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

[Marilyn R Crocker]

Hi Ken and Ruth,

This is such good news!  You are a remarkable team, the Gilbert family,
and have been for years.  We will continue to hold you in our prayers,
and join you in calling forth those neurons, etc. to engage in
transformative possibility.

Will send our photo via g-mail.

Much love,

Marilyn and Joe

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:22:59 -0700 Ruth Gilbert <ruthhgilbert at gmail.com>
writes:
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


Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
Crocker & Associates, Inc.
123 Sanborn Road
West Newfield, ME 04095
(207) 793-3711
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