<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">As of Saturday noon, no change.<span> </span>Weaker rather than stronger, not a surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Thanks for everybody’s good wishes.<span> </span>Should be out of here in days; less than a week.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Lots of good people coming by to visit, and when I don’t have visitors, I do have books.<span> </span>GORKY PARK is turning out a be a good hospital read.<span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">No energy for writing yet.<span> </span>Just walking down the hall and back takes it out of me.<span> </span>Maybe after The Big Poop I’ll be able to walk a bit outside—sunny and seventies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; "><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Joe</span></p><div><br></div><div>PS from Gay: Looks like The Big Poop has started. He began eating a liquid diet and got a real shower today, too.</div></body></html>