[TheForge] Frosty back in the world...

[Bruce Freeman]

Wonderful news!

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Schade <schade at acegroup.cc> wrote:
> clipped from the artmetal list via Gene Olson...
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> Well folks,
> I just had a pleasant surprise.
> Jer just damn near talked my ear off for over half an hour...
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> He sounded real good.
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> Bill He remembers surfacing a few weeks ago to the sound of an anvil.
> Half his memory and half the fact that all the nurses tell him he
> perked up. But he thanks you profusely. And Dann, he loved the onions
> bit, humor is great therapy . Liz, HUGS and thanks for the video of
> You Nick and the Kids.
> He is in physical and mental therapy now, and seemed to be doing
> really well. There were only a couple times where he had to go
> searching for words. (I should be so lucky) Still there is a way to
> go, but the current tests they gave him puts it at less than a
> month.  . . .  to discharge.  ( and here speaking of the medical
> system, he says that he can see the progress from one session to the
> next both physical and cognitive.  He is in no hurry to leave figuring
> that the more they can do to stimulate him, the better off he'll be. )
> He has regained memories of the accident up to the tree starting  to
> crack on the felling cut. It was leaning pretty much along the edge of
> the drive and he had the notch cut  to drop it a couple feet into the
> drive, had a rope on it and tension on the rope from the truck. It
> had just started to talk, and released the saw which he was pulling
> out as he withdrew . . . .
> and 2 and a half day . . . NOOOO Jer 2 and a half WEEKS later-Deb. . .
> yeah  2 and a half weeks later I woke up in this hotel with terrible
> food.
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> He says thanks to everybody!!!  All the sandboxers, and the forge
> folks, the iforgeiron folks and all the cards and all. They have
> really been a boost to his spirits. And thanks for all the prayers. We
> talked about his shop, the house and the dogs. About drawing out long
> tapers and how much he appreciated his power hammer. Reminisced about
> our experiences forging hot steel in high school shop.
> Finally stopped talking when nature called and he handed the phone to
> Deb.
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> Thanks to you all! and Hugs from her too.
>
> Gene
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Bruce
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