Terry Silver (Leadfingers)-Jan 2020 accident

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Severn
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 06:35 PM

I hope someone can take a portable device and let him see how he is missed and get to see and hear some of his friends singing online from some of his old haunts.

I'd love to hear his singular voice singing out at us again.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 11:50 AM

Terry often said hello to me on Mudcat chat after getting home from a session. I miss him a lot and hope he continues improving.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 07:16 AM

Liz the Squeak here

Last I heard (end of May) he was doing well, but has some memory issues. He can't remember how to get onto his laptop, and his family don't know either. He is improving slowly, but it will be a long time before he's fully fit.

LTS

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 05:12 AM

There doesn't appear to be any more recent news Doug. Moira Craig is the go-to person regarding passing on any updates to interested parties, and all is quiet from her at the moment, re Terry anyway.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 23 Jun 20 - 03:50 PM

26 March was quite a while back. Does anybody have anything more up to date?

DC

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,Guest Anonyme
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 02:33 PM

I am not Pat.The post was copied from Facebook

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 01:48 PM

Thanks Pat, that's good to hear. Hope you are all keeping well.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,Guest Anonyme
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 11:00 AM

26 March Pat Silver
Terry has been discharged from Hillingdon, in the present situation they cannot do rehab and needed the bed. He is now staying with us, (brother Colin and me), in Newark. We are all oldies isolating together!.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 05:06 AM

Does anybody know how Terry is getting on?

DC

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,sheila finn
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 09:17 AM

Give him my love and wish him a speedy recovery. Please keep us posted. Does Terry know Gerry

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 08:11 PM

Latest from his Facebook page a couple of days ago, posted by one of his relatives:
Terry is still in JR. He is making some progress and will be transferred to Hillingdon when he finishes the latest course of antibiotics for a spinal infection. It's going to be a long haul for him.
(JR = John Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.)

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: MudGuard
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 06:20 PM

Any news?

Terry, what's going on? Hope you get better!

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 01:53 PM

Belated get-well wishes from myself and the Missus as well as all the members of the Sunnyside Singers Club in Woodside, New York - where we had the pleasure of having you as our featured guest a couple of years ago.

Slowly and steadily, we know you'll be up and about, singing and playing - and you owe us a return visit!!

Jay
(and the Sunnyside Singers)

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: The Sandman
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 05:22 AM

hope he gets well soon

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 07:40 PM

Latest from Facebook suggests that he may soon be fit enough to be moved from hospital in Oxford to one nearer home, in Hillingdon.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Gervase
Date: 13 Feb 20 - 06:08 PM

Send the old gravelly-voiced crab my very best! What a rotten show.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 09:29 AM

From the latest post on his FB Page

?John Quinn? to Terry Silver
9 February at 15:31 ·
Saw Terry yesterday. He was a bit more compos mentis, though very, very, very tired and we left after about 10mins. Seems to us he is slowly on the mend.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 07:16 AM

I believe he is still in hospital in Oxford. (This is from Facebook, where friends are posting on his timeline.)

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Ian
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 03:58 AM

Has anyone an update on his condition please.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 09:54 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,Billybob
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 07:58 PM

Get well soon Terry,so sorry to hear a out the accident,best wishes Wendy and Bill xx

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Cool Beans
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 05:36 PM

Get well soon, Terry. Wishing you all the best from Detroit.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: beachcomber
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 07:30 AM

I've been reading your posts for many years Leadfingers and I wish you a speedy recovery and return to our forum.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 04 Feb 20 - 10:54 PM

Oh, no, plumb digits . . . . you must have "parking sons disorder" . . . . please do take care when you are in or out of a moving or non-moving vehicle. And hurry up and get out of that hospital . . . that is where sick people are . . . . singing a song of healing for you . . . .best wishes for rapid and complete recovery!! Laurel from California

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Transcribed from all caps—they hurt our eyes.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,Dave Illingworth
Date: 04 Feb 20 - 06:56 AM

Have lost touch with Terry, and very sorry to hear about the accident. Wishing him a good recovery. Our associations were mainly via his whistle playing   - his love of trad jazz showed through.
Hopefully he will be back tp blow some more.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 03 Feb 20 - 01:21 PM

for what they are worth,
my get-better wishes added to the rest.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Feb 20 - 10:58 AM

So sorry to hear of this, and have already sent my good wishes via friends on Facebook. Also knew him a little from Sidmouth, and the Rosehall sessions. The banjo may have been a joke, but I did hear that his treasured mandolin was damaged.
Hopes for a speedy and full recovery, and a new mandolin in due course.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,Ian Cameron & Dee Kraaij
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 01:17 PM

Goodness Terry, what a bloody awful accident. We're so sorry to hear of it, and wish you good healing. We've got a card to send you, and will get that to you somehow, somewhen. Not sure of what address to use.

