Tuesday, October 24

Karen's Post: Oct 24th at 12:30am

Hello friends,

By the time you are reading this, I’ll be just about recovered from the eye surgery I had on October 24th for a clot in my left eye. I’ll let you know how the surgery went in a few days. I hope it will be good news. Prayers are always welcome. If you want to contact me, I’m online at (link to e-mail).

Bye,

Love, Karen

posted by Karen's Blog @ Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1 comments

Sunday, October 15

Karen's Blog Update: Oct 14th

Hello everyone and thank you for reading my blog so faithfully and a big thank you to Paul who updates it on a regular basis.

Good news, finally, I am cane free and am recovering well from the last brain surgery. A few weeks ago, a doctor suspected that my left eye is no longer seeing clearly so, he sent me to an eye doctor. A quick and painless examination revealed blood clots in my left eye. So on October 24 I am going into the INOVA Outpatient Surgery Facility for minor surgery. The surgeon claims that it will not hurt but I will have to wear a patch for a short time after surgery. So Paul claims that I will have to be a pirate for Halloween. That I can do!

I would love to hear from all of you. I am now living at 703 780-etc and my e-mail remains "hotmail" (click here). (Please email me and I'll forward you my phone number.)

Bye for now but check back for more updates from me and thank you for the many donations of annual leave and funds for my medical expenses...

Love, Karen

posted by Karen's Blog @ Sunday, October 15, 2006 2 comments

Tuesday, October 3

"Hello" from Karen's Post!! (w/Video!) October 3rd, at 2:50pm

Dear Friends:

I want to thank all of you who were involved in the run for Karen. I feel so honored that the wonderful people in the NOVA Club held that race for me. I only wish that I could have been there to thank everyone in person. But, unfortunately, I was still in the hospital, recovering from a second brain surgery. I can’t wait until I can run again. I miss it so much. Perhaps one day soon I will pass you on the trails and say hi! The good news is that I am walking with the help of a cane. Sometimes, I can do it without the cane. Wow!

All: Karen/Paul have sent me the latest video of Karen walking unassisted!! Enjoy the video.....amazing! Steve T ('blogmaster'). (click here for video)

(Note: The video is approx 8MB-30 sec in length, so download time for those with 56K modems is approx two election cycles (Paul speak :-); All other connections will be less then a minute. Also, the video is in "mov" format, which is an Apple Quicktime/iTunes application. If you don't have this on your PC/Windows computer, you'll need to go to the Apple site and download the software -- approx 30MB. This may be a good idea in that any following videos will be in this format)

posted by Karen's Blog @ Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5 comments