Said her husband, “No, you wait a minute, Do I have great news for YOU! I started a conversation with LeRoy Nieman, and he agreed to paint you. When he did, she excitedly told him, “Honey, I have great news and you aren’t going to believe it.†![]() She could hardly wait for her husband to rejoin her. He told her how he would love to paint her, and that he would pay all expenses to New York and not charge her a cent! Nieman spotted her in her seat and approached her. My friend’s wife, who was drop-dead gorgeous, went on in to sit down well before the game. If you have ever been to a game there, you know how the crowd mingles in the hotel lobby before games. He charged between $10,000 to $15,000 to paint them and they had to go to his New York studio for the sitting.Ī couple I know went to Rupp to watch the Wildcats. To set the stage: He had an eye for beautiful women. This story is about one of his visits to a UK basketball game at Rupp Arena. LeRoy Nieman, R.I.P.Ī lot of Kentuckians got to see the artist LeRoy Nieman either in his visits to the Ryder Cup at Valhalla or when he visited other sporting events. I play on that as much as I can, chiefly to alert others to the condition.Arist Leroy Nieman in 2007. I find that being a GBS survivor is a great attention-getter, in and out of the medical community. For a very few, there may be a recurrence. Griffith said he had continuing foot pain. All in all, I am one fortunate guy, who owes much to two great doctors and follow-on care. ![]() Except that I fall asleep watching TV now and then, I'm good as new. That - and some inspirational reading and prayer - brought back my old self. The therapists at Athens Regional began to treat me like drill sergeants I had known, pushing my body back to normal. The numbness receded, and after six days I was released to the hovering but welcome attentions of wife and family. Gamma globulin was the preferred treatment I took in enough via drip to fill an oil tanker. I was a mess - kitten-weak, numb, scared, depressed. By noon, our doctor had me under the care of a local neurologist who had a diagnosis by evening, when treatment began in the neurology ward at Athens Regional Medical Center. I couldn't work my hands well enough to start my pickup truck. Next morning, our family physician prescribed something and said to come back if it persisted. Back home, my legs became numb while watching Sunday football. I'd had an upset stomach and was treated by a French physician. In October 2002 we had just returned from a post-retirement University of Georgia teaching assignment in France (it's a tough job, but. Recover he did, to come back to us in other TV shows - "Matlock," for instance - adjusting to his age with skill and grace. Recovery, in his account - which you should read and believe - was as much emotional and spiritual as physical. That led to a physician and hospital who launched his recovery, treating the whole patient by managing pain and rebuilding his body. ![]() Though he had access to high-level medicine, it took several days to put a name on his pain. He tells the story gently, painfully and honestly in a Guideposts article published in November 1996. One day he stood up and tried to walk, only to fall flat on his face. He caught a bad case of the flu, whose symptoms were replaced by pain throughout his body. Griffith was hit by GBS in 1983 while his wife was recuperating from minor surgery in Los Angeles.
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