Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin, People on Aug 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Dr. Wolfgang Petri has been my primary source of information over the last few months about what is happening with Paul. Yesterday he sent me this photo of Paul that he took during his visit with him at his new place of residence on Thursday August 12th. I was encouraged to receive a picture showing [...]
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin on Jun 10th, 2010 5 Comments »
It’s been over two months since I’ve provided you an update on Paul’s situation, but to be honest that was intentional. For a time, things were changing frequently enough that posting timely updates would have revealed more transient details than were necessary or appropriate. He left the rehabilitation center after two or three weeks and [...]
Posted in Health on Apr 19th, 2010 3 Comments »
Early this past week, I learned from Stefan Kempinski and Wolfgang Petri that Paul had been moved from the hospital to a rehabilitation center, the Wiechernkrankenhaus, for the next several weeks. This is not a permanent relocation for him since he’ll only be able to stay there for a few weeks, however Wolfgang reports that he [...]
Posted in Health on Apr 9th, 2010 No Comments »
Today I received a call from Dr. Wolfgang Petri, who is, just to be clear, one of Paul’s friends rather than his physician, informing me that Paul has been hospitalized due to a broken clavicle that he suffered in a fall. This fall is just the most recent in a series of falls he has experienced [...]
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin, People on Feb 3rd, 2010 9 Comments »
This is Perry rather than Paul and I must begin by apologizing to those of you who’ve been looking here for an update on Paul’s condition for a long time. I have no excuse, but here it finally is. I’ve just spent the last 45 minutes on the phone with him, helping him resolve a [...]
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin on Dec 9th, 2009 No Comments »
I have just gotten off the phone with Paul and he asked that I post something here on his blog to let you all know that he wishes you Happy Holidays and that he sends his gratitude for all of your expressions of concern and thoughtfulness. He is still seeing his speech therapists at his [...]
Posted in Health, Life and culture, Memory Lane on Oct 13th, 2009 1 Comment »
I have just spoken with Paul and asked him if he were getting any exercise. He said, almost none. I also asked if he agreed with me that it was probably not wise for him to go out to exercise alone, given his tendency to have spells of dizziness and falling. He said that he [...]
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin on Oct 7th, 2009 No Comments »
As you’ll know if you’ve been following this blog and trying to keep up with Paul’s condition, he was released to go home on 20 July but it was only on 25 August that he finally regained connection to the Internet. Since then there have been a few hitches in sustaining his Internet connection, but [...]
Posted in Events, Health, People on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m pleased to be able to announce that as of about an hour ago, our friend Paul has access to the Internet again. His old email address, texas-paule@t-online.de, is defunct. Please use the name as listed in the title of this post together with @Gmail.com to reach him. From what you’ve said in your correspondence [...]
Posted in Events, Health, Letter from Berlin on Jul 30th, 2009 No Comments »
I am pleased to report that Paul is back in his apartment as of July 20th and he is adapting to his new schedule and that of the various caregivers who come by as many as five times a day for one reason or another, to bring meals, to do speech therapy with him, to [...]
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