--- Forwarded Message from Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:18:28 -0500 >From: Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: News from Bruce Parkhurst >In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.1.0.040913 All: I just spoke with Bruce's husband, John. He asks that people DO NOT call the hospital. It is simply too exhausting for Bruce and her family to receive phone calls at this time, although they certainly appreciate our concern. Bruce asked me to post a message to LLTI saying that she was concerned about rumors that are circulating that say she has only two weeks to live. That is not true. She has two to three weeks worth of aggressive chemotherapy ahead of her, but she plans to be around for quite some time after that. She is NOT receiving visitors, due to her compromised immune system. She is serious when she says she wants pictures --happy, smiling pictures-- of her friends and colleagues. Again, the address to send them is: Hamot Medical Center 201 State Street Room 719 Erie PA 16550 If I may, let me refer you to a site that I found helpful. It is dedicated to her form of leukemia. As you will see, 70-80% of the acute myelogenous leukemia patients that undergo aggressive treatment experience complete remission. http://www.leukemia-web.org/default.htm Please keep John and Bruce in your thoughts and prayers. Barbara Barbara Sawhill Director Cooper International Learning Center Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************