Markk, I'm thinking about you and Amy and the dogs. Will continue to pray for a full recovery! I like your choice of words!
Katey Sent from my iPad > On Oct 27, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter > <markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Amy 2.0 will be better, stronger, faster… > > Sent from my iPhone > > Messengers and Skype: BurningHawk1969 > My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markburninghawk.baxter > > >> On Oct 27, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Joanne Chua <shuang.an...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> Just want to say that thinking of you and Amy and the two dogs. >> Hanging there mate, it will be a long recovery for Amy, but she'll make it. >> >> >> >> Joanne Chua >> The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion. >> Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate >> Send from my iPad >> >>> On 27 Oct 2013, at 17:21, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> If the "him, "in question is me, HOK, we are already friends, and I believe >>> I am also friends with almost everyone here. If I am not online, I am away, >>> and will get back to you as soon as I can. >>> >>> The good news, however small, is that Amy did move a very little of both >>> her arms and legs today. >>> >>> Thanks again for everyone who showing their support. It is a long road >>> ahead for Amy, she needs all the encouraging she can to get her back to >>> walking and driving again. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> Messengers and Skype: BurningHawk1969 >>> My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net >>> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markburninghawk.baxter >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 6:46 PM, eric oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> have him get on Skype. some of us are faster with speech than keyboard >>>> skills. Also, its good to hear a voice on the far end of things offering >>>> support. >>>> >>>> my Skype: technomage-hawke >>>> >>>> -eric >>>> >>>>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello again All, >>>>> >>>>> I just wanted to give you an update on Mark and Amy's story. >>>>> >>>>> Firstly though, please let me offer my sincere and deepest thanks to you >>>>> all who have shown your support and well-wishes. This not only means a >>>>> tremendous amount to Mark and Amy, but also means the world to me that we >>>>> can come together as a community to support each other when we are in >>>>> need. >>>>> >>>>> Some of you have asked where the donations will go. Any donations will be >>>>> used for expenses associated with this incident and the medical care from >>>>> this. Mark has said that he will keep a record of everything associated >>>>> with this. Already it cost hundreds of dollars for Mark to simply tow >>>>> Amy's car back home. This cost has now been taken care of for them, >>>>> fortunately. So thank you all! :) >>>>> >>>>> You all are making a real difference here so I'm truly grateful to you!… >>>>> >>>>> Now, I'd like to share Mark's email address here so that you may send >>>>> your support to him. If you cannot offer financial support then please do >>>>> consider offering Amy and him your most valuable emotional support. It is >>>>> truly welcome… >>>>> >>>>> Below I'll first share Mark's email address and then a copy of the recent >>>>> article in a local Oregon paper about this incident which also offers an >>>>> update on Amy's condition. If you would like to know more, please do >>>>> write directly to Mark if you would? >>>>> >>>>> Now that this is known here, please let me suggest that we now move this >>>>> to a more personal level off the lists. Feel free to write me or Mark and >>>>> do be assured that any developments, I will share. Otherwise, I'm happy >>>>> (and will now encourage us) to continue this off the lists. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks so very, very much to you all for your support! I cannot express >>>>> enough how much this means to them and to me. >>>>> >>>>> Y'all are AWESOME!!! >>>>> >>>>> Have a wonderful weekend! Info and article follow… >>>>> >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> >>>>> Cara >>>>> --- >>>>> Email Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> The Article >>>>> >>>>> The Curry Coastal Pilot - Couple survives hiking ordeal >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Mark Baxter and his girlfriend Amy Regan with their dogs, who were >>>>> instrumental in efforts to rescue Amy after a hiking accident. Submitted >>>>> photo >>>>> Brookings resident Mark Baxter still isn’t sure what to make of what he >>>>> calls his misadventure along Damnation Creek near Klamath last weekend — >>>>> an