One pocket Smitty
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Anyone have anything to update what is happening with Cliff?---Smitty
Glad to hear that Cliff is on the mend, although it sounds like he'll need a lot of rehab.
He may have Medicaid. If so, then that will take care of his med bills. If not, there's really no way they'd be able to collect.
Someone mentioned a "Cindy" in the Members' Forum. Is that his wife or partner? I know he was married, but I thought that came to a close when he left Mobile several years back.
Anyway it seems to me the problem he'll have is getting income while he's rehabilitating; and in the future if he's not able to play at a competitive level. I hope Cindy has a job. But the donation money will be important as living expenses.
~Doc
Glad to hear that Cliff is on the mend, although it sounds like he'll need a lot of rehab.
He may have Medicaid. If so, then that will take care of his med bills. If not, there's really no way they'd be able to collect.
Someone mentioned a "Cindy" in the Members' Forum. Is that his wife or partner? I know he was married, but I thought that came to a close when he left Mobile several years back.
Anyway it seems to me the problem he'll have is getting income while he's rehabilitating; and in the future if he's not able to play at a competitive level. I hope Cindy has a job. But the donation money will be important as living expenses.
~Doc
I'm going to El Paso first of the week, so I'm going to stop in Shreveport and see him for a few minutes.
John, If you are driving and going I-20, give me a call when going through Weatherford(just west of Ft. Worth).
Paula and I will take you out to eat.
817-875-1254
Saw Cliff yesterday. He was sound asleep and I didn't have the heart to wake him up, but I found a nurse practitioner who said he was very familiar with Cliff's case.
He said Cliff is doing very well. Turned out that as strokes go, this wasn't a very bad one. He's clear-headed, speaks normally and has no paralysis. His left arm is very weak, and since they had not tried to get him up to walk yet they only suspected that the same would be true for his left leg. A physical therapist was to see him yesterday or today.
I was told that the likelihood is that he'll only need to stay in this hospital for a couple or three more days, then move to a rehab hospital for probably about two weeks, then home. Signs so far indicate a reasonably good chance for full recovery or very close to it.
Stopped in Weatherford, Texas for lunch with Newkirk and his future ex-wife (I'm proposing soon.)