Archive - Jan 2009 - SCA Article

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Larry Osborn, Pueblo, CO – 60 at time of event (2008)

Every Monday they get together for a business related lunch. For fifteen years Larry had been a reliable lunch partner. But, on the third Monday of January, 2008 Larry walked out on them. He didn’t say anything, he just left. He got in the car and drove away. Then he crashed it into a parked truck, at around 30 mph. Lucky for him, someone saw it all and called 9-1-1.

Rick Mylin, Warsaw, IN – 45 at time of event (2008)

A big box hardware store was nearly the end of Rick. It was a Saturday afternoon, and while RIck doesn’t remember anything about it, his wife said she’d called him to ask if he was OK. He’d indicated earlier that he wasn’t feeling well. Jo Lynn noticed Rick sounded odd.
“She asked all the questions, ‘pain here, pain there’ but the only thing I said was it felt like I’d pulled a muscle in my shoulder.” She suggested he come home and take a rest. Good thing he did.

George Andren, Tucson, AZ – 57 at time of event (2004)

Of all the places, and all the times for Colonel George Andren (ret.) to suffer a life threatening event, it was not supposed to be his son’s graduation dinner in Columbus, OH. This thirty year veteran had seen service in the Middle East during wartime, not to mention the countless hours spent flying missions in his C130 workhorse. Just over a year of retirement and this new civilian’s life was nearly brought to a close by a sudden cardiac arrest.

Drew White, Michigan City, IN – 29 at time of event (2007)

I was asked by a friend in the summer of 2007 if I might be interested in officiating YMCA basketball games over the winter. Not having officiated a basketball game since I was in college over seven years ago, I thought about it and thought it might be fun to pull out the whistle and have a go at it. The exercise, not to mention the money, would be good for me.

Erick Itoman, Pittsburgh, PA – 33 at time of event (2006)

On May 13, 2006, I suffered what is known as “shallow water blackout.”
At the time of the accident, I was in the middle of an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Hawaii. There were three of us that day. Greg Sakamoto an Internal Medicine Prelim Resident (whom is now doing Dermatology at Harvard), Kalani, an experienced diver (friend of Greg), and me.