It has been a bad week for me. I spent the last four days in a hospital fighting off a pancreous infection. I was getting morphine intravenously to help reduce the pain. If you never experienced a pancreous infection, believe me, you don’t want any part of this one. I wouldn’t wish a pancreous infection on my worst enemy.

In any event I signed myself out of the hospital because I just couldn’t lay there any longer falling behind on all of my work. This will be a short column because I still have a fever. I am dizzy, I see everything in doubles and the hot and cold sweats haven’t stopped all week.

However, something interesting has come up that I believe you should try to catch. On June 9 at 7 PM yours truly will participate in a Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) one hour call-in show discussing deer management. I will in their Camp Hill studio and we will be joined by outdoor writer Ben Moyer, who will be in PCN’s Pittsburgh studio. I guess one could say modern technology is getting pretty slick.

From what I understand this will not be a debate format. Actually, Ben Moyer and I will chat briefly and then go to the phones for the last 50 minutes of the 1 hour show. Regardless of the structure, I am just flattered to be invited. As some of you may know, I tried very hard to debate Dr. Alt on PCN for the last three years. Unfortunately, I never got a response from Dr. Alt or the PGC.

If you didn’t get the chance to attend one of the Unified Sportsmen of PA’s statewide deer management seminars, I believe you missed a small part of Pennsylvania’s history. Vast amounts of critical information came out and I believe everyone went away with a far greater understanding of deer management. I was honored to be asked by Unified to be their guest speaker for that historic event.

I guess what I am trying to say is that if you didn’t catch one of Unified’s seminars, here is another opportunity “to hear the whole truth and nothing, but the truth.” I believe you will benefit greatly by turning on PCN on Thursday night, June 9, at 7 PM.

Let it be known that none of this was my idea. I have been quite happy catching slammer trout over the past few weeks. I was about to turn my attention to bass. But, then again, I believe most of you know me well. I wouldn’t miss an opportunity to discuss deer management in a statewide forum if I had to fight off a pancreous infection to do so.