Hi, Everyone
As many of you will have seen from the 'Net, the TTACD finished ON TIME (tho
one hour late), ON DATE
and after 15,400 miles rather than the 10,500 miles we had originally estimated
through Microsoft
Streets and Trips!
Liz and I are now back in the UK after a planned break and much anticipated
brief vacation on Queen
Mary 2. Sadly, it didn't quite work out as we had foreseen and planned.
First, the TTACD website. At the end of the Drive the web URL expired and while
I tried to
reactivate it from the US, it couldn't be done until I returned to the UK. I
actually got back early
on Thursday morning and since then have hardly had a chance to look at the 4900
emails that awaited
my return. I'm really planning to do my best to get the original web URL back
on-line as soon as I
can but it was only today that my elder son came off his life support system in
hospital.
As Liz and I passed near the grave of the Titanic last week, I received a text
message from number
two son that Nick was being 'blues and two-ed' into hospital with necrotizing
fasciitis in his leg.
Not a lot you can do from the middle of the Atlantic unless you're on an
aircraft carrier to get
quickly to a bedside. NF is a speedy killer if not attended to immediately and
while much tissue has
been removed resulting in extensive plastic surgery, he has neither lost his
leg or his life. The
longer term downside is that his transplanted kidney has also packed up, he has
an enlarged heart, a
blocked aorta and a seriously enlarged spleen - but fortunately, we live in a
country where
"Socialised Medecine" really DOES work (Republican Senators and Congressmen
please note?) and we
know Nick is in truly fantastic hands - and not having to worry "if the
insurance will cover the
cost?".
But all this is likely to delay things a bit in terms of website update and I
can only ask for your
forebearance if processes to do with the event take a little longer than they
should.
In the meantime, keep your browser pointed at www.triumphtransamerica.org for
new info as it gets
posted.
Cheers, Jonmac
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