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All,

CB is doing a little better this weekend. His cardiologist is forcing him to spend the daytime sitting up in bed or in a chair. It will help to build his heart strength by pumping blood up to his head.

I am planning to go back up to Huntsville next weekend to visit with Chris and attend his son's final high school football game (senior night).

Do you have an address, I'd like to send him a book to read?

Dig,

I spoke with Chris Dunlap about the same thing last week and he directed me here:

www.lcsmith.org/organization/board.html

Chris' photograph and info are there.

All my best, SRH

All,


Good news from Huntsville today!

CB is OUT OF ICU as of this evening! He still has a ways to go before he can go home.

Throughout this entire time I have been reminding his lovely bride that each day and each achievement is another baby step in the right direction. Well today CB put on his big boy pants and took a big step towards going home.

I want to thank each and everyone of you that has said a prayer each night for our friend. The prayers, emails, calls and cards have meant so much to his family through this ordeal. Carol knew he had a lot of "gun buddies", but did not realize just how many he had until this happened.

Awesome! Thanks for the update!

All,

More great news today from Huntsville. Chris is still in a regular room and will be for about another week. He is working with the therapists each day to regain some strength. He has not had a dialysis treatment since last Wednesday. They are going to continue to monitor his vitals through the weekend with the goal of removing the dialysis port early next week. If all continues to go well, he will move to a rehab center in a week or so. At this time they don't plan to do any surgery. They want him to go home and lose some weight in order to allow his heart to work for him.

I was able to speak with him on the phone for a few minutes this evening. He is still real foggy and not sure of what he wants to say. He does not have his phone with him so no use in trying to call him. I had called Carol and she handed him her phone.

Thanks again for all of the prayers. They have obviously worked.

This Thanksgiving I am thankful that one of my best friends, Chris Baumohl was able to defy the odds and recover from a massive heart attack on September 28th. The doctors told us he had less than a 1% chance to survive. That was 56 days ago. All of his major organs had shut down and he had to be put on 24 hour dialysis. When he made it to day 7 the entire staff of doctors and nurses were shocked that he was still with us. At that point they told us he would need some sort of dialysis plan for the rest of his life. He hasn't had a dialysis treatment in two+ weeks.

If all goes well he will be going home next Wednesday. He has had the best team of doctors, nurses and techs that Huntsville Hospital has.

Chris is a great friend, a great father to his son David and a great husband to Carol. Proud to call him one of the few really good friends I have and thankful he is still here.

Great news! Chris is a fine gentleman. Bobby

Awesome!

Adam