What a beautiful tribute you have written to your amazing wife. A woman...in
the truest sense of the word. And what a legacy she has left her girls. It
sounds as though all who knew her were blessed to have known her, and all
she came in contact with were touched in some positive way by her. My
thoughts and prayers are with you. I am sorry for your loss, but ever so
happy for your life together.
Candace
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Scales" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:37 AM
Subject: [OM] [OT] To my friends on the list
>
> To those of you fairly new on the list, this email will likely not make
> much
> sense. To those that have been here forever, you will know of my journey
> with my wife Debbie and I thought you would like to know the latest news.
>
> Debbie's health has been up and down in the last few years but she
> continued
> to improve. She was on dialysis, but that was going well. We had taken
> up
> riding a tandem (2 seat) bicycle as her eyesight was too bad to ride her
> bike. In the last year we rode over 9,000 miles and had great fun doing
> it.
>
> Last Thursday we were involved in a very minor accident while riding the
> tandem. A truck turned right on red without looking and hit us, knocking
> us
> down. It was not a bad accident and we rode on and finished the day with
> almost 40 miles.
>
> What we didn't know is that the accident had broken a small blood vessel
> deep in her brain. Even if we had known, there was nothing that could have
> been done, so I will treasure that days ride. She slipped into a coma on
> Friday and passed away peacefully at home early Monday morning in my arms.
>
> After all she has been through over the last 20 years, it is so sad that
> such a simple accident is what took her life. As most of you know, we have
> two teenage daughters who are, of course, stunned, but will learn to go
> on,
> as will I.
>
> One positive is that Debbie has been involved in technology for the blind
> for many years. She ran a very popular mailing list for the blind and has
> spent many thousands of hours helping people all around the world with
> their
> problems. You can't even imagine how hard it is to help someone that uses
> a
> screen reader. Imagine using the computer today, all day, without ever
> touching the mouse, with your eyes closed, with computer reading
> everything
> to you. I let the people in the blind community know of her loss and have
> received over 400 emails from around the world from people sharing how
> Debbie had personally helped them with a problem and literally changed
> their
> lives.
>
> Sorry to intrude with a personal note, but there are many here that I
> thought would want to know.
>
> Tom Scales
> tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
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