Keep them coming. I'll take al I can get. Take care and very 73.
Kevin :)
Amateur Radio: K7RX
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lou Kolb
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 16:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: My Absence Explained
You're on the prayer list, Kevin. So glad you're still with us. Take care
and get on when you're ready. lou
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Nathan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 9:19 AM
Subject: My Absence Explained
> Hi All,
>
> As many of you have been friends or close acquaintances sharing this hobby
> with me for many years now, I wanted to let you know why I wasn't on the
> 20
> meter net last Sunday. Saturday evening I underwent a life changing
> event,
> at least to me, which I will explain. About three years ago, I was
> diagnosed with congestive heart failure. As treatment was concerned, I
> was
> placed on water pills, told to watch my sodium intake and not a lot else.
> As many of you know, in the summer I work with a program for employing
> blind
> high school youth and walk all over Seattle for about six weeks. Well,
> this
> year this walking was increasingly difficult to do but I put it down to
> getting somewhat heavier, getting older, etc.
>
> Well, Saturday night it all finally caught up with me. I went into a
> situation where I could not get enough breath in my lungs to sustain me.
> I
> can tell you, that is the scariest feeling I've ever experienced. I
> remember telling Kathy I need the ambulance and woke up Tuesday morning in
> the hospital with a feeding tube down my throat, oxygen in my nose and
> weak
> as a kitten having lost three days of my life.
>
> I am home now thanks to the power of prayer and the support of a lot of
> good
> friends and family. I am recovering but still a little weak. However, I
> am
> very glad to be in the land of the living and will certainly pay better
> attention to my body in the future.
>
> I still have a problem with bladder cancer to whip but I'm all over that,
> it
> seems it will be curable and I don't plan on going silent key any time
> soon.
>
> Take care all and very 73.
>
>
> Kevin :)
> Amateur Radio: K7RX
>
>
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