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To trip on a braided rug, and fallon, in a serious way, means he had a potentially life-threatening injury from his near fallon towards the floor. That he did. When Jimmy took a dive, to prevent a fallon to the floor, he quickly reached. He stopped his dangerous trajectory by grabbing a corner of the table, which caught the wedding band on his finger. Surgeon Phan (is he a phan of Jimmy's?) described the PG-13 injury [graphic grossness] as phollows:
"So basically the ring is a static object on the finger and it basically rips the whole skin off the finger," he said. "The grade three where the arterial supply, in conjunction with the bone, the tendons and the artery are completely off, those usually end up with pure revision amputation."
The injury's official term is, "Ring Avulsion." I turned to the Internet, and the unsightly pictures are stomach-turning. Serious stuff from what seemed like a not-so-serious fallon to the table. Fallon's injury could actually have been finger-threatening had he not sought immediate medical attention. He almost permanently lost his wedding ring finger, if not for a skilled and lengthy surgery time.
Post-surgery, Fallon recovered in ICU for about 2 weeks. He had lots of thinking time. So, being a creative and inquiring person, he fiddled with designing a safe wedding band (in case of more falls?). He also read a deep and yet frank book, "Man's Search for Meaning" written by concentration camp Survivor Viktor Frankl. Heavy thoughts from the book include:
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.” and,
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.” and,
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
We are sincerely glad Fallon's hand is healing well. On his July 13th return to the show, he explained his crazy fallon to the table, and his surgery, and his lengthy recovery. He thanked the many skilled professionals and staff who helped him. He then shared that now he identifies with people recovering in the hospital. And, after reading Frankl's book, he has determined his purpose in life: To make people laugh. As patients recline on their hospital beds, he helps them laugh through difficult times. The Late Joan Rivers, during a Mother / Daughter conversation, shared her kindred purpose: To make people laugh. She provided rivers of laughter.
The world needs laughter; the world needs life-saving surgeons; the world needs deep-thinking authors like Viktor Frankl; and the world especially needs rivers of Living Water, because life is fleeting. To realize there is a deep, forever, eternal, true meaning and purpose for our names and our lives is utmost. God provided meaning and purpose for His one and only Son... to communicate an entwined message to the swooners and to those who need Him most. To demonstrate God's immense, strategically-pursuing, unfailing love for us, perfectly balanced with that which we gallantly ignore. In our affluent, self-sufficient society, we lack the daily and hourly sense of our dire straits without the Savior. Jesus.
We.Are.Fallon.Fallen.
...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus (Romans 3:23-24).
(Practicing The Presence of God, Brother Lawrence)
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