My attitude tends to be "whatever, it'll be fine." But nearly a week (a week!!!!) after surgery, Andy is still unresponsive. Even I am starting to get nervous.
I don't quite know what to do. I don't have a strong inclination to travel to Anchorage to visit a guy who is sleeping. I can't give anything to the legions of people who love Andy that are hitting 'refresh' on their phones and laptops, hoping for updates on his condition.
So what can I do to make me feel like I'm doing something? Make a blog post, with pictures of Andy.
Fingers crossed, dude. Wake up.
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| Andy starts up Lunar Smears at Grapefruit. |
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| Andy basically invented the idea of mixed climbing at Grapefruit Rocks, which seemed really obvious after he came up with the idea. |
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| He onsighted the FA of this climb the previous week with Vaughn, but just had to do it again. It was pretty hard. |
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| Topping out. |
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| Heading up the College Glacier in May. |
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| We woke up in the middle of the night to start climbing. As we sorted our shit, I realized I had forgotten my crampons. This was a deal breaker: I couldn't even go above the tent on the morning's ice crust. I was furious at myself. It ruined Andy's day too, but Andy is the most graceful person I've ever met - he continued going on trips with me, and didn't tell too many people about my fuck up. Neither did I, until now. |
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| Skiing out. |
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| Hiking the Pinnell Mountain Trail on Solstice. With Ned and Poops. |
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| Hiking into Mt. Prindle for some mixed climbing - another AndyOriginalIdea. |
Andy doesn't have full use of his legs, and so he trips and falls more than normal. He is also an excellent conversationalist, which means that our trips are always filled with endless talking on a suite of topics. Sometimes, on the approach, his voice will suddenly become muffled - I often turn around to realize that he has tripped and fallen, but not even slightly interrupted the rhythm of his part of the conversation. Even the most serene of individuals would lose their cool, but Andy has a better attitude than you.
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| The ridiculous posing is at my request, of course. |
If anybody can make it through this, Andy can. We met in the running club during my time in Fairbanks. The best word I found then to describe him was determined. Everything about his running and skiing stride made it look extremelylaborious, but that didn't stop him from doing things many able-bodied people can't, like the Equinox Marathon and WM100, with a huge smile on his face. Prayers for a speedy recovery.
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