On 01-26-95 Crystyl Rose wrote to All... 
 
 CR> I need some help... and I am out of places to turn.  My  
 CR> granfather, who I  
 CR> love with all my heart, is quickly detereating.  He had  
 CR> polio when he was sixteen, faught it for many years, and is  
 CR> now going down hill fast.  When I was growing up, he used a  
 CR> cane... sometimes to get out of a chair or walk up stairs.   
 CR> He was so alive.  We always did things together, he and my  
 CR> grandmother practially raised me.  Every summer we would go  
 CR> fishing together,  I would sit on his lap and he would read  
 CR> me books and tell me stories, the world was mine.  He gavve  
 CR> it to me. 
 CR> Now I am 22 years old, my grandfather is only mobilized by  
 CR> an electric wheelchair, has no movement in his legs and  
 CR> very little on his right side at all.  He has no sence of  
 CR> humor, ambition or adventure.  He sits in a specially made  
 CR> chair, looking out the window severial hours a day.  He  
 CR> sleeps most of the rest.  He has had a garden, built up,  
 CR> that he enjoys but does not seem as interested in that any  
 CR> more either. 
 CR> In just ten years all this has happened.  How can I help my  
 CR> grandfather?  How can I ease his pain?  What is he feeling?  
 CR>  I would give my life if it would help, I love him that  
 CR> much.  If anyone knows of anything that can be done, 
 CR> please... I am begging you, let me know.  Thankx for  
 CR> listening. 
  
Crystyl, 
 
I think your grandparents are very lucky to have you.  Just let your 
grandfather read this message and I think this will be a great help to 
him...to know that you love him this much. 
 
Take care. 
 
                Omega 
 
 
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