Some angels wear heavy boots

My wife Priscilla is now recovering from a badly broken femur and not able to write this story, but here is how she tells it:

"Early Sunday morning, Dec. 11, while a patient at Marianjoy, I fell and badly injured my left femur. The paramedics were called to take me Central DuPage Hospital for x-rays. Lying face down, in excruciating pain, I could hear the heavy clump of boots coming up the hall toward the room where I had fallen. Even though I must have been going into shock, I remember how deeply impressed I was with the gentleness and care showed by the paramedics as they rolled me onto a tarp and up to the gurney. It was zero-cold weather that morning at 4:30, so the men put all their available blankets to cover me in the ambulance, when they noticed I was still shivering from the cold. People in trouble, as I was, are always grateful when public servants do their job well. But when one of the men, in freezing weather, took off his own coat and placed it on me, I knew I was in the hands of some very good, kind and caring men. I want to pass on to Mike Eckler and Kevin Palazzolla, of the Winfield Fire Department, just how grateful I am for what they did to make a terrible situation better for me. They are an exceptional credit to the Winfield Fire Department. I thought all angels had wings, but I now think some of them wear heavy boots."

Wightman Weese

Wheaton