Mimi, 

Maybe some bighearted Texas cavers have an RV they could bring to the TSA 
convention for Jim and you to use and they sleep in a tent. That would be nice 
of them. 

Bill 

> On Mar 4, 2022, at 1:22 PM, Kris Pena <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Mimi,
> 
> Cave Without A Name rents out sites with RV hookups in the campground. Not 
> sure if that's an option for y'all but wanted to make sure you knew about it. 
> You'd still have to bring your own RV and the campsite has a separate fee 
> payable directly to Cave Without A Name ($32 a night I think, but you'd have 
> to verify with the park), but wanted to throw it out there as something for 
> you guys to think about. We'd love to see you and Jim out there if it's 
> possible for him!
> 
> Kris
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:08 PM Mimi Jasek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> What a lovely and generous offer! I had spoken to Jim about the convention 
>> already and was trying to figure out how to get him there. He had expressed 
>> interest in going. Let us see how rehab goes, and if a possibility I will 
>> reach out. We no longer even have a workable tent anymore or cots. Maybe 
>> still an air mattress?! Last big trip to Big Bend kind of messed up 
>> equipment due to extremely high winds!
>> 
>> I am sure he would love a copy of yhat map
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Mar 4, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Bill Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Mimi, 
>>> 
>>> Please give Jim my best regards and tell him that the Texas caving family 
>>> misses seeing him and we all want him to recover fully and come to the TSA 
>>> convention at CWAN in May. We’ll organize a Jim Jasek haul, like we do 
>>> Honey Creek tank hauls, to carry him into the cave down those many steps 
>>> for the talks and back out again. 
>>> 
>>> Has he seen Bennett Lee’s nice map of Adam Wilson’s Cave? If not, I’ll be 
>>> glad to send him a paper copy of it. James worked on mapping that cave.
>>> 
>>> Kindest regards,
>>> 
>>> Bill Steele 
>>> Irving, Texas
>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 3, 2022, at 3:03 PM, Mimi Jasek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Jim’s surgery went as expected. Will stay in hospital till blood thickness 
>>>> back to normal and PT/OT and doc say he is medically ok for rehab. Had 
>>>> major questions from family, so put this together.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Here are better images and Jim's actual X-rays. Left hip area fracture. No 
>>>> actual hip bone, but top Femur where turns to go to connect to pelvis 
>>>> called hip bone. Three surgical arthroscopic small  cuts - one at top, one 
>>>> part way down, and one lower. Used short rod - not all the way to knee. 
>>>> Pulled on leg, rotated till bones knit in place, then this which explains 
>>>> X-rays.  
>>>> 
>>>> An intramedullary nail is a metal rod that is inserted into the medullary 
>>>> cavity of a bone and across the fracture in order to provide a solid 
>>>> support for the fractured bone. Intramedullary nailing is currently 
>>>> considered the "gold standard" for treatment of femoral shaft fractures 
>>>> (Rudloff 2009).Feb 2, 2018  
>>>> 
>>>> Nurse also just told me way less pain than with replacement or other hip 
>>>> area fractures. Reiterated what doc said - best place to break hip if get 
>>>> a break! You can see from first X-ray how bone at almost 90 degree angle, 
>>>> and in last one of fixed bone how in correct position. End of anatomy and 
>>>> surgery lesson 😊❤️    
>>>> 
>>>> Sitting in chair today hopefully till after supper!
>>>> 
>>>> Just got word got accepted into rehab docs like which is right by hospital 
>>>> and close to home and docs. Looking up. 
>>>> 
>>>> Mimi
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>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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