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Topic:  Fundraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
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Tafua20
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  Message Not Read  Fundraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/4/2010 12:20:19 PM 
Hello everybody. Would like to first share my thanks to all of the families, friends and fans for making my experience as a Bobcat a very enjoyable and memorable one. Thanks again.

Well, the link below is an article about the fundraising event that I am putting together to help the Emergency Department project for O'Bleness. Please take a read and spread the word. Thank you.

LETS GO BOBCATS! OU! O YEAH!

http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-32258-obleness-fundraiser.html
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Bobcat36
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  Message Not Read  RE: Funraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/4/2010 1:25:19 PM 

Trust me Patrick...The pleasure was all ours!

We all have a lot of fond memories of #20's presence in the defensive backfield!

Your continued community involvement off the field should be applauded too...We'll do our best to be there!

GoBobcats!!!!            Always have been and always will be... Ohio's First and Finest!

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SBH
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  Message Not Read  RE: Funraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/4/2010 1:26:14 PM 
Ah, yes, O'Blenness.  Spring of 1980. Compound fracture of the left arm suffered while - yes - circling the bases after hitting a homerun in softball. The pretty young nurse enters my room at 3 a.m., wakes me gently, then whispers, "Mark, it's time for your injection."  I grab her wrist just before she plunges the needle into my arm and reply, "My name's not Mark!"  She double checks her records and acknowledges that she has the wrong room.  I am sent home two days later to have the bones re-broken (with a large rubber mallet) due to the horrendous work performed by the emergency room staff. I can remember the O'Blenness orthopedic surgeon telling me he had been out "muddin'" in his truck when he got the call.  Great times!





 

Last Edited: 10/4/2010 1:29:38 PM by SBH
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Jeff Johnson
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  Message Not Read  RE: Funraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/4/2010 4:00:51 PM 
Wow!!!  Thank YOU Patrick for your leadership as a Bobcat, and again for your continued service to the community.

Jeff Johnson '67, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Back in the Land of Enchantment

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colobobcat66
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  Message Not Read  RE: Funraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/4/2010 4:10:46 PM 
SBH wrote:
Ah, yes, O'Blenness.  Spring of 1980. Compound fracture of the left arm suffered while - yes - circling the bases after hitting a homerun in softball. The pretty young nurse enters my room at 3 a.m., wakes me gently, then whispers, "Mark, it's time for your injection."  I grab her wrist just before she plunges the needle into my arm and reply, "My name's not Mark!"  She double checks her records and acknowledges that she has the wrong room.  I am sent home two days later to have the bones re-broken (with a large rubber mallet) due to the horrendous work performed by the emergency room staff. I can remember the O'Blenness orthopedic surgeon telling me he had been out "muddin'" in his truck when he got the call.  Great times!

Thanks for the memory.  Perhaps you could have kept that to yourself. 
What a bunch of "turd in the punchbowl" fans.




 
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bobcatsquared
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  Message Not Read  RE: Funraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/4/2010 8:25:08 PM 
SBH wrote:
Ah, yes, O'Blenness.  Spring of 1980. Compound fracture of the left arm suffered while - yes - circling the bases after hitting a homerun in softball. The pretty young nurse enters my room at 3 a.m., wakes me gently, then whispers, "Mark, it's time for your injection."  I grab her wrist just before she plunges the needle into my arm and reply, "My name's not Mark!"  She double checks her records and acknowledges that she has the wrong room.  I am sent home two days later to have the bones re-broken (with a large rubber mallet) due to the horrendous work performed by the emergency room staff. I can remember the O'Blenness orthopedic surgeon telling me he had been out "muddin'" in his truck when he got the call.  Great times!



Wow, SBH, this story gets better every time I hear it, not unlike your fishing stories.

Originally, the arm broke while tripping over the foul line walking in from right field. The hyperbole started shortly after - from a pedestrian "single" to today's home run. What will it be next? A walk-off grand slam in the all-campus intramural final?

Wonder if cc cat can verify this "homerun"?

In all seriousness, good luck to Patrick.

Last Edited: 10/4/2010 8:27:58 PM by bobcatsquared
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Monroe Slavin
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  Message Not Read  RE: Funraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/4/2010 11:43:07 PM 
Patrick--

Good luck with the event.  Would love to attend but I live in L.A.

I immensely enjoyed your contribution to the Bobcats.  If you follow here, Patrick,  then you know that there was a nice thread last week saying that we fans needed to sense more evident leadership on the field.  That was never the case when your #20 was out there.

Ohio University is mighty prOUd of you and very fortunate to have had (and to have) you on campus.

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Alan Swank
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  Message Not Read  RE: Funraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/5/2010 12:17:01 AM 
SBH, I've got one better than that.  In Janurary of 1981, I was playing in one of those Johnnie Carson intramural games in Grover and on a lose ball against a pretty sorry team, I picked up a lose ball, spun and ran face first into a guy from the other team.  We cracked face to head and I went down in a sea of stars.  They drug me to the sideline and Bill Sells, remember Bill Sells, the director of intramurals, said we need to take you to O' Bleness.  The midnight staff x-rayed my mug and a very young doctor came out and said, "you've destroyed your orbital socket."  I said, "o.k., what are we going to do."  He said, "well, we can do this, or this or that."  I said, "before you get started, what is you field of specialty.'  He stepped back, clicked his heals and said, " well sir, I'm a gynecolgist" to which I replied, "you put pants over that."  Called my wife and she drove me to Akron where a plastic surgeon put me back together.

That said, we've had two lovely children and a grand child born at O'Bleness since then.
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Tafua20
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  Message Not Read  RE: Funraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/6/2010 2:45:52 PM 
Thank you, for everyone who has taken the time to view this post and thank you for having it, for a lack of better words, bookmarked on the message board.

I will be at Abrio's this Thursday at 5:30 pm for any of those who are or know anyone that are interested in buying tickets.

Thank you again Bobcat Family,

Patrick Tafua
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DayvidGallagher
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  Message Not Read  RE: Fundraising Event For O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
   Posted: 10/12/2010 12:19:43 AM 
If this is going to stay sticky can someone please correct the title to say funDraising, or are we actually trying to raise fun?

“The thing that gets lost in the deal is we’re Ohio University. We’re Ohio. We liked to be referred to as Ohio. That’s who we are." - John Groce

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