andy@rbdc.UUCP (Andy Pitts) (06/27/88)
This is a request for information about computer camps for a handicaped child. No one responded to my first posting so I am trying again. There is a 14 year old child at Piedmont Dialysis Center (in Winston-Salem, NC.) with kidney failure who wants very much to attend a computer camp this summer. I am also a patient there and one of the social workers came to me and asked if I knew where any computer camps were being held this summer. I promised to post some thing to the net and try to find out. Since no one responded to my first posting, I am trying again. Surely someone out in net land should have this information. The local Make a Wish Foundation here is willing to help fund this if a camp can be found. The child is in Winston-Salem, NC. so locations near here would be best, but any information would be appreciated. I realize there have been several postings to the net recently requesting hardship money that have turned out to be hoaxs and people may be reluctant to respond to postings of this nature. But this is not a hoax, no one wants any money, just information. If you can provide any information about computer camps running this summer, please respond to me directly because I don't subscribe to all these groups. Or contact one of the social workers at: Piedmont Dialysis Center Inc. 120 Miller Street Winston-Salem, NC. 27104 919-721-1360 Thanks in advance for any help. -- Andy Pitts andy@rbdc.UUCP : "The giant Gorf was hit in one eye by a stone, mtune \ : and that eye turned inward so that it looked kd4nc !gladys!rbdc!andy : into his mind and he died of what he saw there." pacbell/ : --_The Forgotten Beast of Eld_, McKillip--
moorthy@saturn.ucsc.edu (Harihara Moorthy) (06/27/88)
In article <522@rbdc.UUCP>, andy@rbdc.UUCP (Andy Pitts) writes: > > This is a request for information about computer camps for a handicaped > child. No one responded to my first posting so I am trying again. > The list of newsgroups you have cross-posted don't seem to include misc.handicap. Why don't you try there? moorthy@saturn.ucsc.edu Harihara SV Moorthy
jeff@mtgzy.UUCP ([sjh]-j.e.lancero) (06/29/88)
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andy@rbdc.UUCP (Andy Pitts) (07/12/88)
I want to thank all who responded to this. I tryed to send a note to everyone who responded, but some of the mail bounced. Linda Collins, the social worker in charge of the case asked me to post the following for her. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to thank all of you who responded to the request for information on summer computer camps for the 14 year old dialysis patient. There were 19 replys from 19 wonderful people who provided invaluable information on many camps which looked appropriate. A special thanks goes to Carol Boyer who not only responded via computer but responded personally to this social work via telephone. Susan Finkelman also went above and beyond the call of duty. Unfortunately, it was decided in a meeting with the boy, his mother and the physician that it would be better for him not to go this year. It is likely, however, that he will be up to going next year and we are already looking into the possibilities. There is a 4-H camp in Reidsville, N. C. which is quite close to our medical center (and his doctor) which looks appropriate if they offer it next year. If not, we now have a wealth of resources to turn to. Also, there is a dialysis camp in Winder Ga. that accepts dialysis patients and even has computers, though it is not the focus of the camp. I wish you could have seen the patients face when he was presented your computer mail and he found out he was the subject of a national network of computers. He will get hours of enjoyment deciphering all the coding. Again, thanks to all of you who responded. God bless you all. You too, Andy. Linda Collins, MSW --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Andy Pitts andy@rbdc.UUCP : "The giant Gorf was hit in one eye by a stone, att \ : and that eye turned inward so that it looked kd4nc !gladys!rbdc!andy : into his mind and he died of what he saw there." pacbell/ : --_The Forgotten Beast of Eld_, McKillip--