July 18, 2005

Visitations

Harmarville Rehab Hospital

HealthSouth Rehab Hospital of Sewickley

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Bill temporarily misplaced his shoe phone and has to rely on his glove phone to maintain communications with Mars and the El Paso corporate offices.  Jim wonders if the sky in Bill's world is blue.

Here Bill confers with his media coach, Andy of station WTAE Channel 4.  After he calls for makeup, Franklin says, "Yeah right.  Don't you be getting into my kool-aid."  Bill takes this for a "No." 

Here is the motley crew that will ride into the Harmarville facility.  Thank you Andy from Channel 4 and Dale, Josh, and Mark from HealthSouth for your support and for escorting Bill up the hills.  Fortunately, his leg irons prevented Bill from escaping from the ride and voluntarily remanding himself back into his cell in the Kentucky State Prison.

Here, six men and a midget ride into the Harmarsville facility.  Notice how no one will ride alongside of Joe.  We are not sure why.  Maybe Joe's penchant for running riders off into the bushes or failure to change his socks on a regular basis.

With their arrival, Joe, Jim, and Bill approach the welcoming crowd.  Everyone immediately recognizes Jim DeLong..

Here Jim does a cheap imitation of Bill's astronaut walk to the delight of his fans and members of the local Jim DeLong fan club.  Joe appears stunned.

Franklin attempts to video Richard who appears to be doing a rendition of some soft shoe dance while Frank and Jim tell old war stories and old wives tales.

Here, Bill, with Ann Citolli looking on, waves Ann's car keys to the crowd. 

For the second time, Joe has to wrest Ann's car keys from Bill and return them to Ann along with other personal items that came up missing.  Our apologies to Ann for the antics of this bed of thieves and magpies.  Ann can be overheard, looking past Bill and saying, "Is that Jim DeLong"?

Here the AAA team makes a presentation to Jonathan Houy's family.  Jonathan will continue to be an inspiration to each of us.

The three amigos are joined by two celebrity riders, Randy Grossman, former tight end of several Pittsburgh Steeler Super Bowl teams and Lance Armsoft (Yellow Jersey), husband of Sarah. 

Joe changes his socks and once again tests the waters to see if anyone will join him on the ride into the Sewickley facility.  To no avail.  No one comes within twenty yards of the little one.  

The wee one, Wee-mo-sa-bee, is shown leading his loyal band of merry men (and women).  

Bill, Randy, and Jim stay far enough behind Joe to anticipate the bizarre path of travel he takes.  The crowd yells we don't know who that guy is in the middle but the guy on the inside is Jim De Long. 

Here Bill streaks past the crowd flashing his thumb.  Jim yells, "Come back here you shameless hussy." 

Bill demonstrates to Tom,  his newly found skill of being able to write in cursive.  But then loses all credibility of literacy when he signs the poster with an X.

Here Joe starts personalizing a poster for a patient but falls asleep in mid sentence.  His own snoring wakes him up and discovers that he has defaced the table with indelible ink.  Joe quietly slips out of the room.

Here Ann Citolli arrives from her exotic dance class to deliver a balloon-a-gram to the media mogul Jim DeLong. 

Many thanks to Ann for all of her efforts to coordinate the activities of all three Pittsburgh visitations and for Sharon Noro, the CEO for both Harmarville and Sewickley visitations for her gracious hospitality.  The efforts of the staffs made our visit a huge success.  Special thanks to Union Orthotics and Prosthetics who put on a very informative vendor table. 

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