Re: [Paddlewise] Kayak Skills Symposium, West Coast

Larry:

So good to hear from you again, and that you're well on your way to a full
recovery. I think I can speak for most, if not all of Paddlewise, when I
say we were all pulling for you.

.ashton

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Larry Koenig wrote:

> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:27:05 -0500
> From: Larry Koenig <paddlin_at_home.com>
> To: Paddlewise <paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net>
> Subject: [Paddlewise] Kayak Skills Symposium, West Coast
>
> Hail fellow paddlers!  Natalie Wiest had asked (and I guess I didn't need much
> excuse anyway) to share with y'all that I am doing great.  I don't know how
> serious apaddlin I'm doing but I'm doing plenty and loving it.  As Arthur
> Hebert shared with y'all in February or so, I got seriously banged up in a car
> wreck driving home from the Tampa Bay Sweetwater Symposium.  I wasn't able to
> work or even consider paddling for three months because of a host of broken
> bones. ( Well, actually I did think a lot about paddling but figgered I'd
> never be able to do it again well or with pleasure.) Broken were bones in my
> forearm at the wrist, arm, both clavicles, right scapula (in multiple places),
> ten ribs (distributed unevenly left and right), and some softer stuff
> including skin and lung and brain.  It was a weird and scary time but ... now,
> in retrospect, it all seems to have been for the good.  I've certainly gained
> a greater thankfulness for things I'd previously taken for granted.  Such
> things as: living, the love of my wife, the skill and encouragement of my
> physical therapist, the support of fellow paddlers including Arthur Hebert and
> Hans Brandl,  a very functional range of motion in my arms and the relative
> absence of lingering pain.

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