Along with a general statement today about the effect on the extended family Nancy Pelosi said her husband “continues to improve”.
Nothing in the last day. No news is good news. He probably has a pounding headache and a sore arm after surgery.
Some interesting information on the event:
Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul recovering after hammer attack surgery
- At the start of the break-in, Mr Pelosi told the intruder he needed to use the bathroom then made a secret 911 call on his mobile phone and left the line open, allowing a dispatcher to hear him talking to the suspect
Where’s that rimshot??
OK, could have worded that better. If he had surgery on his head that might mean relieving pressure from internal bleeding. It had to hurt. At his age It could easily be the kind of injury(s) that stay with him for the rest of his life.
At his age a paper cut might stay with him for the rest of his life.
At any age a fractured skull requiring surgery could have life-long lasting effects. Head injuries are not trivial.
Yeah, I feel bad for joking about it upthread when the news reports made it sound less serious.
Agreed. The statements to the effect of “…expected to make a full recovery” annoy me. I’ve had both: a serious head injury (resulting in unconsciousness) and my own turn in the barrel with a home invading psychopath. There’s no “full recovery” from either. Both leave lifelong problems, and you manage to live past them and around them. But there’s no way back to your life before, at least in my experience.
As more details come out, I’m more astounded than ever at how easily a deranged man was able to enter their home. They are both multi-multi-millionaires, are the likely target of untold numbers of unhinged, and yet have never spent the money to adequately secure their own house? A few thousand bucks with the appropriate contractors, and this would be a minor story about some crazy dude banging on the window until police arrived. This leaves me shaking my head in bewilderment.
FTR: I’m assuming news reports that he broke through a window are correct.
Yeah. I have a thread over in IMHO about security cameras. It’s for my recently deceased mothers house. Just for peace of mind since I live 100 miles away. Looks easy to do, and inexpensive.
This morning’s news showed what appeared to be video of the back of the house from a helicopter - the glass next to a glass door appeared to be smashed-in, such that the door could be opened from the inside.
About 1:20 mark of this news video shows the back of the house.
I can understand the the front/street-facing side of the house being fortified, but the back yard? I agree there should be enhanced security measures for high-profile public figures, but I am not sure I would expect them to have bars on their windows and doors. At least up to now, sadly.
I shuddered when I read this. I am so sorry you went through these things. We see so much violence against people on TV dramas to add to suspense or build up the plot or whatever, and we can look past the fact that even one of those events is likely to change a person forever. I wish you peace.
As for rich people’s houses being secure, remember the guy who got into the Queen’s bedroom at Buckingham Palace? 'Nuff said.
What medical personnel mean by “a full recovery” often differs from what the rest of us would call a “full recovery”.
For us lay people “full recovery” sounds like “life is back to what it was before”. I think for a lot of medical types it means you’re able to function so as to meet certain criteria, regardless of what you could or couldn’t do before. That’s not the same thing.
Medical doctors don’t always seem to consider the psychological scars left by something. They don’t always regard actual physical scars the same way their patients do. And for damn sure journalists trying to write a story to sell to the public seem to shoot for a “Hallmark ending”, which are damn rare in my experience. Scars and impairments are a real thing. They don’t have to stop you living your life but they continue to affect your life going forward.
Maybe it’s because if my environment of upbringing and of early adulthood but I have always been a bit… bemused? by how fragile and unsecure many average American homes are. At the very least I’d expect on all sides solid doors, key-on-both-sides deadbolts, windows with hard locks/slide stops, hard safety plexiglas, integrated bars in the windowpane grid.
The tradeoff is that then in an emergency it’s harder to run out or for the first responders to bust in…
I think the crime rate in the vast majority of areas in the US is far lower than whatever it is you’re used to
Plus my having a fair likelihood of needing my windows to every so often resist hurricane force wind and what it may be blowing — like I said, it queers my expectations.
This is an important factor. As I got older, I felt the equation changed and I became less concerned about intruders and home invasions and more concerned about having a medical emergency and EMS not being able to get to me.
As a result, I stopped deadbolting the door of my apartment when I was home.
When medical personnel talk about a “full recovery”, they are (obviously) speaking about a full physical and mental recovery. I believe this is pretty much understood by everyone. Well, almost everyone.
Nobody is pretending that there will be no psychological effects to overcome.
mmm
But that may not amount to full mental recovery.
American homes are generally more geared towards fire safety than towards repelling intruders. Most of our homes are made of wood, and burn easily.
I have friends who spent a year in the Czech republic, and it took them a year to get used to having a deadbolt ON THE INSIDE. We’re taught that’s dangerous. He had always believed it was dangerous. He had to keep reminding himself that the concrete apartment complex he lived in was unlikely to catch on fire and trap his family.
And integrated bars in the windows? I hope i never live anywhere where i need that. That’s so incredibly ugly, and i enjoy my view.
25 years ago, I put very good security doors on my moms house. These things are solid, but would not stop the fire department I am sure.
As My mother aged, I became worried. We tried to get her into assisted living. Then COVID struck. It was a mess. That was her final reason to not go into assisted living.
I bought her an alarm system. A button she could push and summon help. I put a lock box with a key in it on a door. I called the alarm company to give them the code. I called the fire district and gave them the code to the lock box.
Mom would still not wear the alarm button. Of course she fell, and that ultimately killer her. She did not have the ‘Help Me’ button on. She refused to wear it. Bad way to go man.