Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Bob Burnett]

Thanks Nancy! I do know Bill G. from Real, unfortunate accident fortunate 
conditions for care and recovery.
Rune

From: Nancy Weaver 
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2018 8:21 AM
To: TexasCavers 
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

Bill Gassiot  Nancy



  On Sep 2, 2018, at 7:23 PM, Bob Burnett  wrote:

  Who is the injured person? Please identify.





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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Charles Loving]

No. My nose has long since fallen into being brown and unused for anything
but smelling stuff. Grilling left over beetles for lunch.

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 10:46 AM Logan  wrote:

> Charlie is a master cartoonist. He is also a master of obfuscation (the
> act of making something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible).
>
> On 9/1/2018 10:25 AM, Dwight wrote:
>
> I really feel for you, Bill!  Once I just about ran my thumb into the
> blade of a table saw, but what you did was so much worse.  Without any
> attempt to be flip, when I first read that story I thought it was about
> Charlie Loving.  My first impulse was to ask Charlie if he could still pick
> his nose?
>
> DirtDoc
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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Logan]

Charlie is a master cartoonist. He is also a master of obfuscation (the 
act of making something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible).


On 9/1/2018 10:25 AM, Dwight wrote:
I really feel for you, Bill! Once I just about ran my thumb into the 
blade of a table saw, but what you did was so much worse.  Without any 
attempt to be flip, when I first read that story I thought it was 
about Charlie Loving.  My first impulse was to ask Charlie if he could 
still pick his nose?


DirtDoc



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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Dwight]

- Original Message -

From: "Nancy Weaver"  
To: "TexasCavers"  
Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 7:21:55 AM 
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale 

Bill Gassiot Nancy 




On Sep 2, 2018, at 7:23 PM, Bob Burnett < bburne...@austin.rr.com > wrote: 

Who is the injured person? Please identify. 





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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Nancy Weaver]

Bill Gassiot  Nancy

> On Sep 2, 2018, at 7:23 PM, Bob Burnett  wrote:
> 
> Who is the injured person? Please identify.

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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Dwight]

Bill Stephenson aka OMW 

- Original Message -

From: "Bob Burnett"  
To: "Terry Plemons" , "Cavers Texas" 
 
Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2018 6:23:17 PM 
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale 

Who is the injured person? Please identify. 
Rune 
From: Charles Loving 
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2018 8:48 AM 
To: Terry Plemons ; Cavers Texas 
Subject: [Texascavers] Bill's tale 
So I guess it’s time to tell this story. Wednesday afternoon I was happily 
finishing up on a shaper , think of big router, the last few wooden pieces of 
the doors and windows for our home in Mexico and looking forward to gluing them 
all up and being a big step towards completing the house. A millisecond later I 
was unbelievably looking at a ruined right hand. A few minutes later after 
doing my best to staunch the blood flow I was at the clinic in Real. The doctor 
on duty took one look and said hospital in Matehuala an hour away. I stopped on 
the way out of town at a friends house. Luckily she was home and her boyfriend 
and she drove me to the hospital. Basically they sewed up a couple of arteries 
and assayed the damage, by the way with no painkillers . I guess just trying to 
see how tough I am. The doctor said I would need to go to a specialist in 
Saltillo or San Luis Potosí. They gave me antibiotics, pain meds, and a tetanus 
shot. When we left the hospital my friends boyfriend asked if I’d prefer to fly 
back to Texas. He offered to fly me in his Fairchild turbo prop. My response to 
this was, “You’ve got a plane?” Totally unassuming man and now a saint . He 
arranged for an employee to meet us halfway to Saltillo. This man drove me to a 
Holiday Inn where we had reservations. I walked in the lobby looking like 
someone out of a Quentin Tarentino movie. Complete with cartels and sicarios. 
The desk clerk looked up and said NO ROOMS, I protested that I had a 
reservation. NO ROOMS!! We got the same response across the street at a 
Hampton. At the next one I gave Juan my wallet and said, “This time you get the 
room and I’ll go in s side door.” I ended up having to go to a hospital in 
Saltillo because I started hemorrhaging again during the night. The next 
morning the driver picked me up and after a stop at Walmart to buy clothes,of 
course they didn’t fit anyway, by 8:30 we were airborne on the way to San 
Antonio. At SA the immigration guy took one look, said “I don’t want to know”, 
and waved me through. Gale in the meanwhile had found the top micro surgeon in 
the country with the aid of our next door neighbor who is a friend of an 
associate of the surgeon Dr. Fernando Levaro. Gale picked me up in SA and we 
drove to Houston. Within 10 minutes of walking into his office we were meeting 
with Dr. Levaro and within 1 hr I was in surgery. The surgery lasted 6 hours. I 
can’t say enough good things about this guy. He’s by the way one if those 
Mexicans they’re sending us. At the follow up today he told me he expected me 
to get back to close to 90% function. Skin grafts, nerve repair, tendons, bone 
fractures, vessel repair, and evidently I learned Spanish because I was 
speaking it while I was under anesthesia. I can’t begin to express the 
gratitude I have for every person I came across in the last two days, both 
friends and strangers. I’d post photo, but I’m not that cruel. 
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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Bob Burnett]

Who is the injured person? Please identify.

