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<DIV>All</DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>I can proudly say I am a Ham and a Deacon in the Catholic Church.</DIV>
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<DIV>Please pass on my prayers and good wishes to Terry for myself as well as
the ARRL and our membership.</DIV>
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<DIV>Joe Palsa</DIV>
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<DIV>Dr Joseph Palsa k3wry<BR>ARRL-Virginia Section Manager<BR>Virginia State
Government Liaison<BR>K3WRY@ARRL.ORG<BR>804-350-2665<B><BR><BR>NOTICE: The
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<DIV>In a message dated 10/30/2016 4:22:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wfenn4@verizon.net writes:</DIV>
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face=Arial>FYI<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Mark Rinehart
[mailto:mrinehart@cox.net] <BR>Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2016 1:26 PM<BR>To:
W4IY/R <wwi-reflector@googlegroups.com><BR>Cc: William Fenn
<wfenn4@verizon.net><BR>Subject: Update on Terry WA5NTI<BR><BR>I visited
yesterday afternoon with Terry WA5NTI at the Healthsouth<BR>Rehabilitation
Hospital located at 24430 Millstream Drive in Aldie, VA. He<BR>is in Room
138.<BR><BR>George WB5OYP from the AMRAD club was there and Carl WB4ZNH
stopped by also.<BR>Terry is alert and recognizes people to say hi. He is
paralyzed on the right<BR>side, but has control of his left side. His ability
to communicate is<BR>impaired by a combination of aphasia (thinks apples/"a"
and comes out<BR>gravy/"m") and apraxia (control of voice muscles confused).
<BR><BR>George and I spent some time working to map the alphabet onto a
five-by-five<BR>grid, since Terry can signal 1-2-3-4-5 reliably using his left
hand.<BR>Unfortunately, even pointing at the letters, we got a string of
consonants<BR>with just a few vowels. We then tried having Terry say each
letter of the<BR>alphabet and writing down phonetically what he said for each
letter. Same<BR>results in spelling out words. I spent some time updating him
and reading<BR>him some news. He smiled and said "all right" when I read him
the report<BR>that the FBI had reopened the email investigation, so I know
Terry is aware<BR>and cognizant even though he can't say much.<BR><BR>The
nurses got him dressed and in a wheelchair and I sat with him
while<BR>watching TV in the lounge room until supper. I was working with Terry
with a<BR>sound board application on my iPad when his speech rehabilitation
counselor<BR>came in. She indicated that the sound board I was using might be
too hard<BR>for Terry to read the word labels and suggested finding one with
pictures<BR>for word labels. She took him down to dinner as I was leaving and
she did<BR>say that Terry was making considerable progress even though it did
not seem<BR>so at the moment.<BR><BR>I did find a picture sound board late
last night. The two free applications<BR>for the iPad which I found are
EESpeech Basic and Grid Player. There are<BR>probably similar apps for Android
devices as well. If you are able to visit,<BR>you might want to pre-load such
an application to try. Terry clearly wants<BR>to communicate and working with
him helps to re-open the brain channels he<BR>needs to use to talk
again.<BR><BR>73<BR><BR>Mark
Rinehart<BR>KV4UC@arrl.net<BR>mrinehart@cox.net<BR>703-399-1176 cell<BR>Lorton
VA<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Tacos mailing
list<BR>Tacos@amrad.org<BR>https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos<BR>
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