[Elecraft] UPDATE ON TOM HAMMOND, N0SS

[K9ZTV]

Those who saw Tom at Dayton undoubtedly knew he shouldn't have been 
there.  The nine-hour trip from Jefferson City, the four days at Hara, 
and the return drive nearly did him in.

After several weeks in the hospital for problems tangential but not 
directly related to his cancer, he is now at home benefiting from 
24-hour home health care, as much for the sake of his XYL, Jeri, (K0RPH, 
herself a Registered Nurse) as for his.

He is weak and requires assistance walking, but is no longer bed-fast 
and spends his day in a recliner in the living room.  Having lost 
significant weight, the goal now is to regain it plus the strength to 
resume normal living.  Treatments are to resume soon with his oncologist 
continuing to affirm a positive outcome.

As many of you know, Tom is an extraordinarily optimistic person when it 
comes to handling adversity and major illness.  Lesser men would have 
been dead twenty years ago.

Much of that resilience he attributes to the prayers of others.  They 
are most surely needed now.

73,

Kent Trimble, K9ZTV
Jefferson City, Missouri