I am not sure if you guys knew or heard about this-Bob
and Catherine Prather of the Scarborough group were
involved in a head-on collision on Saturday morning.
Unfortunately and to our great loss, Bob was killed
instantly and Catherine has been in ICU until
yesterday evening. The message below contains the
latest info and a picture of the two of them. They are
huge Rogues fans and have been a Scarborough on the
cast for several years. Bob is the older gentleman who
always leads the regiment in the parade holding the
Scottish flag and Catherine plays Lady Marie
Featherston on the cast. We have lost yeat another
dear friend. Anyone in the DFW area or anyone who
wishes to see Catherine is highly encouraged by the
family to visit. She will need all the strength we can
give her.

Vicki-please allow the picture to come through if
possible, many of us recognize faces and not
names..Thanks.

Kara Metzger

Latest news on Catherine...And I have attached a
picture of Bob and Cat together...

Posted at 1933
> Brillo is safe + State of the Cat
> Daniel tells me that Brillo, Bob and Cat's beloved
> dog, is safe and is being cared for by neighbors. I
> was very glad to get that information, as I was
> about
> ready to go combing the animal shelters. There's
> still
> a whole lot I *don't* know, but it was very nice to
> hear that.
>
> Just got back from the hospital again, and here are
> the posted visiting hours:
>
> 8AM-12PM
> 2PM-6PM
> 8PM-10PM
>
> However, when I got there slightly before 6, no one
> made any noise about kicking me out. Bill and
> Kathleen
> McCurry were there when I got there, and apparently
> a
> number of people have been through during the day,
> judging by the use the notebook has been getting.
> When
> I was there, Cat was intermittantly coherent (yay!).
>
>
>
> Room 212 is, rather jarringly, in the neonatal wing.
> It is a small and a rather grey version of what was
> clearly meant to be a baby-blue sanctuary. It's a
> corner room, with the blessing of privacy. I'm
> hoping
> that our more creative types will be able to
> brighten
> it up - Someone has already left flowers (apparently
> permitted in the more relaxed rules of
> no-longer-ICU),
> and Kathleen made and brought some extremely clever
> and cheerful cloth flowers that attach to handles
> and
> rails and things, and someone else brought a
> hospital-approved Mylar balloon. I'm wondering if
> the
> hospital would let some of our seamstresses make her
> some prettier hospital gowns if we made them in the
> approved style, or maybe even just some bed-jackets
> or
> throws. Cat has always been one to appreciate the
> pretty things, and I'm trying to think of ways to
> bring some pretty and shiny into her room, as I
> think
> she's going to be there for quite some time.
>
> One of our friends has already told me that they are
> going to have a nice picture of Bob printed out and
> framed for her. I don't know if that would be a
> kindness at this point, mostly because I don't know
> how much she has absorbed by way of what happened.
> She
> seems to be in vaguely good spirits, which makes me
> think that either she doesn't really consciously
> remember that Bob is dead, or that she has decided
> that she will deal with that when she is better able
> to, or that the morphine has distanced her enough
> from
> herself that she knows, but isn't actually feeling
> the
> pain of it. I was too cowardly to ask her this
> evening, but soon enough it will need to be done.
> I'm
> glad to see that people are collecting the pictures
> though....I'm hoping that someone can find one of
> the
> two of them together. That, I think, is the one that
> will help the most.
>
>
>
> When I spoke to Cat's primary nurse in ICU, he gave
> me
> the following outline of her injuries: both hips
> broken, both femurs were shattered, left upper arm
> shattered, left lower arm fractured, left (?)
> collarbone fractured, miscellaneous ribs broken,
> lungs
> punctured by broken ribs. Mercifully and most
> importantly, NO head injuries or apparent spinal
> column injuries. He did not mention injuries to
> knees,
> hands, or lower legs, although I would not rule
> those
> out as injuries, they are just apparently not broken
> -
> or, he forgot to mention them. This may not be a
> complete listing, this is just what I was able to
> get
> from the nurses in my first two visits.
>
> So far, to my knowledge, she has had the following:
> Respirator for several days to assist in breathing,
> now removed. Chest intubation to help keep lungs
> inflated as they heal from punctures. Surgery has
> been
> done to replace one hip that I know of, they were
> planning to do the other but I do not know if that
> has
> been done or not. Surgery to implant rods in her
> thighs. Surgery to place multiple pins in her left
> arm. Surgery to implant a filter for blood clots.
> That's a lot of trauma for an already traumatized
> system, and as a result she is in a lot of pain, and
> there is a lot of lymphatic drainage and swelling.
>
> There are tubes and wires everywhere...which reminds
> me, when I was there a tube was apparently leaking,
> and her hospital gown was wet - Shit, I forgot to
> tell
> the nurse about that. I'll make sure he/she knows as
> soon as I get back, if it hasn't already been taken
> care of. Since I first saw her last night, the
> swelling in her hands and feet has gone down some,
> although it is still apparent.
>
> Her face looks remarkably good, all things
> considered.
> No bruising, just a little swelling from all the
> tissue trauma. She asked to sit up in bed, but found
> that uncomfortable after a short time and so
> Kathleen,
> who had raised it for her, lowered it again. They
> said
> she had asked for some water earlier. The thing that
> made me happiest was that while I was there, she was
> periodically wiggling her toes. So, no major nerve
> damage to the motor nerves in the legs. YAY!!!!!
>
> We worked a miracle with Wes, folks. The will of a
> strong heart combined with all the energy, all the
> love and devotion and candles and prayers and cards
> from this Family took a dying man back from the
> brink
> and put him back on his feet. Surely we can do the
> same for Cat.
>
> The nurse on night duty told me something I didn't
> know; principally, that the reason Cat is alive is
> that a passerby stopped immediately after the crash
> and heard Cat calling out for help from inside the
> Jeep. Given that A. She has no head or spinal
> injuries
> and B. Someone heard her yelling, that means that
> she
> was conscious and coherent in the middle of that
> horrible mangle of twisted metal, with her beloved
> husband either dead or dying next to her, and seeing
> God only knows what in the car that hit them. I
> hope,
> with all my heart, that when she comes out of the
> morphine haze, she does not remember a single iota
> of
> that. Nothing I can think of to say or do seems at
> all
> meaningful in the face of this tragedy. So I will do
> the only things I know how to do, and bake her some
> gingerbread and send her some lip balm and keep
> visiting and writing, and pray that somehow, with
> enough of us doing the same, it will provide Cat the
> net of support she needs, and us the healing of
> being
> useful that we need. So may it be.
>
>
>
>




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