Same address. Keep them coming, we love them. Also, lets me brag about the Garcia’s SDMB friends.
Request sent under the name Mary.
I don’t facebook, but I’ve been reading this thread all along, and I’m sure one day there’s going to be the update we’ve all been waiting for. That’s going to be amazing. 
Another request sent under my OMG REAL NAME!!1!!one - the group looks great.
Did this get covered on a Los Angeles TV station? About two weeks ago, I just glimpsed, too late to catch the name or other details, a news bite about someone in this situation: laid low by an accident, family thankful for online support.
I sent a request in my name: Cyndi. I think of Pat often, although I never really posted with him much I keep my eye on this thread.
I just sent my request to join the group. I actually had the privilege of meeting and spending some time with Pat in May of 2008. I’m very grateful to have the updates **SRM **and SRD.
It wasn’t, but I can’t say enough how the support from the SDMB has helped us along the way.
So glad you got to meet him. Was it just before his ACL reconstruction? I’m missing the old Pat so much today.
You’ll get him back - after all, we are The Dope, and there is iron in our words!
I think it’s safe to say we ALL miss him.
Ditto that, runner pat.
The TBI road is a very hard one. Have you found any online support groups for TBI caregivers? If not, I would be happy to research that for you. Just let me know. I know there are some. On the ground groups exist, too, but usually caregivers are too busy to actually meet. There is amazing comfort in talking to others who are going thru similar things, even if it has to be online.
It would be great to find an online group. I’ve thought about attending a support group, but the nearest one is 80 miles away. Much too difficult to manage. If you could help find one that would be great. I have two new friends that I met because they had children at Craig Hosptial w/ a TBI. One is 7 years post injury and the other is 7 months. We have quick phone calls occasionally because we don’t really have time for much.
We are having a caregiver dilemma this week. One quit two hours before her shift; the other has a serious medical issue that could endanger both her and Pat. It is days like these when I find it so very difficult. Somehow I get a second wind when I get home from work to get Pat a shower. We could not manage without paid caregivers, but managing the caregivers is quite a feat! Thank God for our neighbor who always helps pick up the slack.
If anyone knows of or could research an inexpensive and preferably web-based scheduling software to use for our caregivers that would be great. If it’s not we-based that would be ok too if our lead caregiver could update it from home. We tried something called The Calendar Planner but it was too complex and didn’t work for us.
Thanks to all of you for your support. We are closer to the appointment for the swallow eval and the AAC therapist. We finally got the referral. Baby steps. My newest project besides filling in for the afternoon shift is to get Pat’s bookkeeping up to speed and get data entered in Quicken. I’m not a procrastinator usually but I have to get caught up on 2010.
Bedtime here in New Mexico. Talk to you all soon.
Could some of the Google products work for you? The Google Calendarcan be shared and modified by approved people, and since it’s online it’s accessible pretty much anywhere.
I’m glad to hear Pat is making progress. Thank you so much for the continued updates! Take care of yourself too! 
Forgive me for answering for Hockey, but Pat was sporting the dapper cane when we were all hanging out in Vegas, so I think it was after the surgery. Unless he also used a cane prior, in which case I’m not sure. The dates are buried somewhere in the collective Mafia gaming history.
I also second Google’s Calendar as an online solution.
Dude, I’m a dad about your age and, given when we were young, it’s hard to believe that one could get this much international support. Hell, when I was young we had to yell into the phone to make a long-distance call. What hath God wrought, indeed?
Google Calendar might meet your needs. Web-based, free, and you can share the “take care of Pat” calendar with everyone who needs access to it. If you and SR’sDad have smartphones (either iPhones or Androids) or iPod Touches, you can set them up on the handhelds as well as seeing it on your desktop computer.
There is also a new “appointments” feature, but I haven’t played with that. I think it’s more for someone who wants to make their availability known, and for people to request, well, appointments :).
LOL - third in the row to suggest Google Calendar :).
I do love it. My husband and I have a shared calendar where we put family stuff - if I book an appointment for the kids, it shows up on his phone “automagically” and he can edit it or change it as needed.
Guys, I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, but wanted to wait until this thread had a bump so it came on the front page again. I’ve ran this past the mods and **SRMom **and **SRDad **as well, so it’s all kosher.
Up there somewhere, **Pyper **mentioned that **Santo **might really benefit from an iPad. I thought this was an astonishingly good idea, and I also thought that us Dopers would love to see that he got one. In that vein, I contacted **TubaDiva **about posting a new thread with the goal of collecting donations - she ran it past the other mods, and the response was an enthusiastic “Yes!”
However, I didn’t want to do anything that might make **SRMom **or **SRDad **uncomfortable or beholden or weird in any way, so I also emailed them to get their OK. SRMom responded that she was researching several options (and so may end up going with a treatment/technology that would work better for **Santo **instead of an iPad), but would really be appreciative of anything we would want to do for them. It’s my thought that we could have a set period of time to collect donations, if anyone is interested, and then forward the collected funds to Santo’s parents to use as they deem best.
Here’s where you all come in - I’ve really no idea how to go about getting any sort of a vehicle for donations together. I do have a PayPal account, but only use it for buying stuff from eBay. (I have used it once to send money to someone for a vacation rental, and then to collect my deposit back, but found it pretty hard to use - I wasn’t confident about what was going on at all.) It’s not connected to my bank account in any way.
If y’all think this might be a good idea, could I get some help in setting this up? In her email, **SRMom **told me that she thinks the account at Wells Fargo (posted way earlier in this thread) is still available - is that the best way to go about this whole deal? Should we have one PayPal account that Dopers could contribute to, then send the resulting amount to SRParents? Do we want to get in contact with Santo’s friend running the FaceBook page? (I’m not on Facebook, myself.) Is there anyone who’d want to help me out with this?