Logbook entry: transition from Rex's hospital room in frozen, snow-buried Salt Lake City to warm, rain-drenched Anchorage

This time I came back for my brother, Rex J. Hess, Jr. who, on my second morning here, had closed his eyes to go into his third open-heart surgery knowing full well that he might never open

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Rex receives prayers and blessings of three different faiths, is wheeled off to the operating room in courage and humor

Rex is wheeled off to the operating room for an estimated six hours of surgery. My brother's sense of humor

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A few add-ons from Christmas Day: the eagar gifted; many hands in the feast; the gift from mom Helen Peetook of Wainwright

Last night, before going to bed to collapse for ten hours, I

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I doubt there will be any bells, but if there are, they will ring in Hawaii

Lynxton came to me

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Thanksgiving and Lisa's birthday and all the racket this day brought has now come to an end

Thanksgiving Day, 2012, has just come to it's end. So has Lisa's 27th

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