At Benson’s, Eric Mogenson, who now owns the Gulf Breeze Zoo, Eric and his wife worked for Pat at Benson’s, they were college students. He had a lot of college students working for him and they were working their way through school at Benson’s. And he now owns the zoo. Read More
Well, first we made a trip down to buy property. And a friend of ours, as a matter of fact, Dr. Kalsaski, who I had mentioned before, his wife was now in real estate and she sold us the property that the zoo was on. That was the first 19… Read More
Then you left Benson and became director?… Read More
So you had an initial investment based on your figures to come back to Pensacola to build a zoo?… Read More
And that was the trip, when we went back, where our friends joined us and we were sitting in the Masai Mara on the river and Pat said, “I’d love to come back to Pensacola.” Dr. Potter a friend of mine. Dr. Potter, Ron Huck and- Prentice Robinson Prentice Robinson. Read More
We did, yes. And we went back to Africa a year later and stayed at the Norfolk Hotel. In the room that the bomb went off in. Well, the rebuilt room. I can remember my foot going over the edge of the bed and think, oh, whoop. I did too. Read More
And you went back to the wild animal park, is that correct?… Read More
Initially. Yeah, we were. And I had a lot of therapy on this hand because this hand was all busted up. Read More
Pat, were you further hospitalized in the United States?… Read More
At the time, the therapy that had just been developed for the bad one, for the staph aureus I believe. No, the pseudomonas, it had just been developed. So I was very fortunate in that, but it was IV therapy. I had to have lots of physical therapy to try… Read More
Yeah. We were fine. We came home and we thought we were okay, my mom and dad were there. We thought we were okay and then all of a sudden, I had this high fever. The pseudomonas and staph aureus had gone systemic. So we were in the hospital together… Read More
And you traveled back to New Hampshire?… Read More
Same amount of time, we were released at the same time. Read More
And yet, how long were you in the hospital, same amount of time?… Read More
Whatever it was. What’s horrible about it is that you are immobilized, I wonder with animals if it can be this way, you are immobilized but you feel the pain. But you can’t do anything about it because you cannot move. It’s excruciating, it’s absolutely excruciating. I remember the pain… Read More
But they had me on whatever it was, was it codeine?… Read More
Debreing her. Debreing me because no surgery could be done until all the debris is out of the wounds, she spent literally hours. Read More
They gave me a lot of codeine. But I wanna tell you something, it doesn’t kill pain, it just immobilizes you. One of the most excruciating things in the world, I had tons of debris in me, 3.5 whatevers of- Pounds of wood. In me. We had our nurse, not… Read More
I was in a bed, they gave me, what’s that, codeine?… Read More
Rear end off and put it on my face. I thought, “Oh no, I’m gonna have cellulite on my face.” That was what I thought was gonna happen. Of course eventually in the states, they had to do more surgery on my face because I had big, thick keloids on… Read More