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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Well...that is embarrassing! Thanks for setting me straight.
From another Freeper:
From the article:
“David said his father suffered an “incomplete” spinal cord injury when he fell from a ladder on Nov. 12”
From another Freeper:
From the article:
“David said his father suffered an “incomplete” spinal cord injury when he fell from a ladder on Nov. 12”
No worries! :)
As suspected. Very sad. It’s also why I was so critical of the family.
Ladder safety is a very serious matter and learning lessons vicariously is a benefit of sharing the cause of such accidents.
I just can’t wrap my head around why the family would have withheld such info for so long. It’s stupid and reckless.
https://blog.ansi.org/ali/make-ladder-safety-a-priority-injury-statistics/
As one who was working on a ladder about two years ago and had the misfortune to cause it to fall over so that I was knocked out momentarily and awoke to a broken wrist and a cut under my chin that took four stitches to repair, I can relate. I did two things wrong: not keeping the ladder straight in front of me (it was at a slight angle) and using a drill bit that was a bit dull. I applied too much pressure on the drill motor/bit, and the ladder went one way, and I went the other. It happened the day after I finished physical therapy for rotator cuff surgery! :(
That’s rough. Coulda been worse.
I was trained how to use a ladder by a jobber at an early age. Trained well. There was one thing he never trained me on, however:
Years later, he himself had a ladder fall. By then he’d become rather obese on his large 6’6” frame. He was lucky he didn’t break his back, but disability followed.
That ‘one thing’: Physics. IMHO standard ladders are inherently dangerous to those over 250lbs, fit or not (he was pushing 300). It’s simple physics. A spotter, spreaders or anchors can be lifesaving, to state nothing of safety harnesses (for those trained to use them).
The leg or divorce? ;-)
Yes but why do so many people NOT follow that protocol?
My dear friend’s husband decided to trim back the palm trees on their property - didn’t want to pay the $2,000 the tree trimmers were asking so decided to do it himself.
Put the ladder against the tree and climbed up - predictably, the ladder fell backwards and he hit the ground hard injuring his back, fortunately he wasn’t killed.
Here’s the kicker: He’s an emergency room doctor! - and has certainly seen in his own ER what happens when people climb up unsecured ladders.
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