Mark's friend Alan from Juneau Alaska, came to visit us. He brought with him a great new story about Mark. It seems that the hospital in Juneau where Alan works, has a new respiratory therapist. She shared with Alan that she last worked on the island of Guam. Alan told her that he had a respiratory therapist friend who worked in the Northern Marianas Island. She asked what his name was and when Alan said "Mark Richardson", the lady said "Oh I knew him" She went on to say that Mark had gone to the airlines flying out of Saipan and Guam and solved the problem of how to safely transport babies in the planes: babies who needed a higher level of care than available in Saipan and Guam. This isn't the first time that we have mentioned Mark's name to someone elsewhere in the world and the person said: ''Oh I knew him."
It's not too late to contribute to Mark's memorial fund. See previous posts for details. Send a small check to keep the fund alive.
Updates on Mark, a young man who was told in 2005 that he had advanced esophageal cancer with metastasis to the liver and 3 months max to live. With no insurance, limited access to health care, Mark quickly moved from Saipan (where he was working in a hospital) to Bangkok, Thailand for treatment. His esophageal tumor disappeared with radiation and chemotherapy. He had surgery to remove an unrelated kidney cancer. Unfortunately, Mark died cancer-free in 2017, of unrelated septicemia.
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