"People Care"
On June 27, 2006 at 7 am Peter was driving to the Gold's Gym in Mashpee, Mass. when all of a sudden he got the worst splitting headache of his life.
He pulled into a parking lot to sleep when a wonderful person named Agnes Rockett-Bolduc saw him and stopped to see if he was okay.
Unable to get Peter to wake up, she called 911 and the Mashpee Fire and Rescue had him in an ambulance screaming for the Falmouth Hospital, and Dr. John
Mendleson, where they immediately diagnosed that Peter had suffered an aneurysm and needed to get to Boston.
Within a few minutes he was put on a helicopter and flew to Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Peter stated:
"When I got to the hospital, I was in the hands of Dr. Arthur Day, who my medical friends insist is the best neurosurgeon in the country.
(Dr. Day was once a great friend to Ted Williams).
I had phone and e-mail messages from medical friends around the country that included the phrase "Boston hospitals," and Dr. Andy Whitemore has helped make Brigham and Women's a miracle building beyond comparison.
I will never know how the neuroscience nurses and staff took care of -- much less dealt with -- me, Dan Triggs, Pat Kelly, Kim Templeton, Mary, Richard, Adam -- with everything held together thanks to the strength of my wife, Gloria. She went through far more than me.
People offer me congratulations these days, but sitting here writing is not about congratulations; it is about........
thanks, care and incredible medical genius.
Agnes Rockett-Bolduc, the guys from Mashpee Fire and Rescue, the Falmouth Hospital, the guys from Boston MedFlight and everyone at Brigham and Women's as well as the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands made it possible for me to be happier at the keyboard of my Sony Vaio than I've ever been before.
I have been fortunate enough that I'd never spent much time in hospitals, so I never realized how much everyone in the medical world cares.
The nurses and technicians at Brigham's were incredible. People Care"
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It is so heartwarming to hear all the people who cared for Peter, especially Agnes, who stopped to see if a fellow human being was okay and then acting quickly.
Peter has been so grateful for all those who cared for him.
I love his 2 words: "People Care"
There are so many good things happening in the world.
People are so nice to me on a daily and moment to moment basis.
I Am so grateful that "People Care".
Note: Peter in the above story is none other than Peter Gammons one of our time's greatest Baseball Writers and also is a TV baseball analyst in studio for ESPN.
Even thought Peter is very famous, he feels he is: 'One of the luckiest people on the earth'
And may I add: "One of the most grateful".
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