Thanking and honoring Dr. Bill McGladrey, 95, for saving him from facial disfigurement following an automobile accident in July 1966.
When The Idiot was taken to a hospital in Redding, CA, following a jeep-running-into-a-chain car crash that nearly decapitated him in July 1966, Dr. McGladrey removed his broken teeth and expertly stitched numerous facial lacerations.
Although in shock, The Idiot laughed when an ER orderly joked: “It’s pretty bad but you weren’t planning to be an actor anyway, were you?”
(Photo: Liz Chapin)
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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