Letters of Hope

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Here's Rob's address:

Mr. Rob Smith
c/o Willingway Hospital
311 Jones Mill Rd
Statesboro, GA
30458

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From all my friends, I ask a favor. It's not a favor for me, but for a friend in need.

Most of us know Rob Smith, who takes a huge step in the rest of his life today. He's going into a long-rehab program to try to get his train wreck of a life back on the rails.

If you haven't read his posts, the recent ones have been hopeful. He's going into rehab to save his life, and he knows it.

He'll need some support, but his rehab masters are going to use the military model on him: he starts with nothing, then they rebuild him into something useful. It's a basic approach, but it usually works. If you want to read more about the rehab facility, go here.

Rob and I are alike in that neither of us would do well in a sensory-deprived state, but he can only have written communications contained in letters for the six long weeks he's in rehab.

Rob's "Letters of Hope" program starts NOW. The first days will be the darkest for him, as the realization of his past sins and lost life combine with the sensory deprivation. Let's get a letter out today, folks.

Put a nice image in it. No naked babes, no cute cats, but something of Hope. Put a strip of 3" cellophane packing tape across the bottom of the letter, and on top of that stick three strips of Scotch tape, with one end folded under so he can get it loose. That way he will have something to stick his Hope images up on the walls of his room, if he wants to. Put a couple of postage stamps in there, so he can write out.

Get it done TODAY and TAKE IT TO THE POST OFFICE TO MAIL.

Also, today I open RobMail, my re-mail service to Rob. I will take every message that comes to my to my blog or the attached email addy for him, cut and paste it into a letter, and send it to Rob. I won't send troll-messages, but anything else will get to him. You push a button and I'll do the rest. You can manage that, can't you?

Thank you in advance, I know that you care as much as I do.

Comments

[keeperofthedogs]

WOW, Nothing else to say but WOW!!

[Ruth]

No problem, love to write, love to ramble....and with rain on the way for the weekend, I shouldnt have any trouble finding time to set some thought to paper...

[Dana]

I started my letter. I plan to write several and send cards. I care so much for Rob...I wonder how his first day and night went. I hope he slept well...I hope he's not too lonely.

[Catfish]

You are doing a good service for my buddy, thanks from all of us, Cat

[Rivrdog]

Thanks, Dana and Catfish, but I'm not the hero. I just happen to come from an era when my Mama taught me to be civil to all and helpful to all those in need.

The service to A-Man is obvious to me: he's done so much good for everyone except himself, he MUST be helped now that he has made his choice to save his own butt.

So I help him.

[jmon]

Thanks Rivrdog. I just sent you one. The damn printer took a dump on me while I was trying to print it out. Yeah, I type letters. Nobody can read them otherwise.