Hi Clency,
You sound upset for the lack of regular updates with Ron's recovery, from a severe enough stroke, he is no longer able to participate in the Forum he founded. I get your feeling, but the policy has been decided not to share much details on a public forum other than the facts of the matter. To go further invites nothing but more inquiry, with replies that provoke even more inquiry.
I cannot share every detail to everyone who asks publicly and privately. Or people who get replies from me privately, and then turn around and ask the forum publicly, anyway.
He's at his 4th different facility in a matter of weeks that I'm starting to lose count. Looking back at the lightline records, it must have been late mid to late October. The details around that timeline are typical of stroke experiences, but for me and you, it is something we learn in retrospect. Things like going into recovery stages from Emergency Room, to 2-3 week Hospital Rehab Program, then to a complex combination of insurance coverage, facility searching, therapy assessments, social workers, medical assessments, legal documents, legal and medical decision assessments, and the threat of astronomical medical bills. All of that has now come to pass and you were spared most of it, Clency.
He is out of commission indefinitely from public service with transmissions, and is probably not returning. Everything we take for granted in life to get through a day is a real struggle for Ron, so that means the loss of using a computer, reading a screen or typing. Recovery of these abilities will be measured in months not weeks is the reality that's setting in. He is at the stage of later years that he may never fully recover, or he may pass before it progresses to a point we recognize as recovered.
That leaves us in the awkward condition of having to move forward, individually, socially and organizationally, as if Ron has passed. He arranged for things to keep going in that event. And we are all in processes of experiencing it without him actually having passed. With the hope that he would recover, tempered with the sobering day-to-day reality of assisted living, memory care, and medical complications of advanced age.
In the meantime, we know Ron would have you do exactly what you did, Clency, and that is continue in your transmission ability and share it. Thank you. -- Dom
