Welcome back among the "living", Ivan.

Greg
48/35/35

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From: Ivan M Suzman <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 12:36 AM
Subject: I'm back home


> Dear friends,
>
>  Thank you for your support during the
> past two months.  I am at home now, recovering
> from surgery on a large inguinal hernia,
> I meanwhile have problems in my tailbone
> (coccygeal) area. I have some pain , and although  tired,
> I am grateful to be on the mend, at last.
>
> Briefly, I did not know that there was unauthorized
> use of  my computer on either Feb. 25, or March
> 5.  The sender, Mr. Ashley Lenartson, has been
> dismissed from working here.  There is no Suzman
> Fund, and I did NOT ask him to ask you to money sent here--he made these
> things up . I wish I had had more control  then, over who
> could enter and leave my home.  I do now.
>
> My caregiver situation is better, in that I have
>  been offered a source of funding for part
> of their paychecks.  I have cut back
> to six good caregivers.  To help me to recover, I have paid 24-hour
>  coverage, or friends visiting, with few gaps,
> most days, and am much better than even
> two days ago.
>
> The State of Maine has not yet responded with
> a final decision about cutting  my  funded hours to
> 5 daily, or retaining 13/day.  Meanwhile, my appeal
> preserves  13 hours, awaiting a decision.
>
> I  was driven  to my aunt and uncle's apartment on
> Feb. 23,  in Providence,  Rhode Island, which is 162 miles
> away. I was admitted to Miriam Hospital, on 2/24 ,
> in Providence, transferred on 2/28 to Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket ,
> RI.
> I was transported  back to Maine on Friday , March 16th
> and admitted for abdominal surgery on Wed
> Mar 21, here at Maine Medical Center.
>
>  I was sent home on Sunday, March
> 25. I was battling to get my medications
> at the correct times, and  achieved
> control over them , along with accurate nighttime
> reminders,  on March 23.  By the end of my stay
> at Maine Medical, I was extremely grateful to
> have survived, and I cried with relief, when I was finally
> wheeled to the hospital doors and discharged.
>
> It is still snowing here, and the driveway has
> 9-foot high snowbanks.  Winter is quite a
> terrible challenge.
>
> The Houston Area Parkinson Society
> golf competition  was last autumn, and
> the call  to me that I am its champion
> for Maine came on March 5th, while I was in the hospital.
> I have already been driven, carrying a copy of the award citation
> from Bob Martone and friends, to the local
> office of  U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe .
>   I mentioned the stem cell research that is so hopeful, and
> her  Portland staff promised to convey this to Washington,
> DC.
>
>
>  For next winter, there are friends in North Carolina
> and in Georgia who are talking to me about
> possible arrangements.  Each one is a nurse.
>
> I am so grateful to all of you who have been able
> to assist me in various ways.
>
> I called my State Senator and Representative
> yesterday. Parkinson's Awareness Month begins
> tomorrow, and they will co-sponsor an Awareness
> Resolution in the Maine Capitol .
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Ivan Suzman
> 51/39/36
>
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