<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>For those of you who had not heard, I have been in hospital.</div><div>What I thought was a flu the Tuesday after Memorial Day was in fact an infection - probably strep - in my lower right leg.</div><div>Though the official diagnosis is "unknown origin" I lean to blaming a fire ant bite from the week before - if it is nasty is has to involve insects right.</div><div><br></div><div>I am home but will be administering IV antibiotics for several weeks until the wounds on my leg completely heal and I am judged free of infection. <span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I will be held to a slower pace but the summer projects will go on.</span></div><div><br></div><div>I welcome visitors if you like and will try to get out to meetings - just remember one of my summer projects is to clear out the clutter of several
years...</div><div><br></div><div>al AERYN</div></div></body></html>