Linda, Hope Tom is feeling better! Those winds were really a mess. We will not be able to attend the meeting on Friday. We have to finish and test 30 color readers that have already been sold. They will arrive from our supplier on Friday hopefully. We have contracted to make 500, and the first 100 will come in on Friday. Please take care and great work you are doing with the Guide dogs. Pamela Edmondson From: desert-voice-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:desert-voice-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linda Samulski Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:58 AM To: desert-voice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [desert-voice] Greetings from Linda Hello everyone Hope everyone has had a blessed week. For me, I guess it was blessed with lessons of life which sometimes can be pretty hard. In other words, I had a week from hell, but hope to take whatever lessons God has for me and learn them. Tom has been very sick, almost to the point of hospitalization with a horrible horrible lung infection. He is recovering and hopefully will continue and not relapse. Meanwhile work has been hectic as I didn't realize how sick he was and so part of my job is to stay in the dorm while grads are there. All of us share that duty. So Tom was getting sicker and I was in he dorm and couldn't get home and what made it worse was the wind. Then on top of all of that Tom while sick had to let go of the desert blind driver because he broke a company rule. He was let g immediately. So I'm ready to move on and forward. That brings me to the next point is that I won't be able to attend this month's meeting. I will be working with the next GDD class which is a rather large one for us. I will also be doing an inservice for some student nurses while there. I haven't heard from Christina as for the price of the candy so that we can get her the money as we previously talked about. Tom will be there on Friday if he continues to recover, and he's not contagious. The next thing is that I'm going to pass along an email from Laurie Fisher. I would love to call everyone, but don't have the time and frankly I'm already tired and emotionally drained and the class and month has only just begun. Anyway, this email is regarding Anabel's performance. Please please as we worked so hard to make things better, respond to it with your comments. I guess she has been assigned to another office. I do have Raul's comments here and will pass them along to her. Also, there is a state independent living Council meeting with public comment happening on Tuesday. I will pass that here tomorrow as I can't get to my work email right now. This is a board that funds things like rehab and community access which both are lacking here in Palm Desert. Actually I think this might be a better way to get things done. It has occurred to me that rehab doesn't want to turn on itself. I will pass this on to Judy as well. I want to publicly thank John or his generosity for the benefit concert. Thanks for your understanding and support.