Dear Editor,
I am grateful for the privilege and opportunity you afforded me to use this medium to highlight my story in the Sunday Observer of April 14.
The story brought back memories of the accident in 1979, the pain which I have had to go through since then, and the low sum of around $300 per month which I am getting from the Ministry of Finance.
I extend my thanks to Mr Helps, who interviewed me and wrote the story, the photographer Mr Wellington and the other members of the Jamaica Observer who took time out to visit my home and do the story on me.
To your dedicated readers at home and abroad, your comments are noted and appreciated. I extend my deepest gratitude and thanks to you all and to those who did not have an opportunity to state their views publicly, I also thank you.
There is a pain in my right hand now, which has resulted from a tear in the rotator cuff musculator of the left shoulder and a left carpal tunnel syndrome.
This recent diagnosis is unfortunately a surgical problem, which will further impede me, as I have no right hand to assist myself, during the period of recovery, if surgery is undertaken.
Regrettably, surgery is the only reasonable option, which will cost over $400,000.
Astley Smith
Albion
St Thomas
Thank you all
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I am grateful for the privilege and opportunity you afforded me to use this medium to highlight my story in the Sunday Observer of April 14.
The story brought back memories of the accident in 1979, the pain which I have had to go through since then, and the low sum of around $300 per month which I am getting from the Ministry of Finance.
I extend my thanks to Mr Helps, who interviewed me and wrote the story, the photographer Mr Wellington and the other members of the Jamaica Observer who took time out to visit my home and do the story on me.
To your dedicated readers at home and abroad, your comments are noted and appreciated. I extend my deepest gratitude and thanks to you all and to those who did not have an opportunity to state their views publicly, I also thank you.
There is a pain in my right hand now, which has resulted from a tear in the rotator cuff musculator of the left shoulder and a left carpal tunnel syndrome.
This recent diagnosis is unfortunately a surgical problem, which will further impede me, as I have no right hand to assist myself, during the period of recovery, if surgery is undertaken.
Regrettably, surgery is the only reasonable option, which will cost over $400,000.
Astley Smith
Albion
St Thomas
Thank you all
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