afternoon jaunt that landed his girlfriend, Amy Regan, in ICU in >>>>> Portland with a broken back and no feeling in her arms and legs. >>>>> “There was a bunch of stupid decisions all down the line,” Baxter said >>>>> Wednesday of what was supposed to have been an easy afternoon hike. “I >>>>> got lucky. I got damn lucky.” >>>>> The two didn’t bring a survival kit, and were wearing sweatpants and >>>>> T-shirts. A friend has since reassured them that their clothing sounded >>>>> appropriate for a two-hour hike along a popular trail. >>>>> The 3.4-mile trek threads through a redwood forest down 1,000 vertical >>>>> feet into a rocky, secluded beach. It’s rated “easy,” and the couple are >>>>> experienced hikers. >>>>> “At first, the trail was great, so we continued,” Baxter said. “By the >>>>> time it got narrow and steep again, and Amy could see the ocean through >>>>> the trees ahead, we needed to turn back; it was getting dark.” >>>>> When they did, Regan and her dog, Luke, slipped and fell from the steep >>>>> embankment. Baxter later learned she likely slipped on rotting timbers >>>>> left from an old footbridge. >>>>> “I heard her fall, cry out, then a crash, then nothing,” Baxter said. “I >>>>> called out, ‘Amy! Can you answer me!’ And I heard nothing … for minutes.” >>>>> When he did hear something, he didn’t think it was human. But it was, and >>>>> it was Amy. >>>>> “I do not think I have ever in my life witnessed that much suffering and >>>>> agony,” he said. “It is a sound I hope never to hear again.” >>>>> Baxter and his dog, Ezra, scrambled down the hill to rescue her. >>>>> “She’d landed on her back, on the rocks at the bottom of an old creek >>>>> bed,” Baxter said. “And she kept saying, ‘No! No! No!’ over and over ... >>>>> and told me she couldn’t feel her legs.” >>>>> Baxter struggled back up the incline and worked his way about a >>>>> quarter-mile down the dark path until his iPhone finally got one bar. It >>>>> took at least four 911 calls — and disconnects due to poor reception in >>>>> the valley — before he was able to relay their situation to Del Norte’s >>>>> Search and Rescue team. >>>>> He gave them the name of the trail; he told them about the footbridge. >>>>> But, no, he didn’t think he could get back to his vehicle. No, he >>>>> couldn’t describe where he was. >>>>> They ascertained his GPS coordinates, and Baxter’s phone died. >>>>> A few hours later, he was getting cold. He had the dogs with him, but >>>>> he’d left his sweatshirt with Regan. >>>>> And he couldn’t tell if rescue crews were approaching through the thick >>>>> trees and the dark night. >>>>> Baxter is blind. >>>>> Mark and Amy >>>>> >>>>> The 44-year-old Brookings man met his girlfriend on Facebook — he the >>>>> disillusioned musician and she looking for a new life away from the >>>>> strip-mine town of Butte, Mont. She joined him here six months ago. >>>>> >>>>> Amy has her own challenges, Baxter said, with psychiatric issues and a >>>>> condition that leaves her in constant pain. Hence her service dog, a >>>>> lanky German shepherd with steely copper eyes. >>>>> >>>>> “But we instinctively knew we were real (emotionally) close,” Baxter >>>>> said. “She is the most loving, caring, intense person I know. She is the >>>>> bravest person I’ve ever known.” >>>>> >>>>> Saturday, Baxter wasn’t feeling so brave, he said. He periodically >>>>> shouted out for the rescue team. He huddled with the dogs. He listened. >>>>> >>>>> “I’d done all I could do,” he said. >>>>> >>>>> Four hours later, he heard someone calling his name. >>>>> >>>>> In many ways, it was just the beginning of their travails. It took hours >>>>> to get Regan backboarded, up the cliff and back down to the trailhead, 3 >>>>> miles away. It was 3:30 a.m., about 12 hours since they’d set out on the >>>>> hike. >>>>> >>>>> As they walked, a search and rescue volunteer quickly learned Baxter and >>>>> Ezra could navigate the dark path far better than he and his flashlight, >>>>> and let the two take the lead. They talked about the dogs, the school >>>>> that had trained Ezra, dogs in general. >>>>> >>>>> “I think he was mostly just trying to take my mind off what had just >>>>> happened,” Baxter said. “And as beat-up and tired as I was, I cannot >>>>> imagine what it was like for Amy to be stretcher-borne out of there.” >>>>> >>>>> Baxter said the dogs were the heroes that night. Luke led the rescue team >>>>> to Regan; Ezra, limping from his flight down the hill, led Baxter and the >>>>> search team carrying Amy out of the woods. >>>>> >>>>> He got a ride home from a park ranger; Amy remains in intensive care at >>>>> Oregon Health Sciences in Portland with a broken thoracic spine, three >>>>> broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Ezra is sore and tired; Luke