Smuggled out of the hospital

Another favorite Terry and Bob Meck story that he loves to tell is the time that they smuggled him out of the hospital.

It looked like Ansel was going to miss Terry and Bob’s graduation festivities from Burns Union High School. Ansel was had been hospitalized in Harney District Hospital for __________ (I can’t remember, I’ll ask in the morning J) When graduation day came he had told every one (Dr.s and nurses) that come hell or high water he was going to go to Terry’s graduation. They told him that was out of the question, that they would not release him. There was one drill sergeant sort of nurse that took it upon herself, to let everyone know that Ansel was not going to leave the hospital, he was far too ill and the Dr was not going to sign the papers for him to go, there fore he couldn’t.

The afternoon of graduation, in paper bags, the boys brought him his dress clothes and Stetson hat to wear, and then they closed his hospital room door. While Ansel got dressed, they stuffed a bunch of pillows and blankets under the bedcovers, and then they walked Ansel right out the front door and drove him straight to the high school for graduation.

When the graduation was over… Ansel returned to the hospital… and boy was he in trouble with that nurse… she didn’t like one bit that they pulled one over on her… Ansel showed her that he didn’t need a piece of paper with a Dr. signature to go to graduation.