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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:22:30 -0400
From: Carl Marcum <cmarcum@apache.org>
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Best wishes to you and your family.

Family is the most important thing.

Best regards,
Carl

On 09/06/2012 04:28 PM, Donald Harbison wrote:
> I feel it necessary to explain why I have been absent from discussions here
> and on ooo-private recently.
>
> My wife was stricken with a serious medical emergency Wednesday, August
> 29th. She is recovering after surgery, and is in an intensive care unit
> here in one of the top hospitals in Boston. Needless to say, my attention
> is not on Apache OpenOffice as much as I love this project and community.
> The past week has been personally very stressful and exhausting. Next week
> looks a whole lot better as her condition has improved dramatically and she
> is now on the path to recovery.
>
> Graduation is a very important goal, I will be doing what I can to help
> with this. I've also been actively leading the OpenOffice track development
> for ApacheCon EU. Oliver-Rainer Wittmann has stepped in to take over this
> effort over the past week. Thank you Oliver.
>
> Thanks for your understanding. The medical team is optimistic that my wife
> will have a full recovery, but it will be a lengthy process.  In the
> meantime, I do plan to crank up my work engine as her care and situation
> have now become much more stabilized.
>