user avatar
Eric Wahl
@ziplamak
KC born-n-raised. If hope is all you've got left, bet it all on hope. Sorun çıkarmak için yeterli Türkçe. Attitude of gratitude. #COYG. He/him🏳️‍🌈⚽🤔✊🏾🌎🇺🇲
Kansas City, MO
Joined April 2010
Posts
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    In the span of a few years, I watched Celine's father die on a gurney, my mother died, my mother-in-law died, my father died; last month I had to put down my 19yr-old cat. Last Friday, I'd agreed to a divorce from the love of my life, & later that day, my brother died.
  • user avatar
    May Imane Khelif end up owning 51% of Harry Potter
    Imane Khelif with her gold medal at the closing ceremony. Deserve so much 🥹🫶
  • user avatar
    My husband and I have been on the phone with the state department, and Grant's wife has been in contact with people in the Biden administration. We have faith in our country. We're asking for help to ensure Americans are with his body. We do NOT hate Islam or
  • user avatar
    Update: We are traveling with Grant's body to the medical examination & autopsy. Per a US gov official, FIFA is saying AEDs were available at the stadium. Thank you to American Airlines for their incredible help. Thank you to the NY Port Authority & the US government. Humbled.
  • user avatar
    The family will release a statement as to cause of death soon. I no longer suspect foul play. It was not PE.
    Replying to @ziplamak
    It seems possible Grant experienced a pulmonary embolism & was in a non-shockable state.
  • user avatar
    To clarify, Grant was a healthy person in his regular life. I know he'd been under the weather recently & that he was told it was bronchitis & given medication. I'm aware of his posts about feeling like his body shut down. He was a workaholic & had used that phrase before w me...
  • user avatar
    Replying to @ziplamak
    Muslim people. My brother wore that rainbow shirt at the World Cup in support of us as gay soccer fans.
  • user avatar
    NBC is showing the US Men's basketball team medal ceremony, but they wouldn't show the USWNT medal ceremony. In this essay, you better believe I will...
  • user avatar
    After we scattered our dad's ashes. I'm not super media savvy. I understand that people want me to prove I'm Grant's brother. Please understand how taxed we are right now. We all want answers.
  • user avatar
    Replying to @ziplamak
    And please, *please,* stop with the vaccine nonsense. Because that's what it is: absolute nonsense. And it's an insult to our family as Grant's wife is an epidemiologist.
  • user avatar
    In NYC now. Can update that Grant did go to hospital in an ambulance. Colleagues followed in an Uber. There was no available AED onsite, though it sounds as though it wouldn't have made a difference, if my understanding of the medical situation is correct. G comes home tomorrow.
  • user avatar
    Replying to @ziplamak
    I felt, feel, obliterated. Grant was my confidante, my champion, my friend, my defender, my brother & only sibling. Grant knew things that happened to me growing up gay in KS. We had thorough educations in injustice from our educator parents. Grant majored in political science.
  • user avatar
    Update: We are grateful to the US government for their help, esp the US ambassador to Qatar for his compassion. Our understanding is Grant's electronics have been secured. We are humbled by the conscientious care of the US embassy in Qatar w.r.t. Grant.
  • user avatar
    Replying to @ziplamak
    I am so touched by the outpouring of love & support we have received from around the world. Thank you. Please be kind to one another.