Posted on 03/13/2025 8:54:26 AM PDT by V_TWIN
David said his father suffered an "incomplete" spinal cord injury when he fell from a ladder on Nov. 12, which means he could potentially regain neutral functioning. "He's recuperating very well. The last month has been a really, really great moving in the right direction," he said. "Unfortunately, he's still paralyzed below the neck, but he's speaking beautifully. He's eating now, drinking now. That was stuff that wasn't happening only about a month ago. So it's really great to see him get to the point where he is now, knowing that, of course, there's room for a lot of improvement."
He said his father is "clamoring" to get back on the air. "He gives assurances, without giving a specific date, that he'll be back on at some point in the spring, and based on all that I've seen and all that anybody who's visited him has seen, he's really the same old Dennis."
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Stay off them ladders when you get up in years!
[Dennis turns 77 years old in August]
Still praying for a complete recovery. He is a national treasure and we miss him.
Had a coworker whose wife insisted on Christmas lights on their two story house so he got up on a ladder and fell. He caught his leg between two rungs & snapped it. Couple weeks later, his wife filed for divorce.
So sorry to hear this. Ladders can be extremely dangerous.
I was just out yesterday with my 30-year old son who had me hold the ladder while he climbed up and checked on the roof. He wouldn’t go up or come down until he knew I was holding the ladder in place.
Pray also for Michael Grimm. Both so sad. Good men. 🙏🙏
I won’t even use my 2 step ladder anymore
Is that what happened? I can find no information on that.
I was roofing a two story house, some years back, and looked over at the neighboring house. The 93 year old owner was in a tree, a little bit higher than I was, pruning branches.
Green Bay Packers receiver Max McGee died after falling from the roof of his house trying to clear leaves. His wife had warned him not to climb up there. He was 75 years old.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=3072476
Im 60. No ladders. Dont lift ANYTHING.
A wise precaution.
My late father fell off a ladder trying to paint our house and broke his arm. I saw it happen from my bedroom window. Instead of hiring someone to do it. Of course that was the 1960’s and the man of the house did all the work.
He was lucky he didn’t break his neck.
Next up: Bill Bennett in traction after subway surfing. I mean WTF? A man’s got to know his limitations!
My neighbor is always dyi with everything. Her husband went up a ladder to clean the gutters. 60 years old a 2 story house. He fell while climbing down. Tore up his knee. $125 to get gutters cleaned by guys that do that. But he saved $125!! So stupid
Used to climb up a ladder onto my roof 20 years ago. Can’t do it in confidence nowadays. Would need it to be a life and death solution to get me up there now. Seen and heard of too many folks with broken limbs, skulls, and death after those maneuvers.
Veteran MLB cather Bo Diaz was crushed to death by a satellite dish antenna while trying to repair it on the roof of his house. Again, instead of hiring somebody who knew how to do it.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/11/23/Baseball-player-Bo-Diaz-killed-in-accident/9068659336400/
Remember the joke about it taking three people to change a light bulb--an electrician, someone to call the electrician, and the third person to mix the drinks.
Given the discussion on this thread, the "joke" is really "practical advice".
The father of one of my neighbors was in his 60s and still working as a construction manager. He was on a ladder (if I recall correctly, he was only up a couple of rungs) when he fell and landed on the foundation wall of the building they were constructing. Broke his back and wound up in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down.
OWWW!
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