Dear Kevin:
I can sympathize, as I came close to a serious injury from a fall recently.
While climbing three steps in to a local restauraunt, I performed a
belly-buster on the concrete stoop landing on my knees, and face. I only
discovered that I had skinned the top of my head later that day. I obviously
came in contact with the wall of the building with the top of my head. Had I
been slightly closer to the building, I may have broken my neck as well.
Getting older is not all fun, but by-jingo, I intend to keep on doing it.
I wish to extend to you my best wishes for a speedy recovery. You will
shed those restraints when you get to feeling well enough to compliment the
beauty of your nurses, or that is the way it works in hospitals, according to
rumors here in Hillbilly Country.
Last Sunday did find six of us on Calderwood Lake. Seven rainbow trout
made the trip back to East Tennessee with the others either released or still
laughing at all those funny looking luers we tossed their way. /Calderwood is
such a beautiful lake that a visit there is pleasant without catching trout,
but the trout are a definite plus. The water temperature was in the upper
fifties until the upstream powerhouse began to generate and when that happened
the temperature dropped to the lower fifties in the upper end of the lake.
These “finger Lakes’'” of the Little Tennessee are just down stream from
Fontana dam, which is the tallest dam East of the Mississippi, at over four
hundred feet high. That dam was constructed during WW II in order to provide
power to Alcoa so that airplanes could be built for the war effort.
Yours Truly,
Clifford Wilson
From: Kevin Frankeberger (Redacted sender "k_frankeberger" for DMARC)
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 9:42 PM
To: vmfa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vmfa] No fishing for me report
Hi all:
On June 13 I took a fall in our home. As it turned out, I broke my neck at C -
1 (yes, yikes!) and my shoulder which took two surgeries to put back together.
I'm now home wearing a body and neck brace that can't come off for three to six
months! Another yikes. Confined to bed, no fishing for awhile for me.
It was 14 days in the hospital and then 20 days in a rehab. facility. Home
since this past Sat., we have a hospital bed in our living room so I'm only a
few yards away from the bathroom, kitchen and my office. Email is short as it
is not easy for me to type with one arm in a sling.
Spouse Becky is also blind but is being a great nurse as is her retired guide
dog Jake. Our insurance is also paying for in-home nursing, physical therapy,
occupational therapy and a bathing aid so help some days of the week. We are
low income but not low enough for long-term care helpers funded by our Apple
Care (Medicaid in WA state).
I wish I could say I broke my neck hauling in the "big one" but...well, maybe
one day! LOL
Happy fishing, Kevin
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