Hello and many thanks for all the good wishes coming our way. We thought having a blog might be a good way to keep people posted on Bill and his recuperation. As many of you know, Bill has been in the Critical Care Unit at St. Peter Hospital since a week ago Sunday morning. He was moved to a regular room yesterday but is still not taking phone calls, visitors or flowers. He is feeling and breathing better each day. He is still on oxygen but seems to gradually require less of it.

We are continuing to work with the good docs (it seems like hundreds of the them - internist, surgeon, family practice, oncologist, pulmonologist, pathologist, hemotologist - way too many "ists" to keep track of in Olympia and elsewhere) in tracking down the cause of Bill's medical issues. We don't have answers yet and probably won't until the end of the week. It's frustrating not to know but Bill needs to be in good condition for some of the tests so that's our focus for right now - getting him healthy, on his feet and breathing easily.

Marcia is recuperating well and should get the final pathology workup from her surgery this week. We expect it will show the same as the initial finding that there is no cancer in the lymph nodes.

We are so grateful for your thoughts, prayers and offers of help. Right now we are in pretty good shape but will keep your generous offers in mind in the coming weeks when neither of us will be able to lift much or have alot of excess energy. Again, thanks to all.

M and B