[Elecraft] OT - A Personal Note

[Dauer, Edward]

Hello All –

Writing on Day 11 after a severe hemorrhagic stroke, now in the Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital in Denver – a city blessed with more than its share of world-class medical specialization, including Spalding.  Hemmorhage was in the medulla in the brain stem, a place where – by way of crude analogy – much of the final digital to analog neural translation occurs for almost everything left of midline.

It hit me as I was about to leave for a weekend at my operating QTH.  Two days in a general hospital ER; three in a neural-intensive care unit at the next hospital, where my friend and yours Fred Cady KE7X passed away just a couple of weeks ago; then a transfer here where I am trying to learn how to stand up and walk again.  Fine motor control in left hand is gone – so probably not able at present to send with right fist and turn the Big Knob with the left.

Sorry, Eric and Wayne;  my K4 order will have to wait.

Yes this is OT, but I have always thought of the group on this reflector as friends even if  most of them I haven’t personally met yet.  And this is the kind of news one shares with friends; not a CQ for well wishes on-list.  In any case, it will explain an uncharacteristic silence -- after this note.  (Typing by searching for one letter at a time is awkward and slow.)

KN1CBR is not QRT.  Merely TU, AR K.

CUAGN & 73,

Ted, KN1CBR