<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:BookmanOldStyle">Joe is doing well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Several people have asked, worried that we hadn't written in a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We're just getting our feet under us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After Joe escaped the hospital, we spent two full days at the VA coordinating his care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He has 24-hour IV antibiotics I administer once a day, they're trying to pull a drain out one centimeter at a time (I get to do that, too) and several other openings that need care. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We're learning to cope and how to have a normal life while coping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Folks have brought us dinner, we've gone out to restaurants, we've gone to other peoples' houses, Joe did some grocery shopping alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He's back to working on his novel every day and he went to his art workshop this morning, where he did some fine paintings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This evening singer Jack Williams is in town, so we're going to his concert.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:BookmanOldStyle"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:BookmanOldStyle">I bought a new TV this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It'll be delivered next Thursday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Joe's spent hours asleep on the recliner part of our new sofa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We're doing okay.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:BookmanOldStyle"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:BookmanOldStyle">I hope all the rest of you are doing okay, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It's unusually cold here in Florida, but we really can't complain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Stay warm, everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Love, Gay</span><o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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