[Vision2020] Update on Carrie Brooks

[lfalen]

I don't know for sure, but I think she is paralysed. I am just passing on what was reported.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Sam Scripter moscowsam at verizon.net
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:23:38 -0800
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Update on Carrie Brooks

> I am asking what I am about to ask out of curiosity and not
> with a lack of feeling for the plight of Carrie Brooks:
> 
> Roger -- Did you really mean what you wrote, that "she will
> probably be in a wheelchair for life, ...."
> 
> We see men and women who have lost legs in Iraq fitted
> with prostheses which enable them to walk, run and even
> compete athletically.
> 
Roger
> But I don't know that I've ever seen a prosthesis for a
> foot.
> 
> Are such made?  Does this woman have a chance of being
> fitted and learning to walk, such that she is not totally
> confined to a wheelchair for life?
> 
> At this point, Roger, your assessment of her attitude/outlook
> seems very positive.  Maybe she is an excellent candidate
> for prostheses and physical therapy, etc.
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> MoscowSam
> 
> lfalen wrote:
> > Good news- She is lucid,  in good spirits and taking about lessons plans( she is a teacher).
> > Bad new- both feet will need to be amputated and she will probably be in a wheelchair for life, but she is not depressed and is happy to be alive.
> > Roger
> 
>