On Dec 26, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Walter Gilbert wrote: > What a pleasant to surprise to see I made the list! Thanks, Mark, for > all the work you put in on this. I'm honored to have been included, and > sorry for being so late in responding. The past few days have been unusually > hectic even by holiday standards. My mother has been having a particularly > rough time of things for the past week, or so, and took a really bad turn > yesterday. We'd already gathered the family around, called in a pastor, and > she had said her last goodbyes and slipped into a completely non-responsive > state. > > Then, as if someone had hit a light switch, she was back. Not "well", mind > you, but better than she's been in weeks: talking to people, cracking wise, > and in short order, sipping a cup of coffee. Never seen anything like it. > She's still struggling, to be sure, but seems to have made it through the > deepest, darkest heart of the woods.
Vary good news. It sounds as if you are in that very rough period toward the end of someone's life, and I hope that you get through it with as much happiness and as little stress as possible. > > And, so, our family will be getting together today for Christmas -- with > considerably more joy in our hearts. Now, I just have to pretend not to be > disappointed when there's no 645D with my name on it. Have you considered changing your name to Walter Pentax? > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
