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By Paul Biba

Here’s an update on David.  I spoke with him for about 1/2 hour today and he asked me to do a post thanking everyone, from the bottom of his heart, for all the expressions of sympathy that were posted on the blog.  He asked me to send his regrets that he is unable to reply to each one individually.

David sounded pretty good and he says that he is recuperating from his pneumonia and is now walking 3/4 miles per day in short increments. He is now back home, which is a great boost to his spirits.  David says that his main priorities right now are recovering and getting his book, The Solomon Scandals,  ready for publication.  If things go well he hopes it will hit the stores sometime in December. David tells me that he would dearly love to see the blog evolve into more than a “David Rothman operation” and would love it to become a multi-contributor work with lots of interactivity between readers and participants.

By Paul Biba

I was getting nervous because David hasn’t posted in so long, so I called him at home and his wife told me that he had a heart attack last Thursday night at about 10pm.  Last Friday he had quadruple bypass surgery and is recovering.  Evidently all 4 arteries were 90% blocked.  David didn’t smoke and was a vegitarian, but his wife said he has a family history of heart problems.  She is hoping that he will be released from the hospital this Thursday.

According to his wife, when David comes home he will be very weak and not capable of doing too much.  Therefore please don’t call him or send him email.  His mailbox is already backed up and he won’t be able to spend too much time on it for a while.  However, he is already talking to his wife about the status of his book, so it certainly looks as if he is recovering.

I would suggest that anyone who wants to send their regards to David do so by adding a comment to this post so that David just has to look in one place. If this post gets pushed down by other articles I’ll put it back up at the top again.

For all those who have permission to post on this blog, let’s try to keep things going while David is under the weather.

For those who don’t have permission to post, if you want to send me a post by email, I will put it up with due credit to you.  Keeping the blog running is the best thing we can do for David at this point.  You can send me any postings at paulkbiba at gmail.com

October 1 Update: Check the Medical Status post for the latest information about David Rothman’s medical condition. We’ll try to update it over time.

By Robert Nagle

David Rothman had a heart attack on the weekend of September 25, 2008.  (Read Paul Biba’s initial announcement here).  David will be away indefinitely. This URL  will relay updates about David’s condition.

(By the way, comments are disabled for this post. If you want to wish David good health, you should make a comment on the initial announcement linked above)

(Also, not sure why the sidebar for this page is doing crazy things. Please excuse that for now).

Keep in mind that people at TeleRead may not know the latest information or we may not be in a position to disclose it publicly. But we will do our best to keep you informed about updates.  [If you have TeleRead business which requires action or a response, you should forward it to Paul Biba at paulkbibaNOSPAMgmail.com - TeleRead staff].

• September 30. Initial Announcement.
• October 2. I talked to David Rothman for about an hour. He sounds good although he is still in the hospital and seemed a little less energetic than usual. My guess is that he will be “back” earlier rather than later (in a week or two), but will probably blog much less frequently for the short term. He talked about buying the Dell Mini and was glowing about the wierd gadgets in his medical room. He will probably be moving to a family member’s house today.