[TheForge] OT: John/Johan is in the hospital...

[Saint Phlip]

Oh, yeah ;-) Jerod's great fun ;-)

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
> Oh my god, what a complete and utter wiseass!
>
> He is SO one of us.
>
>        -Andy
>
> John Husvar wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I'm not sure who has and has not heard, so I am sending this out broadly.  I
>> am Jerod, John's son, and he asked me to let folks know that he is in the
>> hospital due to some complications with his chemotherapy.  It seems that the
>> therapy is so aggressive that it dropped his white blood cell count down to
>> nothing (-0.7) on Wednesday, which allowed an opportunistic little group of
>> staph bugs to run rampant in his body...  The result of which was a rapid
>> trip to Robinson Memorial Hospital's Emergency Room, accompanied by two fine
>> gentleman from Rootstown Fire Department in their shiny new ambulance.
>> After 5 hours in the Emergency Room his admission to the hospital and
>> stabilization was complete.  Today being Friday, the work of the medical
>> staff appears to be working well, and I just got off the phone with him and
>> he asked me to let everyone know how he's doing...
>>
>> Yeah, he ain't dead, which makes those of us in the family very happy, and
>> saves on air fresheners.  Talking to him this morning he sounded almost like
>> his old self, and is in good spirits and annoyed that he doesn't have
>> internet access.
>>
>> For those who'd like to call he can be reached direct-dial at 330-297-8256.
>> For those wishing to send flowers... What the hell are you thinking?  He
>> stopped eating those things after Pennsic 26...  Seriously, calls are
>> probably best, he'll likely be out of there before anything mailed got to
>> him.
>>
>> Please don't take my levity as a lack of seriousness...  It's been a
>> stressful couple days and it's nice to write a positive mailing to all of my
>> dad's compadres, rather than something a lot less so.  Please keep him in in
>> your
>> thoughts/prayers/meditations/whateverPCthingyourreligionorlackthereofdoes.
>> It's appreciated, and it helps.
>>
>> Jerod Husvar
>> For John


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