10/22 Thurs update

[Joe Haldeman]

A small setback this morning.  While walking between parallel bars, something pulled in Joe's abdomen.  He kept going, but It hurt so badly, he had to stop.  Turns out something in his wound-repair vacuum system had let go (this is a futuristic fast-healing vacuum device that involves a machine, aluminum, collagen and I don't what else).  Everyone hopped around and fixed it, but it still hurt some this evening.  In spite of this, he got up and let me wheel him around the outside of the Center, to look at the beautiful yellow, red, orange leaves.  He was up for almost two hours, exhausted, but his reward was a complete sponge bath.  So with luck it wasn't a big setback.  Love, Gay