[Oe List ...] Ken Gilbert is shifting gears

[Ruth Gilbert]

Hello dear friends,

Ken enjoys the humor coming his way, but especially photos of each of you.
If you haven’t been able to send a hard copy photo of yourself, I am now
able to receive and print an electronic photo. So, if you are able, please
keep photos of yourself coming. They are much appreciated.

I am aware of how many of us are coping with loss, change and the
implications of illness. The most recent are Stan Crow’s death and Jim
Jewell’s terminal diagnosis. I carry Fred Lamphear in my heart. There are
others you know about, and several I have heard about personally as Ken’s
medical event hit the air ways. It is difficult to extend care through
email. At the same time I am grateful for the ways email has kept so many of
us connected across time and space.  I am grateful for the tasks we did
together, the engagement in the world that we were privileged to participate
in and the memories that flow through me.

Ken is shifting gears. All parts seem to be working synchronously together
except his sight between his nose and his right ear. As we watch other
people on this floor we are both thankful for the presence of his
“selfness”. Not everybody is so lucky after a stroke.

Ken is well enough to be discharged from the hospital but not well enough to
return home. That is the small window through which you must pass in order
to qualify for in-patient rehab work that the insurance company will pay
for. We don’t know if we will  slide through that window successfully but we
will be somewhere within the next several days, maybe today.

Ken is shifting gears. W hope for some good cognitive work that will wake up
new neurons and axons in his brain to work around, or adapt to, the cut in
his field of vision.

Best to each of you. Please pass on to whomever. Our network is so diverse
it is hard to know if this covers us all.

Ruth
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