You Can't Keep a Good Bulldog Down

Although not widely known, Northampton County Bulldog Ron Angle has been in pretty bad health for the past three years. He's visited LV Hospital so often that I was beginning to worry he'd have to change residency. They kept sending him home, telling him it was acute food poisoning (four times) or ulcers. I discounted the ulcer diagnosis. Ron gives ulcers, he doesn't get therm. Amazingly, it took a trip to a third world country to make Ron aware he really has a problem. While visiting some remote island off the coast of South America, Ron had another attack. He spent most of his vacation in a third world hospital. His problem has finally been fixed, believe it or not, at lowly Easton Hospital.

Angle had neither food poisoning nor ulcers. He had an infected gall bladder. It was actually full of gangrene. Had he waited two days longer, he'd be dead. In fact, he told me he could feel himself slipping away.

Angle went under the knife on Wednesday and was released yesterday. I was amazed by the quality of medical care at Easton Hospital. On late Friday afternoon, for example, he was visited by five different doctors in a thirty-minute time span. Of course, he began arguing with them. On Saturday, he was doing spins around the hallways. On Sunday, he was looking over the hospital's books.

So they released him. Minus his gall bladder. They wanted to check out his heart, too, but discovered he does not have one.