Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:38:34 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Marilee Layman is in the hospital
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 3/10/2009 10:52 PM >>>
>Marilee Layman is in the Neuroscience ICU at Fairfax Hospital,
>suffering from a stroke.  I don't know how many of you know her.  I
>don't think she's ever been to a WSFA meeting, but she has attended,
>and hosted parties at, Disclaves and Capclaves.  For a long time she
>was a very prolific poster on the rec.arts.sf.fandom newsgroup.
>
>See
>http://gerisullivan.livejournal.com/193088.html
>and
>http://tenuousnet.myfastforum.org/forum1.php
>
>I visited her in the hospital on Sunday afternoon.  This was a side
>trip from visiting my mother, who is in another ICU at the same
>hospital.  This was convenient.  But I'd much prefer to do without
>such conveniences.

Well, yes.

>I'll probably visit both of them again tomorrow.

I hope all goes well for them.

I know how difficult it is having a parent - and also a friend - in the =
hospital ... and in the ICU.

mjw