Eric, Thanks for the update...what great news. It's really good to hear that he's on the mend.
Best, John Gwilliam At 09:01 PM 3/27/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Greetings all > > I drove down to Savannah today and spent a couple hours with > Walter. I was the second meteorite person he has ever met, John > Sinclair was the other. So he was blown away with the signed > poster and accompanying check from a group of casual email > acquaintances whom he has never met. Way to go guys. > > As expected we talked meteorites, and hunting meteorites, and > meteorite people, and meteorite news etc, etc. We might even get > him out to the Tucson show one of these years. > > His daughter is doing fine, out playing with her > friends. The young heal fast. I asked how his wife was doing > and he said she has been incredible. All the financial stuff and > other things that Walter used to deal with she has taken care of > completely. She is there every day and Walter considers himself > luck to have her. Unfortunately she was not there during my visit > so I did not get to meet her. > > As far as Walter himself goes he is getting better. He > doesn't have much of an appetite and it was obvious after a couple > hours that he was getting tired. While I was there the head of > the rehab center dropped by and said that as soon as the surgeons > cleared him he was headed over to rehab. That is expected > sometime this week. After that the rehab people will torture him > until he can get in and out of bed and walk. A compound fracture > of his upper right leg makes that difficult now. Once rehab is > done it will be home to his own bed and family for further > healing. That isn't the end though because there will be further > surgery required in the coming months. All in all he looked > really good for someone who nearly died at the scene of the accident. > >-- >Eric Olson >7682 Firethorn Dr >Fayetteville, NC 28311 > >http://www.star-bits.com >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
