[Tradjazz] Bruce McNichols Update

[William P. Taggart]

Dear Don & fellow List Mates,

Bruce has been moved to a rehab center in another part of town.  They're
giving him medicine that allows him to get out of bed for brief sessions
of walking short distances.  In other words, he's improving!   He almost
sounds  like his old self.  He's got a long way to go but we have good
reason to be optimistic.  He doesn't know how long he'll be in rehab but
he promised to keep me up to date.

He doesn't have access to a computer in the hospital.  He can't reply to
email.  I understand that if you send email to his regular address at
Muskrat Productions the messages will be periodically printed out and
taken to him.

In the meantime he would prefer to not have a bunch of well-meaning
friends phoning him in the hospital all  the time...  This sounds
rational to me.

More when I get it...

Love y'all,     Bill

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-----Original Message-----
From: Don Robertson [mailto:jdrobertson at att.net] 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 12:27 PM
To: tradjazz at list.okom.com
Cc: William P. Taggart
Subject: Bruce McNichols Update?

I have just recently learned of Bruce's illness.  I read Nancie's
account of the Picnic at Fred's Farm on another list and was curious as
to why Bruce was absent.  I contacted Nancie off list and she told me
what had happened.

Then I realized I have not been getting any TradJazz messages recently,
or I would have heard about Bruce.

To compound the problem, I had a computer problem which resulted in my
having to restore my system back to the end of June, so I lost all my
archived emails between June 27 and October 14.  I don't see any
TradJazz postings since June.

It finally occurred to me to look at the OKOM archives, and I see
several postings with updates on Bruce, the latest being from Bill
Taggert on Oct 18.

Since I am mainly a lurker, have I been removed from distribution?

Anything newer than Oct 18 on Bruce's condition?

Can he receive e-mails?

"Napa" Don Robertson
Napa, CA