And now for the continuation of the story of Linda and what happened when she ran out of oxygen.
We gave Linda a call on the Friday afternoon whilst at the Garden of the Gods to suggest we called by to say goodbye in person before heading back off to Denver. She said she’d be delighted to see us.
Well, once we got there, we heard the full story of what happened after Mike and Lynda spirited her away from the restaurant on Thursday evening.
As her oxygen cylinder was pretty much out, Mike and Lynda took her to the nearest fire station. Apparently the firefighters were about to set off to put out a trash fire but they decided her problem was more interesting and that another unit could deal with the call out!
As she can’t walk too far and didn’t have her mobility scooter with her, the firemen dragged out a wheeled office chair, sat her on that and then pushed her into the station. They gave her some oxygen while Mike took the car and dashed back to her apartment to collect a spare canister. It sounded like she quite enjoyed her visit with the firefighters – we teased her that it was a deliberate ploy just to be fussed over by a bunch of young men in uniform.
While we were there, we had a brief chat about our mutual parent and I learned something new. According to Linda, Cliff had had a girlfriend he never married, and that there was a son from that union. This means that I have (or had) a half brother somewhere! It seems that there is no way of tracking him down but it’s just another interesting little facet of the whole story.
We didn’t stay for long as she was still a little shaky from the events of the previous day. It just gave me a chance to say goodbye face to face.
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