[SECC] Bart Fay, W4NS

[John Laney]

Hello all:

I'd like to ask you all to remember in your thoughts and prayers my old 
friend, Bart Fay, W4NS (formerly K4CEF).  Bart is now in the Huntsville, 
AL area and was originally from Panama City, FL.  He went with us on our 
SEDXC contest expedition to Curacao as PJ9GIW in 1973.

He has just been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is facing surgery in 
about two weeks.  He is very concerned about it, but has been assured 
that this type of tumor is seldom malignant and it seems to be 
completely located between the skull and the brain, not involving the 
brain.  He had basically no symptoms of the tumor, but it was discovered 
when he had a physical and told the doctor he was sometime a bit 
forgetful.  The doctor ordered a brain scan and it was thus discovered 
while it was asymptomatic.

Let's all pray that it is, in fact, benign and that Bart has an 
uneventful surgery and a full recovery.

73,


John, K4BAI.