Text Box:   Recovery Time

Text Box: Smith Family Newsletter July 2009

Text Box: Well, it was the first couple of weeks in July that I spent recovering from surgery.  The people at Truman Medical Center in Lakewood were outstanding and would recommend the hospital to anyone needing medical attention on the road. I literally went to the emergency room on a Sunday, and I had the surgery the following Wednesday, July 1st. Of course I was able to give them all the medical information they needed, as I had copies of everything. Most of the two weeks was spent recovering.    We had been to Independence a couple of times before, but since this was the first time for John & Barbara, they ventured out on their own and used their time productively.  Immediately following this two week time period, we moved to Platte City, which is north of Kansas City, MO , where our HR 400 Pre-Rally was held.  The weather lived up to it’s unpredictable reputation by starting out very humid and hot and then improved greatly!  Through out this period, I did not take many pictures and in fact I did not attend many of the off campus events due to sensitivity to the heat and tiring easily.  John & Barbara did not participate in the rally but were in the campground.  One of the couples running the rally had family nearby on a farm.  That made this rally different from some others.  Flower’s daughter works for NASA in an educational capacity which made things interesting.  She came over to the campground and demonstrated some experiments and showed members how to build  simple rockets, which were shot off at the farm later in the week.  Flower also brought an egg incubator to the club house and we watched chicks hatch through out the week, which was a treat.  They were later brought back to the farm.   Then there was ‘the transfer of responsibility’ from Judy to Bob as chapter president.  The pre-rally is the event where all these changes take place.  Needless to say this kept Bob quite busy.  In addition, he still kept the web page up with the rally goings on and helped people with computer problems.  We inherited reams of chapter paper work with the title, which he is also scanning into the computer.  Apparently the National Headquarters has done so also, which was the incentive to do the same with the chapter.                                     Go To Page 2     Go To Page 3