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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am so glad you sent this out. Michael has been a long-time member of NFB and has done much for the movement. He was vice-president of NAGDU for many years. I am so sorry for the loss of his wife. If you guys haven’t read Thunder dog, it is a great book and available on BARD.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sherri<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> NFBF-L <nfbf-l-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Camille Tate via NFBF-L<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 16, 2022 10:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> NFB of Florida List for Leaders <nfbf-leaders@nfbnet.org>; NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List <nfbf-l@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Camille Tate <ctate2076@att.net><br><b>Subject:</b> [NFBF-L] Fwd: [Chapter-Presidents] Fwd: [NFBC-Info] It is with a heavy heart that I send this to you<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>This is sad news for Mike and his family. Thought I would share.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Camille Tate<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>President, Melbourne Space Coast Chapter , National Federation of the Blind, FL<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2nd Vice President, National Federation of the Blind, FL<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Email: ctate2076@att.net</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Phone: 321 372 4899</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Sent from my iPhone</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>From:</b> David Andrews via Chapter-Presidents <chapter-presidents@nfbnet.org><br><b>Date:</b> November 15, 2022 at 10:42:07 PM EST<br><b>To:</b> chapter-presidents@nfbnet.org, state-affiliate-leadership-list@nfbnet.org, -list@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> David Andrews <dandrews920@comcast.net><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Chapter-Presidents] Fwd: [NFBC-Info] It is with a heavy heart that I send this to you</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> NFB Chapter Presidents discussion list <chapter-presidents@nfbnet.org><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>FYI:<br><br>Dave<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>To: NFB of California List <nfbc-info@nfbnet.org>, 'NFB Talk Mailing List'<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><nfb-talk@nfbnet.org><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Thread-Topic: It is with a heavy heart that I send this to you<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Thread-Index: Adj30xa7f7zF5HiESM6AAO9EcWaMPA==<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:45:37 +0000<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Subject: [NFBC-Info] It is with a heavy heart that I send this to you<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>From: "mike michaelhingson.com via NFBC-Info" <nfbc-info@nfbnet.org><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Cc: "mike michaelhingson.com" <mike@michaelhingson.com><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>In April 1972 I attended my first meeting of the Orange County chapter of the National Federation of the Blind. It was an adventure, and I chose by attending to explore this new and for me different world. Through the federation I have been involved in many adventures and am certain there will be more. In 1976 I began an 18-month assignment from Dr. Jernigan to help Dr. Ray Kurzweil bring his dream of a reading machine for blind people to fruition.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>I think my greatest adventure was not, however, directly related to the NFB. Oh, a Federationist started me down an unexpected road when, in January of 1982, he introduced me to a woman, Karen Ashurst. Little did I know that day what would happen. Suffice it to say that Karen and I were married on November 27, 1982.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Karen and I began to share not only NFB adventures but many others as well. Probably many of you are familiar with what must be the most significant one, I escaped from Tower One of the World<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In 2011, Thunder Dog; the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust was published. If you did not know Karen directly, but if you read Thunder dog you did get to meet and know her.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Yesterday, November 12 2022, just 15 days before we would have celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary, Karen passed away. Her passing was somewhat expected, but not so soon. She discovered a wound, probably from a pressure sore, in late July. Yes, a pressure sore as Karen is a paraplegic and has been in a wheelchair her entire life. As I love to say, she reads, and I push. Anyway, the sore eventually required her to go to the hospital in late July.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>She returned home on August 28 with a healing wound, but with an extremely diminished appetite and a great deal of pain. Karen has suffered from Rheumatoid Arthritis since January of 2017. She has been receiving infusions of medications to diminish the RA, but those infusions seriously lower her immune system. She had to stop the infusions in August while in the hospital. This was because lowering her immune system further could result in more wound infections. The other side of the coin is that it caused Karen excruciating pain. Over the past three months the pain took its toll as her appetite diminished and she couldn't even swallow much food.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>This past Monday, we put her back in the hospital. Over this week her strength and stamina dropped precipitously. Yesterday, at the suggestion of her doctors with agreement from Karen's sister, a retired CCU and ICU nurse, we stopped life support.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Now, we move on. I write this long message as I know many of you had some contact and knowledge of Karen. I want everyone to know fully about her, what happened to her and what happens now. I intend to continue to be active where I can. I will not stop moving forward as that would be an insult to Karen and all our 40-year marriage meant to both of us. I will continue to travel and speak. I will continue my work with accessiBe. I will work as I can to support the NFB. Most of all, I will have and treasure 40 years of memories with Karen. Life goes on and it is what I intend to do as well.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>God bless you, Karen. You always are and will be at the forefront of my mind and heart. For all of us here on Earth, let's continue to move forward and grow until the entire world understands and believes that "disability" does not mean inability, but rather such is just a characteristic.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for reading. If you knew Karen and are saddened by this message, don't be. Instead renew your conviction for equality for all of us. I know Karen today is, as Dr. tenBroek would say, "Within The Grace of God".<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Michael Hingson<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>The Michael Hingson Group, INC.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>"Speaking with Vision"<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Michael Hingson, President<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>(415) 827-4084<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>email: mike@michaelhingson.com<mailto:mike@michaelhingson.com><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>To check on Michael Hingson's speaking availability for your next event please visit http://www.michaelhingson.com<http://www.michaelhingson.com/>.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>I invite you to listen to accessiBe's podcast "Unstoppable Mindset", where Inclusion, Diversity and the unexpected meet. We are excited to share that Unstoppable Mindset has been named by Podcast Magazine as its February 2022 editor's pick. The podcast is hosted by Mike Hingson and can be heard wherever you can find podcasts or you can visit http://www.michaelhingson.com/podcast. When you listen to Unstoppable Mindset please take the time to give us a five star rating. Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>NFBC-Info mailing list<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>NFBC-Info@nfbnet.org<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbc-info_nfbnet.org<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBC-Info:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbc-info_nfbnet.org/dandrews920%40comcast.net<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chapter-Presidents mailing list<br>Chapter-Presidents@nfbnet.org<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/chapter-presidents_nfbnet.org<br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Chapter-Presidents:<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/chapter-presidents_nfbnet.org/ctate2076%40att.net<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>