richg99
Well-known member
Well, maybe it wasn't much of an emergency, as it was an "incident".
What great people own and use our local Bastrop Marina.
I went there this morning for the first time. I ran down the Bayou and fished for a few hours. For some reason, I bent down to pick up something on the bottom of my little 1652 tinny, and, the next thing I knew...I was flat on the deck. It seemed that I had passed out/fainted. Only happened to me once before in my 77 years, and that was inside of a hospital 20 years or so ago.
When I realized that I was laying on the deck, I looked up and said... "How did I get here?". I soon figured out what had happened and....even though the wind was just starting to lay down, I figured that I had best get off of the water. Running at almost idle speed, I found my way back to the dock and recovered my boat.
While unloading my rods, I asked a fellow walking by if there was a "Doc in the Box" anywhere nearby. I told him that I wanted to have my blood pressure checked before I drove the 2-1/2 hours home, dragging my boat around all of Houston.
After he heard my story, he spoke to a couple of other guys. I suddenly was approached by the owner of the complex. He brought me a chair and had already called the local Fire Department to come and check me out.
To make a very long story shorter, after finding that my blood pressure had zoomed up to 185 over 90 ....two of the Fire Department volunteers drove me, in my car, to the Brazosport Texas St Lukes Hospital. Before we left, they secured my boat on the owner's property and promised to put it into a boat barn if I didn't return that evening.
I checked out fine at the hospital. Too little food, not enough water. After a Brain scan ( I do have one); EKG; blood work and urine sample, ...all was well and I returned to get the boat and hauled her home to North Houston.
No one would take any money. They wouldn't even let me buy their lunches. Wow, what wonderful people. Just wanted everyone to know that there are some really great people on this earth. Some of them live and work at Bastrop Marina.
richg99
What great people own and use our local Bastrop Marina.
I went there this morning for the first time. I ran down the Bayou and fished for a few hours. For some reason, I bent down to pick up something on the bottom of my little 1652 tinny, and, the next thing I knew...I was flat on the deck. It seemed that I had passed out/fainted. Only happened to me once before in my 77 years, and that was inside of a hospital 20 years or so ago.
When I realized that I was laying on the deck, I looked up and said... "How did I get here?". I soon figured out what had happened and....even though the wind was just starting to lay down, I figured that I had best get off of the water. Running at almost idle speed, I found my way back to the dock and recovered my boat.
While unloading my rods, I asked a fellow walking by if there was a "Doc in the Box" anywhere nearby. I told him that I wanted to have my blood pressure checked before I drove the 2-1/2 hours home, dragging my boat around all of Houston.
After he heard my story, he spoke to a couple of other guys. I suddenly was approached by the owner of the complex. He brought me a chair and had already called the local Fire Department to come and check me out.
To make a very long story shorter, after finding that my blood pressure had zoomed up to 185 over 90 ....two of the Fire Department volunteers drove me, in my car, to the Brazosport Texas St Lukes Hospital. Before we left, they secured my boat on the owner's property and promised to put it into a boat barn if I didn't return that evening.
I checked out fine at the hospital. Too little food, not enough water. After a Brain scan ( I do have one); EKG; blood work and urine sample, ...all was well and I returned to get the boat and hauled her home to North Houston.
No one would take any money. They wouldn't even let me buy their lunches. Wow, what wonderful people. Just wanted everyone to know that there are some really great people on this earth. Some of them live and work at Bastrop Marina.
richg99
