<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Steve Harrington here; thanks for asking about my well being.</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Here's the what's what:<br><div>-I'm mending nicely from my surgical biopsy several weeks ago</div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-I got the biopsy results last Tuesday but no new information</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
-the biopsy found nothing to aid diagnosis/treatment; they are simply unable to discern what is causing the lung scaring </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
-it isn't clear if the condition will remain the same, get worse rapidly or slowly, it will never get better</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
-I will need to wear an oxygen bottle when I exercise now, and I'm restarting my exercise program today</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
-I'm going back to Mayo Clinic for a detailed review of the tissue samples on Friday</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
-I'm headed back to Costa Rica after American Thanksgiving to enjoy Summer in Winter. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Like they say in Brooklyn where I used to live: "it is what it is" or </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">like they say in Costa Rican Spanish with a little more poetry: "Pura Vida" </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
["pure life" in English lingo, which doesn't express much in current American culture. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I intend to return to San Jose, exercise on Christmas day at the beach and do my best to support the Archives Team long distance help the formation of new easy access online collections so people can see the the future of our past and pay it forward. </div>
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Thanks again for your interest and expression of care. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Steve</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">St. Paul, MN</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
---</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">PS: If you want to know how to get involved in,, rrecommend or participate in new collections please </div>
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<div><br></div>-- <br>Steve Harrington<br>