Added By Read this on BBS 7/19/05 concerning Les Balderson's Condition?
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Subject: "A Moment for Reflection"--Les Balderson
Posted By
Ms. Becky (checkers21@hotmail.com) On Wed 07/20/05 0412BST:
Mrs. Balderson informed me this evening that Les fell and crushed his 5th
cervical vertebrae, which has left him completely paralyzed from the neck down
(and he can not speak). For those of you that would like to send a sympathy card
Les's home address is--6517 Patterson Ave., Richmond, VA 23226. Please remember
this fine family in your thoughts and prayers.
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Added By JR
Smith (jrsmith2@triad.rr.com) On Wed 07/20/05 0412BST:
Thank You for forwarding this sad news. Burlington Checker Club will get him a
group sympathy card. We play Thursday evening. Les & Clint keep the GAYP Nationals
going in the 70s.
They had a couple of big ones.
Lester Allen Balderson
Condition?
I talked to Les Balderson's wife Barbara,
Wednesday evening July 20th, and she said Les has made little improvement since
he was hospitalized about 2 week ago. Although they did neuro spinal surgery
that morning after he was admitted to the emergency room late Thursday night at
the hospital. He is on a ventilator and paralyzed from the neck down, no
leg/foot or arm/finger movement, he can slightly move his head "yes or no" to a
direct question if you look him straight into the eye. He can not talk because
of the ventilator tube down his throat or paralysis? His daughter Lyndele is a RN at
the hospital and has access to the newest procedures and progresses and said it
didn't look good, but miracles have happened. He is on many prayer lists with
friends and church members praying. His age is against him, unlike Christopher
Reeves who you recall crushed his vertebras falling off a horse.
Les is on the 4 floor, ICU in the Neurology
Science Center, at Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond.
Barbara wanted the checker players to know Les told her he enjoyed the NC State
Open and had a good time, but this would probably be his last checker
tournament. He was happy with his play since he hadn't really thought about or
reviewed checkers in a long while. She says he appreciated the plaque and hung
it up in his study den. He also felt he had some closure on the ACF transfer
which greatly worried and stressed him. This also worked on his general
health. Fortunately, Les seemed to be in good spirit and enjoyed working in his
garden & yard which was doing the best in several years.
He went to bed early and had gotten back up to go to the bathroom and apparently
lost his balance falling backwards. The results were crushing
his 5th cervical vertebra. (broken neck)
Barbara says knowing Les he would not want to live out his live in his
condition, so lets keep him in our prayers and hope for the best.
Bill McClintock told Burlington Checker Player Thursday, July 28 he talked to Mrs. Barbara Balderson and Les's condition had worsened, he is now in a coma. Driving back to Greensboro from Burlington Checker Club, my wife told me Barbara had called to let us know Les passed away mid-morning Thursday.