FW: Update on Terry WA5NTI

[K3WRY at aol.com]

All
As a Deacon first, single Ham person first and as ARRL Virginia Section  
Manager third, I want to thank and bless you all for all of your thoughts,  
actions and prayers for Terry.
 
I can proudly say I am a Ham and a Deacon in the Catholic Church.
 
Please pass on my prayers and good wishes to Terry for myself as well as  
the ARRL and our membership.
 
Joe Palsa
 
Dr Joseph Palsa k3wry
ARRL-Virginia Section Manager
Virginia State  Government Liaison
K3WRY at ARRL.ORG
804-350-2665

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In a message dated 10/30/2016 4:22:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wfenn4 at verizon.net writes:

FYI

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rinehart  [mailto:mrinehart at cox.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016 1:26 PM
To:  W4IY/R <wwi-reflector at googlegroups.com>
Cc: William Fenn  <wfenn4 at verizon.net>
Subject: Update on Terry WA5NTI

I visited  yesterday afternoon with Terry WA5NTI at the Healthsouth
Rehabilitation  Hospital located at 24430 Millstream Drive in Aldie, VA. He
is in Room  138.

George WB5OYP from the AMRAD club was there and Carl WB4ZNH  stopped by 
also.
Terry is alert and recognizes people to say hi. He is  paralyzed on the 
right
side, but has control of his left side. His ability  to communicate is
impaired by a combination of aphasia (thinks apples/"a"  and comes out
gravy/"m") and apraxia (control of voice muscles confused).  

George and I spent some time working to map the alphabet onto a  
five-by-five
grid, since Terry can signal 1-2-3-4-5 reliably using his left  hand.
Unfortunately, even pointing at the letters, we got a string of  consonants
with just a few vowels. We then tried having Terry say each  letter of the
alphabet and writing down phonetically what he said for each  letter. Same
results in spelling out words. I spent some time updating him  and reading
him some news. He smiled and said "all right" when I read him  the report
that the FBI had reopened the email investigation, so I know  Terry is aware
and cognizant even though he can't say much.

The  nurses got him dressed and in a wheelchair and I sat with him  while
watching TV in the lounge room until supper. I was working with Terry  with 
a
sound board application on my iPad when his speech rehabilitation  counselor
came in. She indicated that the sound board I was using might be  too hard
for Terry to read the word labels and suggested finding one with  pictures
for word labels. She took him down to dinner as I was leaving and  she did
say that Terry was making considerable progress even though it did  not seem
so at the moment.

I did find a picture sound board late  last night. The two free applications
for the iPad which I found are  EESpeech Basic and Grid Player. There are
probably similar apps for Android  devices as well. If you are able to 
visit,
you might want to pre-load such  an application to try. Terry clearly wants
to communicate and working with  him helps to re-open the brain channels he
needs to use to talk  again.

73

Mark  Rinehart
KV4UC at arrl.net
mrinehart at cox.net
703-399-1176 cell
Lorton  VA

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