[SixClub] KC8VKZ Update

[Rick Robinson]

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   Six Club #15