Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel says he expects to be back in the office, sleeves rolled up, by early afternoon Tuesday after fainting Monday night during a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Mandeville, at businessman Mike Moreno's River Ranch home. A source at the private gathering tells the INDsider that Durel was pale, but was alert and waved farewell as he was brought to Lafayette General Medical Center by ambulance. “I was trying to find a dramatic way to get out budget hearings, and I thought this might work,” Durel joked Tuesday morning via telephone from his hospital room, an EKG beeping rhythmically in the background.
The 56-year-old insists he’s OK (thankfully, ER doc Kip Schumacher was on hand at the fundraiser to lend a hand) and was kept in the hospital overnight as a precaution. “Really, I’m fine. Everything they’ve observed and tested has come back perfect — blood pressure and everything.” Durel says doctors will perform stress tests Tuesday morning — tests he says he’ll pass with “flying colors.”
Fortunately, he was in a crowded room when he passed out; bystanders prevented him from falling to the floor. “I found myself standing in the middle of the room, not leaning on anything and, two speeches getting a little long, I guess all things kind of came together at one time,” Durel says. “I turned — I thought I was turning anyway — to get out of the middle of the room to maybe sit down somewhere because I felt myself feeling kind of strange, and what I’m told is I never made a turn; I just started going down.”
... written by Taxpaying American Citizen , August 25, 2009 - 04:09 pm
I may find myself in disagreement with Mayor Durel at times, but I sincerely hope everything is ok.
It's obvious he is a good father who cares for his family, which afterall, is the most important job for husbands and/or fathers.
... written by Gary McGoffin , August 25, 2009 - 04:10 pm
That's what happens when you challenge your son-in-law to a weight loss contest. Weigh in is August 31. It's hard to take it all off in the last three weeks.
... written by nolaf , August 25, 2009 - 05:12 pm
Yeah..........ol' Steve-o has a tendency to do that to people. I would've done the same thing just to get out of a Scalise fundraiser!
... written by Grape Vine , August 25, 2009 - 08:27 pm
It's surpising Mike Moreno has a home after all the money he lost.
... written by LafayetteGrapevine , August 25, 2009 - 09:11 pm
Man, I'd like to know who was giving the speech at the moment Mayor-President Durel passed out. Must've been a radio-host Democrat against the Red Light cameras who announced he was going to hand Durel a subpeona, or maybe it was the GM of Cox who announced the cable company would stop fighting the LUSFiber project, or maybe it was one of the Horse Farm advocates who announced unexpectedly that Lafayette needs parking garage on Johnston Street to lower the carbon footprint of Lafayette. All kidding aside, glad to hear you're feeling better Mayor-President Durel.
... written by JoEllen Coussan , August 26, 2009 - 12:01 am
Hope all is well. God Bless! JoEllen
... written by northsidian , August 29, 2009 - 12:22 am
the comment about mike moreno is un-called for!! have a little class cuz!
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Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel says he expects to be back in the office, sleeves rolled up, by early afternoon Tuesday after fainting Monday night during a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Mandeville, at businessman Mike Moreno's River Ranch home. A source at the private gathering tells the INDsider that Durel was pale, but was alert and waved farewell as he was brought to Lafayette General Medical Center by ambulance. “I was trying to find a dramatic way to get out budget hearings, and I thought this might work,” Durel joked Tuesday morning via telephone from his hospital room, an EKG beeping rhythmically in the background.
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It's obvious he is a good father who cares for his family, which afterall, is the most important job for husbands and/or fathers.