>          Seems to me we're on pretty much the same wavelength, judging by
>what you said below!  Maybe what interests you here has less to do with any
>specific medical condition or whatever than it does with the underlying
>attitude to life

I believe that would be correct.  ;-)

>          Brain injury... yes!  The causes may be different & the diagnoses
>may have different names.  But an injury to the left hemisphere, for example,
>could mean a person has difficulty generating spoken and/or written language
>although they understand & remember what others say.  My aunt had
an injury of
>this type years ago as a result of a stroke, and so did one of Nora's roommates
>in rehab.

Now that you mention it, many of the symptoms were similar to what I would
attribute to stroke victims.  Impaired speech & loss of motor control.  He
also sometimes had mini-seizures.  He was confined to a wheel-chair.

>          Uh-huh.  You recognized that Bob had something worthwhile to say,
>you were willing to make an added effort to understand what it was, and you
>learned something from the experience which was beneficial to you as well as to
>him.  I feel I've learned a lot from my own experiences in such situations
>too....  :-)

Yes.  I have had similar situations with foreign friends & co-workers.
Some people do not bother to really listen too much to their broken or
mis-pronounced English, but they have interesting things to say if
you do.

>          Probably a bit of both.  When we were kids we didn't get much
>mail... if we did, it was almost always a friendly letter or a birthday card.
>Now it's more likely to be a bill or another form we have to fill in or another
>piece of advertising.  Whatever it may be, chances are it will mean more
>work... (sigh).

True.  But I was always excited, even if the mail was not for me.  As a
child, I didn't really care.  ;-)

>          Uh-huh.  Fortunately... touch wood... we have very little in
>Fidonet. I guess we're small potatoes by comparison.  I wonder, though, about
>people who post "DROP" messages in a dozen echoes they've
never posted in
>before....  :-))

Yeah, I guess we should be glad that is usually the only SPAM we get
here.  ;-)

Mike
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