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We have lost our friend, but his work remains
By jollyroger on Tue, 02/25/2014 - 11:29pm |Miguelitoh2o left this blog, which is comforting though wholly inadequate to our loss.
URL:
http://miguelitoh2o.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-city-of-divine-beings.html
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Jolly I may have missed some information
When did he pass away and have their been any services, where and when?
by Resistance on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 12:06am
Lulu and Jolly put some info. from an email and from Facebook on his last post here on Dagblog:
http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/breaking-social-contract-11812#comment-1...
If people want family or friends to see comments, now and in the future, they should either post them there or here, because there is a cross-link to this post there now.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 12:20am
I am so sad about this loss.
I am lost.
Miguel was my friend.
DAMN!
by Richard Day on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 12:25am
Sorry for your loss. Can you tell me a little about your friend?
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 7:59am
by jollyroger on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:10am
This is him, from a facebook post by Jacob Freeze (rutabaga ridgepole, of TPM cafe.
I never knew his real name till yesterday--to me, and lots of us here, he was Miguelitoh2o.
He was extremely witty, kind, and insightful. Quite an adventurer, and mostly when I knew him he lived in Mexico.
He was, I think, my second "follower" ever on Talking Points Memo Cafe, which is the blog from which many of us migrated, and where, as far as I know, Michael Wolraich started blogging as Genghis.
Jacob, it turns out, knew him in real life as well as on line, and here are some details that he posted yesterday:
Jacob Freeze added 3 new photos.
Ave atque vale, Miguel!
by jollyroger on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:15am
Knowing and following Miguelitoh online and a little bit one to one, I too admired his writing which revealed intelligence and knowledge and a fine sense of humor. As a wanna-be traveler I also envied his life style and appreciated his spirit of adventure. Now, as a sometimes wood butcher myself, I see that he had another skill as a craftsman to which he applied his artistry which I knew something of from his fine photography and love of music. His death is a sad loss but at least it can be said that he lived until he died.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:35am
Dying from a fall is so common and yet seems on its face such a trivial bit of physics.
Trivial it is until it is not...
Jared Diamond did a nice deconstruction of this risk:
http://theconversation.com/in-conversation-jared-diamond-full-transcript...
Jared Diamond: I think you’re probably correct in making the distinction between those risks that we can address with our own personal constructive paranoia and those risks that are beyond, we’ll come back to this, that seem to be beyond our constructive paranoia.
In the first category, what I’ve learnt to be very careful about is taking showers because. I had a recent editorial on this in the New York Times. I eventually realised at the age of 75 that when you read the obituary columns in the newspaper on any day you will see that a common cause of crippling or death in older people is slipping in the shower, on the sidewalk, stepladder or on the stairs. I just spoke on the phone to my wife an hour ago and my wife told me of three more friends of ours who have been crippled or sent to the hospital by slipping after the age of 70.
Peter Christoff: Traditional British society clearly was well adjusted to the problems of the shower? Go on….
Jared Diamond: I have intense experience of that…
So as far as the risk of slipping in the shower is concerned, that is under my control but most Americans don’t think about this. And my experience in New Guinea, particularly my experience of the camping out under the dead tree and then doing the resulting numbers was an eye-opener for me.
After I passed my seventy-fifth birthday a physician friend pointed out to me, “So Jared, life expectancy for a man is 78, but that doesn’t mean that on the average you have three years to live. Because that’s life expectancy at birth. Because, Jared, you are already 75, your life expectancy is 90."
So we’ll now do the numbers. You might say, “Jared, you are crazy and paranoid to worry about slipping in the shower, your risk of slipping in the shower is only one in one thousand.”
Peter Christoff: You’ve worked out how many showers you’re going to have between now and ninety?
Jared Diamond: That’s right, I’m going to have 5475 showers and if my risk of slipping is one in one thousand means that I’m going to kill myself five and a half times before I reach my life expectancy of age 90. So there’s a case of a risk about which I can do a great deal by my individual behaviour.
by jollyroger on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:51am
My father who has dementia, broke his hip because of a bad fall.
