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Donna and Delos

This is a group email I sent out the day after Donna had her mitral valve repair surgery, performed by Delos Cosgrove, MD at Cleveland Clinic. It's a fond memory now. At the time, I was sitting on pins and needles, hoping everything went alright. This was sent from Donna's Governor's State University email address because we didn't yet have a home email address. I made a modem connection with govst.edu and logged into Donna's Pine account (that was their email client) to send this message to the group. MH From: d-michels1@govst.edu (Donna Michels) Subject: The Day After Hello again everybody.  Donna has moved up in the world - five floors up, to be exact. And she would have a room with a view if her bed were located next to the window. She's now located on the tenth floor, which has a name something like "cardiac rehabilitation facility." There's a phone by her bed. She has asked that no one call her for a while longer. I'll send you an e-mail ...