APM Diddy

Jun 11, 2019, 4:03 PM

I got to know APM Diddy through cardiac rehab, we did around 20 sessions together. On my first session in April he was the first person to introduce himself and talk to me. He was the first person to introduce himself to every newbie. We ended up on the recumbent bikes together, the Clemson connection came up quickly and he bragged on his son who went to Clemson before earning degrees from other schools and traveling around the country. ATL PAW MAN® he was very proud of you. He bragged so much about you I was able to make the connection.

He bragged about all his kids, grand kids, and great grand kids. We even determined that he's got a great grand living at the end of my street. He also said he gets lost getting in and out of my 'hood. We found a few other connections in Aiken and he even said one morning that we might as well be family.

The one thing he never really talked about was himself. He seemed like a pretty humble guy. Easy going, seemed like you'd always known him. You just felt like if he had your back, your back was good. Seemed like a do for others guy. Cooked food for a couple hundred people at church one weekend to raise money for a local backpack program. Didn't seem like the type of person who complained. A "time to make the donuts" guy. Just a good guy, the type of guy we should all want to be. Family first, but his family appeared to be large: his friends, his church, and everyone in his orbit.

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and let others take care of him. I believe he was doing what he should have been doing. Seems like post-heart attack is you're ###### if you do and ###### if you don't. You've got to work the heart, but not over work it. I understand the mentality of "if it takes me down again at least I'm going down fighting and on my own terms". So don't feel like he should have taken it easy, it just doesn't work like that. And I don't think that was in him.

I'll live the rest of my life under cardiologist care, swallowing pills, with an EKG on my phone so that I'll always have my "normal" abnormal with me because any doctor would send me to the ER if they took an EKG. But death is going to have to chase me down, I'm not sitting around waiting. So I totally understand why he was out playing golf and being active.

APM Diddy

you pretty much nailed it playah, thank you

He didn't seem like the type that was going to sit around

You take of yourself sir! *****

that's about the best eulogy I ever read.

That made me smile. Thank you! ******

Most excellent post...

Now I wish I knew APM Diddy

Well, you mean good decent people will, right?

In case others don’t recognize sarcasm. (Obed will.)

Better men just aren't made...

Great post. 6:00 AM is a little early for the feels.***

Sounds like an awesome man.***

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