Paul's Journal

07/27/2008 13:57 #45164

Visiting dave at ecmc

Wow, he got really smashed up from that car. He is in the ICU at
ECMC. It is so great that he has such a close, caring family. It
makes me want to have kids. The nurse said he responded to some
commands this morning, which is good. It so hard to see such a
physically active guy so broken down.

The hospital itself is kind of strange. It looks a bit like a prison
and is blocked off from the sidestreets with barbwire fences. The
neighborhood on the other hand is much nicer than you would expect
with the barbwire fences. Tended gardens, painted houses, cut lawns,
cobble stone street - it was actually pretty cute.

tinypliny - 07/28/08 20:58
This is awful news. :( My thoughts and prayers go out to Dave and his family.
I hope sincerely that Dave pulls through this tough time!!

Please keep up posted!!

07/27/2008 12:33 #45163

Sun burn
Category: health

I can't believe I got this little piece of sunburn. I never get
sunburned. If I ever get cancer there, this journal will be evidence it all started at WEMF 2008 (e:paul,45082)

07/27/2008 01:55 #45158

The evening evolved
Category: family

Mike has decided to return to his tyranacap heritage. Not tranicap.
According to him, the difference is the tuck.

tinypliny - 07/28/08 21:00
What in the world is a tyranacap? A Tyrannosaurus Rex with a cap?

hodown - 07/28/08 10:05
I am literally laughing out loud at my desk right now.

paul - 07/27/08 12:17
I am just testing this comment. Mike you like ridiculous - you really need to stop the tyranacap before you become "special ed." Just remember how far dad took that.

07/27/2008 00:25 #45156

A lady fell down
Category: allentown

She fell down outside of Fugazi. Too much wine mixed with zoloft.
Instead of helping her all the people sat around and gosipped about it
- it was sick. I left to go sit and talk with her. Then someone
called a freakin ambulance. She was fine just shaken up.

She only lived two blocks away so I sent terry to get the car to take
her home but the freakin firetruck got there first. They said she was
ok, so I walked her home only two blocks away and returned her to her
husband who was very nice. It's amazing how people just assumed she
was a crazy street person on crack and no one could be bothered to
help her. People on Allen are so negative.

I hope I never fall down outside a gay bar. I also hope people check
with me before calling 911!

paul - 07/27/08 12:24
Ya, no one joined in after I went to help her. They all just sat around and made snide comments about her.

metalpeter - 07/27/08 11:15
That is so odd that no one would ask her anything and then also assume she needed and ambulance and call one. The only thing that I can think of is that maybe most of the people didn't think they where in enough of a good condition to help her. There is a group dynamic thing that is really weird but often true. No one wants to be the first one to help out, but once one person does then others join in, it is very odd.

paul - 07/27/08 11:10
I doubt it. I think people would just hudddle and gossip. What a horrible nightmare that would be.

james - 07/27/08 10:23
But paul, you are a gay boi. We take care of our own.... right?

07/26/2008 21:04 #45155

Dave got hit by a car ;(
Category: accidents

This morning whiel checking my estrip messages I found:

PAUL D GOT HIT ON TRANSIT LAST NIGHT HE IS AT ECMC WAS MERCY FLIGHT IS IN CRIT COND WITH HEAD INJURY LYNN WILL BE AT ECMC

My friend Dave, the one with the van - got hit by a car on transit last night and got mercy flighted to ECMC. According to our friend terri he was walking home from a concert in Lockport and got hit by a car. I can't imagine getting hit by a car, while not in a car. I hope he is okay, they say he has a smashed hip and crushed skull but his luckily they think his brain is okay. I feel so bad for him. Luckily, he is in a good hospital for trauma ECMC. I can't wait to be able to visit him.

paul - 07/27/08 11:16
Ya, he lives are close to transit as I live to Delaware. I am glad Delaware is not so crazy busy.

metalpeter - 07/27/08 11:11
The few times I have meet him he seems like a nice guy. It is to bad he got hit and hopefully there is no brain damage. I don't know that part of transit but it is in some parts a pretty crazy street. It was in the news recently where someone got killed drag racing that part isn't to far from where I work it is where we sometimes get lunch. I hope he gets better and he heals ok, I can't really think about what it would be like to get hit by a moving car.

lilho - 07/26/08 23:14
that is so awful! dave is such a nice guy. my thoughts definitely go out to him and his family.