Keep that good old humour of yours, and we do hope that the pain is manageable!

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 03:14 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: skarpi
Date: 30 Jan 20 - 08:34 AM

I did not know about this, Get well Terry, slow recovery is the best .
all the best from Iceland Skarpi .

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,Ross
Date: 30 Jan 20 - 06:41 AM

I was very sorry to hear this news

Get well soon Terry

You have several farewell tours in you yet

Ross

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 04:37 AM

The info I was given was that Terry's clutch went and by the time the car stopped not all of the back was clear of lane 1. The only thing Terry could have done was to stand over the barrier, but maybe he was assessing the problem and the lorry came by pretty much immediately. He managed to get out of the car safely, obviously. No mean feat given the circumstances.

Any news of the banjo?

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 04:20 PM

So-called "smart" motorways are an invention of the Devil and a serious misnomer; but the account of Terry's accident implies a normal motorway with a proper hard shoulder where people should be safe from passing vehicles, unless a driver strays into the shoulder.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 03:32 PM

I have only driven on a "Smart" motorway once, and it scared the bejazus out of me, never again. I shall avoid them at all costs.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 03:01 PM

The motorway hard shoulder is a dangerous place to be. But the Panorama programme tonight is concerned with "smart motorways" where the hard shoulder is used as an additional running lane. In that case, there are only occasional lay-bys to offer refuge from moving vehicles.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,jacqui.c
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 02:11 PM

Just found this from Moira Craig on Terry’s Facebook page. I’m sure she won’t mind me
reposting.

Just getting round to writing about our visit. and yes, we got a bit lost in the hospital too. Trauma ward 5b, not unit! we were so happy to see him in good spirits and still having a healthy appetite. He is gets tired very easily and is still in some pain and discomfort but his sense of humour is intact. They are weaning him off his oxygen ( his breathing was affected due to his chest damage and he slowly mobilising. No idea yet about when he might be move closer to home. if you are planning to visit please note that parking is a nightmare and we finally found a side street not far away which gives you two hours free. I took a photograph of Terry on my phone which he said I can post but I emailed it to myself and it hasn't turned up yet. xx

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Nick
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 12:58 PM

There is a Panorama programme on tonight at 2030 about the increased incidence of accidents on hard shoulders. Always think these things never happen to people you know of. Probably not a great thing to watch in the current circumstances

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Acorn4
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 03:45 AM

Hope you mend soon Terry!

We don't REALLY mind when you join in with your banjo!

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: MudGuard
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 01:57 AM

Oh Terry, that's terryble!

Get well soon, my favorite pasta musician (always noodling along ...).

I wish you a speedy recovery so you can soon visit more of these viewpoints - those that are marked with a camera sign at the road side ;-)

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Nick
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 05:32 PM

Met him years ago in Sidmouth in folk week at the Newt. Hope he gets well soon

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 05:24 PM

Well I sent a Get Well card, with a suitable gawdawful joke. If he is walking a bit, there is hope for a reasonable recovery.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: leeneia
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 03:08 PM

I'm so sorry to hear what happened, Terry. I'm happy to hear that you are sitting up and walking a bit, and I hope very much that you continue to recover.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,Jo-Jo
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 10:31 AM

Leadfingers, I can only agree with all these good wishes GET WELL SOON
best regards from Jo-Jo x

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 09:57 AM

Thinking of you, Terry - and sending wishes of healing and strength. Waddon Pete is right: music does help to make us whole again. Stay with us and keep us posted. We're right behind ya.

Bonnie xx

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 06:35 AM

Wishing you all the best, Terry. Music is a great healer!

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: GUEST,Jamie McCoan
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 05:07 AM

Very sorry to hear this. Wishing Terry a speedy recovery.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 03:19 AM

Terry was a lot younger when he came off his motor bike, so I suspect his recovery will take longer this time. I hope it's good and steady though!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Hesk
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 03:17 AM

Terry has been an integral part of The White Horse Folk Festival since the early days of Stanford in the Vale. Gill and I have always enjoyed his friendly company and talented singing and playing, particularly the penny whistle. Hope that he may be able to make it again this year. Get well soon, Terry.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: EBarnacle
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 02:12 AM

Push yourself. It makes recovery faster. Been there, done that.

Subject: RE: Terry Silver (Leadfingers)
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 10:13 PM

Get well and stop doing this sort of thing, ya hear?