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1 he was having difficulty breathing, and he had been Page 1462 2 getting weak for a while and he didn't understand it, 3 and he was feeling a little pain. 4 So we talked about -- he was bringing the 5 Thanksgiving turkey up from the basement where we had 6 a freezer and he said that he would -- we need to go 7 to the doctor he thought, or maybe I said that, I 8 don't remember. 9 But from then on we started to, you know, go 10 to the doctor and he had some preliminary tests, and 11 if I recall, we had had some preliminary tests, and we 12 decided not to -- I think do the biopsy or do some 13 other specialized tests until after Christmas and the 14 new year because he wanted to make sure to not to deal 15 with a whole lot more stress during the Christmas 16 holidays and try to have a happy occasion. 17 Q Do you recall him going to Baltimore County 18 General Hospital in -- which would have been the day 19 after Christmas in 1989? 20 A Yes. We went to the hospital many times. 21 My mother would drive him to the hospital. His friend