Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:21:23 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: MOD Mike Collum update 11/18
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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If you  were a professional, you wouldn't have made that irresponsible
negative pronouncement to a thousand people, many of whom have never met
Mike personally.

It was just your opinion, and you should have kept it to yourself.

Jake de Villiers

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:53 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Dear Volks,
>
> I finally heard from Mary two days ago, and I'm now at a place in my
> travels where I have a connection.  I don't want to get
> into  details, but as of a couple days ago Mike's condition was very
> grave, and looking at the list of things he has piled up against him
> right now, and I beg you to keep this amongst yourselves, in my
> professional opinion he's not likely to recover.  I hope I'm wrong,
> but the excellent internist at whose house I dined tonight and in
> whose bed I'm sleeping likewise sees little chance for  him based on
> Mary's email.  And when I mentioned Goodpasture's disease, my  friend
> immediately said "Mphm...that's a very serious disease, hard to
> treat.  I've never had a patient with it and I'm very glad of that."
>
> I wish I had better news, and Mike's joie-de-vivre and powerful will,
> and his great love for Mary are all points in his favor.  He's been
> transported to Charlottesville where they have better facilities and
> is being treated vigorously.  As it has all along, it still seems to
> be a race between the steroids and the reaper.
>
> Sadly yours,
> David
>



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Jake

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