GYPSEY'S

AS I WAS GROWING UP WE HAD GYPSEYS COME BY IN THEIR COVERED WAGONS AND PARK CLOSE TO THE TWIN GROVES SCHOOL OVER NIGHT. MOM WOULD GATHER HER CHILDREN AROUND TO WARN US NOT TO GO OUT WHERE THEY WERE ARE THEY WOULD TAKE US WITH THEM AND MAKE GYPSEY'S OUT OF US.
THIS MORNING AS I SAT EATING MY YOGURT FOR BREAKFAST FOR SOME REASON ALL THAT CAME BACK INTO MY MIND. THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT THE GYPSEY PRINCES WHO WAS BROUGHT TO THE L.D.S. HOSPITAL AND HAD TO HAVE APRIVATE ROOM BY THE NORTH STAIR WELL. THEY PARKED THEIR [NOT TEAMS AND HORSES] AS WHEN I WAS A CHILD BUT NICE BIG CARS OUT BY THAT END OF THE HOSPITAL.
WELL THE NIGHT NURSE WAS DEAF AS A DOOR KNOB AND SCARED OF HER OWN SHADOW. SO IF THEY MADE ANY NOISE IN THE NIGHT SHE PROBABLY SENT THE AIDE TO SEE WHAT WAS NEEDED. SOON THE PRINCES WAS WELL ON THE WAY TO RECOVERY AND ONE MORNING WHEN WE ALL GOT TO WORK THE PRINCES WITH HER ACCOMPLISES HAD VANISHED INTO THE NIGHT. HER WHOLE ENTOURAGE WAS LONG GONE. A BIG BILL WRITE OFF FOR THE HOSPITAL. I NEVER SAW HER AND NOT MANY DID AS SHE WAS SO WELL GUARDED. SO FAR AS I KNOW I'VE NEVER BEEN THAT CLOSE TO GYPSEY'S SINCE.
IT IS STRANGE THE THINGS THAT COME TO MIND AT EARLY AM HOURS AND THE ABOVE WAS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS. I HAVE HAD THOUGHTS OF THINGS THAT I THINK I'LL WRITE BUT BY THE TIME I GET HOME FROM CHURCH ARE SHOPPING ARE WHAT EVER THAT HAS LONG GONE FROM MY MEMORY BANK ON TO HOPE IF IT WAS IMPORTANT IT WILL COME BACK.
I HAD EXPIERENCES WHILE WORKING AT THE HOSPITAL LIKE THE MAN WHO CAME IN WITH MAGGOTS IN HIS OPEN LEG SORES. HE WAS A SHEEP HERDER AND HAD BEEN MOST OF THE SUMMER OUT IN THE HIGH MOUNTAIN RANGES WITH THE SHEEP. HIS EMPLOYER FOUND HIM SICK AND BROUGHT HIM IN FOR CARE. WE HAD A WHIRLPOOL TUB THAT HE WAS PUT IN EVERY DAY TO HELP DEBREED THE SORES. HIS DR. TOLD US THE MAGGOTS HAD SAVED HIS LIFE AND THAT WAS HOW OPEN SORES WERE CARED FOR BEFORE ANTI BIOTICS. YUCK!!!!!
THE NEXT CASE WAS A FELLOW FOUND DRUNK AND IN A STATE OF UNCONCIOUSNESS. HE NEVER REGAINED HIS MENTAL CAPACITY BEFORE PASSING AWAY. HE LAY IN A COMA FOR QUITE A NUMBER OF DAYS. HE WAS LITTERLY THE TATOO MAN. I'D NEVER REALLY SEEN MORE THAN A ROSE ARE SOME THING LIKE THAT ON ANYONE BEFORE. THIS MAN LITTERLY HAD TATOO'S ON HIS WHOLE BODY EVEN HIS PRIVATE PLACES. I'VE OFTEN WONDERED HOW HE MET HIS MAKER WITH SUCH HORRIBLE THINGS DESICRATING HIM SELF.
WHILE LYLE WAS IN THE CARE CENTER I SAW DR. HANSEN THERE AS A PATIENT. HE HAS LOU GERIGH'S. WHEN I THINK OF HIM AT THE HOSPITAL YEACHING THE FIRST PARAMEDICS FOR THE CITY AMBULANCE'S IT IS HARD TO VISUALIZE THAT BEING THE SAME MAN. HE'S LOST WEIGHT FROM HIS YOUNGER YEARS AND I WOULDN'T HAVE RECOGNIZED HIM IF JOSSINE HADN'T POINTED HIM OUT TO ME. SAD WHAT HAPPENS TO SOME OF US BEFORE WE GET OUT OF THIS LIFE.