Sincere thanks

[Rakesh Bhandari]

I wish to share this note of appreciation for Doug and his wife Chris with
the list. Last week, I unsubbed from LBO and noted to Doug in a private
note that I had ruptured my achilles' tendon on a failed drive to the
basket and found myself in the hospital just to let him know the reason for
my departure. Within hours, Doug wrote me a long informative note with
several important questions to pose to my surgeon and offered that if I had
any questions, I could call Chris who as a physical therapist has worked
with members of the New York Ballet. Well, I had fallen through the cracks
of my grad insurance program at Berkeley, found myself alone in emergency
care and under the care of a surgeon whose speciality was not the ankle and
foot. Though both Doug and Chris were at that very time celebrating Doug's
parents' 50th wedding anniversary, Chris  calmly answered my hysterical
questions, volunteered to send me up-to-date info on physical therapy, and
then called on that Friday night a top surgeon in NYC to check on mine. She
came back with good news that I had fallen in good hands and
psychologically prepared me for surgery. It's a mean world when you are
broke and alone in a new city (Donna is in Cuba in the the archives of her
favorite novelist--Alejo Carpentier). And I can't tell you  how much easier
my week has been made by their most gracious concern. The surgery went
fine, I am fine and will be better in several damn months. But I am most
uplifted to have been so kindly helped by friends.
Thanks much.
Love,
Rakesh