Escape From NY.........how it didn't win every award in 1981 is beyond me, great movie. Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell is offered complete immunity if he can get the President out of Manhattan, where his plane was hijacked and crashed. Oh, and Manhattan was made into a maximum security prison, walled, and abandoned to be run by the inmates and falls into anarchy. VERY much like the scene at Plano Presby last week!!!!!!!!
One of these scenarios is true.........you be the judge.
Scenario 1: I've had enough of hospitals beds, and am ready to get out. I call my dear friend Dick Cheney and have a copter come in the cover of darkness and hover above the CareFlight landing pad right outside my 4th floor window. I barricade the door, to keep from having my blood pressure checked during the escape, and tie thread count 20 bed sheets together into a rope. Scale down the side of the building to the waiting rope ladder of the helicopter. Climb up and shake Mr. Cheney's hand as he says "let me get you home Snake.........."
Scenario 2: Mon/Tue/Wed and Thurs morning SUCKED. I'm not saying I was in bad shape, but Tuesday night I played poker with Mickey Mantle, Bob Hope, and Arnold Palmer.......and they invited me to dinner the next night. Long story I'll get into later, but after getting on the steroids that have only been tested on horses, I'm feel 100% better by Thurs evening. Liver #s are slowly coming back to what they should be. Saturday I have blood taken at 6:00 am, and I'm waiting for a # below 160 to go home. Comes back at 203ish. Several "hospitalists" come in and I can EASILY talk them into sending me home, then the GI comes and says "I'll make you a deal".....and I like deals!! "Let's draw blood again (it's now about 4:00 pm), and if it's come down, you are trending in the right direction, I'll let you go home, if it's higher or the same, you can get comfortable again because you aren't going anywhere. 90 minutes later the numbers came back lower, and I'm being unhooked from IVs and heading out into 20 degrees with a 30 mph wind from the north. Hey, I was TOLD it was 70 earlier today????!!?!?! A big "Welcome Home Daddy" sign was waiting for me when I walked in the door, what a great feeling.
A bunch of people helped Dasha last week and "thanks" doesn't begin to say how much it meant to us. I'm not even going to try and mention everyone here, but just know that I'm humbled and overwhelmed by the outpouring of support. Thank you very very much.
I was home Sunday, had a rough day, and headed to MD Anderson for a face to face with Dr. Patel and her team Monday. I'll update that important meeting and the plan going forward in the next day.
Favorite Snake Plissken quotes:
Bob Hauk: You going to kill me, Snake?
Snake Plissken: Not now, I'm too tired.
(pause)
Snake Plissken: Maybe later.
Bob Hauk: I'm not a fool, Plissken.
Snake: Call me "Snake".
10 min later....
Bob Hauk: We make one hell of a team, Snake!
Snake: The name's Plissken!
Mike
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