he was the brevard county solicitor, he was special assistant state attorney, he was county attorney for seminole county. he was assistant to the florida governor, and he served as a member of the florida land sales board. i knew thom back in those early days in melbourne and brevard county as we were experiencing the explosive growth at the time of the nation's attempt to catch up with the soviet union since they had surprised us by putting up sputnik and then later beat us into orbit with uri gargaren before we could get alan shepherd into sub orbit and ultimately john glenn into orbit. and those were exciting times. i will never forget one time i heard thom as we were sitting around one day, he says i'm just impatient having to sleep because i'm so excited about getting up in the morning and going out and doing all these things, and of course i just listed all of those important positions of public service. along the way, thom became a good friend of another brevard countian, george barley -- well, actually, i think george was from orange county. george was married to mary, and bo

she joins me on the phone along with brevard community of health: p.j., first to you, i would like to condolences. i'm so sorry to hear what happened to your daughter. when did you first notice something was terribly wrong with her? >> caller: i would say monday night, tuesday morning. >> and what was it? what kind of signs or symptoms was she showing? >> caller: tuesday morning she had a fever, 102. it was rising. she had thrown up 20 times. she was getting delirious a little bit. >> did she say, was she in pain or what was she telling you? >> caller: she had a tremendous headache on the right side above her eye. >> and so you took her to the hospital. and what were doctors able to tell you there? >> caller: tuesday night we went to a local hospital. they gave her an i.v. they gave her rosef in. pain medicine. and then they went ahead and sent us home. >> so they had no idea what they were dealing with yet. how did they finally come to understand that this was an amoeba? >> caller: when we got home, her fever was 102.1 from the hospital. couple hours later, her fever went up to 104.