Friend from home had heart attack

310.204.1-2.2017 Transcription

Bad Mergentheim, Germany

30 June 45

Hi, dearest,

Whadda day! The tension of giving a paper

before the Medical Officers Professional Meeting is

over. (rep:- “Atelectasis in the Practice of Anesthesiology). Lots said

it was good so maybe it was worth it.

Then I wrote letters furiously all afternoon

[me, the slow writer][1] & wrote letters in arrears to

everybody from Alice to Margery to Joseph-Doaks-the-

pickle-merchant. Anyhooo, I wrote so fast

[seemingly][2] & so long that that was a tension.

Then I had a shock—sortofa a [sic] “de-

tention” (“whoosh out”) phenomenon. Doctor Roantree

had a coronary occlusion that tried to kill him

him & had him “out” blotto for 2 days. He has

servived [sic] it, according to Mrs Green’s letter, but

ohhhhhhhh how it makes a guy “sink”—

when ya think of how ya use to keep apace

that driving/work-horsing man day & night.

I feel very very sorry that it happened to him.

Ya see—I know him, “insidely,” far more than

most people & that coronary-threat (future) has (UNQUESTIONABLY)

“murdered” him inwardly/“insidely”. Infact—

Guess I’ll stop writing dearest,

All my love,

Dave

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