Hi, Katety. Thank you so much for keeping us in your mind. It means getting better all the time, but it's a very long road until we get to Amy 2.0. (She is still in beta)
Be well. Sent from my iPhone Messengers and Skype: BurningHawk1969 My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markburninghawk.baxter > On Oct 27, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Katey Glass <[email protected]> wrote: > > Markk, > > I'm thinking about you and Amy and the dogs. Will continue to pray for a > full recovery! I like your choice of words! > > Katey > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Oct 27, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Amy 2.0 will be better, stronger, faster… >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> Messengers and Skype: BurningHawk1969 >> My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net >> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markburninghawk.baxter >> >> >>> On Oct 27, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Joanne Chua <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> Just want to say that thinking of you and Amy and the two dogs. >>> Hanging there mate, it will be a long recovery for Amy, but she'll make it. >>> >>> >>> >>> Joanne Chua >>> The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. >>> Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate >>> Send from my iPad >>> >>>> On 27 Oct 2013, at 17:21, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> If the "him, "in question is me, HOK, we are already friends, and I >>>> believe I am also friends with almost everyone here. If I am not online, I >>>> am away, and will get back to you as soon as I can. >>>> >>>> The good news, however small, is that Amy did move a very little of both >>>> her arms and legs today. >>>> >>>> Thanks again for everyone who showing their support. It is a long road >>>> ahead for Amy, she needs all the encouraging she can to get her back to >>>> walking and driving again. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> Messengers and Skype: BurningHawk1969 >>>> My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net >>>> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markburninghawk.baxter >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 6:46 PM, eric oyen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> have him get on Skype. some of us are faster with speech than keyboard >>>>> skills. Also, its good to hear a voice on the far end of things offering >>>>> support. >>>>> >>>>> my Skype: technomage-hawke >>>>> >>>>> -eric >>>>> >>>>>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello again All, >>>>>> >>>>>> I just wanted to give you an update on Mark and Amy's story. >>>>>> >>>>>> Firstly though, please let me offer my sincere and deepest thanks to you >>>>>> all who have shown your support and well-wishes. This not only means a >>>>>> tremendous amount to Mark and Amy, but also means the world to me that >>>>>> we can come together as a community to support each other when we are in >>>>>> need. >>>>>> >>>>>> Some of you have asked where the donations will go. Any donations will >>>>>> be used for expenses associated with this incident and the medical care >>>>>> from this. Mark has said that he will keep a record of everything >>>>>> associated with this. Already it cost hundreds of dollars for Mark to >>>>>> simply tow Amy's car back home. This cost has now been taken care of for >>>>>> them, fortunately. So thank you all! :) >>>>>> >>>>>> You all are making a real difference here so I'm truly grateful to you!… >>>>>> >>>>>> Now, I'd like to share Mark's email address here so that you may send >>>>>> your support to him. If you cannot offer financial support then please >>>>>> do consider offering Amy and him your most valuable emotional support. >>>>>> It is truly welcome… >>>>>> >>>>>> Below I'll first share Mark's email address and then a copy of the >>>>>> recent article in a local Oregon paper about this incident which also >>>>>> offers an update on Amy's condition. If you would like to know more, >>>>>> please do write directly to Mark if you would? >>>>>> >>>>>> Now that this is known here, please let me suggest that we now move this >>>>>> to a more personal level off the lists. Feel free to write me or Mark >>>>>> and do be assured that any developments, I will share. Otherwise, I'm >>>>>> happy (and will now encourage us) to continue this off the lists. