[meteorite-list] Walter Branch

[JKGwilliam]

Eric,
Thanks for the update...what great news.  It's really good to hear 
that he's on the mend.

Best,
John Gwilliam

At 09:01 PM 3/27/2007, star-bits at tx.rr.com wrote:
>Greetings all
>
>      I drove down to Savannah today and spent a couple hours with 
> Walter.    I was the second meteorite person he has ever met, John 
> Sinclair was the other.   So he was blown away with the signed 
> poster and accompanying check from a group of casual email 
> acquaintances whom he has never met.   Way to go guys.
>
>      As expected we talked meteorites, and hunting meteorites, and 
> meteorite people, and meteorite news etc, etc.   We might even get 
> him out to the Tucson show one of these years.
>
>      His daughter is doing fine, out playing with her 
> friends.   The young heal fast.   I asked how his wife was doing 
> and he said she has been incredible.   All the financial stuff and 
> other things that Walter used to deal with she has taken care of 
> completely.   She is there every day and Walter considers himself 
> luck to have her.   Unfortunately she was not there during my visit 
> so I did not get to meet her.
>
>      As far as Walter himself goes he is getting better.   He 
> doesn't have much of an appetite and it was obvious after a couple 
> hours that he was getting tired.    While I was there the head of 
> the rehab center dropped by and said that as soon as the surgeons 
> cleared him he was headed over to rehab.   That is expected 
> sometime this week.   After that the rehab people will torture him 
> until he can get in and out of bed and walk.   A compound fracture 
> of his upper right leg makes that difficult now.   Once rehab is 
> done it will be home to his own bed and family for further 
> healing.   That isn't the end though because there will be further 
> surgery required in the coming months.   All in all he looked 
> really good for someone who nearly died at the scene of the accident.
>
>--
>Eric Olson
>7682 Firethorn Dr
>Fayetteville, NC 28311
>
>http://www.star-bits.com
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