Cathy, Best wishes and prayers for a successful transplant. You sound like a fighter to me, hang in there. Yulonda in IL ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul drake" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 8:40 PM Subject: What to do with genealogy? A thank you, and I thank you also. Paul Subject: [DRAKE] What to do with genealogy? I want to thank everyone who wrote in response to the above question. If you recall, the question came up because a lady was going blind and didn't know what to do with her many years of research. So many of you took the time and effort to offer some really great suggestions. They were all passed on to Cathy's husband, kept, by him and by me, read, and appreciated. Today I received a note from Cathy that I would like to share with you. "I have been searching for an eye doctor who is not afraid of getting sued for making any improvements. He thinks he can remove the cataract and do a corneal transplant that MAY give me a little vision in the one eye I have been totally blind in since birth. If nothing else, the cataract will be gone and that means no more every-other- weeks of having a bandage contact replaced...a lifetime thing . He is at UT and on the faculty too. It may mean that I can see with just a magnifying glass and that will mean I can read again. I am also determined that one way or another, I AM going to compile all my notes and get this family stuff done. Sure would be nice to have some family somewhere who wants this but my daughter said she will keep it. May still send it to my son, the author/publisher, to see what he might want to do with it. It was so encouraging to hear from all those wonderful people because of your effort. You are just a very special person." Cathie You are all very special, thanks to each of you. I'm going to try to combine all of those suggestions and maybe send them off to roots web so they can be published somewhere so that others can read and learn from them. I'll remove the names and email addresses and what ever I do, it won't be for profit. Barb Marshall List Mom of BAGLEY, DRAKE & INDIANA genealogy discussion lists ==== DRAKE Mailing List ==== http://www.xroyvision.com.au/drake/drakepage.htm To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html