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks so very, very much to you all for your support! I cannot express >>>>>> enough how much this means to them and to me. >>>>>> >>>>>> Y'all are AWESOME!!! >>>>>> >>>>>> Have a wonderful weekend! Info and article follow… >>>>>> >>>>>> Sincerely, >>>>>> >>>>>> Cara >>>>>> --- >>>>>> Email Mark Baxter [email protected] >>>>>> >>>>>> The Article >>>>>> >>>>>> The Curry Coastal Pilot - Couple survives hiking ordeal >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Mark Baxter and his girlfriend Amy Regan with their dogs, who were >>>>>> instrumental in efforts to rescue Amy after a hiking accident. Submitted >>>>>> photo >>>>>> Brookings resident Mark Baxter still isn’t sure what to make of what he >>>>>> calls his misadventure along Damnation Creek near Klamath last weekend — >>>>>> an afternoon jaunt that landed his girlfriend, Amy Regan, in ICU in >>>>>> Portland with a broken back and no feeling in her arms and legs. >>>>>> “There was a bunch of stupid decisions all down the line,” Baxter said >>>>>> Wednesday of what was supposed to have been an easy afternoon hike. “I >>>>>> got lucky. I got damn lucky.” >>>>>> The two didn’t bring a survival kit, and were wearing sweatpants and >>>>>> T-shirts. A friend has since reassured them that their clothing sounded >>>>>> appropriate for a two-hour hike along a popular trail. >>>>>> The 3.4-mile trek threads through a redwood forest down 1,000 vertical >>>>>> feet into a rocky, secluded beach. It’s rated “easy,” and the couple are >>>>>> experienced hikers. >>>>>> “At first, the trail was great, so we continued,” Baxter said. “By the >>>>>> time it got narrow and steep again, and Amy could see the ocean through >>>>>> the trees ahead, we needed to turn back; it was getting dark.” >>>>>> When they did, Regan and her dog, Luke, slipped and fell from the steep >>>>>> embankment. Baxter later learned she likely slipped on rotting timbers >>>>>> left from an old footbridge. >>>>>> “I heard her fall, cry out, then a crash, then nothing,” Baxter said. “I >>>>>> called out, ‘Amy! Can you answer me!’ And I heard nothing … for minutes.” >>>>>> When he did hear something, he didn’t think it was human. But it was, >>>>>> and it was Amy. >>>>>> “I do not think I have ever in my life witnessed that much suffering and >>>>>> agony,” he said. “It is a sound I hope never to hear again.” >>>>>> Baxter and his dog, Ezra, scrambled down the hill to rescue her. >>>>>> “She’d landed on her back, on the rocks at the bottom of an old creek >>>>>> bed,” Baxter said. “And she kept saying, ‘No! No! No!’ over and over ... >>>>>> and told me she couldn’t feel her legs.” >>>>>> Baxter struggled back up the incline and worked his way about a >>>>>> quarter-mile down the dark path until his iPhone finally got one bar. It >>>>>> took at least four 911 calls — and disconnects due to poor reception in >>>>>> the valley — before he was able to relay their situation to Del Norte’s >>>>>> Search and Rescue team. >>>>>> He gave them the name of the trail; he told them about the footbridge. >>>>>> But, no, he didn’t think he could get back to his vehicle. No, he >>>>>> couldn’t describe where he was. >>>>>> They ascertained his GPS coordinates, and Baxter’s phone died. >>>>>> A few hours later, he was getting cold. He had the dogs with him, but >>>>>> he’d left his sweatshirt with Regan. >>>>>> And he couldn’t tell if rescue crews were approaching through the thick >>>>>> trees and the dark night. >>>>>> Baxter is blind. >>>>>> Mark and Amy >>>>>> >>>>>> The 44-year-old Brookings man met his girlfriend on Facebook — he the >>>>>> disillusioned musician and she looking for a new life away from the >>>>>> strip-mine town of Butte, Mont. She joined him here six months ago. >>>>>> >>>>>> Amy has her own challenges, Baxter said, with psychiatric issues and a >>>>>> condition that leaves her in constant pain. Hence her service dog, a >>>>>> lanky German shepherd with steely copper eyes. >>>>>> >>>>>> “But we instinctively knew we were real (emotionally) close,” Baxter >>>>>> said. “She is the most loving, caring, intense person I know. She is the >>>>>> bravest person I’ve ever known.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Saturday, Baxter wasn’t feeling so brave, he said. He periodically >>>>>> shouted out for the rescue team. He huddled with the dogs. He listened. >>>>>> >>>>>> “I’d done all I could do,” he said. >>>>>> >>>>>> Four hours later, he heard someone calling his name. >>>>>> >>>>>> In many ways, it was just the beginning of their travails. It took hours >>>>>> to get Regan backboarded, up the cliff and back down to the trailhead, 3 >>>>>> miles away. It was 3:30 a.m., about 12 hours since they’d set out on the >>>>>> hike. >>>>>> >>>>>> As they walked, a search and rescue volunteer quickly learned Baxter and >>>>>> Ezra could navigate the dark path far better than he and his flashlight, >>>>>> and let the two take the lead. They talked about the dogs, the school >>>>>> that had trained Ezra, dogs in general. >>>>>> >>>>>> “I think he was mostly just trying to take my mind off what had just >>>>>> happened,” Baxter said. “And as beat-up and tired as I was, I cannot >>>>>> imagine what it was like for Amy to be stretcher-borne out of there.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Baxter said the dogs were the heroes that night. Luke led the rescue >>>>>> team to Regan; Ezra, limping from his flight down the hill, led Baxter >>>>>> and the search team carrying Amy out of the woods. >>>>>> >>>>>> He got a ride home from a park ranger; Amy remains in intensive care at >>>>>> Oregon Health Sciences in Portland with a broken thoracic spine, three >>>>>> broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Ezra is sore and tired; Luke is >>>>>> confused and sad. >>>>>> >>>>>> “It’s very possible Amy could recover from this,” Baxter said. “It’s too >>>>>> early to tell. They’re just caring for her day to day. I don’t know >>>>>> anything about her prognosis. And I have not yet stopped sending my >>>>>> gratitude to ‘Dog’ for walking with me, for saving our lives.