Guys, I'm not one to post personal tragedies on this site, but I will make an exception here. Hope JimmyD don't get mad at me, but it is sort of flytying related by the time I get to the end. And many here are affected in a 2nd-hand way.
When you go to my website, you can see the DVD on my catalog page with an order-page. That was put there by my long-time pc guru, Mark Overeem. He's been salvaging and upgrading my PCs and programs since the early 90's and is extremely good, but I don't know how good he will be when he wakes up. If he wakes up. Sunday afternoon he was admitted for emergency surgery to remove a 4" blood-clot from his brain, and he still hasn't regained consciousness yet, and he needs a respirator to breathe. The doctors say he will recover, but will only be some shade of his former self. He's a year younger than me - 57. He was the one who worked for me at the Moab project as my remote PC set-up, communications set-up, electrical designer, electrical inspector, and assistant site supervisor (to me) for that $14mm gas plant. We spent 5 months at the camp-site in Moab with our trailers next door to each other. It all started when he was hit'n-run by a police-chased drug-addict in Las Vegas 10 years ago. It really messed him up bad- two years to recovery and lost 100 lbs or so. Spent a lot of time in hospitals. The drug addict had no insurance, of course, just a very long record. Recovered as only a shade of his original self. Four years ago he was hit with a strep-type virus that ate the top half of his heart off (may have picked the bug up in the hospitals). They thought it was the flu and they kept releasing him. They finally brought him in for a CT scan and took him straight to surgery. He died 3 times on the op table, but they brought him back with a rebuilt heart and a pacemaker. Another very long partial recovery, and this is how I hired him for Moab, to help get him motivated and back in the saddle. It helped a ton and he had the most financially successful year of his life (he owns his own elec. contracting business). He also progressed from looking like 'death warmed over' to someone who had the flu, and he gained 35lbs lack of the 75lbs he lost this time around. He's 6'-4" and was down to 85 pounds after the heart surgery. He's a sharp cookie and was very respected around the gas plant site, ill as he was. So he's had a very rough time, but through it all, has been my PC advisor and technician-guru, electrical contractor for home projects, and friend. We are not 'chummy buddies', as we march to different drummers, but we did spend a great deal of time together, and right now his family is envying me for that. So, I'm praying that he survives if he can have some quality of life. But with the previous heart-problems before this blood-clot and brain surgery, I just don't know what to pray for. He's been suffering so much for so long now. So I'm leaving it in God's hands and praying the He does what is best for Mark. Oh, and yes, I'm also thinking of his mom, who's been by his side through all of this. Mark is not married, so she will bear most of the burden for his care- again, the 3rd major time. So I'm also thinking of her. She wants him back- whatever is left. What a mom!! If it comes to pass, and I really don't want to get into it at this time, I will need assistance for my PCs and new website that he started. That's one of the reasons the new web site is not done- he just has not been up to it lately, and now we know why. If he survives, he will not be up to it for 6 months, if ever. There's not many trusted PC professionals in this Wyoming cowboy town. So later, later I may be asking someone to help me gather up the pieces to get my web sites finished for the Rope-dub and related pages. Thanks for listening guys. Peace to you all. DonO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
