[Home-on-the-range] Jack has throat cancer - we'll not be atconvention

[Donna Wood]

Hello Jack and Dianne, 

So sorry to b so late in expressing my sympathies to you.  Please know
that I too will remember both of you in my thoughts and prayers.  As you
know my family is also walking this journey.  If I can be of any help to
you please feel free to call me.  Some times it can help just to be able
to vent and know that the other person knows exactly what your talking
about and feeling.  


Donna

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From: Home-on-the-range [mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Dianne Hemphill via Home-on-the-range
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 10:18 AM
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 Subject: [Home-on-the-range] Jack has throat cancer - we'll not be
atconvention

Hello federationists - Jack and I wanted to share with you that due to
his recent diagnosis and starting a very aggressive treatment plan
today, we will not be able to join you at the upcoming convention
celebration in Orlando. Because of this recent diagnosis it is too late
for us to cancel our hotel reservation at the main convention hotel for
a refund. If any of you would like to be in the host hotel rather than a
overflow hotel, please give us a call in the next few days and we'll see
if we can get the reservation transferred to you. Call us:
316-201-1323
We enjoyed so much the beautiful flower arrangement that Emily and Shaun
delivered to the hospital from the South Central Chapter.  Your
thoughtfulness means a lot to us. 

Some of you will keep us in your thoughts and prayers  but there is also
a special request...we would love to hear from you about the convention
via home on the range. We will stream as much as possible but hearing
the impact of the different activities would be extra special to us and
those not able to attend. I'll always be grateful for our ability to
attend the 50th NFB anniversary celebration in Dallas. Mrs. Ten Brook
spoke relaying the dreams and actions that our founder "Chick" as she
called him and how we should be okay being referred to as
"millatants"...there's indeed a battle to be fought for our rights and
we need to  join as one to do the work that must be done. I also had the
special opportunity to talk to her briefly in that long hallway joining
the two parts of that hotel...she was delighted at the little kids
running back and forth using their canes joyfully laughing and having a
good time and telling me how happy her husband would be to know that
something as typical as kids running freely around,  was happening at
long last for these blind kids... ..Each of you having this wonderful
opportunity to attend this special year will have some extra special
memories. you can share.  Have a wonderful convention. Jack and Dianne
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