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Deep in the dark >>>>>> >>>>>> Numerous elements resulted in their survival that night. >>>>>> >>>>>> “The reason we got through that was my martial arts skills, keeping a >>>>>> level head, and doing what you have to do,” Baxter said. “It’s been a >>>>>> theme of mine throughout my life.” >>>>>> >>>>>> “It is horrifying, and also amazing,” said Dawn Nelson, a friend of the >>>>>> couple who lives in Nevada. “It’s a testament to the power of love, the >>>>>> abilities of guide dogs, the service of others, and the ability to do >>>>>> what needs to be done, despite nearly insurmountable obstacles.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Baxter, born blind into a sighted world, has always refused to think >>>>>> that way. >>>>>> >>>>>> “When it came to anything at all — from high school and passing an exam, >>>>>> from riding a bike to going camping — I had to blaze the trail,” he >>>>>> said. “I had to tell everybody that, ‘Yes, I can do this; don’t put me >>>>>> in that box.’” >>>>>> >>>>>> He sought out experiences, began “collecting skills,” overcompensating >>>>>> to prove to the sighted people that he had no weaknesses, no >>>>>> disabilities, that he was no different than them. >>>>>> >>>>>> “If I had been sighted, I would have been immobilized,” he said of the >>>>>> couple’s ordeal last weekend. “How a species can evolve with a dominant >>>>>> sense that is useless 12 hours a day ... I just don’t get it. My skills >>>>>> don’t involve sight at all. >>>>>> >>>>>> “Hearing,” he said, “is a more beautiful and useful sense.” >>>>>> >>>>>> That comment, from a man who is also profoundly deaf. >>>>>> >>>>>> He is a tactile human, feeling the world around him through his feet as >>>>>> he walks, through pressure changes in the air as surroundings change. >>>>>> >>>>>> “Ask the land where to go,” he said. “It’s getting in nature, sitting >>>>>> with Earth. Am I getting too New-Agey here?” >>>>>> >>>>>> He attributes that to Sensei Toda Yoshi, Baxter’s martial arts >>>>>> instructor. With the attitude of ‘just do it,” the then-26-year-old >>>>>> learned the ancient Japanese tradition of Shaolin Kempo Karate. >>>>>> >>>>>> There are a lot of fist, foot and body moves in karate, but there are >>>>>> also the soft skills of the warrior: focusing the heart, power and >>>>>> energy through the mind and into the body, Baxter explained. >>>>>> >>>>>> “I credit him with helping me save Amy because without his teaching, I >>>>>> would not have been able to channel the panic in my heart, through my >>>>>> mind, into my body, into actions, that got us out,” Baxter said. >>>>>> “Without what I know about balance, and the strength that I have through >>>>>> keeping up my exercises, I would not have had the physical ability to >>>>>> get out.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Other skills he learned through Tom Brown Jr.’s “tracker school,” a >>>>>> nature and wilderness survival school based in New Jersey, where >>>>>> participants gain a “closer attachment to the Earth and the skills and >>>>>> philosophy to live in harmony and balance with creation.” >>>>>> >>>>>> “That’s what helped me stay on the trail, stay safe, and be calm enough >>>>>> in the dark, in the night, in the woods, to use the skills I had to get >>>>>> us out,” Baxter said. >>>>>> >>>>>> Amy >>>>>> >>>>>> Even though Regan’s out of the California woods, she isn’t out of the >>>>>> medical woods. >>>>>> >>>>>> The most recent report Baxter has on Amy is that she has a shattered >>>>>> thoracic vertebrae near her neck — surgeons put a permanent metal rod in >>>>>> her spine for stability — and while she cannot move her arms or legs, >>>>>> she can wiggle her hands and toes. She has five broken ribs and a >>>>>> ruptured lung. >>>>>> >>>>>> “With rehab, we hope this will get a lot better,” he said. “I constantly >>>>>> send my gratitude to the great spirit for the intervention I know I >>>>>> received, information from the land and my dogs and the night itself, >>>>>> which allowed me to stay oriented, sane, and on the path to rescuing >>>>>> her. This will all get better; it’s the waiting for Amy to come back >>>>>> that’s the hardest part for me. >>>>>> >>>>>> “It’s far from over,” he added. “I frankly have no idea what comes next. >>>>>> I will not consider her rescued until she is back with me.” >>>>>> --- >>>>>> View my Online Portfolio at: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn >>>>>> >>>>>> Follow me on Twitter! >>>>>> >>>>>> https://twitter.com/ModelCara >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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