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Posted on 06/28/2006 10:14:11 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Oh dear... Well, I'll try to stop by the next time I go to town... :~)
Well, some good news at last.
David's wife met with the neurosurgeon today. He told her the infomation she was given on Friday was not correct. He does not anticipate any of those initial problems he listed.
He said David may never ride a bike again and may be different than the David we've known. But the news is much more encouraging.
Well, jeepers, that is good news! Hope is rekindled!
Hey... in the I-didn't-know-that dept:
I stumbled across the Tumwater High web page, and ended up browsing around a bit. Discovered something I didn't know. Remember Mr. Baar, the biology teacher? He died in 1998. Didn't know that. They've named the library after him.
Huh. Just damn. I recall when his daughter was born, our class was just full of recommendations for her name: Candy, of course. Sandy. But my favorite: Crow.
:-)
I didn't know he had died. I remember the naming of his daughter too... and remember him fondly. He was one of the really great teachers.
Heh... OK you piqued my interest, so I went and looked briefly at the staff to see who's there now.
What caught my interest are not so much any teachers who are still there, they'd be really old now :~) but rather students we know who are now staff and teachers there. Lots of familiar family names, Beattie, Hicks, Knudtsen, Otten. I think that's a sign that a town, much as it's grown, is still a small town.
Heh. I noticed that too. Hollingsworth. But the buildings have sure changed. It would be interesting to go back and walk around some time. Probably little left that I'd remember, but it would be interesting to see.
RuhRoh!
Lisa and I walked around when the remodel was under construction. We'd find some things that were familiar... the brick band room, or that outside atrium area in the science wing, where Baar's and Vasereno's classrooms were... and some old banks of lockers, but so much time has passed and so much has changed we felt pretty lost.
Praise God!! Makes you want to just strangle doctors who would make such statements without all the facts! We'll keep praying for his complete recovery !!
Yeah, I don't know if they misstated or just had it wrong, or if things changed over the weekend. But this is much better news, and I'm certain prayer had something to do with it.
It is our town... I like that people have gone off to school and returned to teach here.
I haven't looked recently, but I think the principles and administration at the elementary and Junior High were young teachers when we were there.
On the "Lazy Rider" river (where you ride on an inner tube around a course), there's a walkway bridge that goes over it to access other attractions.
Yesterday a mother ~threw her child~ off the bridge trying to land him in the water. She missed and he landed on the concrete.
Jr. said it was the nearest they'd had to having someone unconscious. The mom left with the kid, but park security caught up with her before she got out of the park.
I hope her butt is in jail.
Good Grief!
'zactly. Even if she got him in the water, it's at least an 8 ft. drop into 2 1/2 feet of water.
I have no response to that!
My day off Sept. 29'th is approved!
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