Homer Fitts sent an update on daughter Sue and wife Margaret:

HI -

EVERYTHING LOOKS TERRIFIC. BOTH OF THESE SPECIAL GIRLS WILL BE DISCHARGED AND HOME TODAY.

MARGARET'S DAUGHTER DENISE AND MYSELF SPENT THE DAY WITH MARGARET. WE TOOK HER TO THE HOSPITAL AT 11:30. DIFFERENT NURSES STOPPED IN AND SHE WAS A LITTLE LATE GOING TO THE OPERATING ROOM. ABOUT 1:15. DENISE AND I WENT TO THE CAFETERIA AND THEN BACK TO THE WAITING ROOM.

DR. MC DONALD CAME IN AND SAID EVERYTHING WENT REAL WELL A LITTLE AFTER 2:30. THE OPERATION ONLY LASTED LESS THAN AN HOUR. ABOUT 1:30 TO 2:25. SOON AFTER THAT WE WENT INTO I.C.U. AND SPENT THE AFTERNOON WITH MARGARET. SHE WAS FEELING GREAT. A LITTLE DROWSEY AT FIRST. SHE DRANK A LOT OF WATER AND HAD LUNCH. AROUND 5 THE NURSE WAS DOING SOMETHING AND SHE ALSO WAS GOING TO THE LADIES ROOM SO DENISE AND I WENT TO APPLEBEE'S FOR SUPPER. RIGHT BACK TO I.C.U. AND MARGARET WAS SLEEPING LIGHTLY. SHE WOKE UP TO HER SUPPER WHICH SHE ATE PART OF. WE STAYED WITH HER UNTIL 8:00 AND WILL GO BACK THIS MORNING ABOUT 10:30 TO WAIT TO BRING HER HOME, PROBABLY BEFORE NOON. THE DOCTORS AND NURSES WERE SIMPLY WONDERFUL.

I TALKED AGAIN THIS MORNING WITH THE HOSPITAL IN SALT LAKE CITY AND THEY SAID SUE HAS DONE REAL WELL. THEY WILL NOT KNOW FOR SURE IF SHE WILL BE RELEASED TODAY UNTIL AFTER THEY PULL THE TEST TUBE LATER TODAY. SHE DID DO HER WALKING ETC. YESTERDAY.

SO EVERYTHING LOOKS GREAT ! THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS AND CARES.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS" WITH LOVE AND BLESSINGS,

HOMER

I DID NOT SEND A MESSAGE LAST NIGHT AS I WENT TO BED.

TO EXPAIN MORE TO THOSE THAT DID NOT KNOW......MY WIFE MARGARET HAD A PACE MAKER PUT IN YESTERDAY. AND MY DAUGHTER SUE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAD AN OPERATION FOR CANCER, TUMORS IN A LUNG, ON MONDAY. THEY TOOK OUT 13 TUMORS AND ALL ARE BEING CHECKED NOW.

We're so glad all is going so well.

We have another very cold day, the thermometer outside my office window reads 6 above zero. I will have another inch or so of snow to report, but right now there's a little blue sky showing and the sun is trying hard . . .