Get rid of tubs and shower thresholds, that have to be stepped over; for even a two inch dam- wall is too much, for those who shuffle. Slope the existing floor to the drain. With plenty of hand rails.
Do it while you are younger, in preparation for the days to come.
by Resistance on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 9:14am
My father-in-law recent acquired one of those bath/showers that has a door you can open up. This eliminates most of the threshold. It's not this brand, but it's something like this:
by Verified Atheist on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 9:34am
That is an alternative, but my father would have still had a difficult time. His foot dragged and if he lifted his foot at all, he was very unsteady
Also notice ......no handicap bars; those towel bars would have been torn out of the walls the first time he would grasp for support. The rinky dink toilet paper dispenser (anchors) wouldn't have supported anything but the weight of the paper.
Also if possible, take off the interior bathroom door. If someone falls behind the door, it will be difficult to extricate the fallen victim.
by Resistance on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 9:54am
Good points, all. My father-in-law's tub actually does have handicap bars (and is also a little taller to make those bars reasonably placed). As for the interior bathroom door, I hadn't considered that, but it's an excellent observation!
by Verified Atheist on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 10:00am
Given your friend's age and family history, he may have has a bicuspid aortic valve that narrowed over time. The normal aortic valve has 3 portions. The congenitally abnormal valve has only two. The valve can become calcified and narrowed over time usual after age 40.
The narrowed valve can be associated with chest pain, heart failure or blackout episodes. Given the history of heart disease in the family and a heart lesion at birth that didn't become a problem until later in life, bicuspid aortic valve is a possibility.
It would go along with the family history since the disease can run in families. The fall with the head laceration may have been a blackout. The narrowed valve is called aortic stenosis and can be lethal.
(edited for typos and to add comments on aortic stenosis)
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 12:24pm
that comports pretty well with the data at hand. His condition was described as congenital heart failure of about 8 years duration and he did, indeed, black out either preliminary to or as a result of the fall.
by jollyroger on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 3:53pm
I don't know about that particular condition but many heart problems, including valve problems, require taking cumadin, an anti-coagulant. A blow to the head is then a particular risk because of the chance of a hemorrhagic stroke.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 4:23pm
Do we know if he was on Coumadin? Most brain bleeds on Coumadin would occur earlier after trauma, but obviously could occur a week or later. Head lacerations have copious bleeding in any situation and may not have been due to a blood thinner like Coumadin. The loss of consciousness could be a predictor of intracranial hemorrhage if the were on a blood thinner. I was focusing on what could have been the congenital lesion that brought him to medical attention.
At any rate, the discussion will not bring your friend back. Condolences.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 5:00pm
Thx
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:47am
There is a fine eulogy posted at FDL
http://my.firedoglake.com/wendydavis/2014/02/26/vaya-con-dios-miguelitoh2o/
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 5:04pm
Thanks for sharing, Lulu.
by Ramona on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 5:22pm
"Perhaps one day some species on some distant world will figure out how to make the waking world like my dream. I don't see us cracking this particular nut, and fear we will join what I imagine to be a long list of failed biological experiments throughout the universe, with the promise of our existence unfulfilled. Still, we must try. We must try to fulfill the promise of our simple act of living, to make our world, and our living a manifestation of the best we have to offer. A manifestation of love. This was a dream, I would trade all of this world to live in. Who knows? Perhaps one day I will. Perhaps we all will. I hope to see you all there one day. Espero ver a todos alli un dia."
from A Dream by Miguelitoh2o
http://miguelitoh2o.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-dream_5226.html
by stratofrog on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 7:09pm
Thanks for this, stratofrog. It's very nice to see you here, even though the reason is a sad one.
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 2:35pm
You sent me some other links and I heartily thank you for that.
Most of his comments on my old blogs are lost.
The poetry of the Dream....
Wonderful.
Again, I am very sad!
by Richard Day on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 3:29pm
I am pretty sure he is still cruising the Sacramento Mountains on his motorcycle. I will keep a look out.
by moat on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 7:49pm