Rune

From: Charles Loving 
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2018 8:48 AM
To: Terry Plemons ; Cavers Texas 
Subject: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

So I guess it’s time to tell this story. Wednesday afternoon I was happily 
finishing up on a shaper , think of big router, the last few wooden pieces of 
the doors and windows for our home in Mexico and looking forward to gluing them 
all up and being a big step towards completing the house. A millisecond later I 
was unbelievably looking at a ruined right hand. A few minutes later after 
doing my best to staunch the blood flow I was at the clinic in Real. The doctor 
on duty took one look and said hospital in Matehuala an hour away. I stopped on 
the way out of town at a friends house. Luckily she was home and her boyfriend 
and she drove me to the hospital. Basically they sewed up a couple of arteries 
and assayed the damage, by the way with no painkillers . I guess just trying to 
see how tough I am. The doctor said I would need to go to a specialist in 
Saltillo or San Luis Potosí. They gave me antibiotics, pain meds, and a tetanus 
shot. When we left the hospital my friends boyfriend asked if I’d prefer to fly 
back to Texas. He offered to fly me in his Fairchild turbo prop. My response to 
this was, “You’ve got a plane?” Totally unassuming man and now a saint . He 
arranged for an employee to meet us halfway to Saltillo. This man drove me to a 
Holiday Inn where we had reservations. I walked in the lobby looking like 
someone out of a Quentin Tarentino movie. Complete with cartels and sicarios. 
The desk clerk looked up and said NO ROOMS, I protested that I had a 
reservation. NO ROOMS!! We got the same response across the street at a 
Hampton. At the next one I gave Juan my wallet and said, “This time you get the 
room and I’ll go in s side door.” I ended up having to go to a hospital in 
Saltillo because I started hemorrhaging again during the night. The next 
morning the driver picked me up and after a stop at Walmart to buy clothes,of 
course they didn’t fit anyway, by 8:30 we were airborne on the way to San 
Antonio. At SA the immigration guy took one look, said “I don’t want to know”, 
and waved me through. Gale in the meanwhile had found the top micro surgeon in 
the country with the aid of our next door neighbor who is a friend of an 
associate of the surgeon Dr. Fernando Levaro. Gale picked me up in SA and we 
drove to Houston. Within 10 minutes of walking into his office we were meeting 
with Dr. Levaro and within 1 hr I was in surgery. The surgery lasted 6 hours. I 
can’t say enough good things about this guy. He’s by the way one if those 
Mexicans they’re sending us. At the follow up today he told me he expected me 
to get back to close to 90% function. Skin grafts, nerve repair, tendons, bone 
fractures, vessel repair, and evidently I learned Spanish because I was 
speaking it while I was under anesthesia. I can’t begin to express the 
gratitude I have for every person I came across in the last two days, both 
friends and strangers. I’d post photo, but I’m not that cruel.
21 Comments


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Charlie Loving



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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Sheryl Rieck]

Holy cow I’m glad you are alright!!

Sheryl Rieck
sheryl.ri...@gmail.com

"You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime, you just might 
find you get what you need" Rolling Stones

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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Dwight]

I really feel for you, Bill! Once I just about ran my thumb into the blade of a 
table saw, but what you did was so much worse. Without any attempt to be flip, 
when I first read that story I thought it was about Charlie Loving. My first 
impulse was to ask Charlie if he could still pick his nose? 

DirtDoc 

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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Logan]

Charley, that's one hell of a story, but I sure wish it wasn't true. 
Glad you had a good network of friends to help you travel and find good 
medical care. Hope you're recovered well enough to make it to TCR. And 
from now on, consider hiring a carpenter.

