Thanks for the story Morris. It thoroughly boggles my mind to think of someone having the presence of mind to react so cooly to an accident like that. And then you add in the age factor and it is almost mythical. You must be very proud of him.
stan On Mar 31, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Morris Galloway wrote: > Lurker Galloway crawls out from under his rock to comment ... photos I just > took of my step-father's 99th birthday party taken a few hours ago. ... Dad > is in a neck-brace, because two weeks prior to today he lost his balance and > fell head-long into the wall, breaking his neck. It would have certainly > killed him except he is fortunate to be an orthopedic surgeon and realized > what had happened on the way to the floor. He held is head in place with both > hands, and told the caregivers not to move him until a neck-brace was > obtained... he was lying face-down on the bedroom floor, and told the > caregiver "I've broken my neck. I've got a bi-lateral cervical fracture. > Don't move me until you call 911 and get a neck brace." How's that for > thinking quickly?) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
