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> Aingon Atelia wrote:
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>>
>>>On Mar 1, 3:28 am, sf > wrote:
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>>>>>>>I believe it now. What happened to poor Blinky?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>He died.
>>>>>
>>>>>I gather that, but from what?
>>>>
>>>>We suspect it was pneumonia.
>>>>--
>>>
>>>So was his vomiting a red herring?
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>>
>> Started with some kind of flu-like thing, and then progressed into
>> something resembling pnuemonia. Again, this is from things he said,
>> there has been no official pronouncement yet.
>>
>
> I thought people only died (in the modern world) of pneumonia if they
> were already ill with something else?

I was reviewing some of the email he sent while he was sick, and
something jumped out that I hadn't noticed before. He mentioned that he
was having trouble holding onto a new bar of soap with his right hand.
I'm wondering if perhaps he didn't have all kinds of things happening to
him at once.

> Though in all the times i hastily jumped out of the pool when blinky
> swam up i never recall him saying anything about any previous or
> chronic conditions.
>
> Even his complaints about stress that took him to the Joshua tree park
> to de-stress & where he took some lovely photos never seemed anything
> more than the usual, run of the mill, ordinary, everyday, modern world
> stress.

Nope - other than a couple of chronic skin issues he was basically
healthy, at least to my knowledge, and I'm the one he would have told
first. He certainly didn't tell me he was as sick as he obviously was.
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Aingon Atelia aka Minkie Zeeber

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