My mom is doing freakingly much better. That's good news!
But the world is WEIRD! Get this:
~ We have to go over the San Francisco Bay Bridge (not the Golden Gate Bridge) to get to my mom. We weren't planning on going Friday (I couldn't drive that far 2 days in a row, which I'd already done!). But someone else had big plans.....
This poor distraught guy stopped his red BMW mid-span, climbed out, and crawled over the side. He didn't jump -- that would've tied up traffic for only a couple of hours. No, he hung out there -- cutting himself, writing on the bridge supports with his blood, refusing to come up -- for over 12 hours.
The emergency workers couldn't rappel down to him -- he had a sharp thingie (used to cut his flesh) that could have sliced through the rappel line and plunged the cop to his death. Cops, paramedics, fireworkers, even the Coast Guard congregated for the entire ordeal. They closed 2 lanes of traffic on the bridge. But they might as well have closed all but one, because everyone had to rubberneck. And you just *know* that some ghouls drove out there just to look.
It was taking 5 hours to drive over the bridge from our neck of the woods into San Francisco. Traffic was rerouted to the other bridges in the Bay Area......there are two main bridges besides that one (within fathomable driving distance), and yes, they were jammed with cars too, from the overload of usual traffic. It was a huge, huge mess. (The only time I've seen things weirder was during the 1989 earthquake, when things just STOPPED in the Bay Area -- no mail service, no power, nothing.)
The guy finally tired after 12 hours without food, and 12 hours *with* drama, that they were able to grab him. WHY didn't he do this at home -- just him and a bottle of pills? If he had to have a drama, he could've called all his friends. As it was, he wreaked havoc on the entire Bay Area. I do feel sorry for him, but it was the most selfish act I've seen in.....a while.
~ Next Bizarro World stop? ---My mom's hospital room. Don't worry; it's a fun story, not an icky or sad one.
My mom's roommate in the hospital is ---my best-friend-in-high-school's MOM. I haven't seen this woman in 32 years!! I haven't seen my BFIHS for 30!!!! It was pretty wow.
We had to leave before my BFIHS came for a visit to her mom. I'm going to call my mom today, and even though Mom can't say much without her roomie overhearing, I can ask yes-or-no questions. I'm so curious! ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links