Between the Bridges: Pneumonia and Scrabble–Perfect Together!
BETWEEN THE BRIDGES
I thought I had another one of my semi-annual, change of season, colds or flus with the usual symptoms so I sat around the house listening to Linda Ronstadt singing “Poor, poor pitiful me” generally annoying the hell out of my family. When the symptoms lasted for more than a week gradually getting worse with a low-grade fever, headache, sore throat, fatigue, and a dry cough that got worse at night preventing me from sleeping, my family, obviously concerned with my health issues, staged an intervention. As an aside, a “staged intervention” in the Mahon household consists of everyone in the family surrounding me with angry looks while my beloved Grace softly whispers in my ear, “if you don’t go to the doctor we will stab you with a steak knife in between one your coughing fits!” Suitably chastened, I pulled on my big boys pants and headed out the door to seek medical assistance.
After a round of x-rays and a thorough examination, my doctor told me that I was suffering from mycoplasma pneumonia, commonly referred to as walking pneumonia. He assured me that a regimen of strong antibiotics and a period of rest at home while playing scrabble would have me fit as a fiddle in a matter of a week or so.
I understood the antibiotics and rest at home but I had to ask him why he was recommending I play scrabble at home while recuperating. He looked at me with a quizzical expression on his face and stated, “Are you kidding me? You have pneumonia, it’s a nine letter word with all the vowels…you’ll get extra points for playing it!”
Congratulations are in order for photographer and friend of Broad Channel, Maureen Drennan. Maureen is a professor at LaGuardia Community College in Queens where she teaches photography and her work, featuring many scenes of everyday life in the Channel, has been featured in the New York Times and other media outlets. Maureen’s photos were part of an exhibition over in Brooklyn this past weekend. Anyone who has seen Maureen’s photo of a post-Sandy Broad Channel entitled “Molly” cannot help but be reminded of another terrific photographer who goes by the name of Annie Leibovitz. You can visit Maureen’s website at maureendrennan.net.
Great news! The Corbett family of West 11th Road received the keys to their brand new home, courtesy of Build It Back, last Thursday, October 29, which just coincidentally happened to be the third anniversary of Super Storm Sandy whose storm surge destroyed the Corbett’s original residence some 1,095 days earlier!
More good news…it also appears that the Glade family from West 10th Road will be moving back into their home in the very near future.
Broad Channel – why would anyone want to live anywhere else?
Contact info: rtbetweenthebridges@gmail.com
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