Re: Congratulations

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Congratulations, You must be so proud.....you need to be of

yourself...Great Job!!!

> Hi Joe,

>

> Congratulations on your engagment !!

>

> Ken M

>

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> > From: ph Blau[sMTP:jblau@m...]

> > Reply To: RSS-Support (AT) onelist (DOT) com

> > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 2:37 PM

> > To: rss

> > Subject: RSS Intro

> >

> > From: ph Blau

> >

> > Thank you, Dennise, for setting up this RSS list! I've been

> > meaning to do it myself for a while, but just haven't had

> > the time. I've chatted online with a few RSS families (hi,

> > Ken!), but I think it will be great to have this list where

> > we can all share information and support with each other.

> >

> > My son is 4 years old, weighs 22 pounds, height 33

> > inches. He was a preemie (29 weeks) and IUGR (1 pound, 9 oz).

> > He has many other classic RSS symptoms: asymmetry, incurved

> > fifth finger, cafe au lait spots.... He was diagnosed at

> > Stanford at age 2. He's had a mickey Gtube for almost 2 years,

> > but we haven't tried periactin or growth hormones yet. He has

> > some developmental delays (speech, large & small motor) but

> > he's made great progress over the past year. He was attending

> > a special needs preschool, but he recently was transferred to

> > Head Start. I'm expecting him to enter a normal kindergarten

> > next year; I think he'll be mostly caught up in his development

> > by then; he'll just be smaller than the other kids.

> >

> > As for me, I live in beautiful Monterey, CA. I'm a single dad;

> > my wife died 3 1/2 years ago, from a surgical accident unrelated

> > to 's birth (we just recently settled a medical malpractice

> > case). These years have been difficult, emotionally and

otherwise,

> > but and I are doing ok now. I've had great support from

> > my family, friends, and church. And the big news in my life is

> > that I'm engaged to be married this summer! Her name is Kathie,

> > a kindergarten teacher from Chicago who I met on the Internet

> > (another mailing list, for a folksinger named Nanci Griffith).

> > She's really wonderful, and great with . She's moving

> > out here this summer.

> >

> > Well, that's all for now; I better get back to work. I look

> > forward to chatting with you and all the other people who will

> > be joining this list. Thanks again for your effort to get this

> > going.

> >

> > Joe

> >

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