<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">Dear friends:</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Joe's been doing very well, so I haven't had anything to write to this list about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We've been out of town a couple of times, driving, and enjoyed both trips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Joe's writing, riding his bike, going to the gym, putting back on the weight he lost, feeling fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Everything's been almost normal, thank goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Today, though, he has to have a test that has us a bit worried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Here's what he wrote on his online diary <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=read&group=sff.people.joe-haldeman&artnum=16120">http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=read&group=sff.people.joe-haldeman&artnum=16120</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>last night:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">"I may be out of touch for a bit. At midnight I have to stop taking food and water for the next 15 hours, and then go under for gastrointestinal endoscopy. Optical fiber tube down the throat, through the stomach, and into the pancreas. Look around and see whether a stent is needed; if so, put it in. (I think between the two lobes of the organ.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">If all goes well it will be an outpatient procedure, though I'll be pretty dopey after it. Doc says only 5% cause trouble, usually pancreatitis. With which I'm all too familiar.</span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Joe"<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">I'll report after the procedure.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Love, Gay<o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment-->
</body></html>