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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Dearest Wanda and George,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>It bites me in the butt when I take a vacation from my e-mail, which I did, intentionally for a few days, and so missed your important news. Mea Culpa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Joe and I celebrate you, and your always “can do, and we will!” stance, living out of radical possibility. And we also celebrate your gifted health care givers, from your precious Sarai, the 21<sup>st</sup> century Florence Nightingale, to the specialists who conducted the surgery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>From here on the Maine coast we are howling to the moon and bowing to the ocean (and praying to the Mystery that sustains both moon, ocean and all of us) for the continued health and strength of the amazing Holcombe family, whom we have loved for so many decades.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Grace, peace and love,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Marilyn and Joe<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Wanda Holcombe via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 17, 2017 6:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> OE Listserv<br><b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] George Holcombe at Home Recovering from Pancreatic Cancer Surgery<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The Holcombe Family invites you to celebrate George’s becoming part of the 1% .......whose Pancreatic Cancer was found early at stage 2 by our Asian Primary Care Doctor Sheila Shung who found it by requesting a CTC scan one day, an MRI the next day, and setting up an appointment the next day with surgeon, Dr Declan Fleming of Texas Oncology who performed the Laparoscopic Surgery to remove 1/2 of his Pancreas where the cancerous Tumor was located along with his Spleen, a few Lymph Nodes and blood vessels at the new Dell Seaton UT Medical Center Hospital in downtown Austin (new Medical School that opened in May) on Friday, September 8th, He received exceptional care from all the Hospital staff (and medical students too). Plus our day to day care from our wonderful daughter Sarai (our very own family Nurse). George is home now, and on a recovery plan for the next 2 to 3 months. ....encouraged by the good news the day he left the hospital this week that the biopsies taken confirmed the cancer had not spread to other parts of his body. The next steps will be to watch closely for signs of it returning, but no Chemo or radiation recommended. We were also able to be home in time to celebrate the life of our son Chris who died from stage 4 Prostate Cancer two years ago on September 13, 2015.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Chris’ Memorial swing and tree with first year fall colors and growing tall and green by spring of year two.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#4739D1'>Chris’ Art piece - Memory Box “All is Good” by artist Glenda Adkinson, EI/ICA Austin colleague. Art piece “Let’s Celebrate” by artist May Lin, from Singapore.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><img width=265 height=199 id="_x0039_27E6785-B742-47D7-A12C-19C7966AFDB9" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3331C.C4C5BAF0" alt=page1image14552> <img width=208 height=223 id="_x0030_EA8D72A-28C2-442C-825F-2B987FA42A00" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D3331C.C4C5BAF0" alt=page1image14720> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'> <img width=138 height=184 id=B4A95537-4014-4316-AF6E-53D4F9A7A6F4 src="cid:image003.jpg@01D3331C.C4C5BAF0" alt=page1image14888><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>