[K3pzn-board] FW: [ICOM] KC8VKZ Update

[John Hart]

>From: Rick Robinson <w8zt at charter.net>
>Reply-To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
>To: Icom Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [ICOM] KC8VKZ Update
>Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:11:09 -0500
>
>Here is an update on Randal McCloy, the lone survivor of the SAGO Mine 
>disaster. This afternoon,(1-18-2006) I  talked with Rick McGee, Randals  
>brother in law and I have positive news to report.  News reports of him 
>being in a coma are true, but, it is a very light coma. Today he was 
>sitting up in bed and eating ice chips. He also was  rubbing his knee  and  
>tugging at a piece of dried skin on his lip. His dialysis treatments have 
>been reduced to every other day as his kidney functions are starting to 
>work again. His family wants to thank everyone for the cards and letters 
>that arrive daily in the large plastic postal bins. The mail keeps his wife 
>occupied and gives her consolation that so many think of her and her 
>husband and family. Rick made the comment that he could paper the walls in 
>the house with all of the cards and I then explained to him that that is 
>what a lot of  hams do with their cards. Once again , this information is 
>being released with the permission of the family. I asked about Randals 
>involvement in Amateur Radio and I was told he was relatively new to the 
>hobby. His radio was not working and he was in the process of looking for 
>another radio to replace his shortly before the mine accident. I told his 
>brother in law that I would like to meet him and Randal  some day at a 
>hamfest or somewhere else  and if he ever had to come down to the Kanawha 
>Valley to be sure and give me a call. I hope and pray I am given that 
>opportunity someday. Anyway, thats all for now. I will check back with them 
>in a week or so and give another report, hopefully better than this one. 
>Take care friends, Rick. W8ZT
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