Stephen King Hospitalized With Pneumonia

[Don_G]

It looks like he's developed pneumonia and will have to spend Thanksgiving in the hospital. Here's the link and the statement from he and his family: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA9IIY4IND.html

[theivoryqueen]

1. way to send get well soon wishes?

[Don_G]

2. A Card At The Hospital I Guess

:shrug:

[politicat]

3. The article states he's requested none. NT

[latebloomer]

4. When he was in New York last week

the Times gossip columnist described him as looking "frail".

Hope he mends.

[WWW]

5. How to send thoughts.

http://www.stephenking.com/messageboard.php
I wanted to post at an earlier board about famous freeper celebs and how Stephen King was the best liberal out there. I sat behind him at our county Democratic meeting and went to a cocktail party at his house for Gary Hart. He truly walks the walk as a Democrat.

[WWW]

6. And just to keep this thread

selfishly up there..My husband had just ripped open his middle finger on the table saw the day before we were to go to King's house. His finger was bandaged and he had to keep it elevated. We walked into King's house with with Old and IN the Way's middle finger visibly elevated.

[WWW]

9. and again just to keep this thread going

you can ask me anything about his house including his medicine cabinet.

[latebloomer]

15. OK, I'll bite!

I want a full description of his house, AND his medicine cabinet!

Dish, girl!!

[WWW]

19. okay there were two things

that really struck me about the house. And granted this was back in I think 1986, but King had become very wealthy and was known world wide by then. In their kitchen, instead of brand new shiny pans underneath the stove top burners were old pans covered in tin foil. I thought it was very endearing because someone took the time to make the house look clean and nice, but yet didn't go out and buy a new stove because the old one looked used.
The second thing was the amount of books in the house. There were hundreds, if not thousands, in the living room and in King's study. And most,if not all, were paperbacks. Again, you would think someone with a lot of money would buy hardcover, but then again they could have been left over from his lean years. I remember seeing a number of D.H. Lawrence novels.
Actually, there was nothing interesting the medicine cabinet, but I did see one the kid's rooms and it was something out of a dream. It was painted sky blue with giant white clouds painted on the walls.
And as an aside, he and his wife are just regular Joes. She spoke at our library centennial when I was chairman of the board and was just as sweet as could be. They both have given so much money to Maine projects and schools, I guess you could call them the Gates of Maine.

[Don_G]

7. Kick It With This

[hlthe2b]

8. question about his past accident...

what became of the guy who hit him with the van? Anyone remember the details? Seems to me, I remember him getting off essentially without repercusions, but then may have died not long later? Is that right? Just curious....

[WWW]

10. I think the van driver committed suicide..n/t

[maxanne]

11. the driver od'd

I don't know that there was ever a decision as to whether it was suicide or accidental.

The accident was much worse than we were ever told, he came very close to dying, and it was a long recovery. He's still pretty skinny, but has been real positive and upbeat when I've seen him. I don't mean to sound like his best friend - but I live near his summer residence, and our paths do occasionally cross.

Get well soon, Steve!

[SiobhanClancy]

12. That accident happened right across from my old house..

in North Lovell. He has(had?)a house on Kezar Lake and was often there during the summer. He used to play softball with my ex-husband and some other guys..he's a great guy,and it was terrible what happened to him. I don't think he's ever come close to recovering from the accident,and I really,really hope he's going to be OK.

[maxanne]

13. North Lovell?

Siobhan, you hick, you!! ;-)

Lovell is cosmopolitan though, compared to Sweden, Denmark, and Peru.

[SiobhanClancy]

14. LOL....

Lovell and Center Lovell are at least actual communities of a sort. North Lovell is a few buildings off Rte 5 on the way to East Stoneham...and let me tell you,you haven't been anywhere if you haven't been to East Stoneham:)
I had moved away by the time he had his accident,but I'm sure it hasn't changed much up there.

[maxanne]

16. You'd be right

not much has changed. I have two close friends from Maine; one from Stow :) and the other from Fryeburg.

Of course I live over the border in NH where we are much more cosmopolitan. :P

[BrotherBuzz]

18. You were probably neighbors with our good friend...

because the accident happened near her house as well. The interesting part is that she was also a nurse in the hospital where he was treated (Norway or Conway? She worked at both).

We visited Kezar Lake the year before the accident and laugh about our first impression of Stephen King. Our host had left for PM work and we went out for dinner, leaving three teenage girls alone back at the cabin. As we drove down the road, we saw an odd lone person walking along the road. He was wearing long pants and a dark wool shirt buttoned up to his chin on the hottest day of the year (96F), with books under his arm and deep in thought. My wife and I had a 'Texas chainsaw massacre' vision. Just an odd feeling...kinda like, something ain't right with that guy.

We were informed the next morning that that odd guy was Stephen King, and that was my little brush with fame.

[Darwin2002]

17. I think the guy died on King's birthday. n/t

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