Gale Update

[revid]

Note to my flist: I'm probably going to be posting my musings about Gale and his condition a lot. It helps me in a weird kind of way. Please don't feel like you have to read or comment.

So I've been pretty unhappy about the fact that it's been a week since Gale's motorcycle accident, and several days since he's been transferred to Cedars-Sinai and we've still not heard anything at all. That bodes very, very poorly to me. Then today, James Denton, who plays Teri Hatcher's ex-husband on Desperate Housewives was interviewed on a radio show and said this when asked about Gale:

Gale Harold. ... He's doing okay. It's a slow process, it was pretty serious but he's slowly coming along and we're real happy about that.

Color me un-reassured. That sounds like an overly measured response to me. Nothing about him being alert, nothing about him talking. There were reports of that earlier, but now I'm wondering about their veracity. A lot of folks are taking this as positive news, but I'm not so sure. If we hear that he's being written out of DH, then we're really going to know.

I did my residency with a guy who works in the ER at C-S. Unfortunately, I can't bring myself to contact him out of the blue after 10 years. Plus, it's against the law for him to say anything, and C-S fires people who talk about celebrity patients.

Fuck.

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[revid.livejournal.com]

Well, just got a little update from a woman whose Dad works on DH. No details, but once again, I think in this case, no news is bad news. Not a single person has said they've spoken to Gale. Not one. That leads me to believe he may still be on a ventilator in a drug induced coma...the standard treatment for this injury. This many days out, that means he's probably been been trached...meaning had a surgical incision at the base of his neck for the breathing tube.

Thanks for listening to me. On all the QaF comms I'd get flamed for saying this stuff...everyone is still being very Pollyanna-ish about it all.

[mikeyface.livejournal.com]

Oh fuck. :( :( :(

*hugs tight* You're always welcome, doll. You know I'm always here to listen to you. :)