My granddaughter was stabbed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/nyregion/08baby.html

"Jerry Avins" <jya@ieee.org> wrote in message 
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Sorry to hear about this Jerry, I'm sure all here hope for a speedy recovery 
for your granddaughter. What an unbelievable incident!!

Clay

Jerry Avins wrote:
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We have one of the world's lowest crime rates, so we let our kids wander 
around pretty freely from the time they could walk. Stories like this 
make me realise what a risky strategy this is. I guess the forces 
driving the kind of person that would do this are unconstrained by 
effective policing. Loonies can strike anywhere.

Regards,
Steve

Jerry Avins wrote:
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My sympathies to you and yours, Jerry.  I hope she fully recovers.

-- 

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

Jerry Avins wrote:
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How can such unbelievably sick minds exist and freely wander
among us?!  :-(

I'm deeply sorry to hear about this incident, and can only
offer my sympathies to you, your son Jon and family, with
hopes for Isabelle's full recovery.

Carlos
--

My God Jerry. I can't begin to imagine what you must be
going through. All I can offer are my thoughts and prayers
for your Granddaughter, you and your family.

Please take care and be strong. You have a worldwide community
of freinds whose hearts, I'm sure, are with you right now. 

Dave.

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:31:29 -0400, Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:

>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/nyregion/08baby.html

Yikes!   I'd seen the headline previously but to discover that this is
a relative of a friend is pretty shocking.

You have my most heartfelt wishes for a full and speedy recovery for
your grandaughter, and sympathies to you and your extended family.

I'm glad that help arrived quickly and that a suspect is already in
custody.  That could have gone a lot worse than it did.


Eric Jacobsen
Minister of Algorithms, Intel Corp.
My opinions may not be Intel's opinions.
http://www.ericjacobsen.org

Hard to believe. Keeping my fingers crossed for her Jerry. Give her mum a 
big hug.

Best of Luck - Mike

Jerry Avins wrote:
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I want to thank all who responded, both here and by email, for your good 
wished, encouragement, and prayers. I hope to be forgiven for this 
wholesale thanks.

Barring a disastrous complication, Izzy is expected to make a full 
recovery. She is as well attended as any mortal can be. My sister did 
her pediatric residency under the present head of pediatrics at the 
hospital, and my nephew's wife is on staff there. The reports from all 
sources are good. The nanny refuses to leave Izzy even to eat; a nurse 
brings her food. There is a nurse in continual attendance, and one of 
several doctors (including the head of pediatrics and the chief 
pediatric surgeon) stop in several times an hour.

Izzy's intestine was (is!) severed and her aorta was nearly severed. The 
nanny -- they don't make many like that -- held her in a way that 
reduced the bleeding enough for her to survive the trip to the hospital. 
The aorta was repaired, but the intestine has to wait. Something to do 
with the subsidence of swelling. The present thinking is that the 
intestine can be rejoined and the wound closed later today or early 
tomorrow.

Izzy's response so far is along the best-case track, given the 
circumstances. We can only wait.

It is surprising that she didn't die early on, but we seem now to have 
reached the point where it would be surprising if she did.

Thank you all. My son's firm -- he's a lawyer -- has a limo waiting at 
the hospital to take the nanny home whenever she'll agree to stand down. 
They must have dispatched a relief driver by now.

Jerry
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Hope she gets well soon.

Jerry Avins escreveu:
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