DANVILLE – The Allenwood Federal Penitentiary corrections officer who was stabbed in the eye is back in the hospital but he will not miss the family Christmas.
Dale Franquet Jr., 51, was readmitted to Geisinger Medical Center near Danville on Monday after daughter Mekenna, 14, told her mother something did not seem right with her father.
“They said I was slurring my speech a little bit,” he said Thursday in a telephone interview from Geisinger.
It appears it might have been something like a mini-stroke caused by blood pooling in the cranial cavity, he said. The blood being drained with the use of medicine and tubes, he said.
He is feeling better than he did Monday and said he has no paralysis. “I’m up walking and talking,” he said.
The blood came from the stab wound to the right eye Franquet suffered Dec. 7 when an inmate attacked him with a shank.
The eye could not be saved and was removed surgically. The socket is healing better than anticipated, he said his eye doctor told him.
Franquet cannot have visitors because of Geisinger’s COVID-19 restrictions so his family cannot be with him on Christmas.
He will not miss anything because he said he was told there will be no family Christmas until he is back home. He does not know when that will be, he said.
Franquet, who also is the head wrestling coach at Midd-West High School, said he was doing a few things from home in preparation for getting back on the mat.
Having his son back in the hospital has been a strain on his father Dale Sr. “I’m not sleeping well,” he said.
He questions why Dale Jr. was discharged the first time if it was known there was blood pooling in the cranial cavity.
His son was a little upset at being hospitalized again but his father said he told him: “You’re right where you need to be.” The mini-stroke might have been a warning, he said.
The FBI has yet to question him about the stabbing that occurred just after he unlocked the cell door of Kuwait-born Abdulrahman el Bahnasawy, 22, Franquet said.
Bahnasawy is serving 40-year sentence on charges in 2016 he plotted on behalf of ISIS to blow up the New York subway system, detonate bombs in Times Square and shoot people in public venues.
The Canadian citizen, who has been transferred to the nearby Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, has a documented history of mental issues.
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