All,

I have some sad news to forward to the group. Yesterday Chris Chapman
forwarded too me some email from a co-worker of Sean-Thomas Morrissey. Below
are the emails. Unfortunately it doesn't look good....

> Subj: Re: Enquirey after Sean Thomas Morrissey
> Date: 30/01/02 17:01:07 GMT Standard Time
> From:    Laurie Hausmann
> To:   Chris
> Hi, Chris!
>       Thanks for asking about Sean Morrissey. I really should have written
> to you all before but have been too busy. A bad excuse, I know!
>       Sean was released from the hospital on Sept. 5, after having been
> there for 3 months. Two weeks after that, he went to California to stay
with
> family. The hope was that he would be able to return to St. Louis in a few
> months, close out the small farm he rents here, and then either get a
small
> place here or move to California to be closer to relatives.
>       Unfortunately, he is not recovering as well as we'd hoped. He has a
> prosthesis (his left leg was amputated below the knee due to diabetic
> complications) and is able to walk on it, but is very, very frail. At this
> time, he still is not able to live without assistance. His family hopes to
> get him to move to a trailer on his sister's property in
> Redding, CA (he is with his mother now in McKinleyville, CA) --- it is
very
> unlikely that he could ever return to St. Louis. His job at the University
> was terminated when he went on disability. However, his school seismograph
> project still technically lives and is considered to be his project
> whatever --- but the pieces of it are in St. Louis, and at this point,
he's
> not able to work on it anyway. Perhaps someday he will be able to work on
it
> again --- I will pack it and ship it to California if he wants it.
> He has not looked at his email since he went into the hospital in early
> June, nor is he getting email in California.
>       I wish there was good news I could give you, but it really isn't
very
> good.  Hopefully he will improve and will get back to work on his project
> and get back with the PSN net beforre long --- I know he really enjoyed
it.
> Laurie
>
> Subj: Re: Enquiry after Sean Thomas Morrissey
> Date: 04/03/02 20:02:02 GMT Standard Time
> From: Laurie Hausmann
> To:    Chris
> Dear Chris,
>       I wanted to let you know that Sean Morrissey has now entered a
nursing
> home. It is past the stage of miracles, and we don't expect him to recover
> to where he could live independently again.
>       Could you ask the list owner of the psn list to remove his name,
> please?  He hasn't even looked at email since he went into the hospital
last
> summer, and it's obvious he isn't looking at it now.
> If anyone has any questions, they can contact me directly.
> Thanks!
> Laurie Hausmann
> hausmann@...........
>
----- Original Message -----
From: Laurie Hausmann
To: Larry Cochrane
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: Sean-Thomas Morrissey


> Dear Larry,
>
> Please, go ahead and post my message to the list.  I'm sure everyone is
> wondering what has happened to Sean.  Honestly, he didn't even check his
> email after he got out of the hospital --- it was too overwhelming for
> him and his concentration level never has come back to what it was.
>
> I'll also let you know if anything happens.  When I talked with his mom
> yesterday, she's figuring on days to weeks left --- but as stubborn as
> Sean is, you never know!
>
> Laurie

-Larry Cochrane
Redwood City, PSN


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