hudsonvalley
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I have a close friend of 25 years in Milwaukee. If you have two or three friends like Rick in your life you are an extemely lucky person. He is the sort of person who always listens to you, makes you feel important, likes fine things without putting on airs. In short a better man than me.
Last night some guy took him out head-on on a rural road in Wisconsin. His heart stopped on the scene, they got it going again and airlifted him to a hospital. The doctors held out no hope for him. They put him on life support and were hoping to keep him alive long enough for relatives to visit before he passed. He has a living will so they disconnected him and to their surprise his heart got stronger, his blood started clotting to stave off the internal bleeding, and he had a few moments of consciousness this morning. The doctors are flabergasted I am told. Now they are getting him to stabilize a little more, they are or have removed part of one lung and are stuggling to save a foot that got absolutley crushed. The other leg is broken also. They do not know about brain damage. These are the details as best I know them.
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Rick, myself, and another friend get together at least once a year to fish, play golf, and have a few smokes and beers together. Either I fly out there, they fly out east, or we meet out on the Great Lakes for walleye fishing.
If he does not make it there will be a huge hole in a lot of lives. He has a wife and five children. The man is truly a prince. He has called me at least once a week in the past few months to help me through some bumps in my road.
I have been looking forward to another 30 years of smelly fish, smellier cigars, bad golf, and good conversation with Rick. God, I pray he makes it.
I know some of you are praying men and ask yours be added. All others please think a positive thought for him as you light your next one up.
Last night some guy took him out head-on on a rural road in Wisconsin. His heart stopped on the scene, they got it going again and airlifted him to a hospital. The doctors held out no hope for him. They put him on life support and were hoping to keep him alive long enough for relatives to visit before he passed. He has a living will so they disconnected him and to their surprise his heart got stronger, his blood started clotting to stave off the internal bleeding, and he had a few moments of consciousness this morning. The doctors are flabergasted I am told. Now they are getting him to stabilize a little more, they are or have removed part of one lung and are stuggling to save a foot that got absolutley crushed. The other leg is broken also. They do not know about brain damage. These are the details as best I know them.
News article
Rick, myself, and another friend get together at least once a year to fish, play golf, and have a few smokes and beers together. Either I fly out there, they fly out east, or we meet out on the Great Lakes for walleye fishing.
If he does not make it there will be a huge hole in a lot of lives. He has a wife and five children. The man is truly a prince. He has called me at least once a week in the past few months to help me through some bumps in my road.
I have been looking forward to another 30 years of smelly fish, smellier cigars, bad golf, and good conversation with Rick. God, I pray he makes it.
I know some of you are praying men and ask yours be added. All others please think a positive thought for him as you light your next one up.
