<VV> Donna Mae

[LonzoVair at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/26/2005 12:41:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
teshep at marshallnet.com writes:
<<Hey Gang,
Donna Mae Mims is in Marshalltown right now!!>>
How cool is that!!!

<<The poor thing has a broken foot and is in a little pain.>>
Now THAT stinks! Certainly something I can relate to...

<<Her Corvett's alternator quit working in the middle of the night somewhere 
near the Casino and a couple of guys were helping her to push her car.
When one of them turned the steering wheel and she slipped and fell to the 
ground.
Then somehow the car rolled over her foot and broke several bones and one 
might require surgery.>>
Good grief! She should have been inside the car, and let the younger guys 
push... poor gal ain't no spring chicken anymore, and it will take a long while 
for that foot to heal... My heart really goes out to her.

<<She is staying one of the local motels here until the Mini starts.
We hope to get some crutches for her and also an electric cart>>
Those electric carts are great. I was at the mall in Elizabethtown with my 
kids and they have one there to use. I was all over that place. Hopping around 
on those crutches will wear a person OUT! And then there's STEPS.... don't get 
me started on those steps!

<<Well that is enough for now.>>
Thanks for the update Tom. Let her know that we will be praying for a quick 
recovery and minimal pain for her ordeal... 
I'm waiting for my brace, and all I know is that it will be BIG.... a section 
of it will go under my knee cap, and will support my leg through that, and 
they will be using my old work boot, since they didn't have anything in a size 
16... the sole of the boot will be replaced with a "rocker sole" since my heel 
bone is fused to my leg bone with that rod they put in there.
I'm still not sure how it will work, but I'm sure they will show me.
Tom, just make sure you let her know that the "mobility challenged" members 
of VV are thinking of her.
Take care, and have fun!
Lonzo


Lon Anderson in White Mills, KY
CORSA, Corvanatics, Central Kentucky Corvair, Derby City Corvair
Quart Low Quarterly editor
1961 Greenbrier pg, someday will be a camper
1963 Greenbrier 4spd. that I really ought to sell
1964 700 sedan 95/pg, semi-daily driver status (with a patched up exhaust 
until the parts come in)