{"id":10082,"date":"2024-04-01T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=10082"},"modified":"2024-04-29T23:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T23:51:21","slug":"april-2024-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silveridge.com\/?p=10082","title":{"rendered":"April 2024 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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NFL Hall of Fame<\/h1>\n

to a Burning House<\/h1>\n

to “Mrs. Doubtfire”<\/h1>\n

to Flatlining by the Silveridge Pool<\/h1>\n

A Surprising Visit with The Trissels<\/h1>\n

By Dale Dauten<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cYou know how people say ‘it takes a village to raise a child\u2019; well, it took a resort to save my husband\u2019s life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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That quote is from Debbie Trissel, describing how the folks of Silveridge jumped in to help when her husband, Mark, had a heart attack and flatlined beside the resort\u2019s swimming pools. Here\u2019s how it transpired, in Debbie\u2019s words:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were sitting on chairs beside the pool. Mark was in the hot tub, then got out and walked over and sat next to us. His head went down and one of the residents, Teresa Kohl, said that Mark didn\u2019t look right. That\u2019s when we saw that he was clammy and turning gray. We thought maybe he\u2019d just passed out, but he didn\u2019t have a pulse. Teresa said we needed to get him on the ground and start CPR. Marilyn Dehling, who\u2019s a nurse, came over to help with the CPR. Still no pulse. He\u2019d flatlined. Another of the residents who jumped in to help was Chris Littlejohn, and he called 911. And the paramedics came and did the paddles. Still nothing. They forced air into his lungs and shocked him again. They got him in the ambulance and took him to Mount Vista Hospital and saved his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Asked for his recollection of those events, Mark shook his head: \u201cI have no memory from getting out of the hot tub to waking up in the hospital.\u201d Turns out, those two memory points were days apart \u2013 the hospital put him in an induced coma to deal with pneumonia and sepsis. Mark added, \u201cThey told me I\u2019m a walking miracle \u2013 only one percent survive what I went through.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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To increase the odds of more Silveridge miracles, the local fire department put on a CPR class, and there\u2019s now a defibrillator mounted on the walkway wall alongside the pool.\u00a0(In the photo below, that\u2019s the reflection of the pool area captured in the unit\u2019s glass front.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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But there\u2019s a lot more to the Trissel\u2019s story than flatlining by the pool \u2013 we haven\u2019t gotten to the Hall of Fame, much less to the fire and the \u201cMrs. Doubtfire\u201d movie.<\/p>\n

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THE EARLY YEARS<\/p>\n

Mark grew up in Canton, Ohio \u2013 so you immediately know that the football Hall of Fame is about to come into the story. Mark\u2019s dad worked in the steel mill there, and Mark was one of eight siblings. After high school, Mark signed up for the Marine Corps Reserves and then as an apprentice bricklayer. He ended up putting in 40 years as a union man who, in his words, \u201cearned every ache and pain.\u201d The projects he worked on included the Hall of Fame stadium and three of its additions.<\/p>\n

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While Mark retired from his fulltime job, he began taking on side projects, including work at a local golf course. The latter allowed him to say, \u201cI had achieved my dream: playing golf seven days a week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Debbie was growing up downstate in Ironton, Ohio, which she described as \u201cacross from Kentucky,\u201d adding with a laugh, \u201cwe was hill folk.\u201d Like Mark\u2019s father, Debbie\u2019s dad worked in a steel mill and her family was even larger, at 10 kids. It was a fire that brought the family to Canton. They were living in a duplex when the neighbor fell asleep smoking. As Debbie described it, \u201cThe building was fully engulfed. The fire department had the kids jump out of the upper story onto a trampoline.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Debbie spent most of her career working with plants. She\u2019d always had a passion for plants and when she heard from the owner of the plant shop she frequented that it was going to be up for sale, she bought it. She not only sold plants; she had contracts to install and maintain greenery at local businesses. After five years as an entrepreneur, she sold the shop to her niece, but continued to work there, altogether putting in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

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THE MEET<\/p>\n

Mark recounted the day he first saw Debbie: \u201cThere was a neighborhood pub that had Friday fish fry. I was working on a hospital nearby and came in with a friend for lunch. I saw Debbie and told Bunny the barmaid \u2013 she\u2019d become a good friend \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m going to marry her one day.\u201d As for Debbie, here\u2019s her recollection of that day: \u201cI was with a friend for lunch and she said to me, \u2018That man keeps staring at you.\u2019\u201d Mark bought lunch for Debbie and her friend and got a first date out of it.<\/p>\n

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While it was love at first sight for Mark, it took Debbie a bit longer. \u201cWhat really did it,\u201d Debbie confided, \u201cwas when we went to see the movie \u2018Mrs. Doubtfire,\u2019 and at one of scenes he teared up. I thought that this had to be a good guy.\u201d She added, \u201cHe has the kindest heart. When my mom got sick, he helped with her. And when my brother had cancer, Mark moved him in with us. And we raised our granddaughter. He\u2019s a keeper.\u201d Mark returned the compliment by saying, \u201cMy drinking buddies all tried to steal her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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COMING TO SILVERIDGE<\/p>\n

As for the decision on a winter home, the plan was to find a spot in Florida. However, as Debbie recalled it, \u201cThat same summer it was disgustingly hot and humid in Ohio. I knew then I didn\u2019t want to go somewhere with a lot of humidity, so I told Mark we needed to go West. I went online and started looking and after I looked at the reviews for Silveridge, we bought a place — sight unseen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They\u2019ve now spent four winters at the park and have decided that want to be fulltime. It\u2019s just hard to let go of their home in Ohio, where they have six acres and lots and lots of \u2026 yes, plants\u2026 as shown below.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Even so, Mark said that, \u201cWe can take heat better than cold\u201d and so they figure they\u2019ll be year-round Arizonans eventually.<\/p>\n

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A FINAL THOUGHT:<\/p>\n

As for Debbie, she took us back to where we started, to that day by the pool, and added this closing thought:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMark would not be alive today if it wasn’t for the kind people at Silveridge. I want everyone to know how grateful and thankful we are for their quick actions.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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