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Gwen,

Thank you for the lovely electronic card.? Excellent graphics and music.? Super!

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I hope you have a safe and healthy holiday season.? Since I play for a Christmas Eve service and a Christmas Day service (10:30), the rest of the day will be spent quietly at home.? We did invite a clergy friend for supper because he leaves in the neighborhood and because he has been bringing Dave home from the clergy Tuesday morning sermon preparation group.? Dave is not allowed to drive for 6 months due to the seizure he had in his sleep October 23rd.? Dave's blood pressure was 240 over 110 when they got him to the ER (still unresponsive).? The "spot" on his brain is still questionable.? It could be a tumor but it has no characteristics of a tumor, might be lesions (he's been hospitalized twice before in the last 10 years with bp of over 240) or it could be a pool of blood.? We are thankful it was not a stroke-no bleeding in the brain at all.? The only adverse affect is that his memory and cognitive learning of new things/phrases etc is lost but it's gradually coming back.? His memory before Oct. 23 is still very good as is his IQ and humor!? The doctors will do one more MRI that will determine the chemical compound of "the spot" and compare it with live, healthy brain tissue.? That will be on Jan. 8th.? Some of the tests show electrical misfiring in the brain patterns so he is on anti seizure medication.? A new med addressing a hormone found in the adreanal gland seems to have brought down the high blood pressure while not affecting the heart rate like the beta blockers were doing.? He's not sleeping as much during the day and has more energy.? He looks good and "acts" normal.? It's only in conversation that you might detect something amiss-like repeating a thought in the same conversation.?

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We are very thankful for the doctors down at the IU School of Medicine and for our daughter, Karmen, who insisted we pull her Dad's records and reports from the Community Hospital Systems and take him down to IU.? Since she's an assistant professore in Radiology during research, she was able to get the department heads in Endocronolgy and Neurology to see him within 10 days!? Much better than 2 months as was scheduled at Community.? Karmen has been a real blessing in interpreting all the medicalese into words we could understand.? She also comes to pick up her Dad for meals when I have long rehearsals for all the music events happening at this time of year.? So glad she leaves here on the Eastside of Indy.? On the 26th, she and her husband Todd, and Dave and I will go to Peru, just north of Kokomo to have Christmas dinner with my sister.? She and I have taken turns hosting Thanksgiving and Christmas ever since we moved to Indiana in 1990.? However, this is her first Christmas without Dick, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in March.? So it's very important we spend some time with her.

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Thanks again for the lovely Christmas card.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family.

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Addie Amstutz Yoder

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