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 "I apologize for not getting around to replying... Thank you for your concerns for my well being. Since getting home from KC and seeing my doctor at home, he checked me and looked at the x-rays sent from KC. There was nothing he could do except to order new x-rays. Then after looking at them, he found fluid built up in my bruised lung and called me back to the hospital near my home for three days to drain the fluid. I lost about a half quart of blood drained from my back and thought everything will be okay.
"The following week I had x-rays taken and told that the fluid had built up again. This time had a five-day stay at the hospital where they put in a tube through my left side to my lung to drain the fluid out, another half quart of blood lost. I also had to keep on using oxygen to build up my lungs. The x-rays showed that the cracked ribs are healing nicely and I also have separated my shoulder with my collar bone (not a dislocation as I was told in KC. I will go through physical therapy (in July) to exercise my left arm to strengthen my shoulder. Thanks again for all the well wishes."
An email note from Jan Schultz, Pearl Keller's daughter: "I just wanted to let her friends know that she has been doing much better lately, but unfortunately she fell recently and fractured her pelvis. It is a hairline fracture and she should fully recover after a hospital and rehab stay, but it will probably be 6-8 weeks till she is back to normal. She has had trouble getting on the computer to check email before the accident, but now she will not be on the computer at all, so we will monitor her email and relay any communications she might get from friends. If you wish to contact me directly, my email is: jankschultz@comcast.net."
BWAA member Gary Parsons has been named the 2008 recipient of Kegel’s John Davis Award. The surprise presentation was made at International Bowl Expo. Parsons, 60, joins previous honorees Joyce Deitch, John Weber, Ted Hoffman, Jr., Jim Dressel, Mark Gerberich, Carmen Salvino and Linda Davis.
Parsons in approaching his 50th year in bowling. He has been a "scratch" bowler since the ‘60s and won many scratch tournaments over the next four decades before a knee injury sidelined him. He won two National Collegiate championships at Harding College in 1970 and 1971, and was the first Nation's Capital Area member to bowl back-to-back 300 games. He started coaching in the early ‘70s, taught at the first two "Super Schools" and is consistently voted as a top 100 coaches in the Bowlers Journal annual poll.
Parsons is a Level III Ritger Instructor and a USBC Silver Level Coach. He is a two-time IBPSIA board member and he created an "Advanced Certification Program" for them. He is the owner of two pro shops, and he is also an accomplished bowling writer with over 100 published articles. His friends and colleagues often refer to him as the “Guru.”
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