Gator B Strong

Long overdue update:

Finally got to talk with my old friend Gator yesterday! He had sent me a text reminding me that it had been one year since his operation. Hard to believe!! He has continued to work hard getting his strength back and is excited he has gained 20lbs. We both laughed at how we use to complain that we had to lose 20lbs.

He is very excited that on his last test results, the doctor relayed that there was “no evidence of disease”!! We both agreed that was fancy medical talk but definitely a great sign.

He continues to take long walks and cutting his grass as a way of getting back in shape to be with his brothers at the department.

Of course, as all firefighters do we ended up talking shop! Reminiscing of calls we ran together on the squad. We both could not figure out how they let the two of us alone on the squad to run calls but we had some fun times!

The picture is from the squad days at Station 44. For some reason I always felt short working at that station but at least I had no gray hair.

It was great to catch up with Gator and we are hoping this COVID stuff will be done soon so he can come back to the station and start pushing some iron around in the gym.

Thanks for everyone’s continued support and prayers that he continues on the road to full recovery!

Pictured L-R:
BC Vaughan Palmateer
FF Jeff Morse
FF Larry Oakum
ENG Mark Benedict
ENG Brian Wertz
CAPT Nicholas Ford

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