Soldier's Angel Holly Aho seeks some assistance...
...to aid a journalist. From an email forwarded by Denizenne Fuzzy:
I thought I'd ask your help in this since you were very helpful last year in spreading the word on the problems here at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. Because of the latest news interest in Walter Reed I think reporters everywhere are hoping for their own 'scoop', to ride the tail of popularity..but in any case an investigative reporter from Fox News here in MN contacted me after reading my posts about the visitor problem here. Since nothing that I'm aware of has changed in the visitor policies at the VA, perhaps this will be a help, silly timing or no. Anyways, this reporter would like to hear from families of injured soldiers, or the soldiers themselves, on whether or not they believe visitors and volunteers to be helpful to their recovery. Since this is a local reporter, it would be especially good to hear from those that are or were treated here at the VA. He'd also like to hear from any families that had difficulties in visiting their soldier as often as they would have liked (travel or other obstacles) and would've appreciated their soldier receiving supportive visitors or volunteers during those times they could not be their themselves. Finally, he's looking for anyone that has personal experience with the difficult visitor policies at our VA, either family members that didn't like the policies, or wondered why their soldier didn't get any, actual visitors like myself who had a hard time being able to visit...that kinda thing. Anyone interested in talking with this reporter can email me and I'll send them the reporter's contact information so they can talk to him directly. Not sure if it'll be productive or not, but it sure would be nice if it was!