is >>>>> confused and sad. >>>>> >>>>> “It’s very possible Amy could recover from this,” Baxter said. “It’s too >>>>> early to tell. They’re just caring for her day to day. I don’t know >>>>> anything about her prognosis. And I have not yet stopped sending my >>>>> gratitude to ‘Dog’ for walking with me, for saving our lives.” >>>>> >>>>> Deep in the dark >>>>> >>>>> Numerous elements resulted in their survival that night. >>>>> >>>>> “The reason we got through that was my martial arts skills, keeping a >>>>> level head, and doing what you have to do,” Baxter said. “It’s been a >>>>> theme of mine throughout my life.” >>>>> >>>>> “It is horrifying, and also amazing,” said Dawn Nelson, a friend of the >>>>> couple who lives in Nevada. “It’s a testament to the power of love, the >>>>> abilities of guide dogs, the service of others, and the ability to do >>>>> what needs to be done, despite nearly insurmountable obstacles.” >>>>> >>>>> Baxter, born blind into a sighted world, has always refused to think that >>>>> way. >>>>> >>>>> “When it came to anything at all — from high school and passing an exam, >>>>> from riding a bike to going camping — I had to blaze the trail,” he said. >>>>> “I had to tell everybody that, ‘Yes, I can do this; don’t put me in that >>>>> box.’” >>>>> >>>>> He sought out experiences, began “collecting skills,” overcompensating to >>>>> prove to the sighted people that he had no weaknesses, no disabilities, >>>>> that he was no different than them. >>>>> >>>>> “If I had been sighted, I would have been immobilized,” he said of the >>>>> couple’s ordeal last weekend. “How a species can evolve with a dominant >>>>> sense that is useless 12 hours a day ... I just don’t get it. My skills >>>>> don’t involve sight at all. >>>>> >>>>> “Hearing,” he said, “is a more beautiful and useful sense.” >>>>> >>>>> That comment, from a man who is also profoundly deaf. >>>>> >>>>> He is a tactile human, feeling the world around him through his feet as >>>>> he walks, through pressure changes in the air as surroundings change. >>>>> >>>>> “Ask the land where to go,” he said. “It’s getting in nature, sitting >>>>> with Earth. Am I getting too New-Agey here?” >>>>> >>>>> He attributes that to Sensei Toda Yoshi, Baxter’s martial arts >>>>> instructor. With the attitude of ‘just do it,” the then-26-year-old >>>>> learned the ancient Japanese tradition of Shaolin Kempo Karate. >>>>> >>>>> There are a lot of fist, foot and body moves in karate, but there are >>>>> also the soft skills of the warrior: focusing the heart, power and energy >>>>> through the mind and into the body, Baxter explained. >>>>> >>>>> “I credit him with helping me save Amy because without his teaching, I >>>>> would not have been able to channel the panic in my heart, through my >>>>> mind, into my body, into actions, that got us out,” Baxter said. “Without >>>>> what I know about balance, and the strength that I have through keeping >>>>> up my exercises, I would not have had the physical ability to get out.” >>>>> >>>>> Other skills he learned through Tom Brown Jr.’s “tracker school,” a >>>>> nature and wilderness survival school based in New Jersey, where >>>>> participants gain a “closer attachment to the Earth and the skills and >>>>> philosophy to live in harmony and balance with creation.” >>>>> >>>>> “That’s what helped me stay on the trail, stay safe, and be calm enough >>>>> in the dark, in the night, in the woods, to use the skills I had to get >>>>> us out,” Baxter said. >>>>> >>>>> Amy >>>>> >>>>> Even though Regan’s out of the California woods, she isn’t out of the >>>>> medical woods. >>>>> >>>>> The most recent report Baxter has on Amy is that she has a shattered >>>>> thoracic vertebrae near her neck — surgeons put a permanent metal rod in >>>>> her spine for stability — and while she cannot move her arms or legs, she >>>>> can wiggle her hands and toes. She has five broken ribs and a ruptured >>>>> lung. >>>>> >>>>> “With rehab, we hope this will get a lot better,” he said. “I constantly >>>>> send my gratitude to the great spirit for the intervention I know I >>>>> received, information from the land and my dogs and the night itself, >>>>> which allowed me to stay oriented, sane, and on the path to rescuing her. >>>>> This will all get better; it’s the waiting for Amy to come back that’s >>>>> the hardest part for me. >>>>> >>>>> “It’s far from over,” he added. “I frankly have no idea what comes next. >>>>> I will not consider her rescued until she is back with me.” >>>>> --- >>>>> View my Online Portfolio at: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn >>>>> >>>>> Follow me on Twitter! >>>>> >>>>> https://twitter.com/ModelCara >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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