Prayer's

Hello Fred and Kathy will just be short ,and let you Folks Know that we are holding you up in our prayer's. Fred ! Eyes upwards and forward,I'll check left and right Plus watch your 6. Just to keep doing what a C/C should be doing . God Speed

Get Well!

Fred; you are one of my favorite Marines....and bigger than life in many ways.....:)

You and Kathy are in our prayers and thoughts...

Semper Fidelis,

Mike "Moon" Mullen and Family

Get Well

Got this from the Assassin this morning. Thought I'd share for those not on his distribution list, which can't be too many.

SHOULD HAVE SENT THIS OUT A WHILE BACK … BUT HAVE BEEN BUSY ON THE HIGHWAY OF LIFE! I HAVE HAD A "MINOR" HEART SURGERY AND HAVE A COUPLE OF PARAGRAPHS TO "EXPLAIN"…JUST SORRY THAT IT IS JUST COMING BUT THE CALLS AND VISITS HAVE BEEN BACK TO BACK…ALTHOUGH MY VALVE PROCEDURE WAS DONE ON A "PREPLANNED" MOVE (AND "DID NOT" HAVE A PACE MAKER OR VALVE REPLACEMENT…HOPEFULLY HAVE DODGED THIS BAD BOY) WITH THE DOCTORS AND DATES LINED UP OVER SIX MONTHS (REALLY OVER TWO AND A HALF YEARS), AND…I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE PUT OUT A NOTAM. I HAVE HAD A MURMER FOR DECADES … AND WHEN I RETIRED, THEY TOLD ME IT HAD "PROGRESSED"…ABOUT THREE OR SO YEARS AGO, IT WENT TO AN A-FIB OR IRREGULAR HEART BEAT. NO PROBLEM FOR A MIDGET WHO IS GOING 24/7 BUT THE ONE CONCERN WAS HAVING A STROKE AND THE DOCS BEAT UP ON ME "BIG TIME" ABOUT THIS. SOOOO…

AFTER MIKE HOUGH HAD HIS OPEN HEART … I THINK I TOOK THIS AS A WAKE UP CALL AND AFTER DR CAROLYN LACEY JERKED ME INTO REALITY (RISK OF STROKE), I WORKED ON A DATE TO REPAIR THE MITRAL VALVE AND THUS THE MURMER. THIS WAS TO TAKE PLACE ON THE MONDAY AFTER THE MARINE CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION BUT I SLID IT A COUPLE OF DAYS UNTIL MY RETURN FROM THE PARIS AIR SHOW. WHEN THEY WENT THROUGH THE CATHETERIZATION, "THEY" DECIDED THAT I COULD ALSO USE REPAIR TO A COUPLE OF "BY PASSES" (ONE 40%....ONE 50/60% …. ONE PRETTY "FILLED" AT 80%)…

THEY MADE THE RECOMMENDATIONS…I TOOK THE ADVICE…AND BECAUSE I HAD THE SAME SURGEON (SUPERSTAR) WHO HAD "WORKED ON GENS HOUGH, RYAN, "DUNCAN" HEINZ AND PITMAN" WE WERE UNDERWAY. SINCE I HAD ZERO CHEST PAINS, PALPITATIONS OR DIAPHORESIS, THE MITRAL VALVE "FIX" WAS MY ONLY CONCERN. IN ANY EVENT, 8 1/2 HOURS LATER (ON THE 19TH OF JUNE) I ARRIVED BACK IN ICU AND AM ON THE WAY (HOPEFULLY) TO RECOVERY. THE "PRO FROM DOVER" FIXED THE MITRAL VALVE…SEWED THE TOP AND BOTTOM…AND ALL "THE ORIGINAL PARTS"…BUT DID A THREE WAY BYPASS ON THE WAY THROUGH.

ANYONE WHO HASN'T HAD THIS SHOULD LOOK AT WHAT THE LADIES GO THROUGH IN CHILD BIRTH…GOD BLESS THEM EVERYONE. I CAME HOME WED…AND NEED "ZERO" WITH THE EXCEPTION OF YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS. WE HAVE HAD EVERY VISITATION FROM THE POPE TO THE PRESIDENT VISIT (ACTUALLY CMC/ACMC AND A THOUSAND MORE IMPORTANT FOLKS)…AND HAVE NOW HAD 47 "UNANSWERED CALLS" AS THERE IS NO WAY TO KEEP UP WITH THE PHONE. HOPE TO BE BACK UP TO FULL SPEED AND "AM NOT" GOING TO PUSH! WE LOVE YOU GUYS AND HOPE THAT YOU WILL PASS OUT BEST TO EVERYONE…TO INCLUDE THAT WE ARE DOING (KATHY OF COURSE CARRYING ME ON HER BACK AND NEVER ASKING ANYTHING IN RETURN) GREAT. SEMPER FI AND LOVE, FRED

Fearless Fred

Slick,
Thanks for the update. The General appears to be as fearless as ever and well on the way to 100%. Ooh Rah!