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


We experienced an amazing coincidence this week that I thought I would share. Shirley's friend Barbara is the woman who gave us the name of the person who sat overnight with Sue two nights this week in the hospital. Yesterday morning Barbara's own sister was admitted to the same intensive care unit Sue was in, three doors away. Now, Folks, in a metropolitan area of 10 million people what are the odds of such an occurence?

There was another interesting event that I'm still shaking my head over. Sue had kept Den's driver's license when we left New Hampshire last Sunday for safe-keeping and with the expectation Den would need it for the security check at the airport when they returned to St. Louis. After Sue landed in the hospital, Kim remembered the license and had us Fed Ex it to Den at the hospital yesterday. The Fed Ex package never arrived. Kim called today in a panic. Last spring Den lost his driver's license and had to get a replacement. Later on I found the lost one in Sue's car and stuck it in my wallet to give to him but never did. Today it came in mighty handy. We were able to fax a copy of it to Aaron at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and he had a physician's statement added to the fax--the only acceptable alternative identification the airline would accept.