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Letter of Appreciation

Tuesday August 17, 2010

   Having a 4000# tractor run over your back from hip to shoulder can change your health and your awareness of the past. It can also make you wonder what your future may be.

   This happened to me 5 days before turning 75. I have noted recently that forgetting things has been quite easy and frequent. When I tried to stop the tractor from rolling down hill, forgetting that the left hand brake didn’t work, led to the rolling rear tire catching my belt ant throwing me in front of the tire where it then ran over me. This 1941 John Deere B, which has done most of the mowing on the farm since about 1960, rolled down the hill until the cow barn stopped it. If an old cat has nine lives, I may have used 6 with 3 to go. Between bulls & tractors, my back has now been broken in 5 places.

   I’m certainly not bragging, just telling the story hoping to maybe make someone else think about possible consequences when you forget.

   Having once been an early trainee – member of the Bridport-Addison First Response Squad, I have been on a few calls over the years. Some were at locations where the Bridport & Addison Fire Depts and Middlebury ambulance squad were present. Having been out of the group for many years, it was gratifying to meet up with them in my farm driveway.

   A large heartfelt thanks go out to the Town Line 1st Response Squad. Bridport Fire Dept. & Middlebury volunteer ambulance squad & my wife, Pat, who first found me, my daughter Cindy Myrick, who got things rolling and neighbor, Barb Wagner, who came cross-lots quickly.

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