's what I have written in other forums to get everyone up to speed.

 

 

On late Friday evening November 23rd, the day after Thanksgiving my youngest son Wayland was shot while attending a party. I was woken up with a knock at the door at approximately 12:30- 1:00 am. Being notified by some of his friends that he was rushed to the hospital. Obviously any parents worst nightmare. Well after calling the rest of the family, we all met at the hospital. Wayland was in having life saving surgery. After 5-6 hours of surgery and waiting for the doctors to come tell us how our son was we got the news that he survived but he was still in very critical condition as he lost over half the amount of blood he had in his body ( we were told over 2 quarts) So with a sigh of relief came the word that Wayland was in critical condition in ICU and they would know better in the am how he was progressing. Wayland was shot once in the stomach and the bullet had went through front and back of stomach and front and back of small intestines. The bullet narrowly missed his pancreas, aorta artery, and grassed his left kidney. Once morning arrived he was taken in for a CAT scan to see the function of his kidney. The first good news we received was that his kidney would remain and that it was working properly. We were then told that Wayland would still remain in what was an induced coma state until they could close the incision. So from Saturday November 24th to Saturday December 1st Wayland had 3 surgeries between those dates while being in this induced coma. Finally on late Saturday Wayland was brought out slowly from this coma and is now looking like he will make a full recovery. We have been told Wayland will need at least 2 months of physical rehabilitation along with talking with a psychologists for the mental side of this tragedy. I'm asking anyone who can help, please donate anything you can to help us with our medical bills. My son will have a long road ahead of him with rehab. Every single dollar will help as I myself have been out of work since I was hurt back in 2008. I lost my insurance over 2 years ago from being injured and having knee replacement surgery in 2010. I had to sign up my two youngest sons up with government insurance which hardly will cover any of this expense. I've started a web page over at give forward.com and I'm having a beef n beer at my union hall to try and raise as much money as I can to help prepare for Waylands hospital bills and future rehabilitation. Anything anyone can contribute will surely help and my family is truly grateful. Here's the link:

 

 

Wayland's link

 

Even if you can't donate you can still take a look at the web page and see some pics of my son before this ordeal took place. Waylands a very laid back young man who wants to be an Registered Nurse. He's known he's want to do this since he was around 7-8 years old. Way has helped some of the older folks in our neighborhood with groceries and the like, he's just a good kid. Any parent would be proud to have a boy like my son Wayland. Events like this just put everything into perspective. I have been thanking God every single day for the friends he has who rushed him to the hospital and saved his life, along with the doctors who did an amazing job to repair all the damage and stop the bleeding so we still have our son!

 

Thanks guys I'll be trying to set up some future fundraisers like beef and beers and possibly a golf outing for those who may live in or around the Philadelphia , Pa. area. If anyone know's or owns a company that would be willing to donate anything to be auctioned off at a beef n beer I'm having one on 12/21 @ the Plumbers local 690 Union Hall from 8:00 to 12:00 Friday Night. I will eventually have some flyers and a link to this Beef n Beer very soon as it's just around the corner.

 

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers, Tim

[Blade]

Having kids myself, my heart goes out to you. I'm glad to hear it sounds like the worst is behind you at least. I'm sure there's still a long way to go before things seem "normal" again. Keep us posted. We all hope the best for your family.

[JBones]

As a parent, I can't even imagine what you've went through over the past few weeks. Thoughts and prayers from my family to yours.

[dru_]

Holy .

 

Seriously that is just awful for your son and your family. As a parent myself, this falls firmly into the 'stuff of nightmares' category. All the help I can offer is yours, and I will see what more I can do. Take care of yourself and your so

[Walkerjames]

The best to you and your family. TW

[TWShoot67]

Thanks again to all here at MGS. My family appreciates all your thoughts and prayers. We are so lucky to have our little man Wayland to have and hold, to talk to and just see his sense of humor at work even during this ordeal.

 

Thank you all, Tim

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

Looks like a fine young man - and I'm glad he's going to be with us for years to come!

[Tyk]

TW- I'm so happy to hear your son is going to be ok. You came so close to suffering every parents worst nightmare! I feel for you on the money hardships this is causing, but that is trivial compared to what could have been. We'll be seeing what we can do to help you out.

[GolfSpy WD]

God bless your son and family TW. Just reading your story made me put away my work last night and watch a movie with my son. Very happy to hear he'll make a full recovery.

[sparnar]

TW, as a new parent, these events and your post brings tears to my eyes. As mentioned before, you and your family, are in our prayers.

 

Good luck with all the fundraising.

[TWShoot67]

Thank you to all who have responded and to all who have made your feelings known. Just the response throughout this ordeal has touched my family deeply. The MGS community has been so supportive and we truly appreciate all you have done.

 

Sincerely, Tim & Family

[Firstkart]

So sorry that you and your family are experiencing this tragedy and wish you all the best.

 

AJ

[TWShoot67]

Thanks AJ. The golfing community has been incredible with the support , thoughts and prayers for my son and family.

 

Thanks, Tim