Logan

On 9/1/2018 8:48 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
So I guess it’s time to tell this story. Wednesday afternoon I was 
happily finishing up on a shaper , think of big router, the last few 
wooden pieces of the doors and windows for our home in Mexico and 
looking forward to gluing them all up and being a big step towards 
completing the house. A millisecond later I was unbelievably looking 
at a ruined right hand. A few minutes later after doing my best to 
staunch the blood flow I was at the clinic in Real. The doctor on duty 
took one look and said hospital in Matehuala an hour away. I stopped 
on the way out of town at a friends house. Luckily she was home and 
her boyfriend and she drove me to the hospital. Basically they sewed 
up a couple of arteries and assayed the damage, by the way with no 
painkillers . I guess just trying to see how tough I am. The doctor 
said I would need to go to a specialist in Saltillo or San Luis 
Potosí. They gave me antibiotics, pain meds, and a tetanus shot. When 
we left the hospital my friends boyfriend asked if I’d prefer to fly 
back to Texas. He offered to fly me in his Fairchild turbo prop. My 
response to this was, “You’ve got a plane?” Totally unassuming man and 
now a saint . He arranged for an employee to meet us halfway to 
Saltillo. This man drove me to a Holiday Inn where we had 
reservations. I walked in the lobby looking like someone out of a 
Quentin Tarentino movie. Complete with cartels and sicarios. The desk 
clerk looked up and said NO ROOMS, I protested that I had a 
reservation. NO ROOMS!! We got the same response across the street at 
a Hampton. At the next one I gave Juan my wallet and said, “This time 
you get the room and I’ll go in s side door.” I ended up having to go 
to a hospital in Saltillo because I started hemorrhaging again during 
the night. The next morning the driver picked me up and after a stop 
at Walmart to buy clothes,of course they didn’t fit anyway, by 8:30 we 
were airborne on the way to San Antonio. At SA the immigration guy 
took one look, said “I don’t want to know”, and waved me through. Gale 
in the meanwhile had found the top micro surgeon in the country with 
the aid of our next door neighbor who is a friend of an associate of 
the surgeon Dr. Fernando Levaro. Gale picked me up in SA and we drove 
to Houston. Within 10 minutes of walking into his office we were 
meeting with Dr. Levaro and within 1 hr I was in surgery. The surgery 
lasted 6 hours. I can’t say enough good things about this guy. He’s by 
the way one if those Mexicans they’re sending us. At the follow up 
today he told me he expected me to get back to close to 90% function. 
Skin grafts, nerve repair, tendons, bone fractures, vessel repair, and 
evidently I learned Spanish because I was speaking it while I was 
under anesthesia. I can’t begin to express the gratitude I have for 
every person I came across in the last two days, both friends and 
strangers. I’d post photo, but I’m not that cruel.
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Re: [Texascavers] Bill's tale

[Nancy]

Aii caramba!  And I’ll bet all the care he received in Mexico was free or low 
cost.  What a tale. Best to bill gale and everyone involved.
Nancy 

> On Sep 1, 2018, at 8:48 AM, Charles Loving  wrote:
> 
> So I guess it’s time to tell this story. Wednesday afternoon I was happily 
> finishing up on a shaper , think of big router, the last few wooden pieces of 
> the doors and windows for our home in Mexico and looking forward to gluing 
> them all up and being a big step towards completing the house. A millisecond 
> later I was unbelievably looking at a ruined right hand. A few minutes later 
> after doing my best to staunch the blood flow I was at the clinic in Real. 
> The doctor on duty took one look and said hospital in Matehuala an hour away. 
> I stopped on the way out of town at a friends house. Luckily she was home and 
> her boyfriend and she drove me to the hospital. Basically they sewed up a 
> couple of arteries and assayed the damage, by the way with no painkillers . I 
> guess just trying to see how tough I am. The doctor said I would need to go 
> to a specialist in Saltillo or San Luis Potosí. They gave me antibiotics, 
> pain meds, and a tetanus shot. When we left the hospital my friends boyfriend 
> asked if I’d prefer to fly back to Texas. He offered to fly me in his 
> Fairchild turbo prop. My response to this was, “You’ve got a plane?” Totally 
> unassuming man and now a saint . He arranged for an employee to meet us 
> halfway to Saltillo. This man drove me to a Holiday Inn where we had 
> reservations. I walked in the lobby looking like someone out of a Quentin 
> Tarentino movie. Complete with cartels and sicarios. The desk clerk looked up 
> and said NO ROOMS, I protested that I had a reservation. NO ROOMS!! We got 
> the same response across the street at a Hampton. At the next one I gave Juan 
> my wallet and said, “This time you get the room and I’ll go in s side door.” 
> I ended up having to go to a hospital in Saltillo because I started 
> hemorrhaging again during the night. The next morning the driver picked me up 
> and after a stop at Walmart to buy clothes,of course they didn’t fit anyway, 
> by 8:30 we were airborne on the way to San Antonio. At SA the immigration guy 
> took one look, said “I don’t want to know”, and waved me through. Gale in the 
> meanwhile had found the top micro surgeon in the country with the aid of our 
> next door neighbor who is a friend of an associate of the surgeon Dr. 
> Fernando Levaro. Gale picked me up in SA and we drove to Houston. Within 10 
> minutes of walking into his office we were meeting with Dr. Levaro and within 
> 1 hr I was in surgery. The surgery lasted 6 hours. I can’t say enough good 
> things about this guy. He’s by the way one if those Mexicans they’re sending 
> us. At the follow up today he told me he expected me to get back to close to 
> 90% function. Skin grafts, nerve repair, tendons, bone fractures, vessel 
> repair, and evidently I learned Spanish because I was speaking it while I was 
> under anesthesia. I can’t begin to express the gratitude I have for every 
> person I came across in the last two days, both friends and strangers. I’d 
> post photo, but I’m not that cruel.
> 21 Comments
> 
> 
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