Re: [cobalt-users] Attention List users....

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zeffie wrote:

> It allows me to do some hard physical labor and blow up butane cans
> in the fire pit.

This is extremely dangerous, Zeffie, and I really hope you'll reconsider
it.  A little over seven years ago my then 11-year-old goddaughter
received third-degree burns over 70% of her body.  That she survived
after all is a real miracle.  And I didn't say that, the head physician
at the famous (and deserving) Shrine Burn Institute in Galveston Texas
said it.  He said he couldn't save her, that God did.

However, her burns are devastating, and she'll be uncomfortable the rest
of her (probably shortened) life.  She's had to have cateract
transplants as her cateracts were destroyed by the fire; she can no
longer sing, as her vocal cords were burned by the fire.  She also lost
one ear, and her hands and fingers are badly deformed.  It took years
for skin grafts to take, and she was robbed of her childhood during
those years.  She almost died many times.

Because she was playing throwing explosives into a campfire.

Please reconsider your actions.

(She's doing extremely well by the way; she works for a children's
nursery run by a church in Coeur d'Alene Idaho, and lives in her own
small house.)

Jeff
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