Title: Esso Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Dec 25, 2014 Author:. Post Date:2014-12-25 11:04:26 by christine Keywords:None Views:2902 Comments:42
I just read a Fb post by Esso's wife, Marla, that he is in the hospital. She didn't say the reason, but that his BP is very high and that he is in a lot of pain.
Please keep our dear friend in your thoughts and prayers today.
I spoke with Marla. Jim slipped on wet pavement outside of a social establishment very late Tuesday night landing flat on his face. He sustained broken bones around his right eye and sinus area, a frontal lobe fracture, and there was bleeding in the brain.
The bleeding has stopped and they are moving him out of the intensive care unit today, so he is improving.
Marla said that it will be a long and slow healing process.
She texted me a photo of him sleeping and he's got a swollen very black right eye.
That, and a wee bit of lubrication from the social establishment.
No, alcohol actually mitigates the effects of the positional vertigo for me. But since this happened outside of a bar, the diagnosis is suicidal drunk. When my foot slipped on the surface and the vertigo brought me down, I landed on the right side of my face causing multiple fractures in my right orbit, some brain bleeding, a bloody nose and multiple minor scrapes to my hands and arms. Hell, last winter I spent so much time falling down it felt unnatural to stand up.
Marla got me out of the hospital and home yesterday noon. I wasn't doing good yesterday or today and figured out it was the meds they had me on. Once I stopped those, I'm feeling a thousand times better. I have one helluva a black eye and the white part of my right eye is bloody.
Today's lesson: Falling 6 feet onto a blacktop surface is not a reliable method of suicide. Being forced to eat hospital food and to take their pills certainly seems to be.