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Pat,
Glad you can't remember that time but glad you remembered the code.
Phil.
K0NX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: k7rx
> After bypass surgery fifteen years ago I had a respirator, catheter
> and a load of Ivs. When I woke up, my hands were restrained;
> apparently I had tried to undo some of my connections!! I must have
> nodded that I would be a good boy because they let my hands be
> freed! I obviously couldn't talk around the respirator but was
> holding my wife's hand and she thought wiggling my fingers. Then she
> figured out I was sending Morse and then I was able to get some
> questions answered. Apparently I carried on a reasonable
> conversation and I swear, I don't remember a bit about any of
> it. That whole day is forever gone!! I'm amazed at myself; I
> shouldn't have been alert enough to figure out communication!
> Pat, K9JAUAt 05:57 PM 11/21/2012, you wrote:
>>Howard:
>>
>>Will pass that suggestion along to Kathy in my next correspondence with
>>her.
>>
>>It is just so sad!
>>
>>I looked Kevin up on qrz.com, and he was born in 1953--one year before me.
>>He's just way too young!
>>
>>Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:08 AM
>>Subject: k7rx
>>
>>
>> > Tom, please pass on our best wishes to Cathy and Tom.
>> > My first wife is a Speech Pathologist. One of her first patients was a
>> > ham
>> > who had a major stroke. He had over learned the code to such a degree,
>> > that
>> > he could blink it with an eye. I wonder if Kevin could communicate
>> > with
>> > finger taps or hand squeezes? If she got a local ham to visit, it
>> > might
>> > be
>> > worth a try. Just an idea.
>> >
>> > H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
>> > Adaptive Technology Instructor
>> >
>
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