Subject: update Date: September 18, 2022 From: Donald Strauss Dear Jochen: A lot has happened since I last communicated with you. As I had informed you I had learned that I had a Meningioma (brain tumor) which doctors said I probably had for years and would not grow. The tumor apparently has brought on seizures which caused my heart to stop on two occasions; each time for for 7 seconds (learned from a monitoring device I had placed on my body for over a number of days). Our local hospital then had to put a pacemaker in my chest. While doing that procedure, the surgeon nicked my lung causing it to collapse. That problem got fully repaired. Turns out, however, that the doctors were wrong and my tumor has grown 40% in 8 months. I will go in for brain surgery to have most of it removed on October 6. All our planned trips have had to be cancelled (including a planned trip to Boston where I could have visited with you). We are now in isolation fearing Covid which would cause delays to my surgery. No visits with friends, only with doctors! Since you are a doctor I can tell you that the tumor in on my right side by my ear. It had extended forward and back along my skull and down by Corordid Artery. That’s the latest. I hope to write again following my tough complicated surgery. Don