Boddington's Heart Attack
Here is some news from Petersen's.
Boddington's Heart Attack
A good man down, but not out. Many goats around the world breathed a sigh of relief this morning when the first news of Boddington's heart attack hit. But as his cameraman, I'm here to say, "Sorry, suckers we'll be chasing you around the mountains again before you know it. Sleep with one eye open."
I just got off the phone with Mr. and Mrs. Boddington (9:15 AM PST). He and Donna said I could share his current status with all of you. He is in bed, in the hospital but sounded strong and was joking on the phone. He did drop on the side of a mountain, but said he knew he had to survive because he had a copy of my book in his computer bag and couldn't die until I autographed it. So, essentially, I saved his life. You're welcome. Now that I've spoken with Boddington and he sounds like a champ the jokes are back on.
Here is the most recent facebook update from his wife, Donna: "good morning and thank you once again for all of your prayers and well wishes. I'm here with Craig @ the hospital and he is doing remarkably well... eating reading. ready to leave....but they won't let him leave yet! and I think that's a good thing...he needs to stay put for a while....still in ICU but I think they may move him out of ICU today if he keeps up the good work... he's actually being pretty good patient.."
So here's to Boddington and his immediate future of jello, strained pees and no butter! Get well soon and we'll be eating fondue on a mountain in France again soon. Wait, it just occurred to me, we CAN blame this on the French, that fondue may have been the last straw.
BACK STORY AS OF EARLY THIS MORNING:
I don’t take much seriously, but when a good person goes down for the count due to health, I’ll quit joking for the day. I received a text from Craig’s wife, Donna early this morning indicating he’d had a heart attack. I’m not breaking this news, it’s up on his Facebook page.
This is a quote from Craig's Facebook page from about 10:00 PM last night give or take based on US time zones: "Bill Jones and me With a great Nile Buffalo taken on 3/19/11 just to quell the rumors an hour before this photo was taken I had a serious heart attack I rallied for the photos, we went to town, the Uganda clinic misdiagnosed the problem but I was smart enough to start home early anyway, that was the worst trip I've ever had but I'm in a good hospital with good care although it may take some time I will be fine!"
I don’t want to talk out of turn here, so I’m going to suggest you get your updates from him and his wife via his Facebook page. I just wanted to make sure his friends and fans have the opportunity to keep up with his recovery progress.
I was just notified that Craig's Facebook page isn't fully public which means you need to be his friend to read the updates. Since, Donna is seriously busy right now and dealing with friend requests isn't way up on her list of things to do, I will copy and paste her updates here for you:
Most recent: "So Craig is not actually writing this I am (Donna).... Thank you all for your well wishes. He did tell me what to write though on the last status. He is in ICU and they are taking great care of him @ one of the country's top Cardiac Care Hospitals. He is tough and strong and a (marine)... he will recover fast because that's who he is and how he does things... you can't keep a good man down!"
Mainly I wrote this blog for selfish reasons, I want all of you to pray for this son of a gun, so he heals up quickly and I can work with him again soon. Why? Because I love this guy and his family. They are good people and my family is praying for them today.