You can reach Sue at (314) 452-3685 or (314) 726-2032. You can write to her c/o Rose Holt, 905 Barnard College Lane, St. Louis, MO 63130


SUE'S HOSPITAL NUMBER IS: (847) 316-4296


Chris and Shelly just left the apartment this morning. They will pick up goodies at Starbuck's, spend some time with Sue, then drive on home to St. Charles.

Last night Sue began the infusion of the immuno-globulin. When I talked with her just now, it was still dripping. We are praying this treatment--very expensive and complicated--will help her neuropathy. Let's all storm heaven with prayer. Surely a great clamor will arouse a great response.

Aaron and Den should be on an airplane that will leave Boston in a few minutes. When I talked with Aaron last night, everything was at the ready. I told him he surely had a big task on his shoulders and wished I could be there with him. He said, "Well, Aunt Rose, it's not a big task because, after all, he is my dad." Aaron and Kim have surely been wonderful through this ordeal. And, of course, Chris and Shelly and Scott equally have risen to the occasion. I'm thinking of filing adoption papers for the whole bunch.

Sue got a beautiful bouquet of flowers from Doug and Suzanne yesterday. When I handed her the card from them, she quietly wept.

Sue had a visit from the hospital social worker, Marge, yesterday afternoon. Turns out someone at Blue Cross and Blue Shield had put it together that Den is in a New Hampshire hospital and Sue in a Chicago hospital. The essential question: Just where is your residence? Sue assured her their residence is St. Louis but that both she and Den, especially Den, do a whole lot of moving around. When Marge began to understand the events of the past two-plus weeks, she shook her head in utter disbelief and displayed the same empathic response as Dr. Costas. Later on, she was the person I appealed to to get Den's driver's license copied and faxed. It helped that she already understood the situation.