Re: No Show at GWA

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Best wishes for a quick and less painful  recovery!

In a message dated 8/26/2010 8:42:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
gardendiva@charter.net writes:

I'm  posting this because numerous people have asked if the listserv is 
having  a gathering in Dallas and if I'm attending the symposium.

With great  regret, I share this.  There will be no gathering as I won't be 

attending, nor will Doug Green.  I'm having, what I hope, is the  final 
surgery on my shoulder.  This has been a tough year for me,  starting in 
March with knee surgery that infected.  Then I fell and  broke my left 
shoulder.  Doctors didn't do their jobs and pronounced  me cured, even 
though 
I couldn't lift my left arm.  After a second  opinion, I learned that the 
bone (humerous) didn't heal and I had no ball  and socket joint action.  
This 
surgery will either repair the bone  with a metal plate or replace the 
shoulder joint, depending on how badly  the broken bone is now decayed.  
The 
wonderful news is that I will be  able to move my arm and lift it the day 
after surgery.  Physical  therapy will be easy, compared to what I've been 
through in the last six  months.

I'm a Texas girl, born a piece down the road from Dallas, in  Ft. Worth, 
and 
lived in Texas most of my adult life.  I was really  looking forward to the 
symposium.  Y'all have to tell me how much fun  you had and all the 
wonderful 
things you saw after the event.  I'll  be green with envy, but I'll enjoy 
hearing your tales.

Meanwhile,  reserve time now for a big party in 2011 at the Indianapolis  
symposium.  That will be this listserv's 10th anniversary.  I  formed this 
list in March 2001 and we had our first cocktail party  gathering in 
Orlando 
in November that year.  Due to 9/11, the  symposium wasn't well attended, 
only about 225 people, but we GWL people  partied hard!  I first got to 
meet 
Doug Green, Betty Earl and a  number of others still on this list.  Jeff 
Ball 
was there, too.   We met daily in the bar and hashed over the symposium 
tours 
and workshops,  talked about the future of gardening writing and wondered 
how 
much the  Internet would intrude upon print media.  Ten years later, we 
know  
how much it has changed everything, but only a few of us like Doug has the  
insight to prepare.

Y'all have a great time and give Big D a big  "Howdy" from me.  Don't miss 
the Chicken Fried Steak and Mesquite  Brisket, either.  And watch out for 
armadillos!
Doreen Howard  

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